Welfare and the tentacle programs of the Great Society WERE reparations. Now we just pay blacks to keep from rioting.
Affirmative Action
I knew of a black owned sign business in Florida who got hired to go help paint the floor at a pro basketball arena. They were all told to just stand aside and watch because they didn’t know a thing about doing graphics on a wood floor. So everyone got paid to stand around and watch because being a gov contract, they had to hire a certain amount of minority owned contractors for the job.
I’m sure many of us have experienced a female or minority gov worker who didn’t know their ass from their elbow. Gotta meet quotas though.
“Welfare and the tentacle programs of the Great Society WERE reparations. Now we just pay blacks to keep from rioting.”
The government pays blacks to vote Democrat.
And about 90% of them do.
I have seen documentation that at least one of my ancestors owned a few slaves in South Carolina. I have seen African-Americans bearing my unusual surname, which almost certainly points back to slaves adopting the surname of owners who were in my lineage.
I think there are several strong arguments against reparations. First, the South was financially devastated in the wake of the Civil War. The vast majority of that slave generated wealth evaporated. Then there was the carpetbagger scourge that decimated even further. My wing of the family moved to SW Georgia before the Civil War. To my knowledge, none of them had slaves . . . that was 5 generations back. Then came the Great Depression and my great-grandfather lost the family farm and pretty much everything. Can’t be much more equal than everybody having nothing.
About the only thing that I admit slanted in my favor during my life has been one of opportunity. I know some blacks did not get opportunities that I did because of prejudices. However, some things bounced against me as a head wind: Great Society programs have cost me dearly in taxes paid over my career . . . I have already paid much in reparations. And finally, a promotion at work was delayed for quite a while when a black person, because of hiring and promotion preferences, was promoted ahead of me. I did not complain because he was perfectly qualified and competent. There were about five us us who were pretty much equal in performance and competency vying for that position.
There is just no way to balance that scale. The discussion does more harm than good specifically because it inflames feelings of injustice when there is no fair way to judge the impact. It is simply a way for the “community organizer” rabble-rousers to heap more resentment into the minds of African-Americans to gain support for socialism and invalidating our Constitution. For that reason, the actual INTENT of most pushing for it is evil.