Posted on 09/07/2015 5:57:01 PM PDT by sparklite2
The bill for reparations would be a big one. Boris Bittker, a Yale law professor, argued 40 years ago that the simple way to figure who gets what is to multiply the number of blacks by the difference in white and black income. In 1973 this would have come to $34 billion, and a lot more than that now. By now that money would have all been spent, and the cash would have hardly put a dent in the difference.
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Reversing the constitutional formula of counting slaves as three-fifths of a free — i.e., white — person, done to weaken Southern strength in Congress, Mr. Johnson would count black votes as five-thirds more than a white vote. This abandons the ideal of “one man, one vote,” he concedes, but so what? If racism lies at the heart of what ails America, more racism might cure it.
It’s a novel idea, and this is the summer of novel approaches to intractable problems. Or we could give other medicine, like furling the Confederate flag and shooting cops, more time to work. Or we could become a serious country again, looking for real solutions to real problems.
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Al Sharpton engaged in a shakedown racket, hand him money not to protest this corporation or that one.
It’s been his MO since the 1980s.
According to Byron Allen this is still the case and the reason he has a tv program today.
No, it’s not a novel idea.
Blacks have no interest in a color blind system because they’d still be at the bottom under such a system. Hell, they would even be worse off than they are now.
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