Posted on 02/22/2021 10:10:46 AM PST by karpov
The reparations legislation known as H.R. 40, which has the support of President Biden and the endorsement of Vice President Harris, is an anachronistic document.
Reparations for Blacks has been achieved since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the establishment of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs and the initiatives launched by his “War on Poverty.” These programs specifically targeted Black Americans and the recipients of tax dollars from the middle- and higher-income classes. Millions of government checks, representing tens of billions of dollars, were printed, mailed and cashed. As Stanford University economist Martin Anderson stated: “The most ambitious attempt to redistribute income ever undertaken in the United States had begun.”
The 1960s welfare programs in America were supplemented by a series of formal affirmative action programs that were themselves, I believe, a form of reparations: attempts to include Blacks in corporate and university institutions where they had been traditionally barred from entering.
Reparations rhetoric is a means of socializing Black Americans into believing that white Americans owe them something, anything other than respect for their individual rights. They are being taught to treat equity, the belief in equality of results, as an inalienable human right. But equity is an untenable idea. It rests on the idea that all persons — outside the sphere of political and legal equality — are truly equal. It unquestioningly assumes that all persons are actually born or behave equally or acquire talents, skills, capabilities of equal proportion in intelligence, strength, discipline, perseverance, frugality, temperance, tenacity, exercise of cognitive capabilities, moral choices and myriad characteristics that determine outcomes. Equity rests on the idea that equal rewards ought to proceed from unequal performance.
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They don’t want to be free, they want to be masters.
Reparations mean the debt is paid. That means no more affirmative action, no more minority set-a-sides, no more blm, no more bitching about oppression.
If they think about it, I don’think they want it.
I guess they've been moving the goalposts so gradually, the author might not have noticed? I sure as heck have noticed. They've been doing it for decades.
I have never owned a slave.
My relatives never owned slaves.
Once you explain the tax increase required, and that everyone (Latinos, Asians, etc) has to pay for this ‘gimmick’...the whole thing will fall apart.
Agreed. Only 3% to 5% of all white families in the U.S. ever owned slaves.
Why aren’t the Democrats paying reparations since they were the party that owned slaves?
After the Republicans freed the Democrats’ slaves, the Democrats formed the KKK and imposed Jim Crow laws and segregation in an attempt to continue to control their slaves and prevent them from electing Republicans.
Never understood the logic behind reparations. So the idea is you have to take the money from people who’ve never owned slaves and give it to people who’ve never been enslaved because that makes things more fair?
In what universe does that make any sense?
“The reparations legislation known as H.R. 40, which has the support of President Biden and the endorsement of Vice President Harris, is an anachronistic document.”
Like my plan as posted earlier.
1. Pay reparations to those blacks who can prove they are descendants of slaves
2. Make the descendants of the owners of slaves foot the bill for this...like Kamala Harris
If they go through with this nonsense,, then White folks should get them too since white slavery was also a problem, and many descendents are alive today.
No? Then why the hell did they have to die? What purpose did it serve?
Why do this? No amount will ever be enough. We’d do better to eliminate the race pimping “activists” that keep the crap alive.
If you really want “reparations”, be prepared to accept the repercussions. “Reap the whirlwind.”
"They" have to keep reparations alive in order to keep pushing Marxism (Socialism), race partisans into our schools, dependence on government, disavowing our Constitution, dumbing down our American citizenry...keeping all on the liberal plantations.
Americans did not give them the vote; other than America gave them the vote. Biden/Harris are anti-American, why would Americans vote them into office knowing where they stand?
Reparations,like global warming,is just another money making scheme for dim’s family and freinds.
No one alive today has even been a slave.
There will be a problem with reparations that could cause much rancor on the Left. No argument can be made that any but descendants of American slaves can receive reparations. What happens when Jamaicans, Haitians,Nigerians are denied access to reparation dollars and how could Americans be told they are responsible for slavery in every nation at any time. Could be a popcorn time.
Ancestry.com says I had a “negress” as a great-grandmother eons ago. Can I get me some reparations here?
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