People who never had slaves paying people who were never slaves....another bad welfare idea.
Exactly. My grandparents came from Italy in 1910. There is no way I am paying.
Reparations, err Economic Justice, got us into this financial crisis we are in today!
My ancestors didn’t own slaves for two reasons: Religion and Economics. They believed that slavery was a sin and they could not afford slaves anyway.
“...Community Reinvestment funds that would be controlled by the black community...”
Already got that. Community Reinvestment Act and Fannie Mae! Hey Barak, you can stick your reparations!
This could get interesting! Obama is not ‘African-American’ black in the sense that most people think of it (ie, descendents of slaves). His father is Kenyan and so his paternal ancestors were not slaves in this country. And Obama is half white. So not only would he not get any reparations, he’d have to pay into it?
“Most of my forefathers weren’t even in the US when this all happened. Why should I have pay?”
What are you crazy? Using logic when considering the actions of liberals?
Here, it’s simple, this is the liberal mindset:
White people = bad.
Black people = downtrodden, good.
If you’re white, you should pay. Your forefathers may not have owned slaves, but if you’re white, your people did something bad, sometime, and you should pay.
Welcome to Obamaland.
Everything to do with Obamna is about race, it’s all he ever has cared about. People are so blind to this.
The CRA that led to the current meltdown WAS reparations.
It really is too bad that Obama and the libs are setting us back 60 years with regards to race relations. Who are the real racists here? This is horrible.
Another take:
“Hey, here’s an idea: Instead of giving reparations, let’s just pressure banks to lend money to minorities for houses they can’t afford, and who are unqualified as borrowers!”
PUT THIS IN AN TV AD TODAY AND HE WILL LOSE. I’ve said for MONTHS that somebody has to ask this guy about reparations. It’s a no win issue for him.
Working whites have provided trillions in “reparations” over the past decades. Another politically incorrect thought...as bad as slavery was, todays descendents live in the US. Would they prefer having lived for the past 150 years in Zimbabwe? Kenya? Is everything better there...everybody equal and well treated? Lots to eat, with those evil rich people paying the tab? Perhaps the descendents of the slave owners are owed reparations for having brought blacks to the US in the first place! It’s an interesting thought. But of course, far too politically incorrect to be stated, never mind honestly considered.
Most of my ancestors were either “poor white trash” or Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw (but not eligible for handouts because they were “half-breeds”).
Where’s my free stuff?
Many of mine were. They fought for the Union. This is the thanks we get. Had they known about this ingratitude they probably would have wished the Confederacy well, tutted about the "particular institution" and gone on with their lives.
The Civil War was a disaster for the North (worse for the South), the heirs of the chief benificaries are completely indifferent.
The PDF you linked to covers as much of the grievance territory currently being mapped while the cartographers of retribution busily send out newly trained scouts, torches blazing.
This could well be called a Short Course on “Getting-Evenism.”