So how could President Obama untangle the knot? In David Remnick’s new book “The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama,” one of the president’s former students at the University of Chicago comments on Mr. Obama’s mixed feelings about the reparations movement: “He told us what he thought about reparations. He agreed entirely with the theory of reparations. But in practice he didn’t think it was really workable.”
So the families of all the Union soldiers that fought and died to end slavery will finally be properly compensated?
If they weren’t so serious about this crap, it would be funny.
Yet the latest Obamapoll shows this moron still has an approval rating of about 30%.
Interesting...I thought there was something about Hussein’s ancestors that were involved in the other side of the slave trade, selling African slaves.
Any ‘reparations’ need to be set off against a race based charge based on property damage and intentional tort from the last 3 - 4 generations.
This is such a stupid idea I can’t believe we’re even talking about it. How long before Confederate soldiers’ kin ask for reparations? It could continue up to Iraq vets.
I laud Dr. Gate’s pointing out that it was black Africans who worked the slave market in Africa. After his arrest incident, I’m surprised he came out this way on the topic.
“He agreed entirely with the theory of reparations. But in practice he didn’t think it was really workable.”
Believe it or not, Obagabe is finding ways to make “it” work. Reparations by stealth is a primary goal of this man.
About da*n time someone put this in print. Very few people know this.
I wrote about this years ago - and my editor refused to print it - and anyone I talked to about it looked at me like I had two heads.
But now it's finally in print I think it would be hard for anyone to push through reparations...
We wouldn't have had the slaves had not the Africans captured them and brought them to the coast - whites were not about to go into the African mainlands back then.
And I said, way back, if you want to do reparations, let's start from the source of the problem - Africa, who sold her own people. (Talk about an 'inconvenient truth'.)
so, a half African-American with no American slave ancestry
has the answer ?
And those of us whose ancestors arrived from Europe after the Civil War don’t have to pay, right?
It would be rather satisfying to trace the ancestry of some of the old silk-stocking New England families to see who was profiting from the sale of slaves.
So reparations for Native Americans displaced from their lands will be made so they are properly compensated for their loss? How about reparations for southerners who were executed for operating the underground railroad to help slaves get to the north? What about reparations for Arab Slave traders who lost their source of income when slavery was abolished in America?
Since Obama is most likely the descendant of an African slave trader rather than a descendant of a slave, how would that affect the reparations that would be owed to Michelle.
It seems to me that the opportunity they have in the USA for a life far better than would be likely had they been born in Africa should be compensation enough.
The majority of Gate’s article describes Africa’s complicit role in slavery , which is actually quite refreshing.
Maybe Africa should pay reparations ?
And as an addendum, deduct from any reparations [if given] the cost of the U.S share of the joint anti-slavery patrols done with the Royal Navy prior to the Civil War, the cost of the Civil War [or at least 1/2 of it] from the date of the Emancipation Proclamation, part of the cost of reconstruction, and the costs of any entitlement programs that served, in major part, the African American community.
Oh yeah, and deduct the cost of the slaves [legal property until 1865] for the losses suffered by their owners when they were freed [Compensation, anyone?].
how about reparations for bringing Africans to a much better place than where they were
I think that we should all start up the meme that “Obama *is* reparations. Once he is gone, there will be no more reparations.”
This means that just because Obama hasn’t given every black family a million dollars, a Cadillac convertible, their own paid-for home, and eternal youth and beauty, this is not our problem.
But once he is gone, all black Americans return to being equal before the law, but otherwise on their own. And complaints that he didn’t give black Americans what he promised should be greeted with “Tough, now you are no longer special, you are like everyone else.”
I am—seriously-in favor of reparations. No joke.
However, it’s contingent on Africa who sold the slaves, setting aside land in Africa that the blacks will all return to and start their own nation, like Israel did, and the reverse diaspora can begin.
Of course, I’d first deduct 10% of the total amount of the black reparations-for the damage they’ve done to our cities, the many innocent crime victims, etc.
Also 10% to be taken and divided up between those of us whose ancestors were Union soldiers and freed them.
And, any black who is worth more than 5 million (Orca Winfrey, Cosby, Michael Jordan, etc) would forfeit 50% of anything over 5 million-Orca’d be waddling around with a basket on her head if not for the whites who invented TV, the cars she gives away, etc.
The main thing is just to send them back to the paradise they came from. It was wrong to take them, and if we’re going to redress the issue that’s key.
However, run that by even the most militant black, and a host of BS comes out-they don’t want to leave here-no way!
Two reasons:
1. They wouldn’t make a go of their own country on their own-it would be like Detroit in 3 years. Far better like this piss and moan get free money and have a perpetual excuse. Plus the US doing this lets whites off the hook once and for all, as it should. They don’t want that.
Reason #2 is, they know how much better the US will do without them. It would be, in the long run, the best thing we could ever do.
Them’s the facts, like it or not. My sugarcoating machine is in the shop.....
Before anyone receives reparations they must prove that life in America is a hardship and they would have fared better had their ancestors stayed in Africa, thus never benefiting from welfare, affirmative action, etc.... If an actual slave were still alive, I would have no problems making things very right with them. People removed several generations are not suffering in this country.