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.
Time to pay those ex slaves still living Slaves as a result of the Morgenthau Plan and the Yalta Agreement.
Time to pay those ex slaves still living Slaves as a result of the Morgenthau Plan and the Yalta Agreement.
Time to pay those ex slaves still living Slaves as a result of the Morgenthau Plan and the Yalta Agreement.
I paid big time. I’m not paying again.
Exactly so.
We’ll see if reparations ends up in the platform of the next Democrat National Convention. My advice to Dems: just keep digging.
What about reparations for relatives of the lives lost freeing the slaves?
And that devil, Johnson, succeeded beyond even his expectations ... the *8888ers* (Johnson’s word not mine) have been bought and paid for votes ever since.
Slavery was long abolished before my father’s side arrived; we’re pretty sure that mom’s side were never slave owners. I ain’t payin’, nor will I be guilted!
I’m all for reparations, assuming the entitlements paid out to AAs over the last 50 years are first deducted from the proposed amount. I have a feeling they would end up owing US money.
Those seeking to Africanize America must be destroyed. Sub Saharan Africa is now and always has been an uncivilized disaster. There must not be a Coming To America
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The reparations crowd will never admit this fact which is essential to the discussion.
The liberty tree needs to be watered its thirsty
May I suggest all of the people mentioned in this article go and reproduce asexually?
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It was not America’s Original Sin. It was the southern democrats who were the perpatrators of this evil. The Northerners pushed for abolition and freedom for the slaves. That is what the Civil War was all about. People like Al Sharpton conveniently forget that the North was against slavery. That is because it looks better if it was a unified effort to keep them enslaved. I object to being forgotten when several relatives were wounded fighting for the North.
I'd reserve some credit for Brits, Portugese, Arabs and assorted Africans. Probably most of the credit. They were the drug Czars, southern democrats at worst addicts, who today's democrats should recognize as victims. And what about Spain? Did they promote slavery anywhere in the hemisphere? They owe reparations big time. Hispanics paying hispanics.
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