Posted on 09/20/2019 5:55:19 AM PDT by karpov
Three Democratic candidates for president — Julián Castro, Cory Booker, and Marianne Williamson — have declared support for the idea of slavery reparations. A number of others have said they’d vote for a bill sponsored by Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee (D., Texas) to create a “commission to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans.” Still other candidates have been vague (Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Beto O’Rourke), while Elizabeth Warren has called for a “national, full-blown conversation about reparations in this country.” Oh, a conversation.
A Washington Post piece examining the tensions between black Americans on the question offers a glimpse of why this idea is terrible. It’s a profile of William A. “Sandy” Darity, a professor of economics at Duke, and leader of the “Planning Committee for Reparations,” a group of academics who are attempting to create a program to implement reparations. They envision a plan that would offer cash payments to all African Americans who can 1) prove that they are descended from someone enslaved in the United States and 2) have identified as black in public documents for at least ten years.
This, as you can imagine, has engendered some raised eyebrows. “It’s extremely difficult to separate classes of black people,” objects Nkechi Taifa, a D.C. “activist” (per the Post) who supports the idea of reparations for all black people. “The idea that unless you can actually trace your family directly to a slave that you haven’t been subject to the legacy of slavery is a bunch of hogwash.”
There it is, the ticking time bomb of intra-group resentment that reparations talk ignites. About 10 percent of black Americans today are foreign-born. The number of blacks who are children and grandchildren of immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean is even larger
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My great great grandfather and great uncle were killed. My great grandfather lost a leg in the Civil War. They fought for the Union.
If reparations are given out, our family wants 3 shares.
If you’re only half black, do you just get half the reparations amount?
How about if you’re just 10% black?
Malcolm X (via Alex Haley) talked about black families favoring those of their kids who had lighter complexions (if they were of mixed ancestry like he was)--that would be pre-WWII times.
I don't care if they have been 'subject to the legacy of slavery' or not. There is not a people or nation on this earth that hasn't been to subject to or perpetuated slavery or all kinds of different 'evils'. Blacks should worry about their own atrocious histories not to mention their current day pathologies.
Racial mau-mauing is what Democrats need to do to keep blacks on their plantation.
They lose them and they’re no longer politically competitive. Stoking racial polarization helps them.
I will never pay the race merchants and race hustlers a dime for things I’m not responsible for and which I didn’t commit:
Black people don't object to white people who have naturally darker skin or are deeply tanned. YOU know that...
Why should they? What they object to is 'black-face'...
Black people object to the Justin Trudeau and Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam types who darken their skin artificially to create 'black-face'... when they do that it's offensive.
I object to black people artificially doing 'white face' when they lighten their skin artificially and don wigs or other imitations of OUR hair. It's equally racially offensive. I
“Kidnapping and enslaving people is evil. But the people so victimized are long gone... “
INAL, but I’m pretty sure that the statute of limitation expired well over 100 years ago for any claims of harm. The push for “reparations” today is nothing more than a cynical attempt to foment racial tension for left-wing political gain.
“The idea that unless you can actually trace your family directly to a slave that you haven’t been subject to the legacy of slavery is a bunch of hogwash.”
They are just say that because they know a good chunk of them don’t even know who there fathers and/or their mothers are. Hard to do a family tree if you have no starting point.
“..Elizabeth Warren has called for a “national, full-blown conversation..”
Converse with yourself Warren...it bores the hell out of me.
It's not just black families - it's common in the middle-east as well... in fact it's almost a universal feeling among 'people of color' that lighter is better. Malcolm X fought the idea - and so did other 'grown ups' in this culture and others - culminating with with the 'black is beautiful' movement.
Cory Booger also came out with a plan to pay reparations to people who were busted for pot possession.
That 24% had no problem because that was the custom where they were taken from. Once they were free they could apply the African custom of owning slaves to themselves.
I was going through a government survey about race discrimination for my work with the ANG. One question that skewed all the other ones on what they mean by discrimination was if there was white supremacist problems at work.
No word on Islamic or black nationalists which are a far far bigger problem
Who the hell approves this kind of survey is what I want to know. There is a socialist camp in the deep state.
The vagueness of the whole debate is perfect for Democrat demagogues, they can stir up resentment and demands, without either thinking through the real consequences and damage reparations will certainly do, all the time knowing that they never actually have to do anything.
This affair is just another component of the political fraud that drives today’s Democrat Party and the Left in general. It represents and illustrates the very nature of “The Party of Fraud”. This and every other dishonest scam these fools burden us all with should be dismissed and derided as idiocy.
Commie-Americans work as a team. That’s why you see this kind of coordinated crap...
Assuredly, the notion of collective guilt is alien to logic and good sense.
It’s not surprising that libs embrace such guilt (but only for whites) and oppose individual responsibility.
There will be a civil war if that happens. It’s plain and simple. It’s not right, not moral, not acceptable and certainly not legal to force people to pay for the sins of others.
“The idea that unless you can actually trace your family directly to a slave that you haven’t been subject to the legacy of slavery is a bunch of hogwash.”
Hey! Does that mean I qualify!??
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