I Have Some Questions About The Democrats’ Reparations Plan

So, Senator Willy Brown Side Piece and Senator Panders With Wolves have decided to so something even Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit never dared – they’ve come out in favor of reparations. “Reparations” is, of course, the notion that a bunch of people who are not guilty of slavery owe money to people who were not slaves for some reason that never quite gets explained but that you’re racist for wondering about.

This horrific idea is, not shockingly, really unpopular with the majority of people who did not do anything wrong but are expected to cut a check. It is, however, really popular with the leftist activists driving the out-of-control clown car that is today’s Democrat Party.

The Dem candidates are not crazy, and their plan is no doubt to gaslight the SJW suckers with this nonsense during the primaries to win the nomination. Once that mission is accomplished, they will pull the old “Just kidding!” when it comes time to campaign in the battered, opioid-shattered Midwestern states like Ohio and Michigan where the besieged white working class voters would be surprised to learn how privileged they are, as well as how in debt to people they never did anything wrong to.

Or maybe not. I mean, liberals are both incredibly dumb and morally bankrupt, and perhaps they would actually push for an unAmerican racial spoils system where you receive, or pay, cash because of something your great x 5 grandpa was or was not. But let’s get beyond how this whole idea is an atrocity that makes a mockery of everything Americans believe in. Let’s figure out how it is actually supposed to work.

I have questions. Several in fact. So, let’s take me, my wife, and my kids for example and see how this works out in practice.

Now, on the surface, I’m pretty much near the bottom in their heirarchy of racial grievances. The Schlichters came here from Germany before the Revolution and settled in rural Pennsylvania. Clearly, the world was my oyster. Sure, back in 1981, as I was swabbing out toilets in the Foster City, California, Carl’s, Jr., I did not have a solid understanding of the windfall of privilege bequeathed to me. Nor was it readily apparent as a Private First Class at basic training, except when Drill Sergeant Whittlesey would say “No push-ups for the college boy. Two hundred fifty years ago, his ancestors were in Bavaria, so he’s special.” My privilege is clearly the only reason I became a successful lawyer, writer, colonel, and Twitter legend. The decades of hard work were secondary, and anyone who thinks different is a racist.

You would think I’d need to pay full reparations freight, but hold on. My mom’s mom cruised over here from Scotland in about 1910. Do I get a break for that since it was a half-century after slavery ended? And it ended, in some tiny part, because of my great-great grandfather, or maybe great-great-great grandfather, who served with the Union Army in the Civil War. We’re pretty sure some other relatives did too. Oh, and the Confederates burned down the Schlichter hometown, Chambersburg. That’s got to be worth something. Basically, I think I’m entitled to a discount.

Now, my wife immigrated here from Cuba after the Democrats’ pal Fidel Castro started tossing her family in jail for liking freedom. And it gets more complicated – she did one of those 23 and Me DNA things, and she’s got a few percentage points of African and, bizarrely, Native American (more than Big Chief Warren, not that that’s hard). So, as a Latina immigrant of femaleness with some African and Native American heritage, I’m thinking not only does she not owe reparations, but she’s probably due a refund. Just make the check out to cash and I’ll make sure she gets it.

That brings us to our kids. So, they are half-Latin with some extras, and half-Anglo, but with some recent immigrant credit and bonus points for the Civil War. How much do they owe? Or do they get something back?

And what about other folks? How about those Nigerian guys hired by Jussie Smollett? Do they get money? Do they owe money, since clearly they are entrepreneurial immigrant innovators doing jobs Americans just won’t do, like helping fake hate crimes for oppressed dudes making $65K a week. And what’s Jussie Smollett owed by, say, an Illinois truck driver whose ancestors came over from Cork during the potato famine?

But, of course, it doesn’t work, because it’s stupid. And it’s not merely stupid; it is the anti-thesis of justice. The very idea these factors entitle or obligate you to anything is staggeringly immoral and utterly disgusting. Which explains its eager embrace by the Democrats.

But let’s put petty concerns about not being thoroughly evil aside and focus on practical questions, like what exactly does this pigmentation fine/windfall buy us? I mean, if we do this reparations thing, are we done? Are we finished with racial strife? What exactly are we expecting after the checks clear?

Everyone knows that when, say, AAA insurance pays off your auto claim, they make you sign a release that says, essentially, “Hey, for this $1,500, you release all your claims and can never sue for more.” We lawyers use releases all the time in settlements – we call it “buying your peace,” and once you pay off a settlement, the beef is finished, the dispute is resolved, and everyone is even. Is that how this works?

Is the whole leftists racial okey-doke over with forever once the reparations get paid?

SJW with Nosering: “Hey you, in the MAGA hat, you’re exercising your white privilege!”

Reverend Sharpton: “That’s right, and I’m here to tell you that this whole race hustle thing is over, done, finito! Now you need to find something else to complain about!”

SJW with Nosering: “Thanks for the tip, Reverend Al! Hey you, in the MAGA hat, you’re a climate denier!”

Unlikely. These professional racial conmen are never giving up their grift. Reparations I will inevitably be followed by Reparations II: The Revenge.

What will resolve the racial divisions in this country is not a cash transfer but – and you liberals are going to hate this manifestly true statement of fact – a return to the Judeo-Christian values and principles of our Constitution that recognize the worth and dignity of each individual based upon his or her character, as well as a total repudiation of the racial hucksterism that is destroying our culture.

Until we reject the ethnic scammers and professional bigots who seek to make immutable characteristics like race, ethnicity, religion, and gender what defines an individual, our culture and politics will be a poisonous cesspool. It’s those creeps who owe all of us reparations – but I don’t want their money. I just want them to stop destroying my country.

What gets me about this “reparations” debate is, the slave owners lost all their “equity” when the slaves walked off the plantation into freedom. The local Black Republicans raided the taxes until the owners couldn’t pay the taxes and broke up the remaining plantations that didn’t get looted or burned by the invading Union army and it’s “bummers” And why tax the victorious “Freedom Fighters”

It’s a debt that’s been paid for already.

Rather than “poisoning the land”, whites have abandoned it altogether - increasingly leaving behind the municipal, county, even state borders that would share their fruits of working with welfare populations - and blacks are responding with alarm.

Crime, high taxes, and poor schools drive the tax base away. What's left is not productive and the downward spiral continues as taxes are increased and policing declines.

Look at the last fifty years; foreigners are amazed at what blacks have already squandered with affirmative action policies.

Per my new immigrant Bulgarian Uber driver the other day, all these people want to do is make babies (my correction) and do drugs.

Reparations: the split will be 90% to white lawyers 10% to slave descendants.

Just like the tobacco settlements. Although I think it will be more accurately 95% - 5%.

The great fallacy is that slavery didn’t begin in America; absence of slavery is unusual worldwide and throughout history. Absence of slavery is restricted basically to places and times influenced by such as William Wilberforce - Christians, especially Protestants, and especially English-speaking Protestants after about 1700

And the fact that is never addressed is that it was largely though the efforts of White Christian men that slavery was ended in The West.

I’m absolutely in favor of reparations to the descendants of slaves.

The peoples of West Africa, who willingly and enthusiastically sold black people to the Europeans, should be held accountable for the vast profits they earned in human trafficking. Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, and other countries along Africa’s Atlantic coast need to pay back for the suffering they caused by the creation of entire empires dedicated to the selling of human beings. Shame on them. I’d estimate that 25 percent of the gross domestic product of those countries for the next century should just about make up for their criminal human trafficking which created the Atlantic slave trade.

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We lawyers use releases all the time in settlements – we call it “buying your peace,” and once you pay off a settlement, the beef is finished,

I suspect that one lump sum might be too easy...it leaves too much on the table. A wise "reparationer" would go for smaller checks, but would pay them out on an ongoing basis. Annually, semi-annually, or monthly would be the best for continuing support from the African-American communities. Then, Democrats could use it as a voting issue: "vote for us, or those mean, old Republicans will cut/stop your payments!"

the fact that is never addressed is that it was largely though the efforts of White Christian men ^{with rifles} that slavery was ended ~~in The West~~ ^{in every venue in which it WAS ended.}

Including in the American South, where the slaveholders were themselves white Christian men.

48 posted on 02/28/2019 9:27:55 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)

My ancestors were Catholic tenant farmers (i.e. slaves) on the lands of some Catholic Scottish Lords. After they transferred title to their lands to Protestant Scottish Lords my ancestors were kicked off the land and replaced with Protestant tenant farmers. Eventually they emigrated to Canada during the 1840’s Potato Famine. They moved westward across Canada and came across the border at Detroit in the 1890’s well after emancipation. So I’m confused - do I receive reparations and from who or do I have to pay reparations and why?

I’m conflicted. Should I have immunity from my GG Grandfather that rode with John Brown and fought for the Union or should his GGG Uncle that was one of the largest slave owners in Jamaica mean I only owe it in the West Indies?

Does Kamala Harris owe due to being from a family of slave owners in PR?

Can we just short it out by me buying Willie Brown some penicillin and Kamala giving me $80k?

Guilt resides in the individual, and is not passed on through the genes. Financial debts are not inherited by children. So there is no basis for making today’s Whites pay for something done years ago by people who are dead.

Guilt does not jump to people who are not descendants of slaveowners, simply because of a similar skin shade.

I have already paid, big time. A family member just paid, when a car was broken into by a descendant of slaves. I am still paying, in higher taxes, that go to unproductive descendants of slaves.

To those who propose reparations: kindly fertilize yourself.

Not sure what you're asking, but the idea is to actually participate in the idea of making America great again, and try to erase the suffix of

"*-Barons".

I am for reparations.

And I don’t care how much it is. I would even give Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.

As long as the final result is “paid in full”.

Yes, and even worse, the white suckers that were expected to foot those huge pension bills are escaping before the piper must be paid. For everyone on FR that defends those pensions as “agreements made with workers” - OK, now how do you get the money? If the agreements were between the government and those workers (I’ve never been asked to vote on one), then let “the government” (read: the current residents) pay for them.

Many people from developing or undeveloped countries seem shocked at the educational opportunities spurned by our permanent underclass; where they come from, that opportunity to better oneself is much harder to come by (and those offered it make much more of it).

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