Posted on 03/30/2021 9:34:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“I think every single person in the world should each send me a dollar just for dignifying the world with my presence...“
I like the cut of your jib sir. Hear hear!
Let me see... do we keep treating as a leper someone healed from leprosy?
Seems to be the adage of our government’s movement of guilt tripping, from Covid to slavery reparations...
The ancestors of north American black folk were inferior, unequal, weak.
As a result of their unequal inferiority they were captured and enslaved. As Slaves, they had worth, value. they could be sold
The reparations in question are payment for being weak and inferior. No such payments and reward for weakness and inequality are due.
Stupid write up, everyone knows facts dont matter to the democrats.
It’s possible that someone alive today could be the child of someone who was a slave in the US, if his or her father was a child in 1865 and fathered children late in life. Men can father children in their 70s or even 80s. But there are probably not many children of slaves alive. Grandchildren of slaves or grandchildren of slave owners are even more possible, but again they probably are not very numerous.
I think the blacks today would be astonished to find a large percentage of them descended from black slave owners. There were thousands.
In a free country the passage of time plus freedom and other natural rights plus individual motivation and action heals past injustice. After enough time, each individual rises to his proper level based on his own productivity, character, and values.
Black people and white people don’t owe each other a damn thing. It’s time for people to grow up and be responsible for themselves like adults. The civilized world is in collapse and decay because it has been overrun by six foot infants.
And stolen bikes.
First slave owner in the colonies - Anthony Johnson (a black man) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3855779/posts?page=95#95
The reparations were paid with the lives of 350,000 Union soldiers.
LOL...Pretty good, huh????
Living slavery survivors were denied compensation a few decades ago. They had been enslaved in accordance with FDR’s Morgenthau Plan and the Yalta Agreement. Slavery is ok if it is not on a protected class. The Uyghurs are not protected. Progressive CEOs and black athletes don’t care.
I cannot think of a better way to irreparably damage race relations in the USA than reparations payments to blacks. Racial hostility and resentment will soar. More people will flee California to Idaho.
Uhhhhh...OK...
That’s a lot of acorns!
(By the same token, Africans sold into slavery ought to be repaid in their original currency, yams.)
I will take an exception to your post in this regard. There is still slavery in our country. It confines and aflicts white blacks and others. It’s about the mental and emotional chains that bind people and reduces them to slavish dependence on government. Those weakened by government can’t or won’t break away and be free . They have no pride or self respect just an existence.
They did not die to free slaves. They died to make more people slaves of Washington DC. When the Union armies invaded the South for the first time, they had no intention of doing anything at all about slavery. They intended to keep it in place exactly as it was.
It was almost two years later before the war was made to be about slavery. The war was actually began with the sole purpose of forcing the seceding states back under the control of Washington DC.
That was the only goal when the war began.
What lingering effects of slavery ? We are generations removed.
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