Their middle east and Asian pals still practice slavery. Where’s their slavery outrage now?
We had a war - We gave slaves 40 acres and a mule.
THEY HAD REPARATIONS.
To say otherwise is a lie.
Georgetown is morally obligated to adopt restorative measures, which should clearly include a scholarship fund for the descendants of those who were sold to save the institution.
Anyone else get disturbed, when liberals such as the NY Times, who on many other issues eschew any sort of morality or moral standards, suddenly want to lecture us what the “moral” thing to do is on an issue????
This manic white guilt obsession with blacks, the history of slavery, black reparations and Affirmative Action is killing the spirit of whites and blacks and has dragged the country into a swamp of self hate and self pity.
White liberals treat blacks like helpless yard pets that can’t do much more than eat the food liberals put out in the backyard for them.
If we don’t get some sane, adult leadership soon this abnormal obsession over blacks will finish destroying American blacks as functioning human beings and will end up destroying the country.
Because after DECADES of "Affirmative action", "minority set-asides", welfare, etc, etc, it hasn't been enough.
No amount of reparations will be enough
As a Christian, I demand to be compensated by the Roman Empire and, oh wait.....
Until 1775 every nation on Earth practiced slavery in one form or another. Even today slavery exists openly in many nations and clandestinely in most others. Even here in the USA among the islamic, Hispanic and pimp communities it goes on.
First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.. Jeremiah Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.
Second, no people anywhere have done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ‘60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream. Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks — with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas — to advance black applicants over white applicants. Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated their time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.
We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude??
Obama talks about new ‘ladders of opportunity’ for blacks. Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for ‘deserving’ white kids...? Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America ‘s fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?
Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?
As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?
Is Obama aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the firstthree years of this decade as the reverse?
We have all heard ad nauseum from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. All turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.
Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.
Source: Patrick J. Buchanan