I kind of have a sinking feeling like “slavery reparations” are in 2023 about where “gay marriage” was in the mid-90s (i.e., a fringe idea fervently supported by a segment of the hard left but rejected by the majority of the population). With gay marriage, they kept hammering away, hammering away, undeterred by defeat after defeat in the states (including being rejected by California voters twice) ... until they finally succeeded turning the tide of opinion and achieving total victory in 2015.
A militant minority within the black population (egged on by white liberal idiots like Gavin Newsom) has seized upon this idea of reparations, and I just don’t think they’re ever going to let it go.
And keep in mind that homosexual marriage was forced on us through the courts.
Could future courts twist the Constitution , and say that the concept of equal protection of the laws , mandates that we pay reparations for slavery?
I know it sounds absurd, but in 1990 all of us would have thought it was absurd , that 25 years in the future ,the US Supreme Court would mandate that we change the definition of marriage to accommodate homosexual marriage.
You’re right. They never will let it go. They’re even determined to force the U.S. to pay for slavery that was practiced before the United States was created. All that slavery prior to 1776, that’s British slavery. Those were crown colonies without the ability to create just any law they wanted without limitation.
If the reparations seekers had any consistency they would be demanding reparations for 157 years of slavery from England. Realistically they should pay it, not the U.S.
So in the end if a reparations bill does ever get passed, the U.S. will pay on behalf of England’s share of the crime. How do you like that?
The U.S. only had slavery for 80+ years.