Posted on 07/10/2019 1:27:42 AM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
God bless, Cocaine Mitch. The Republican Senate majority leader had the perfect response to bogus questions on Tuesday about whether or not he would support reparations for African-Americans after an NBC News article pointed out that his great-great-grandfather owned slaves. In short, he told the media that his position on the issue was no different than President Obama's.
"You know, I find myself once again in the same position as President Obama," Sen. McConnell said to a reporter who asked the question. "We both oppose reparations, and we both are the descendants of slaveholders."
The Washington Free Beacon's David Rutz points out that McConnell has already addressed the issue on how to properly remedy the damaging effects of slavery last June.
"We’ve tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation. We’ve elected an African American president,"Sen. McConnell said. "I think we’re always a work in progress in this country, but no one currently alive was responsible for that, and I don’t think we should be trying to figure out how to compensate for it."
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
For white families who’s relatives died in the Union Army to free slaves also?
“Forty acres and a mule” is nothing more than opportunity to (modestly) thrive through hard work.Education is exactly the same thing.
People who want “reparations” should go to Africa long enough to be eager to come back to America. And if that’s never, nobody is the worse.
“Is anybody in the media going to mention the slaves owned by Cameltoe’s ancestors?”
Sure! Right along with their discussion on how she is an anchor baby and not a natural born citizen. No, it seems America is still reluctant to seriously question any person with a drop of negro blood out of fear of being called racist by some drooling leftist moron. Sack up America!
Remember Obama evolves so he might want reparations now ,LOL
McConnell needs to add fake “African American” Kamala Harris to the list. She’s no more than 10% black and her white ancestors were big time slave owners in Jamaica. She runs around the country claiming she’s black because she knows she has to have 90% of their votes if she runs against Trump. Ground control to this fraud. Most blacks despised her before the first debate and most still do. She should be asked to take a DNA test. She’ll of course refuse and the media will give her a pass. Kamala Harris, 10% black but 100% mean-ass, lying, Christian-hating skank.
You were talking about foreign invaders, no?
Sorry, wrong thread.
Actually, I take that back. I was correct. I believe you were talking about foreign invaders.
“Can we talk about the child slaves owned *today*?
You know, the helpless, innocent children dragged across the Sonoran desert after being purchased from their parents?”
They should not be here. I don’t a damn about any of them. They need to be sent back to their own country.
The emancipated slaves did fine without the giveaway, and probably would have achieved equality if not for their subsequent repression through Jim Crow.
The original history of post-emancipation experience of emancipated slaves was one of racial inferiority. In this view, the Klan played a heroic role saving the South from the black and tans.
Revisionist history then blamed black lack of progress on the rise of the Klan, Jim Crow, segregation, and so forth. The Klan went from the good guys to the bad guys. But, this revisionist history kind of side-stepped black inferiority. Maybe the majority of blacks were inferior, but there was a black elite that was superior.
In one of the few challenges to this revisionism, is ...
Robert Higgs, Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy, 1865–1914.
He shows that blacks actually made progress since emancipation.
Inferiority, superiority - feh!What counts is that “If you think you can do it, or if you think you can’t - you’re probably right.” - Henry Ford
Slaves were inculcated in a “can’t do” attitude to keep them subservient. So if in fact any particular one of them “can’t do,” we don’t know if that is “inferiority” - or just inculcation. That is the import of what Thomas Jefferson said when asked about the subject. And it’s hard to gainsay.
But in practical terms, what matters now is now - and the immediate future. The problem isn’t “the legacy of slavery,” it is the legacy of the Democrat Party - not just in the antebellum South, but most importantly the “Great Society.” LBJ saved the Democrat Party from irrelevance with that ploy, because it stopped the progress of blacks by seducing them into the belief that they needed the government, and the Democrats were there to help.
- Losing Ground:
- American Social Policy, 1950-1980
- Charles Murray
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