Posted on 07/31/2008 4:24:29 AM PDT by shrinkermd
OK, so we give every American indian a check for $10,000 and 1 blue bead.
They have to turn over all of their casinos to their states and they give up any money that they make. Deal?
Same for the “former slaves” -
cut ‘em a check, one time.
Then, dismantle ALL wealth transfers and ALL race-based policies, making any race based programs or organizations illegal or open to all “groups”.
On this last point - if there are black/minority only scholarships or programs or organizations, then there should be equivalents that EXCLUDE minorities.
I think its a great idea.
A little know fact is that the Democrat Party lead a successful coup in Wilmington NC in 1898. The Republican mayor and city leaders were run out of town along with many successful black lawyers and business people.
There has been talk about reperations for the blacks thrown out of town but when it was mentioned that it should be the Democrat party that pays the reperations...well, seems that they changed the subject really quick!
“On a local conservative talk show here in Memphis yesterday morning an african american citizen said 3 million per black should do for reparations.”
Is my math incorrect or does this come out to a $108T tab?
And this time around we know that decades of welfare, preferences and affirmative action in response to the last round of riots and threats has only resulted in demands for reparations.
Rioting again just “wouldn’t be prudent” I’m thinking.
Would they still complain that the Bush Admin. has the worst debt record if they get paid?
Nope. Government is good when furthering socialist redistribution of wealth, government is bad when it is actually performing its constitutional duty.
(Not implying that the current budget is all related to the constitutional duty.....)
American descendants of African slaves are infinitely better off today than the descendants of Africans still in Africa. Also, my forefathers (and those of most Americans) going back to Pre-Civil War days were not even in America yet. They had nothing to do with slavery. Group guilt based on race is every bit as racist as slavery itself.
Sorry - I was being sarcastic - I didn’t mean to upset anyone - I really don’t think reparations will come to pass.
What of all those who fought the immorality of slavery, Jim Crow, etc. Blacks didn't gain all those things by themselves. There were good upstanding Americans who stood with them. Indeed it was a white congress and several Presidents that abolished those things.
Make all democrats pay reparations, since they were the party of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, and the KKK.
I wonder who will be on the Reparations Committee? The names Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Cynthia McKinney, and Louis Farrakhan all spring to mind, but I am sure that there are plenty of other candidates.
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