Grab Your Wallets: The Reparations Game Is Rigged

American Thinker ^ | 22 Jun, 2023 | Jack Cashill

[MtnClimber]

Two weeks ago, I participated in a debate on reparations hosted by the American Public Square and later televised by KCPT, the PBS station in Kansas City. If I didn't know beforehand that the game was rigged, I did by the time the edited debate hit the airwaves. Grab your wallets, folks. The reparations crowd is coming for your money.

The concept behind American Public Square is a reasonable one. Troubled by the increasing polarization of the electorate, former ambassador to Portugal Allan Katz founded the organization to bridge the partisan divide through civil discourse.

The programming skews left, as does the audience, but the forum provides contrarians like myself an opportunity...

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The reparations discussion was anything but congenial. The organizers had a hard time finding a second person to take the "con" side. The one fellow on the "pro" side could barely bring himself to look at me before we started. The moderator, like the organizers, seemed nervous throughout. The audience was about 20 percent black and generally hostile. And all my jokes fell flat.

On the Muslim panel, I tried a little Sun Tzu on the audience, questioning why liberals would ally themselves with a faith group more socially conservative than even the dreaded religious right. On the reparations panel, I again avoided the obvious flaws in their argument and asked instead why black activists would appeal to the very liberals whose largesse has shattered their communities.

I used my first opportunity to speak to imagine the world that singer Fats Domino saw around him on the occasion of his 30th birthday in 1958. Jobs were plentiful. Black families were intact. The community was strong. Streets were safe. One racial barrier after another was falling, and Fats himself was making a boatload of money.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Reparations were paid in full with Human Sacrifices in the years 1861-1865.
700,000 dead. Tens of thousands gave arms, legs, eyes to the cause.

Rudyard Kipling said it best about reparations(Dane-geld)

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.