LOL. Outstanding. I also want to seriiously question the intelligence of Keyes if he thinks that paying cash reparations is any different from exempting blacks from the income tax. It is a distinction without a difference. Non-black Americans will essentially be forced to pay for the government services of black Americans with their hard earned money rather than paying their hard earned money directly.
I do not deserve to pay anything. I am white. But I did not own slaves and neither did any of my descendants. My parents came over from Italy in 1954. How am I morally obligated to pay the descendants of slaves anything?
descendants = ancestors
Never type angry.
But see, that's the same argument the Dems make whenever Republicans want to cut taxes for anyone, they tell people that once the rich gets to pay less if means "you" have to pay more, and that's not "fair".
But the whole thing is based on exploitation of people's jealousy. That's why I saw people who are ostensibly conservatives here in California cheering that the California govt want the Indian Casinos to pay tax. As though somehow their lives will be better because now the Indians paying more taxes. I opposed that too. Tax burdened raised on anyone will eventually be used as an excuse to raise our taxes, and tax cuts for anyone can eventually be used as a reason to cut our taxes.
As conservatives I'm for tax cuts even when it doesn't apply to me.
Same boat, my family came over from Germany between The Wars, America's 18th and 19th century mistakes aren't our fault, glad they solved them before we got here, not sure whyanybody is obsessing on them now. Something the reperations movement deliberately ignores is the VAST percentage of this country that owes it's lineage to post Civil War immigration, it's a group that doesn't, through even the most creative guilt math, owe the decendants of slaves anything.