Let me see...social security is going broke, medcare is probably already broke, the US Govt is running huge deficits as it is, we have a WOT, corporations are defaulting on their pensions (and the taxpayers must pick up the tab), we have illegals streaming across the border & straining social services, Bono wants us to contribute 0.7% of GDP for foreign aid (and what Bono wants, Bono gets) and on top of all this (and more), America is supposed to pay trillions in reparations to the Black community?
The day that happens is the day I convert my nest egg to gold, buy a truckload of ammo, move to my mountain cabin and stop paying taxes. You want $$, come and get it!
This article, and all the others like it, are merely setting the stage for what is to come from the hands of several interested parties: trial lawyers, now that they've gorged themselves of the tobacco settlements of a gang of state AGs, black race-hustlers and their legions of duped followers, large corporations, and leftists in and out of government. It's now at the stage where gay marriage was a decade ago.
As I understand it from some lawyers I've talked to about this (who are oppposed to it), the scam is going to happen like this:
1. Set the stage with plenty of articles, broadcast news stories, city-council resolutions, letters to the editor, rent-a-mobs in local meetings, etc. The idea is to soften up any opposition so that in time, anyone who openly opposes the idea will be seen as an extremist - and ultimately get smeared as a racist.
2. Bring a series of lawsuits against large corporations whose corporate ancestors might have been involved in some way with either the slave trade itself, or some other aspect of slavery (like insuring slaveowners against escapes, etc.). The corporate response, which we've already seen (Wachovia, just last week) will be to grovel to the hustlers and promise even more racial preferences, which they already are firm believers in. The first suit has already been filed. Those filing it know that they've next to no change of winning. That's not the point. It's to wear down the opposition over time. Corporations don't like spending lots of money in court - it's expensive. The leftists who run law schools, and control vast amounts of foundation wealth have money to burn endlessly in dragging the issue through court.
3. Once the corporations cave - it's cheaper to settle up than to die the death of a thousand cuts, after all - they will run to the politicians on their payroll for a bailout courtesy of the taxpayer, which will be paid primarily to the law firms and the race-hustlers. The drones who follow the race-hustlers will get some sort of small payment, but mostly promises of permanently enshrined racial preferences in hiring, promotion, educational opportunities, etc.
Unless there is major sea-change in this country among the majority population, this will take place in some form in about ten to fifteen years. You can count on it. There's just too much money to be leached by the swarms of parasites.