Posted on 12/14/2022 12:42:32 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The great scam is that the reparations argument is framed only in terms of governments having to pay (with funds provided by citizens in the form of taxes). Why are these trillionaire families from ancient bloodlines given a free pass? They are the only ones who should pay.
Yes, and more lies from the left.
Boston was a hotbed of abolitionist activities. Probably was some discrimination here and there. But slavery? Boston was deeply involved with the Underground Railroad.
They better get it while they can.
The good times are going to end soon.
The left have always lied. It comes as natural as breathing to them.
What about the black Bostonian gunned down by the Crown’s soldiers in the Boston Massacre of 1770?
In 1780 or so the majority of slaves were white.
Can us decendents of indentured servants sue for compensation?
Hasn’t Boston been run by Democrats since 1930?
Grifters Council votes to study reparations for Black Bostonians.
There were a lot of plantations in Boston! As well as the rest of Massachusetts! Bilk them all!
They will never be satisfied. What’s next after reparations, give them our homes? On and on and on. It will never be over until we stand up to them and pull out the violins.
The people who had slaves are dead. Their guilt was not passed on through the genes. The guilt did not find a way to mysteriously jump from the slaveholders to the grandkids of people who immigrated into this country in the late 1800s.
The dems know that national reparations won’t happen, so they’re implementing it in far left states.
What’s the end game in all this? Total collapse of the USA, which is what they have been wanting for a long time, and its replacement by a totalitarian dictatorship.
Negroes are a race (such as there are races).
African American is a culture. Most African Americans are sons and daughters of the American revolution. They have been cultured by Democrats first to be slaves, then to be second-class citizens, and now to be welfare recipients.
Most European Americans are sons and daughters of immigrants who arrived here after the revolution (mostly from 1840 to the 1940). These immigrants assimilated into the mainstream culture and, so, are largely self-responsible, productive and law-abiding citizens.
The dramatic difference in the African American subculture and the mainstream culture can be seen in recent immigrants from Africa and from the Caribbean. The later are fast-moving up the socio-economic ladder, like the Italian-Americans did during the Twentieth Century.
Thomas Sowell has some very informative youtubes on African Americans and the Scots-Irish, and their interconnections. He is probably the foremost expert in the world on race and culture.
Good luck trying to trace the lineage of everyone accurately. It is very likely that the overwhelming majority of black Americans are NOT descended from slaves in the US and are descended from people who emigrated here by choice.
What to do in those cases? Just give everyone a check for being black and come up with some "catchall" rationale to do so?
IMO the democrat party, and their supporters should be the ones on the hook for reparations.
to add to what you said:
The wealth of the South was totally destroyed during the Civil War. Every state of the South was bankrupted a second time during Reconstruction. Jim Crow left the South desperately poor. The problem with communism, Nazism, slavery, serfdom and all other forms of exploitation is that they are destructive. There’s little or no wealth to take in reparation. So, you sue the capitalist states, not the slave state, because the capitalist states have wealth. And, you justify this by racism. Look, dey’s white.
Right now the Poles are embarrassing themselves demanding reparations of Germany for WWII. Germany was completely destroyed during that war. All the wealth of Germany today is due to Germans since WWII. But, there are the stupid and greedy Poles saying, Look, dey’s Germans.
Now I’m going to add another thing to this thread. What does demanding reparations beyond what the other side can pay, get you? It gets you Adolph Hitler.
The French and their damn Treaty of Versailles drove the Germans to desperation and the Germans eventually found someone who would stand up for them. The English knew the consequences of the Treaty would be catastrophic, but went along with the French. We, at least our Senate, rejected that vindictive and hateful Treaty. Something we Americans should be proud of.
How should you treat those you defeat? The way Grant treated Lee, and we treated Germany (the western part) and Japan. You don’t blame other people because of their race or nationality. You say, there but for the grace of God go I. But, we are no longer a Christian nation. We’re a nation of hate and selfishness.
Someone in Mass can correct me if I am wrong, but I believe its first state constitution outlawed slavery in the state. Also, as I recall, John Adams even before succeeding to the Vice Presidency had a black friend who managed his farm when he was in Europe on assignment.
Should this cockamamie move succeed I believe it should be put to a national vote to decide if Blacks should be returned to slavery.
Reparations should only be paid to those producing a valid Slave I.D., from the state where they were enslaved.
Anyone, black or White, not collecting said reparations, should be on the paying side.
Thank you - haven’t run into much from Thomas Sowell lately...smart man!
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