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I always thought that we had a tacit gentleman's agreement in this country. The unconstitutional 14th Amendment (1868) deprived slave owners of any compensation for their property, and in return, slaves would not ask for reparations/40 acres.

"The 14th Amendment was never legal nor Constitutional from its very inception. The Constitution mandates that proposed amendments must be approved by two thirds of both houses of Congress. In December of 1865, the radicals in control of Congress refused to allow the legally elected Representatives and Senators from the southern States to be seated. Hence, at that point, Congress itself was unconstitutional. However, even disregarding that technicality, when the vote of those who WERE seated as part of the House was taken, out of 184 Representatives, only 120 voted in favor of the resolution. Two thirds of the 184 would have required 123 to vote in favor. In spite of the failure to get sufficient votes to constitutionally pass the resolution, the leadership of Congress arbitrarily declared the Resolution passed. Congress then submitted the 14th Amendment to all the states for ratification, INCLUDING the States which had already been DENIED representation in the Congress! The 14th Amendment was soundly defeated when it was rejected by all but one of the southern States and all of the so-called "border" States. Iowa and Massachusetts had also failed to ratify it by the beginning of March, 1867. The radicals had only 21 ratifications of the 28 needed. What to do? "

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I always thought that we had a tacit gentleman's agreement in this country. The unconstitutional 14th Amendment (1868) deprived slave owners of any compensation for their property, and in return, slaves would not ask for reparations/40 acres.

Well, then OK, I see room for a compromise here that will satisfy everyone.

We give the "descendants of the slaves" (i.e., anyone with the classical "one drop of negro blood") 40 acres and a mule, and we give the "descendants of the slave owners" (i.e., "everyone else" other than the "descendants of the slaves") "compensation for their property", in the form of gold coinage equal to the market value of a college educated black adult, i.e., (ballpark average) $65,000 a year times 35 years productive life = $2,275,000.00, in gold bullion coins.

OK, is everybody happy?

Oh, we'll need to work out some way to pay for those coins, of course. Perhaps a "fair share" tax on mules, and on parcels sized at 1/16th of a section?

After that, we can finally have the f'n race war that the IDIOTS seem to be dead set on getting, and then after the dust settles, we can pick up the pieces and start over again.

Good grief.