Posted on 01/23/2023 5:02:33 AM PST by MtnClimber
The lesson from the $22 trillion record of Great Society compensatory payouts is that massive infusions of federal money are more apt to ensure social disruption and dislocation than alleviate them.
The last time racial reparations made the major news was on the eve of September 11, 2001 attacks. The loss of 3,000 Americans, which for a time fueled a new national unity, quickly dispelled the absurdities of the reparation movement, and turned our attention toward more existential issues.
Now the idea is back in vogue again. Here are 10 reasons why the nation’s—and especially California’s—discussions of reparatory payouts are dangerous in a multiracial state, and why reparations are not viable either in an insolvent state or a bankrupt nation at large.
1) Identity Politics Absurdities
We live in an absurd woke age of retribalization. It has witnessed Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), for mutual advantage, advertised as Harvard’s first Native-American law professor.
Fellow Montecito mansion denizens Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle and multibillionaire Oprah Winfrey swap ridiculous televised stories of their own racial victimization.
“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett initially was canonized by our top elected leaders and exempted for months by Chicago legal authorities after claiming the following absurdity: two white, MAGA-hatted racists, on their apparently routine nightly racist patrols in a liberal Chicago neighborhood and equipped both with special bleach that does not freeze in subzero temperatures and an ever-ready, just-in-case noose, assaulted Jussie. They put a rope around his neck and libeled his predominately black “Empire” soap-opera show—only to be repulsed single-footedly by a courageous Smollett, while retaining in one hand his cell phone and in the other his late night Subway sandwich.
Note that in these nutty cases and thousands like them, there is the cynical assumption that current American society, and the government as well
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No doubt, the scammers are busy thinking of ways to redistribute the reparations to themselves. The Black community will be awash with money and the crime that is sure to follow.
They have to include recent black immigrants or Barack wouldn’t qualify. Of course he has white ancestors who owned slaves but that won’t disqualify him.
Not. One. Dime.
My wife is three generations back Cherokee and looks like a porcelain doll she’s so white, is she eligible?
My Mom has black DNA according to the test and yet is considered white, is she eligible? If she is am I not eligible?
What is the litmus test for who’s brown enough for $$$?
This is a Pandora’s box, beware...
Major chapters:
1) Identity Politics Absurdities
2) Who Is Who?
3) Whose Culpability?
4) Comparative Grievances
5) Plus and Minus Ledgers
6) Reparations Upon Reparations
7) Class Claims?
8) Financial Insolvency
9) No Statutes of Limitations?
10) Salutary Effect?
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That recent cartel murder of 7 people and babies. This was within 25 miles of VDH grape and raisins farm. The poor people there might have no A/C. So they jam into the Walmarts to cool off. According to VDH.
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If reparations are paid to all blacks, it will slow the Cadillac Escalade assembly and delivery lines for decades!!
Jus’ sayin’...
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