Posted on 04/08/2019 6:05:01 AM PDT by SJackson
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In 2008, the election of Barack Obama was universally hailed as an historic breakthrough event - the first African American presidency in American history. Great expectations were raised for what was then billed as the beginning of a new “post-racial era.” A decade later these expectations have not been fulfilled, and – worse – have been frustrated by the spread of “identity politics” – the most tribalistic, color - conscious and divisive attitude to dominate the public square since the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 outlawed discrimination on the basis of skin color.
An early sign of trouble in the new racial paradise was Obama’s designation of Al Sharpton - the nation’s second most notorious racial demagogue - as his “chief adviser” on race. As racial tensions in the nation’s streets intensified, this designation was fleshed out by over 80 Sharpton visits to the Oval Office, by far more than anyone else’s. It was further reflected in the White House’s embrace of extremist groups like Black Lives Matter and in the not-so-subtle White House covers for violent attacks on local law enforcement.
With Obama’s exit from office in 2016, the fury and violence of Ferguson and other beleaguered cities have faded, but the spirit of racial division remains and flourishes in the menu of Democratic demands. It was most recently manifest in a new Democratic ritual as the 2020 roster of Democratic presidential hopefuls has made a pilgrimage to Sharpton’s National Action Network conference to kiss the kingmaker’s ring and sign on to his list of outrageous demands. Most prominent among these is reparations for slavery to be paid by people who were never slave owners to people who were never slaves, 154 years after the fact.
. The reparations demand is pure racism: Recipients will be paid on the basis of their skin color even if, like Kamala Harris, their ancestors were actually slave owners. It will be paid by people who had no historical connection whatsoever to slavery, and it will be paid by the very government that sacrificed 350,000 mainly white (and Christian) lives to abolish slavery and lead the world in doing so.
The real agenda of the reparations movement is clear. It is to indict white Americans for what Cory Booker and other leftist demagogues call “America’s original sin.” It is part of the Left’s assault on the Christian founders of America – an assault justified by a completely bogus version of history. Black Africans were not enslaved by white Christians. They were bought at slave auctions in Ghana and Benin where they had already been enslaved by Black Africans. It was the Christian crusader William Wilberforce who – for the first time in 3,000 years - declared slavery immoral and launched a campaign to end it. It was another white Christian, Thomas Jefferson (whose statue is a current target of leftwing ignoramuses, who wrote into America’s birth certificate that all men are created equal and have a God-given right to liberty. Within fifteen years of the Declaration most of the northern states had freed their slaves. It took less than a generation to complete the process, but at the horrendous cost of 350,000 Union lives.
The reparations campaign is a campaign to bury the fact that white Americans freed Black slaves who were originally put in chains by Black Africans and Muslims, and that the white Christian males who created this country are responsible for ending slavery and creating the most inclusive, tolerant and equal society on earth. It is a campaign to make Americans ashamed of their country, so that its enemies can more easily destroy it. Americans whose forbears declared their independence in 1776 and created a new nation conceived in liberty can be proud of their record on slavery. It’s demagogues like Sharpton and Harris and every other 2020 presidential hopeful in the Democratic Party who should rightfully be ashamed.
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It is somewhat inaccurate to call slavery “America’s Original Sin.” The politicians seeking reparations fail to call to account the European colonial powers that instituted slavery in North America or the African and Arab slave traders. The USA did not create slavery. It was already well established when American achieved independence.
When Sharpton seeks redress from the Dutch, the English, the French, the Portugese, the Spanish, etc., let us know.
The Kenyan from Indonesia set back race relations in this country 50 years.
Love the way he put that. The left likes to condemn America for not instantly living up to its ideals. The correct perspective is to give America credit for setting forth its ambitious ideals and then working hard over time to realize them, often at great price as Horowitz points out.
It is a campaign to make Americans ashamed of their country, so that its enemies can more easily destroy it.
Wow, he's pulling no punches here. Sadly he is exactly right about the left's motivation. The left hates this country because they rightly see it as an ideological enemy. Their racial grievance mongering is a means to an end.
And yet again demon rats show their contempt for black Americans by presuming this payola pretend will keep the black vote secure in dnc clutches.
They gonna charge the people’s ancestors who fought for the North too?
While I agree with most if not all of what Horowitz wrote the question is where do we go from here?
This issue will not go away nor will the issue of race and the divisions as a result.
Have they found a way to levy a tax on only white people?
If not, EVERYBODY in this country who isn’t black is going to be in opposition.
Apparently a lot of black Americans think they are going to be getting a personal check from this. Little do they know that the reparations cash is going to be shunted to Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the like who “know how to spend it on what is BEST for them”.
And of course reparations for blacks would just be the start. With this as precedent, every self appointed victim group would soon be clamoring for their piece of the reparation pie.
"I'm rich biatch!"
It really is a hilarious skit on how blacks will blow reparations in 72 hours and give all the money back to 22" rim makers, Nike stock soars 4000%, GM stock explodes since all Cadillacs got sold at sticker, liquor stores are emptied, etc.
I had nearly forgotten that.
What about reparations for victims of affirmative action? At least they are alive today.
Reparations have been paid and is paid for every day it’s called welfare.
I cannot recall how long I’ve been a follower of FR, but, this day, 4/8/2019 YOU have, for the first time inserted TRUE history into the reader’s eye.
Slavery was introduced into EUROPEAN colonies under the laws of Europe. The United States did not exist as the first slaves were off-loaded onto North America, in accordance with BRITISH laws. We were merely an English colony and you are the first to state the fact. I applaud you and criticize myself for not having the nerve to do it myself.
The USA did not create slavery, it painfully ENDED it!!
That’s racist.
We have been paying reparations since 1965, when Johnson pushed his “great society” legislation through Congress, and effectively redistributed wealth from the mostly white middle class, to the mostly black, welfare class. 59 years later, after redistributing trillions of dollars in reparations, we still have a mostly black welfare class that claims they are the victims of racism.
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