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A novel solution to racial resentment
The Washington Times ^ | September 7, 2015 | Wesley Pruden

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: ballotstuffing; democratscandals; endwhiteshaming; racism; reveseracism; steelingcongress; waronwhites; whiteymustpay
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1 posted on 09/07/2015 5:57:01 PM PDT by sparklite2
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Sounds like a version of the slave wanting to be the slave master.


2 posted on 09/07/2015 6:00:07 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: sparklite2
We might become a color-blind society, if we acted like a color-blind society.

It's worth a shot. Martin Luther King thought it was the way to go, but we never tried it.

3 posted on 09/07/2015 6:00:48 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Cruz is still my #1, but Trump is impressing the hell out of me.)
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To: sparklite2

Or they can get off their a$$ and put some effort in like Ben Carson did and makes something out of your life and stop blaming others for your lack of effort.

Or better yet we can start shooting race baiters like Sharpton or Jackson.


4 posted on 09/07/2015 6:02:49 PM PDT by jimpick
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To: Jonty30

Some made it. Al Sharpton walks around freely, appears on his own television show, and owes the IRS millions in unpaid taxes. Not even Al Capone could get away with tax evasion.


5 posted on 09/07/2015 6:04:44 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Voting is acting white.)
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To: sparklite2
Sometimes there is no solution to a problem because there is actually no problem to be solved.

If I wanted to prevent inter dimensional elves from invading the planet I could pour everything available into the problem and never reach a solution because the problem is nonexistent.

White against black racism in the US if not nonexistent is the next thing to it.

So as there is no real problem there can be no real solution.

6 posted on 09/07/2015 6:06:46 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: sparklite2
And how should the descendants of slaves be paid... In 1973 this would have come to $34 billion

They've already gotten far more than that in welfare.

7 posted on 09/07/2015 6:07:13 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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And that’s the core of it. They’re already getting
reparations, and look where it leads.


8 posted on 09/07/2015 6:08:36 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Voting is acting white.)
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To: MUDDOG

...They’ve already gotten far more than that in welfare...

So, they would owe the State and Feds reparations. Makes sense.


9 posted on 09/07/2015 6:12:28 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: jimpick

Get rid of the Hip Hop culture and there will be a lot more Ben Carsons. What his has overcome is remarkable and to his merit. However, the culture goes against any sucess in the larger American culture because any self improvement gained by giving in to white culture and expectations.
Speaking normal English is racist. Getting a job and showing up to work is racist. Raising your children in their, not your, best interest is racist. All social progress is racist.


10 posted on 09/07/2015 6:12:33 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: sparklite2

So does the US then sue Africa for the damages because Africa sold them to the slave ship captains.


11 posted on 09/07/2015 6:17:22 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: Sasparilla

They’re too worthless to work it off.

I’d settle for forgiving the difference, and no more welfare going forward. (If only!)


12 posted on 09/07/2015 6:22:55 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: sparklite2

Only load EBT cards with $ to fly one way to ‘Frica.


13 posted on 09/07/2015 6:25:22 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current devices...one uses Brit spel now.)
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multiply all the Whites and Asians and Latinos who lost their opportunities to higher educations, professional school training, and careers
due to ‘affirmative action’ racist policies

and send the bill to Obama/Holder/Farrahkan/Jackson and comrades


14 posted on 09/07/2015 6:27:38 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (up)
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To: sparklite2

I’m still waiting for the reparations payments from black people for the years my great great grandfather risked his life on Civil War battlefields to make them free.


15 posted on 09/07/2015 6:32:16 PM PDT by henkster (Ms. Clinton, are you a criminal or just really stupid?)
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To: faithhopecharity

What about all the families of soldiers lost in the civil war? They should receive reparations from blacks.


16 posted on 09/07/2015 6:34:32 PM PDT by No Socialist
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To: sparklite2
I like the 40 acres and a mule option. Take away all the welfare, subsidized housing, food stamps, obama phones, etc., and give each intact family (husband, wife, and children) a parcel of 40 acres and a mule and tell them to support themselves with it.
17 posted on 09/07/2015 6:34:33 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: sparklite2

The reparations were paid by the blood of the 620,000 people that died during the Civil War.


18 posted on 09/07/2015 6:37:04 PM PDT by blueheron2 (Statisticly, criminals that have been shot, commit fewer crimes.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
"So as there is no real problem there can be no real solution"

You are 100% correct, but the problem is the great majority of blacks still think Evil Whitey has his thumb on the scale holding them back. No amount of recitation of facts and statistics will make people who stoutly believe they are being oppressed change their minds.

As I'm quite sick of kowtowing to ignorant people who in general are a tremendous drag on the country, I would like to see much tougher measures enacted against black criminals and malcontents. Either they come around or they get punished.

It's time to stop the patronizing and pandering. Either black Americans want to get with the program or they can leave...forcibly if need be. The latter won't happen, but I've lost all patience.

19 posted on 09/07/2015 7:10:00 PM PDT by driftless2
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We either need to get along with each other as exact equals, all held to the exact same standards - or we are not going to get along with each other.

I vote for door number 1.


20 posted on 09/07/2015 7:35:22 PM PDT by TheTimeOfMan
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