Reparations are Racist.

The Hudson Institute. ^ | January 29,2004 | Bernard Chapin

[mhking]

Reparations are Racist.

No, reparations are retarded.

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[gdogdaily]

retarded is a good word for it

[cyborg]

Well for the past two days the Nation of Islam has come to my job and left flyers of 'Saviors Day' that's on Feb.29. ' What America and Europe Owe and What Allah Promises'

I need workman's comp for the sudden onset sickness I got from seeing Louie's face.

[tcuoohjohn]

I am always amazed at the arguments chosen to debunk reparations. They run the gamut from historical arguments to bizarre cultural tub thumping and at worst racially divisive screeds.

For some reason few people use the the most compelling argument of all.

Under what theory of law is 'victimhood' an inheritable asset?

None that I know of.

[stainlessbanner]

Rick Telander should not ask for whom the bell of racism tolls: it tolls for him.

Classic Poe for the closing.

[cyborg]

further proof that libs are the biggest racists of them all

[Verginius Rufus]

Wow! I knew, thanks to Sheila Jackson Lee, that our astronauts had been to Mars, but not that they had built any condominiums there, or that they were for sale.

[Sloth]

Telander justifies his case by mentioning past payments to Holocaust survivors and the Japanese Americans who were interned during the second world war, but, his examples do not apply to the current reparations case because, with pre-Civil War slavery, there are no living survivors to repay.

Correct. Reparations for slavery are absurd. I would, OTOH, not object to reparations to elderly blacks (and any similar groups) who can document a lack of protection for their civil rights up through the 1950s or so.

[FreedomFlynnie]

Poe? I Donne think so.

[rickmichaels]

The fact that this young person was unaware of current living conditions common among black Americans is due, in my opinion, to his receiving an undergraduate education that focused more on leftist theory than on facts.

Watching BET Nightly News probably had some influence as well.

[stainlessbanner]

my bad - that's hemmingway, no?

i was thinking of a poe...book
(bad case of the d*mbarse)

[gdogdaily]

poe's always worth remembering though

[usapatriot28]

Yet Telander chose instead to examine blacks in America, who are citizens of the second richest nation on the planet.

So that would be the blacks in America who are citizens of Japan. Mmm, don't think there are too many of them.

[stainlessbanner]

LOL! So is Pappa Hemingway. I'm allowed a few senior moments.

[cyborg]

john donne 'for whom the bell tolls'

[cyborg]

I suggest this man in question spend more time in this:
http://www.incompetech.com/authors/donne/bell.html
and less in randall robinson's 'the debt'

[SAJ]

NICE shot!

:^)

[cyborg]

BET nightly news isn't bad but too narrow a target... I switch between FOX and BBC and also NEWS103 (which is really CNN world or something). Certain college courses are riddled with leftist crapola which is why I never take them.

[luvbach1]

...he blames current-day blacks’ problems solely on slavery and racism.

It is ironic that blaming blacks' present-day problems on slavery and [white] racism becomes a major part of their difficulty, in that it allows them, and society at large, to avoid the actual reasons for, and solutions to, the problems (real and perceived).