Is America Ready For Reparations?

Thy Black Man ^ | May 31, 2015 | William Griggs

[2ndDivisionVet]

Whenever the world gets too crazy for me, I head down to the soul food restaurant and seek out my mentor, the great ghetto philosopher, Cleophus Leroy Brown.

Cleo graciously waived me toward a seat at his usual corner booth. “What’s on your mind, College Boy?”

“Everything,” I blurted out. “”I’m on social media and practically every day someone posts another instance of black folks either being killed or brutally beaten by police just for being doing something, if it isn’t anything more than breathing , while black. Everybody jumped up and down- and rightfully so, I might add, about Freddie Gray, while more than 180 days after he was murdered by police, Tamir Rice’s family has gotten no justice, no charges filed, no nothing! They haven’t even been allowed to bury their child. We just had over 200 bikers involved in a shootout in WACO and the police didn’t kill anybody! Bikers- almost all of them white- shooting up a storm and none of the police were “in fear for their lives” like they were when they killed 12 year old Tamir Rice for playing with a toy gun, and all the other unarmed black folks. And not once did I hear the word ‘thug,’ used!” By now, I was on the verge of requiring oxygen.

“And you want to know what it all means. Right, College Boy?”

“Well, yeah. I mean, I thought things were supposed to have been getting better. Especially with a black president and all …”

“And I thought I taught you that exceptions to the rule don’t negate the rule, they prove it! Just ‘cause some people get a seat playing musical chairs, that doesn’t mean there’s a seat for everybody! There are a lot of lessons that can be learned from what’s goin’ on. But the main message I get out a all of this is that America aint ready for reparations!”

Wha?”

“You heard me. But before I break it down for you, College Boy, I want you to tell me what you think reparations means.”

“It means we are finally going to be compensated for all those years of enslavement.”

“That’s the very least significant part of reparations. There has to be a monetary component, but that is just to make a statement of the seriousness of the situation. It should cost a lot, because a lot was taken. But, more than anything else, reparations is an apology. It says we are sorry. And a true apology says something else. Do you know what that something else is?”

“I’m really sorry?” I was truly grasping for straws.

“I means that I regret doing what I did to injure you; that if I had it to do over again, I wouldn’t do that. It means that if my wrongful actions have defined our relationship, then I will do whatever it takes to redefine our relationship in a way that is right and just and proper. This represents what is called ‘atonement’ or ‘at-one-ment’ in theological terms. “ Cleo’s look of self satisfaction was so strong it almost knocked the taste out of my mouth. But in my heart, I knew he was right.

“Just look at the history. Whenever we tie today’s issues back to slavery, we get the same tired response. “That was a long time ago. When are you going to stop using that as an excuse? ‘Now If, when slavery was abolished, white America had said, ‘You know what? We must a lost our damn minds. We were so wrong. Here’s your forty acres and a mule, and we are going to do everything, from real education- not just propaganda- to whatever you might need- to bring you into the fold as fellow American citizens’ – if that had happened then we would have had a clean break and slavery really would have been quite a while ago. But instead we were lynched, segregated and denied the vote- even more than a hundred years after the so-called Emancipation Proclamation. Today’s police departments grew out of the paddy rollers whose sole purpose was to police and intimidate slaves.

“To this day, there has never been that clear, clean break with slavery. Never that admission of wrongdoing and renegotiating of relationship based on total equality. When unarmed black folks are slaughtered by the police, it’s just a statement that we aint ready to renegotiate the relationship. As long as Fox News scores more than twice the ratings of MSNBC AND CNN combined, we aint ready for reparations. As long as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh can make millions of dollars just by spreading stupid racism on the radio, we aint ready for reparations. And as long as people have to wear Tee shirts to proclaim that “black lives matter,” we definitely aint ready for reparations. As long as we aint ready for reparations, the stain of slavery will never be lightened (it could never be removed anyway) from the soul of America.

[liberalh8ter]

My dad used to have this saying about wishing in one hand and $h****** in the other......that old saying seems appropriate for the reparations topic.

[I want the USA back]

I’ve already paid. Taxes that go to “victims “. Car demolished by “victim” without insurance. Job not gotten, went to “victim “.

[Jewbacca]

The endless taxation and deficit spending is reparations.

[silverleaf]

I figure they owe me on the vote denial. Black men got the vote before white women

[fatnotlazy]

Unfortunately, we are all paying for “reparations” now. Obamacare, Medicaid, Obamaphones, Obamanet (coming soon) and every other social program created in the name of “social justice.”

And now the King is going to give away homes in wealthy neighborhoods to the “poor:”

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/curtis-houck/2015/06/11/networks-skimp-obama-administrations-plan-force-diversity-wealthy

[Mr. K]

I am ALL FOR reparations!

But only if we deduct Welfare payments already made. (we may be due a refund)

Yes I know there are twice as many white people as black on Welfare, but that figure means nothing unless the percentage of population were equal.

But considering blacks are only 12% and non-black are 88% that figure shows blacks are AT LEAST 4 times more likely to be on Welfare in relation to their population percentage.

[Ray76]

The mythos took off in Sanford. What happened in Sanford? A black guy was killed while attacking someone. The myth: racism.

Then came Ferguson. What happened in Ferguson? A black guy was killed while attacking a cop. The myth: racism.

Ferguson endured a long period of rioting, looting, and arson. It literally stoke the fire.

Then came Baltimore. A black guy was injured while in police custody. Was there foul play? We don’t yet know. The police involved were black and white, this posed a problem for the race hustlers (Obama, Holder, Sharpton, Crump, et al) so the myth became police brutality. Baltimore has endured a period of unrest.

What these people fail to see is that they are being used. Meanwhile they’re destroying their own neighborhoods. All because of a myth... ie a lie.

[G Larry]

How many TRILLIONS have been paid out since 1965?

This is just Barack looking for as many ways as possible to bankrupt America.

[BuffaloJack]

Will any of the reparations go to the Irish?
The English sold 2/3s of the Irish population into slavery in the Americas and Caribbean during the late 1600s and early 1700s.

[Yosemitest]

Negroes always want a Negro Leader.
Well now, even though they're WRONG, they think they've got one.
What they've got is an ARAB-KENYAN that's running "DIVIDE-AND-CONQUER".
He's playing them for FOOLS !
They always say "GIVE ME, OR THERE'LL BE NO PEACE".
Well, it's time they got some HARD LOvE, straight out of the Bible.

There's always RACE-BAITERS and the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF's at the top of the list.
These stinking LIARS always divert from the truth that Obama is EVIL, and is a FASCIST.
They don't DARE debate the FACTS that their leader is a LIAR !
Booker T. Washington nailed the truth about them long ago.

Take a look at Booker T. Washington on Black Victimhood.
This is a very important fact THAT IS NOT BEING TAUGHT TODAY !

A number of black “leaders” (e.g., Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton) have made their living by promoting black victimhood and white guilt.
Jesse Jackson has been shaking down corporations with the scam for decades.
Booker T. Washington (1865–1915) warned of such people within the black community in his 1911 book My Larger Education.
He described them as “problem profiteers”:

“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs
– partly because they want sympathy
and partly because it pays.
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances,
because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
(p. 118)



My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience
(Dover Thrift Editions)

[Ray76]

continuing...

Obama convinced people that there is rampant racism, when there is not.

He then nurtured a sense of grievance in the target group.

That grievance is then directed toward police.

Police departments are then made to bow to federal dictates. They’re simply outspent and our PR’ed.

[Salgak]

I’d have to have actually HELD slaves, in order to be liable for reparations.

And, hey, two of my great-great grandfathers fought in the Union Army, one was killed, and the other lost an arm.

I think my family has paid more than enough, AT the time. . .

[Flavious_Maximus]

He fails to mention that most of those police in Baltimore are blacks themselves.

[Ray76]

The anger was redirected from “racist cops” to just “cops”.

[Pollster1]

If that passes down through the generations, like reparations is supposed to, they owe me for denying my great-grandmothers and great-great-grandmothers the vote.

[Bayan]

The only form of reparations I will accept is one way tickets to Africa.

[freeangel]

I second that proposal!

[GoldenPup]

Is America Ready For Reparations?

For what? Next, the indians will want to receive trillions for having their country snatched from under them. All rediculous BS. But it sell ink.

[MrB]

$22 trillion ain’t enough.

Sounds to me like they want to “equalize” the population,
then put their boots on YT’s necks for a couple of decades.

That MIGHT assuage their generationally festered and leftist-driven hatred.

[MrB]

They’re looking for the gov’t to do something to equalize those numbers.

Imagine the McKinney crowd, running through a suburban neighborhood, knowing they had fedleos backing them up,
to do whatever they want with the residents therein.