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If we deduct just the $22 trillion dollars spent since LBJ's War on Poverty you'd owe us, I'm thinking.
1 posted on 05/23/2015 5:35:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Actually - Lincoln wanted to deport the freed slaves back to Africa.

There was no promise of money or land or a mule...


2 posted on 05/23/2015 5:38:44 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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maybe Hillary will pick up on this mess.... and start campaigning on it?

She does do a great "slave accent" as I remember!!


3 posted on 05/23/2015 5:39:00 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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Look for an executive order soon.


4 posted on 05/23/2015 5:46:06 PM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a deatha panel.)
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lol, I was just going to post what you said, until I read what you said. :-)

I want a refund!!!!


5 posted on 05/23/2015 5:48:37 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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An old-but-good column by Fred Reed

Fred Plops For Reparations

Sells Out To Johnny Cochran

I see by the papers in the Yankee Capital that Johnny Cochran, and of course Jesse and Al, are wheezing and blowing like a county-fair calliope with a leaky boiler. They always are. This time it was about the need to pay reparations for the ravages trala of slavery. It got me to thinking.

I hate it when that happens.

Now, I know I'm hard-hearted, and mean-spirited, and no damn good. It's probably my only virtue. But on consideration, I realized that they might be right. The ravages of slavery do run deep, and cause motingator trouble, with no end in sight. I decided that compensation was only reasonable. Sometimes you don't like a conclusion, but you have to reach it. All right. I'll be a man about it.

You can pay me reparations, Johnny.

To start with, I figure you owe me for three bicycles. Maybe it's a small thing, but I'm tired of losing bicycles. Are we talking market value or replacement? What I really want to be paid for is having to keep my latest two-wheeler in my living room. Do you know how many times I've knocked the fool thing over? And, oh, the scratch in my granddad's antique desk that the brake lever made. What's that worth?

Call it three grand. OK? Direct deposit would be nice.

But . . . how do we dollarize cultural retrogression? God knows I appreciate your offer of reparations, but I'm having trouble with the arithmetic. Help me.

A few years back, my middle-school daughter brought home a horrendously misspelled science hand-out. Now, Johnny: You and I both know that it's easy to make a typo, and write "phenylkeetone" instead of "phenylketone." But "feemelkeebome" is stretching it. The errors were of this sort. An understanding of chemistry clearly had never rippled the serene surface of the woman's mind.

Without thinking, I asked, "What color is your teacher?" (If I had thought carefully, I would have asked, "What color is your teacher?") My daughter responded with an anguished, "Da-d-d-d-y!" She had made the connection, but knew she wasn't supposed to.

I've got no problem with black teachers, if they are competent. No problem at all. But a teacher who is too ignorant to spell her subject, and too lazy to use a dictionary, ought to be flipping burgers. Simple burgers, with no moving parts. Thing is, we can't fire ignorant teachers, Johnny, because of the lingering effects of slavery. I can yell at an ignorant white teacher, but not at a black one. To expect blacks to meet standards is racist. You can send me the price of four years of tuition in a private school outside the country.

What's the cost of permanent welfare? Subsidized everything? Enormous police departments? What do you figure? Just add it to your tab. Have you thought about setting up an endowment?

But here's a large ravage of slavery, Johnny: Fear.

What price do we put on looking over our shoulders? On watching to be sure we don't go one subway stop too far? Warning our girlfriends not to drive on certain streets? Checking the clientele of Seven-Eleven before going in at night?

People in, say, Switzerland can walk their streets after dark. We can't. Why? What have we got that they don't, that might cause fear?

Elvis impersonators, Johnny. Yep. Switzerland doesn't have any Elvis impersonators. Check for yourself.

What's fear worth? Is it a minimum-wage job? Forty-hour week or twenty-four hours a day? Benefits? Seniority pay as people grow older, weaker, and less able to defend themselves? You see the actuarial difficulty. Accounting is a more difficult trade than you might think.

The white guy beaten to death 100 yards from my door last year – they never caught the killers, but – what you reckon, Johnny? Do you figure it was white Presbyterian women from the old-ladies' home? That's my guess. That's who usually does it. Anyway, you can send me $540 for the Sig 9mm pistol I bought after blacks started moving into the neighborhood and crime went up. And ammo, carry permit, Hydra-Shock rounds.

Now, millions of honest blacks might write and say, "Fred, we aren't criminals. Why should we pay for what other blacks do?" Splendid question. But of course whites say, "We don't have any slaves. Why should we pay for what some other whites did?" If it is a reasonable question for blacks to ask, as indeed it is, why isn't it a reasonable question for whites to ask?

But while you are in a mood to pay up, Johnny, let me introduce a useful concept: Civilizational rent. You'll like this. It's such a good idea.

A culture is essentially software. No? Sure, there are physical embodiments: positron-emission scanners, high-bypass turbofans, radar with Doppler beam-sharpening. Yet basically a culture is a body of knowledge, like Microsoft Word. (All right, throw in values. But I don't want to make this too difficult.)

White guys invented these things at considerable cost. We had to. Europe doesn't have much low-hanging fruit, and it gets cold in the north. So generations of people that I'm sure you're familiar with – Newton, Leibniz, Galois, Gauss, Carnot, Dirac – did work that led to all kinds of useful . . . you know . . stuff.

Western civilization, it's called.

As a result of slavery, you have been using our civilization without a license. (I know: You're having trouble with the idea of implied retroactive acceptance of a license I invented five minutes ago. Microsoft would grasp it in a heartbeat. Anyway, I'm writing the column.)

Further, you've been using it for a long time, Johnny. Air-conditioning. Roads. Writing. The wheel. Complicated stuff like that. Medicine. Tractors. Shoes. Houses. I've spent time in Africa, where people live in stick things that look as if a Cub Scout had built a campfire and forgotten to light it. You're getting a deal here, Johnny.

I don't wish stick houses on anyone. I'm glad you have the benefits of electricity, clothes, and daytime TV. I'd love to see blacks study, earn degrees on their merits, prosper. Think of the trouble it would save. But – as suggested by your manly desire to pay reparations -- you owe us licensing fees. Granted, it's hard to set a price on a culture. But if Microsoft Office goes for $250 at fire-sale prices, I guess a whole civilization is cheap at $100K a copy.

I believe we can do business, Johnny. I hope so. I can use the money.


6 posted on 05/23/2015 5:49:46 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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Bazinga!


7 posted on 05/23/2015 5:50:26 PM PDT by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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Meanwhile, the government paid reparations to slave owners, but not to Black people themselves.

Misleading. The only slave owners that were compensated for emancipation were the very few in DC.

9 posted on 05/23/2015 5:56:54 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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Here is an interesting article on the percentage of freed blacks who owned slaves....42%?

http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/2013/03/black_slave_owners_did_they_exist.3.html

Sould reparations due under such a reparations scheme also from descendents of black freemen who owned slaves?


10 posted on 05/23/2015 5:57:52 PM PDT by givemELL
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If the past 50 years hadn’t been spent on the Democrat welfare plantation and instead had been spent getting excellent employment skills, Blacks wouldn’t lag so far behind every other group in America. They are no longer barred from education to better themselves, so they should be able compete equally for jobs that are going to Blacks from African and Caribbean countries.


11 posted on 05/23/2015 5:58:27 PM PDT by txrefugee
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White folks have inherited the wealth and privilege derived from free Black labor, which they willingly enjoy today.

Yup, I happen to have several pictures of those wealthy white folks... Enjoy!


13 posted on 05/23/2015 6:06:52 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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Good point


14 posted on 05/23/2015 6:07:52 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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Well, since libs firmly believe the Civil War was all about slavery...

...the blood of 360,000+ Union bodies must’ve been spilled for nothing then...

/s


16 posted on 05/23/2015 6:12:51 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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The black fascists will only be satisfied when Whites walk to the gas chamber.


17 posted on 05/23/2015 6:14:58 PM PDT by ohioman
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I’m f they want it so bad, ONE time, that’s IT. Nobody ever mention racism ever again, nobody think about it, make it illegal to claim any type of unfairness because of race. No more special treatment or government programs, entrance exams and job standards are the same for all.

I think everyone gets my drift, but we all know the hustlers would double-down should any “reparations” scheme come to light.


18 posted on 05/23/2015 6:20:13 PM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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I think we ought to deduct the blood and treasure spent in the Civil War


24 posted on 05/23/2015 6:41:42 PM PDT by Nifster
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Fine: A one time payoff, permanent end to all welfare, housing, food stamps, etc., an end to all quotas and racial preferences in education and hiring, no more race hucksters AND relocation to one’s continent of ancestry.


25 posted on 05/23/2015 6:49:52 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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Chapelle Show - Reparations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg6J1Skptbs


26 posted on 05/23/2015 6:52:05 PM PDT by dfwgator
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>Moreover, some people have estimated what the nation actually owes Black people.

We do owe them. A bus ticket to afreakuh!

If they behave in a recidivist savage manner, they don't belong here! They belong back in the jungle!

27 posted on 05/23/2015 7:22:27 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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Some Food for Thought:
28 posted on 05/23/2015 7:26:45 PM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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I guess the rivers of blood that were shed in CWI were just a down payment. Ole Ben Affleck must be a shakin in his boots.


29 posted on 05/23/2015 7:27:00 PM PDT by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
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