Reparations is a word that is often mis-used and really misunderstood. Reparations have to do with making someone whole after a great injustice has been done to them while they are still alive and complaining, and a court decides that some money or restoration of property is in order.
This half-cocked notion that decendants of any society, slave or otherwise, are entitled to anything for the wrongs done to their ancestors is preposterous. The first time I heard the word applied to a situation was when the Allied Powers saw fit to take material, ideas, technology, plans, equipment and so forth from a defeated enemy. World War II is the best example, when the British and others took things from the defeated Germans as part payment for the financial losses they incurred in the battle. Nope, no money or other apologies for anything that happened before any of us were born. That any of us perpetuated an intolerable situation for any other Americans is just plain crazy. My family's situation was quite intolerable, but most of us picked ourselves up and got to work, made a life for ourselves, and went on with things. The old concept of working hard, expecting little, doing good and trusting in God is really all you need to succeed in life. If you want to sit there, be housed and fed and educated by others, then you have no voice in this society. You will be tolerated, but you will never win respect or be heard. Gosh, isn't life a bitch??????
Donna Lamb does NOT speak for me.
So, individuals don't pay reparations. Governments do. So, if you don't pay taxes you pay nothing. This knucklehead doesn't even understand that governments do not have money except that which it extracts from citizens.
The chief identifying characteristic of the modern Western left is white-hating genocidal racism. The chief political program of modern Western leftism is white-hating genocidal racism. These are the facts that establishment conservatism just won't face.
"Reparations is not about money being taken out of every white person's personal bank account and handed over to blacks, as the spreaders of misinformation can make it seem," Lamb said. "Individuals do not pay reparations. Reparations are what a government pays a people it has wronged ... with tax dollars."
Oh man, that's beautiful! People don't pay tax dollars, governments do! Actually, if reparations WERE taken out of every white person's personal bank account I'd support them. It'd be a good education for them.
The purveyors of $600 Louis Vuitton purses will be relieved to hear this.
I'll say.
But it wouldn't work like that.
Lampreys are interesting creatures. "It is snake-like and it has a protuberant sucker-like strong mouth and teeth which can penetrate the tough skin and scales of any big fish. This parasite bores a hole in the side of the host fish and lives on its blood and body fluids, and the host fish usually dies."
There's a lot we can learn from the Lamprey.