Posted on 04/02/2019 11:28:55 AM PDT by jazusamo
The absurd call of reparations for slavery is being revived by desperados who hope to get the Democrat nomination for president. If a Democrat doesn’t agree with the call for reparations, they know they will not get the nomination. Therefore, every candidate has to play along, flaunting their racial sensitivity in an attempt to get the black vote. No one can secure the Democrat nomination without the black vote, and thus this subject is resurrected every four years.
This reparations scam is a cruel joke perpetrated on a community of people by suggesting free money might be coming. None of these Democrats can explain how this would be accomplished, who specifically will receive payment and how much. These race hustlers know they don’t have to bother with details on something they know will never happen. Just making the claim gets your book stamped by the NAACP. Nothing energizes the black electorate more than by teasing them about reparations for slavery. These race pimps know that many unsuspecting black people who don’t see this con job are caught up in the politics being played by them and believe they might get free money. However, after the presidential primary election cycle ends, the idea of reparations gets put away in the closet for another four years—just long enough for everyone to forget and then get hoodwinked at the next presidential primary.
The first point I want to make about the reparations is that we are talking about torts made to people who have been harmed by someone’s action. It is how our civil law system tries to make people whole. They give them money. It’s all they can do to punish someone. Reparations would have to be paid out of the U.S. Treasury. That would require taxpayers living today to have to pay. Our system of jurisprudence in the United States has always been premised on identifying a specific person for having directly harmed another person in some way and punishing that person directly. That is very hard to do since past slave-owners are dead. A case could be made for and by former slaves. But, they are also dead. You don’t make up for wrongdoing by punishing people not directly involved in something nor their descendants 150 years later. Not all whites owned slaves. How are Democrat candidates Kamala Harris, whom we learned is a descendant of Jamaican slave owners herself, Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren, whom each has called for reparations, going to determine which white folks had ancestors who owned slaves? Or should we punish all of them to make sure we got everybody? Even the white people of European descent who came here through Ellis Island long after slavery had ended. Are they guilty too?
I am going to do what no white politician would dare do. I will make the case against what is really an act of extortion. The scary thing is that most politicians would likely go along with this nonsense if a bill ever reached a vote in Congress out of a sense of white guilt. They erroneously believe that all would be forgiven. It won’t. In 2009 the U.S. Congress passed a resolution apologizing for slavery of black people and Jim Crow laws. That didn’t matter to race hucksters who will claim in perpetuity that black people today still suffer the effects of slavery that ended over 150 years ago.
White politicians, namely Republicans, should claim that reparations have already been paid to African-Americans for the last 150 years in the form of affirmative action, hiring quotas and diversity programs like college admissions that let less qualified black students into schools by denying more qualified white students. I’ll make the claim that those white students are entitled to reparations as are people denied promotion by their employer who promoted a black person instead of them in a diversity program based on skin color. You don’t make up for past wrongs by discriminating against a different class of people on the basis of their white skin. As the saying goes, two wrongs do not make something right.
We should never forget the horrors of slavery. We should not, however, have let this become the cottage industry that it has become. Select blacks like Jesse Jackson have made themselves wealthy off of extorting white businesses. It gave him access to white Democrat politicians because he delivered them votes. Many blacks who were discriminated against didn’t get their beaks wet like Jackson. Trust that if reparations money were ever to be doled out, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would probably be put in charge of doling it out and their friends would be the biggest benefactors.
I am not going to tell individual blacks what to do here. I’ll say how I have approached things. The God I pray to daily sent his son Jesus Christ who continually talked about the act of forgiveness. As hard as it can be at times to forgive, forgiveness is in order. I did not say to forget. I made my peace with America for the past sin of slavery. It has been therapeutic. It has freed my mind of much debilitating emotional baggage. I suggest other blacks at least give it a try. It will be liberating. And at the very least, you will no longer be led around like a dog ceaselessly chasing its tail every four years by a group of race hucksters who know exactly what to say to get you to play along.
The democrats are very willing to split the country into warring factions. The idea of “reparations” is the issue that will cleave the country into two radically opposed camps. That’s what they want.
That's just where the complications start. To whom would reparations be owed? Millions of black Americans are recent immigrants or the children of those immigrants, and have no family link to slavery. Are they entitled to compensation for what slaves endured? How about whites whose ancestors were slaves? Or blacks descended from slaveholders? What of the 1.8 million biracial people who identified themselves in the last Census as both black and white? Should they expect to collect reparations, or to pay them?
David Clarke is a great American.
Yep, should it ever happen it’ll be a real can of worms.
Amen to that.
I demand a rebate. My great great grandfather’s slaves were lazy and of no account.
“If a Democrat doesn’t agree with the call for reparations, they know they will not get the nomination. Therefore, every candidate has to play along”
I guess they hope to get more than the usual 95% of black votes.
Reparations is a bad idea. Of course I would gladly accept free money, if it were offered, bit would settle for 40 acres and a John Deere
Tractor.
Agreed. At worst, it should only be democrats who pay, since they were the ones who passed the Jim Crow laws and were slaveowners. Interesting tidbit I learned yesterday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_debt_of_Haiti “After the slaves declared themselves free and the country independent in 1804, France, with the complicity of its allies, demanded that the newly formed country pay the French government and French slaveholders the modern equivalent of US $21 billion dollars for the “theft” of the slaves’ own lives and the land that they had turned into profitable sugar and coffee-producing plantations. This independence debt was financed by French banks and the American Citibank, and finally paid off in 1947.” So maybe .... nah. Let’s call it even.
I wonder if Booker or Harris will get the majority black vote in the primary.
The mistake is in accepting any premise of the "Reparations" demands. There is no need to argue about details of who should get what. The entire proposal must be kicked to the curb.
It is simple extortion, and the people supporting it are thieves swindlers, and thugs. Politicians who support this in any manner (even hypocritically) are declaring themselves unfit for public office and should be removed from such positions.
Wait until they get a bill from me since my kin folks fought on the Union side to free them.
And lets not forget the 22 TRILLION DOLLARS in reparations that has already been paid in the last 50 years....
Most of the Great Society was designed to fight LBJ’s War on Poverty, the total cost of which has been the sum of $22 trillion in current dollars, as reckoned by the Heritage Foundation.May 21, 2014
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/21/editorial-the-not-so-great-society/
First, how much reparation was paid since 1968. That seems to have done no good. Why more?
A 19 year old Jewish kid who worked for me back in 2000 at an investment bank (fastest thing on a computer you ever saw) told me he was getting reparations from Germany of 1,000 a month.
I do not remember if it was passed onto him by his grandmother or she put it under his name or he was directly getting it.
But WWII was only 55 years old at the time. The companies that made a fortune were still very much around in doing very well.
Both perpetrators and victims were still alive.
Different situation.
NOBODY is alive for this. Nobody’s KID is a live for this.
MAYBE there’s a few great great grandkids around. If the person was 1 years old and had a child at 40 and then their child had a child at 40 and that person is living a long life!!
It’s too absurd.
Let it go.
The concise absurdity of “reparations”:
Kamala Harris’s family owned slaves.
Why, then, is it argued that the descendants of those who _freed_ those slaves would be compelled to pay _her_?
I tell blacks, who want reparations, three things.
1. God has claimed exclusive right to vengeance. So anybody wanting vengeance is stealing from God.
2. A persons wrongs end at their death. To charge a person’s descendants is to simply inflict fresh wrongs that will.then be judged by God.
3. God has forbidden blood binds.
They are getting their reparations/revenge... they were taught by obama.... to fundamentally transform the country.... by riots, by ‘black only situations’ by letting the guilty off free... by taking to the streets... by making the white supremecy a word to use and mock.. .dividing the nation asunder. And NONE of these were slaves....
basketball players, football players, baseball players, actors, rap music bands, you name it... they are making very good money and how many are thankful for living in this country that gives them the opportunity
The ones who are guilty of keeping the black race back for voting.... are the dems! They did all they could to keep them needy and voters. Why they continue to vote them in, is beyond my understanding.
But they’re going after their riches, in the wrong places.. and being angry at the wrong party...
The dems should have kept them in school....not encouraged single women to have children... made welfare as a last resort.... kept their housing up instead of letting it and the area go to pot.. build them up instead of making fake excuses why they are in need and are victims..
It’s a lousy trick the dems play to keep their power... and today it’s aimed at Trump and his really ignorant voters. We are in their way!
I say keep teasing and leading them on. Maybe in another 150 years they’ll figure out they are being played. In the meantime the democrats don’t have to worry about getting their vote one way or the other.
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