Posted on 06/20/2019 6:59:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
House Democrats thought they had an easy issue for rallying the Black vote: Bringing up reparations for slavery as an election issue and holding congressional hearings. What better way to rally coveted Black voters than to hold out a big pile of reparations money along with lot of talk about victimization derived from evils committed in the past?
It didn't work out the way they thought it would.
A large number of Black intellectuals and pundits weighed in, not just at the hearing, but on Twitter and beyond, making a hash of the Democrat "narrative":
Quillette columnist Coleman Hughes, who's a Black Democrat, argued in testimony that the whole thing was insulting to black people and a distraction from the issues Black people face today. That got him booed by Democrats for what's figuratively called 'wandering off the plantation.'
Seems he didn't make either them or their obsession with slavery reparations look good.
His remarks echo those of prominent Black economist Glenn Loury who has has been noting these uncomfortable facts for decades, saying it's a waste of time to put a price on slavery.
Here are John McWhorter and I at Harvard discussing affirmative action and reparations: https://t.co/1giMt9Jk6p— Glenn Loury (@GlennLoury) April 22, 2019
Things got even worse for the Democrats when former NFL football star and Fox News contributor Burgess Owens spoke to the committee:
“I do not believe in reparations because what reparation does is it points to a certain race, a certain color and it points to them as evil,” Owens said. He added that reparations also turns black people into “beggars.”
The most shocking moment from Owens’ testimony came when he called out the Democrat Party for their historical ties to racist movements, as well as policies they currently push that hold minorities back.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
One interesting thing I learned when I visited the Civil War Museum in Richmond, VA last month (went to both the White House of the Confederacy and then the museum at Tredegar) was that in very liberal areas like New York and Boston, there were those who opposed abolishing slavery. This because the freed blacks would take away the factory jobs from the northern whites if they were to migrate up from the South and that in turn was among the main motivations of the anti draft riots in New York City in about 1863.
Yep. They can’t see how fortunate that they were/are for being born in this country.
They had very different visions as civil rights leaders, to put it mildly.
What about the Irish?
When slavery was still in use, the Irish were treated as a lower class than the slaves and would often be killed with no legal, moral, or financial repercussions.
Borrow the money, pay ‘em off, go to the country you can prove you descended from. No return for you or your descendants to the U.S ever. If you elect to not claim it, you can stay but this subject is over. No-one will take the bait.
The Spanish were the ones who introduced slavery to the New World so who better to pay reparations?
Black intellectuals are a different animal altogether from blacks in da hood who vote early and often.
F U and reparations
The dems promise Blacks free money from Whitey, so they don’t have to fix their self-inflicted failures. It just makes them more dependent, and more prone to failure.
The Spanish were the ones who introduced slavery to the New World so who better to pay reparations?
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Kind of funny to see that in writing.
ACTUALLY - the indigenous populations of Central America (Aztecs in particular - Neil Young take not) practiced slavery ... and far worse LONG before the Spaniards and Cortez arrived.
The average black person in the US has around 20% white DNA. Is the 20% going to pay the other 80% reparations?
Affirmative Action, welfare, food stamps, lowering of admission standards, HUD, Fair Housing Act...
FROM THEIR OWNERS.
key point. they are dead.
What about reparations from Africa and those that SOLD them into slavery, and the fact slavery still goes on in Africa today?
Uh...yes. That’s my exact point. Reparations to freed slaves from their owners was morally justified. But those slaveowners are dead, and the slaves are dead. That ends the moral debt.
Either the dims don’t vet these witnesses or the witnesses do a bait and switch on them. Whatever it is the dims will not tolerate this and go find them some other “boys” to do their dirty work How about samuel jackson? He is about the most prominent militant black out there. They can trot him out again and not be disappointed.
A friend useda good term this week, “VIRTUE SIGNALING”. It is suitable for several occasions such as: billionaires claiming to give away their fortunes when in truth they are not even making a scratch in the earnings all to make themselves heroes to the little people, dims being the “friend” of the blacks and downtrodden all the while just using them as power pawns, people who scream their virtues and humanity instead of just doing good works for their own sake.
VIRTUE SIGNALING, an accurate phrase for so many.
I’m Irish, where’s my money?
i was agreeing with you.
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