Black Reparations: From Whom? To Whom?

Thomas Sowell: Black rednecks and white liberals
TownHall | May 5, 2005 | Thomas Sowell

Slavery was a global institution throughout history, from Old Testament times to the rejection of that institution by Christianity in the Nineteenth Century.
The current movie Amazing Grace treats the life of Wilberforce, the central British politician in the campaign which caused Britain to throw its considerable weight behind the global abolition of slavery.

Dear God in Heaven, I can't see the reasoning of liberals.

Post this same article on another board...and here's his response!

LOL I knew this was somehow going to be turned into blaming blacks and muslims. You can't have a conservative write about race without it.

You're wrong, there are slaveowners currently around to pay off reparations. Corporations are tecnically legal persons, and, thanks to the Republicans, they have more rights than real people. So we find corporations involved in slavery and can find clear sources of reparation money. Who gets the money is a trickier issue. LOL you knew this was going to involve blaming corporations.

Seriously. What the crap?

opus time?

Honestly Wolf I have no preconceptions regarding you or your politics. I've made no assumptions.

You did not read my responses and you replied with nonsense - pin me down?, getting closer?

I'm sorry about the "idiot" thing, but really all you need to do to participate in the debate is state your position and defend it. If you can't then perhaps you need to reassess your assumptions before recommitting to them.

It is that simple. If you want to post something that furthers the debate and helps answer the questions you have on your "journey", I'm still here.

Eddie01

I think there was a break in communication. after going back and reading the interchange, I don't really know what your views are yet. It seemed you thought I was black at one point or vice versa.

As far as the issue of reparations goes, I think coming into it is very important to try and get a feel for from what place they come and what they are bringing to the debate. IMO we aren't really there yet.

Also I guess I see it as more than a debate. It is an issue we will have to resolve as a nation sometime, but the debates/dialogs people have now will prepare them for when that time comes.

Regards

We are now hearing demands from descendants of West African Americanized slaves claiming reparations. Who should be responsible for paying those reparations? And who should receive them? First, what about an American Black U.S. citizen who is not a descendant from American slaves, such as Barak Obama, or others who immigrated to the U.S. from other countries? Clearly, they have no stake in this matter. Now, for those who truly are descendants of West Africans who became slaves in America, just where should their demands for reparations be directed?

It's bad enough that Barak Obama can take advantage of Affirmative Action.

And just who were those at the bottom of this ugly supply chain? Who seized free men and women and forced them into slavery in the first place? History tells us in almost all cases they were Arab Muslim slavers whose religion, Islam, decreed that the taking of slaves of those they conquered is approved by Allah; A lawful reward for striving to carry out Allah's edict to his believers to force all people and all nations into Islam (submission); a doctrine which still prompts conquest, subjugation, terrorism and slave-taking today.

I'm surprised the writer didn't say that it was more likely for Barak Hussein Obama Jr.'s ancestors to have owned/sold slaves than for the ancestors of most white Americans.

I don't believe that "in almost all cases they were Arab Muslim slavers". It maybe true today. As with people all over the world, tribes of Africa would take the defeated as slaves. Many black Africans sold their children into slavery. African chieftains were very upset when whites ended slavery. They loved trading humans for kegs of rum.

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