[2ndDivisionVet]

Twenty trillion dollars just since 1965 wasn't enough?

A quarter of a million dollars, tax-free and a one-way ticket back to Africa and you renounce your US citizenship upon arrival. Deal?

[bray]

Many of us have relatives who were killed in the Civil War, where are our reparations?

Pray America is waking

[liberalh8ter]

I can't help but notice “the editors” who wrote this hogwash neglected to name themselves. Good thing, I can't imagine anyone wanting to be personally associated with this ridiculousness. Reparations = entitlement and entitlement is exactly what makes these feral thugs think they're justified in stealing. If they want to talk reparations, how about the feral finally making reparations to the responsible citizens who pay for their housing, food, cell phones, electricity, Internet service and policing.

[Caipirabob]

Yes. Let's have that "chat".

[wetgundog]

How about a one way ticket home to Africa.

[MortMan]

Their crime makes an undeniably convincing argument for the need to discuss slavery reparations.

So now it is only right to reward crime.

The stupidity is breathtaking...

[dennisw]

They owe reparations to me!!! They have taken lots more out of the system than anyone else all because they had a great grandparent who was a slave 160 years ago

Its one big giant scam to get Gov’t money one way or another

[ladyjane]

The Cape Cod view stopped publication in 2013.

This article is from a New Bedford publication called South coast today. It has a history of being very left wing.

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20150429/OPINION/150429374/101228/NEWS0301

The comments after the article are really good. Not a lot of support for the editor’s view.

[Noamie]

More blacks have immigrated here since 1890 than were here pre-slavery.

Sorting out if you were actually the 100% ancestor of slaves and not an Ethiopian immigrant from 1970 might cost a trillion dollars and 75 years before one dime was paid.

But, hey - 2/3 of America has at least a portion of Af.American DNA.

We all g’on be rich.

[Gritty]

Wow! I just love a good, humorous, satirical essay full of wit, charm, and insight!!

This is simply the best!!!

[Gritty]

Hey, when are the Irish going to get their reparations?

After all, the English sold over 300,000 Irish into slavery into the West Indies in the 1600s when they were "pacifying" that unfortunate Isle.

[spodefly]

I will work diligently to fund reparations for blacks under the following conditions — all expenses paid repatriation to an African country of their choice and renunciation of US citizenship.

[Magnatron]

My great-great-great uncle was killed at the Battle of Plain Store in Louisiana at the age of 18, fighting in part to free the slaves. Do I get money for my loss?

[TomGuy]

... where they and their ancestors have long been denied the staples of daily life ...

I got that far in the 3rd paragraph before my B.S. meter kicked in.

Denied the staples of daily life? Many of them have been living off the public teet with EBT and Section 8 and Medicaid and other FED and state benefits FOR GENERATIONS.

They got a black president 6 years ago. [How is that working out for them, considering that some 93% voted for him.]

It is the mentality that they think they are owed something that keeps them in their physical/social/economic situation.

Many of those who were relocated to other cities and states after the Katrina disaster in the New Orleans area found a whole new world. Many of them refused to relocation back to N.O. because they did not want to return to their 'status quo'. They LUVed their new lives with new opportunities.

It is the mentality of those like the Cape Cod News editors who are enablers that keep them in their physical/social/economic situation.

[DungeonMaster]

A quarter of a million dollars, tax-free and a one-way ticket back to Africa and you renounce your US citizenship upon arrival. Deal?

With our borders? No deal.

[DungeonMaster]

where they and their ancestors have long been denied the staples of daily life

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!!??????????

[unlearner]

I really thought this was satire at first.

“What form reparations might take is unknown, but we know that all the policies imbued with racism mentioned above need repair. “

Maybe I shouldn’t give them any ideas, but I am pretty sure the end game of reparations is white slavery. Are we there yet?

[CityCenter]

Black lives have to matter to black people first.

[The people have spoken]

The concentrations of black populations in urban centers are the result of generations of racist policies on housing, banking, education, employment and criminal justice.

No, they are the result of white flight to the suburbs, to avoid crime and substandard schools.

[NCLaw441]

No person living today was a slave nor is the child of a former slave. Those who might ever have been entitled to reparations are long gone. No one living today is entitled to reparations on behalf of others.

I agree that reparations should be discussed. It should take about 20 minutes.

[NorthMountain]

They can have their "reparations" in precious metals:

Lead and Copper.

Payable in 168 grain increments.

MOLON LABE