The Reparations Boondoggle: How Is It Going To Work?

Townhall ^ | 02/27/2019 | Nicholas Waddy

[SMARTY]

Bend over

[volunbeer]

“It won’t.”

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Yep. Another shameless effort to purchase votes and less than 10% of our country even knows the history of slavery in the U.S. - a distinctly Democrat program.

[BBQToadRibs]

Reparations should have happened right after the civil war if they were to happen. All these decades and generations latter, the waters are too muddied. Who actually qualifies would be riddled with fraudulent applications. Who is to pay into it would be hotly contested. And it in and of itself would be racially divisive. No good will come of it.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Nonetheless, get out your wallet.

[Sir Napsalot]

And the descendants of said ‘freed slaves’ will pay reparations back to the descendants of those who fought in the Civil War to free them, right?

How happened to all those aid (how many billions?) in the past decades since Civil War that blacks received, do those get deducted from the reparations?

Why just focus on black (African) slaves? Why not go back to the beginning of human civilization?

When/where does the cycle end?

[liberalh8ter]

I descend from a Native American family. While that family, at the time of their trouble, numbered about 30 to 40, there are thousands of us now. Would we all be eligible? This is the most ridiculously preposterous vote-buying trick the Democrats have ever employed.

[Leaning Right]

> I was surprised that candidate Hillary didn’t float this balloon publicly in 2016. <

That’s only because she was overconfident. No need to rock the boat. It was in the bag for Hillary.

The Democrat nominee in 2020 - whoever it is - will not make that mistake. So in 2020 I expect to hear a lot of talk about reparations, student loan forgiveness, a national minimum wage of $15 an hour, etc. Something for everybody.

It will be raining freebies!

[Harpotoo]

I’m a white Jew and I want reparations for the 5 years I grew up in Da Bronx and had to put up with all my racist Black and Puerto Rican neighborhood bullies when I was a kid:-)

[dfwgator]

Should have picked our own damned cotton.

[PGR88]

Democrats are the anti-white race party.

[blueunicorn6]

Now you sound like my wife.

[rktman]

Poorly. As previously, how many of the kin folks/descendants of slaves would be alive today if said kin had not been captured by neighboring tribes and sold into slavery and shipped to the colonies and central and south America? Due to famine, tribal wars etc. A simple thanks will do. I also read something the other day that it’s possible that ‘cameltoe harris’’ family in Jamaica were slave holders. Ruh Roh!

[litehaus]

“The Reparations Boondoggle: How Is It Going To Work?”

Paging Gobner NEWSOM, Any Twosome Newson to the phone please...

[NonValueAdded]

Several of my ancestors were “killed by indians” (official cause of death) can I get in line too?

I think we say The Great Society was payment in full.

[V_TWIN]

Skip to the 4:30 mark. I’m afraid this young lady just missed out on the lottery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5u_jTzwbL0

[tomkat]

Here's how it'll work at my address:

             

[ByteMercenary]

If there is a black person alive today who was a slave in the USA *AND* if the alleged owner of that black person is also alive today, I would support a small transfer of equity from the owner to the slave.

Note: this does not apply to decendants of either individual; only the actual principals involved in the owner / slave relationship. Our laws do not permit the punishment of the decendants for the ‘sins’ of their ancestors.

... unless you are a conservative of course (/sarc)

[TennesseeGirl]

What I’m curious about are the nuts and bolts of this farce. I am white. My direct line of ancestors on both maternal and paternal sides were NEVER slave owners. I’m sure I’m not the only white person whose families eschewed slavery even though we have always lived in the South (Virginia or TN or NC since coming to America BEFORE the Revolutionary War.) Why should I be owing reparations to anyone???? This is more socialist b.s. to gin up racial unrest, obviously.

[Verginius Rufus]

I think there are two main reasons why the Democrat candidates are signing on to this idea now--to try to win the nomination in 2020, and to exacerbate racial division in the country (which they see as something helping the Democratic Party).

I don't think there is any danger of it coming to pass in the near future, but if it did ever materialize I suspect all "persons of color" would qualify as recipients (blacks, Hispanics, American Indians), and only whites and maybe Asian-Americans would have to pay into the fund from which reparations would be doled out. Even recent immigrants from Africa or the Caribbean or Latin America would qualify because of ongoing "white privilege" in the country.

[jonascord]

Let's see.

One side of family the arrived in the 1600s as an indentured servant. He ran off and turned up on the French side of the Mississippi, and then his family moved over to Illinois after the Revolution.

The other side didn't get to the US until the 1890s, thru Ellis Island, and settled in Chicago, where he opened a bar. Family lore says he'd serve anyone who was tall enough to reach a glass. This included children.

I don't figure I owe anyone reparations.