Posted on 06/09/2023 4:26:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
There are any number of right-of-center arguments against reparations. I’ve made them before. Now, with cities around the US considering cash reparations payments to black Americans, I’m dismayed to find that I have to make them again. But why do we most often hear objections to reparations coming from conservatives? The left, if it was thinking about its broader long-term electoral viability, ought to reject reparations claims as well.
Imagine, for example, a white working-class voter in a Rust Belt state that is suffering the effects of deindustrialization, inadequate public services, and the opioid crisis. Such a voter might be quite receptive to a senatorial candidate calling for class-based solidarity in order to address these serious problems with large-scale structural reform, a more robust social safety net, and higher taxes on the wealthy. But if the candidate, at the same time, also promises to distribute huge cash payouts to this hypothetical voter’s African American neighbors while leaving him to fend for himself, the voter might question how serious those calls to solidarity really are.
As well he should. We hardly ever hear this contradiction addressed by progressives calling for reparations, and yet it violates the very premise on which the likes of Bernie Sanders and John Fetterman have based their appeals to voters. Perhaps, as John McWhorter suggests in this excerpt from our most recent conversation, people would be willing to go along with reparations if they would finally end calls for race-based benefits. But, as John also suggests, reparations wouldn’t be the end. And if the payments go out and raThere are any number of right-of-center arguments against reparations. I’ve made them before. Now, with cities around the US considering cash reparations payments to black Americans,
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I hope they do give reparations. I’m going to start a grill franchise.
That crowd likes grills a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fijggq5R6w
Its the same one AndyJ, don’t click on it! XD
It would never end. It’s an industry, and the ones running want to keep their jobs.
The author's economics-oriented Left is long dead. The Left is no longer socialist or communist (though many Freepers mistaken call them that).
Today's Left is defined by anti-white racism and anti-Christianity.
Fancy rims. That’s where the money is.
You have states today that never were slave states, making people that never had slaves and might be poor themselves, pay for people who never were slaves and might be better off financially - all based on skin color.
Tell me that ain’t racism?
I identify as black today. Will the places that institute this policy accept my fluid self identity?
The case against reparations: No.
I like the way you think, we could work together on this
“B n’ S’s one stop grill and rim shop”
The Mexicans in California, who hate blacks, will in no way, shape or form pay money to blacks as reparations.
Since the early 1990s, Mexicans in LA County have made blacks disappear. A million or more blacks have vanished from LA county. For example, Watts during the 1992 riots was nearly 100% black. Now it’s about 70% Mexican.
Where did the blacks go? Nobody knows. Mexicans make blacks disappear.
There’s no doubt that there’s a race war going on in California. The racist, white soi boi press refuses to cover it. They just friggin’ ignore it.
The white press is there solely to push out propaganda to placate the vanishing black tribe. Think that blacks make up 13% of America’s population? Bull! It’s probably closer to 10%, heading to 7% soon. More than 20 million blacks have been aborted since 1973 Roe.
https://rtl.org/multicultural-outreach/black-abortion-statistics/
There will soon be more polar bears in Churchill, Ontario than blacks in LA County.
Forget the made-up census numbers. Mexicans are surging and will soon make up 20% of America’s population. That’s bad news for the idiot deep state. Mexicans will have no problem telling the deep state to F off. They’re in this party to promote their own self-interests.
Once the Mexicans embrace the whole of the 2nd Amendment, the deep state is royally screwed. That’s because Obuma’s “army” is vanishing fast, and what’s left is weak and ineffectual.
That was proven when Mayor Groot of Chicago sent obuma’s BLM army into Cicero to raid Mexican businesses and neighborhoods in May, 2020. The Mexicans set up armed barricades and snipers on rooftops and beat the crap out of the black gangs, chasing them back into the Chicago ghetto. Mexicans have blacks surrounded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIves5KGkNA
Oh, you didn’t hear about that, right? Of course not. Why would the racist white media inform the black useful idiots that they got their asses kicked?
This year - 2023 - will see Mexicans become the majority demographic in LA County. This was predicted by FReepers 10 years ago. Good for you people who got it right. Collect your Nostradamus badges at the exit.
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