Posted on 01/20/2016 11:35:14 AM PST by C19fan
Last week Bernie Sanders was asked whether he was in favor of “reparations for slavery.†It is worth considering Sanders’s response in full:
No, I don’t think so. First of all, its likelihood of getting through Congress is nil. Second of all, I think it would be very divisive. The real issue is when we look at the poverty rate among the African American community, when we look at the high unemployment rate within the African American community, we have a lot of work to do.
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Well Ta-Nehisi, I’ll do my part: I’ll pay back wages at $50.00 per hour for any slave I ever owned.... heck, I’m in a generous mood. I’ll extend that to any slave that my parents, grand parents, great-grandparents, or great-great-grandparents ever owned or even directly profited from.
Clearly Obama would have to PAY reparations and he wouldn’t get any. He doesn’t have any slave blood.
If reparations goes through, then there is a reason to jail you if your parent was a criminal. Or even your grandfather. Maybe they can combine this lovely idea with a bill to have anyone convicted of a crime castrated and all of his children and grandchildren put to death. If the sins of your fathers are your responsibility, then our justice system is all wrong.
Bernie’s answer, translated. We’ll have reparations, we just won’t call it that.
It akin to a "Barack".
Bernie Sanders said "All lives matter", and was blasted. He's against reparations. And he's not completely in favor of grabbing all the guns.
And Democrats blasts him for all of it.
So we're now at the point when an admitted, card-carrying socialist is too conservative for the Democratic party.
The native Americans kept slaves even before Leif Eriksson found his way to North America.
So did the Vikings.
Compare the life of today's African-Americans to the life of the relatives they left behind in sub-Saharan Africa today. Even though they have benefited immensely, it would still be wrong to force African-Americans to pay reparations -- and who would they pay reparations to after all these years?
Sounds to me like it might be similar to a rin-no-tama.
No way to post a comment at The Atlantic website, I see.
Leftist respect for dissent, as usual.
Took the words right out of my mouth!!
I say "Bring it on!" Because this is what is going to happen....
"Hide the money y'all there's poor people around......witcha broke ass...."
As long as they are paid only by those who have owned a slave.
Saudi Arabia needs to pony up
In truth, blacks living in the U.S. today got one helluva good deal already!
I know, I know, their great grandparents or so lived in slavery, which was awful.
But consider how long it took white people to go from living in grass huts to relatively nice houses - thousands and thousands of years.
Then consider how long it took for black Americans to go from grass huts to relatively nice houses - only a couple of hundred years (and remember, those left behind in Africa STILL live in grass huts).
Also, abortion is morally worse than slavery! At least they didn’t kill the slaves the way preborn people are killed today.
I am glad my Grandaddy got on that damn boat
- Muhammad Ali.
'Cause he's a white guy and that makes him racist.
The ironic thing is that probably a very large pct. of blacks who came over were slaves in Africa as well. Certainly, there were no democratic countries or the rule of law in African countries. The law was whatever the king or chieftain said it was. Slaves and warfare were prevalent.
The slaves who came to America probably lived far better lives than their relatives back in Africa..unless they were royalty.
Slavery was evil, and had to go. But too many American blacks, like Coates, do not understand the tremendous opportunities they have in America. At the moment, American blacks, through the costs of crime and welfare, are a net drag on the economic system. We have been subsidizing them for many decades. It is up to them to change...not other Americans.
Its pronounced Ta Dash Nehisi. Da dash not be silent. Silly crakha.
I didn't that. I did know that blacks were, for the most part, sold into slavery by their fellow blacks.
Because Vermont? Second whitest state in the union?
Seriously, though, when a politician tells you that he's against something it doesn't mean he'll still be against it the next time you ask him.
It's hard to predict whether Bernie would still feel the same way a few years down the road if reparations became a hot topic. Sixties radicals who managed to get elected to political office are complicated.
One part of them is stuck in the assumptions of early 1960s, one part flirts with more radical late '60s thinking, and one part is racing towards the latest progressive notions. Bernie I is a White guy from Brooklyn who thinks class trumps race. But Bernie II and Bernie III are another story.
Sanders is an old hippie.
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