Posted on 02/09/2023 4:33:10 AM PST by MtnClimber
The party of slavery should take responsibility for being the party of slavery.
Every so often, some Democrats call for reparations to compensate Black Americans for slavery and other indignities.
The latest plan comes from San Francisco, where a reparations committee is considering a program that would offer $5 million per qualified Black resident.
Let’s analyze the issue of reparations from the standpoint of morality and practicality.
Most people believe that compensation for misdeeds should come from the people who caused the misdeeds. For example, if John Smith and Joe Brown recklessly damage your car, you expect Smith and Brown (or their insurance companies) to pay for the repairs. Normally, you would not expect the repairs to be financed by the entire town in which you live: That would make no sense.
What if Joe Brown died shortly after the accident? Would you expect his children or grandchildren to pay you? Probably not. Instead, your claim for compensation would be focused on the surviving reckless driver, John Smith. We can apply this logic to the reparations issue.
Obviously, no person alive today existed during the slave era or as an adult in the subsequent Jim Crow or Ku Klux Klan eras.
However, there are certain responsible entities that existed then and now:
-The United State government
-Eleven slave states of the Confederacy plus four union slave states
-A handful of corporations with origins dating before the end of slavery
-The Democratic Party
I did not include the Republican Party for a very good reason: It was formed in 1854 by a bunch of abolitionists for the express purpose of ending slavery, which was accomplished at enormous cost 11 years later. On the other hand, the Democratic Party has to be listed for very important reasons, which are explained later.
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The FEC should shut down the DNC as a terrorist org for sponsoring non-Natural Born Citizens candidates for POTUS and VPOTUS, seize its assets, and use that to give to deserving applicants for ‘slavery restitution’ when their genealogy supports it.
Mother England was in charge for about 2/3 of time when slavery was here. Then the Democrats took over. So they can split it up.
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