Posted on 03/17/2021 10:34:43 AM PDT by rktman
If someone were to ask me what the United States of America's greatest mistake was, I would answer without hesitation: slavery. The legacy of slavery is a cloud that hangs over our nation much like clouds of genocide that hang over China, Germany, and Russia. One of the solutions proposed by people who want to move beyond the shadow of slavery is to pay reparations to those who were hurt by slavery.
Opponents of the idea of reparations claim that both the people who carried out slavery and the people who suffered under slavery are dead. It is hard to argue that point. Nevertheless, the left ensures that the cloud of slavery remains, and today, there are people who vigorously lobby that the 21st-century descendants of slaves in America receive compensation for the horrors of slavery their ancestors suffered in America in the 18th and 19th centuries. They do not acknowledge that uncounted numbers of Americans are descended from people who arrived in America long after slavery had ended.
On June 1, 2020, a well known black businessman, Robert Johnson, called for the United States to pay 14 trillion dollars in reparations to living descendants of African-American slaves. In his proposal, each living descendant of a slave would receive $350,000 in reparations.
I would urge the advocates of reparations like Robert Johnson to consider some deductions in the amount demanded. The bloodiest war in American history was fought over the question of slavery. Over 620,000 men and women died in the war that ended the institution of slavery. After the war, three amendments to our Constitution were added to end the discrimination caused by slavery.
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Name one nation that hasn’t had slavery in it’s history.
We inherited it...and then we fought and died to get rid of it.
If anything, its death here should be a source of pride.
I would say the biggest mistake was allowing a progressive scale income tax.
How much does Egypt owe Jewish people and their descendants
Payments only to those who were actual slaves. Deductions for all the welfare payments and crime fighting costs. Exemptions for those who were not alive during slavery.
If you want to buy a black slave today you can! In Africa.
The Democrat’s Jim Crow is arguably much more harmful than slavery.
The author is an f’ing idiot. Slavery was not a mistake. Slavery was a condition that had existed thousands of years and continues in parts of the world today. Our nation made the decision to end slavery and paid dearly for it.
YOU would be WRONG!
America's greatest mistake was allowing its USSC to legalize the murder of its most innocent citizens in 1973.
" Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness " is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence. The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their creator and which governments are created to protect.
Slavery is a horrible stain on America, but it pales to insignificance to murder, for nation mentioning life in its Declaration, not only in numbers (over 60 million), but also in suffering (cut to pieces with a knife inside your mother's womb).
If, as Lincoln suggested, that the death and destruction wrought by the civil war was divine retribution to the U.S. for possessing slavery, saying that God may will that the war continue "until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword," and that the war was the country's "woe due."
How much more shall divine retribution to the U.S. be for the murdering of its most innocent?
Wake UP, America! May God have mercy on you!
The West has had a 133 year hiatus in the practice of slavery. When my grandparents were born in 1900, slavery had only been ended (peacefully, BTW) in Brazil for 12 years.
Slavery, like poverty and tyranny, is the norm. The fact that the West managed to suppress slavery (in the West...) for a 133 years is a colossal achievement.
But slavery is pretty obviously on the way back. All you have do is look at the ‘unaccompanied minors’ being smuggled in and guess at their likely fates...
James F. Byrnes, U.S. Secretary of State (1945-1947) “Speaking Frankly”, p. 169 - “Forced labor (slavery) camps are a symbol of Hitler’s regime that we should eliminate as rapidly as possible.” Slavery in 1947? How progressive.
Affirmative action was supposed to correct the effects of slavery.
Now the same people claim reparations are needed.
And that’s in addition to bending the knee to “Critical Race Theory”.
Oh, don’t forget, your support for defunding the police.
Then there’s getting rid of your white privilege (even though you never had it), and removing math, English, tests, and any kind of western civilization education from schools because it’s all racist (and sexist, too).
And forfeit your cars or anything that has wheels, because it’s likely those were racist inventions as well.
Slaves were offered for sale in Africa by Africans.
If slaves weren’t offered for sale in Africa, sailing ships manned by white people would not have been able to bring them over in massive numbers to badly infect the New World with slavery.
The United States as an institution had very little to do with slavery.
Slaves were private property. If a slave escaped, a bounty would have been offered up by his/her owner. Escaped slaves probably only made it to another state rarely. Private bounty hunters probably handled the return of most of the interstate escapees with no government intervention whatsoever.
Not to mention that the indigenous empires of central & south America fought wars against neighboring tribes in large part to enslave their peoples. So it’s note even a unique characteristic of white Europeans to act the part of slavers. Every race did it for most of human history for varied reasons.
Indigenous? After leaving africa and central asia across the bearing land bridge and spreading around north, central and south america. :-)
$14T. $350,000 per person: that 40 Million recipients.
Currently there are 40 million blacks in America.
So this guy is saying that every black in America is the descendent of a slave? How about those who just arrived last week?
Somewhere along the line all of our ancestors have been enslaved by someone.
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