Sounds like they just need their heads cracked a little.
Millenials seem to be idiots.
Victims of the Marxist indoctrination centers we call public schools and universities.
They haven’t lived my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great idea, I live in the North, how much reparations are they going to pay me for freeing the slaves? I figure the life of Abraham Lincoln which was sacrificed at that altar is at least worth a trillion.
Oh crap, I found out I am a millennial
I’ll agree to my share of a million dollars each, as long as any who take it renounce their US citizenship, leave, and never come back !
An economist totalled up all the funds expended since the beginning of the “War on Poverty”:
He discovered that adjusted dollar amount was enough to purchase EVERY share of EVERY company on the Dow Jones, and you would still have left over the amount of money required to buy EVERY acre of farmland in the USA.
Ponder THAT.
Hey, if these jerks want to pay reparations, let them. I’ll even set up a Reparations Mail Box address for them to send money every pay period, if they have jobs. Otherwise, I’ll accept it from the unemployment, welfare, and free cheese checks.
I have met some VERY smart millennialls, but as a group they are just STUPID!
Take away all food stamps, welfare and obamaphones. then give every former slave family 40 acres and a mule and tell them to support themselves. I’m for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_slavery
Instead, they want Americans who never owned slaves to give money to other Americans who never were slaves.
This somehow proves that leftists are morally superior.
Oh good grief. You'd think at some point they would run out of crap to "study".
Here is a common theme among these spoiled little asswipes: somebody else should pay for any idea that comes to mind, so long as it sounds like it would be “good” or “fair.” There is never any deeper analysis than that.
WRT this issue, there is no analysis regarding whether anyone living today committed any wrongs (which is impossible, as no one alive today is old enough to have owned a slave legally in the United States), nor about who actually committed the wrongs (specifically referring to various African tribes that sold their neighbors into slavery), nor about whether anyone today actually suffered (which is impossible, as no one living in the United States today is old enough to have been legally held as a slave in or before 1865), nor about whether any of the proposed beneficiaries of such reparations might also be held partially responsible to pay such reparations because they are descended from slaveholders.
I’d also like to make mention of the fact that I know for certain that none of my direct ancestors were even present in this country until at least 1904. They were, prior to that time, being oppressed by the Czar of all the Russias, either in Russia itself or in Eastern European territory ruled by the Czar. As such, I cannot be held to bear any responsibility, nor can my mother nor my children. My wife, being a legal immigrant from Mexico, never had a single ancestor in this country, ever. She first arrived here in 1999, some 134 years after slavery was abolished. How can any of us be held to account for those crimes?
The common thread here is that the Millennials, and anyone else in favor of slave reparations, is simply not thinking. Either that, or they know all of the above quite well and seek to redistribute wealth. In that case, they are simply being dishonest. So, all of these people are either ignorant jackasses, or they are dishonest jackasses. Take your pick, but either way I refuse to pay.
Beyond that, of course, is the question of what the various so-called anti-poverty programs of the last 50 years count for. To my way of thinking, since a substantial portion of those incredibly expensive programs have gone to the descendants of slaves, these amounts should be counted as previously paid reparations. Frankly, the amount probably exceeds 1 trillion dollars. Therefore, I propose that the reparations have already been paid in full, and that such anti-poverty programs which benefit descendants of slaves should be cut off in their entirety, immediately. Let the millennials stick that one where the sun don’t shine.
Reparations for slavery?
When a black woman is one of the richest people in America?
When a black man was Secretary of State??
When a black woman was Secretary of State?
When black men have sat — and do sit — on the Supreme Court??
When a black would-be despot sits in the White House?????
When countless black men have risen to the top of the ranks of the richest in professional sports and show business?? Men like Hank Aaron. And until the recent allegations of sexual misconduct, men like Bill Cosby who, despite his support for Obama, spoke out against the cultural rot and violence among his black brethren causing the race pimps to call him either an Uncle Tom or Oreo Cookie.)
And, how about Liberation Theology?
Liberation from WHAT? The chance to achieve and succeed??
Give me a break!!
Let me make it clear right up front: I am NOT a racist. I supported Herman Cain in his run for the Senate and supported him in his run for the WH. And if Allen West or Dr. Carson (need some clarification of Dr. Carson’s position on the Second Amendment) go for it, they, too, have my support.
I also consider Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams two of the finest economists and minds extant today. In case you don’t know them, both are black.
Sowell, Williams and Cain – among others — have spoken out against those fellow blacks who castigate and vilify America for a slavery now long in our past. And ALL thinking men and women oppose the periodic calls for reparations. (When he ran, I supported Alan Keyes. I even spoke in his stead on the RTKABA at a Capitol rally and was asked to fill in for him on his radio show at the time. Sadly, while I still consider Alan a good man, I have had to rethink my support since he came out FOR reparations.)
The fact is that the modern descendants of slaves brought here in chains in admittedly miserable, soul-gutting conditions now calling for reparations need to remember something:
They should not only be glad to be in America, they should be glad to be ANYWHERE! Had their ancestors NOT been brought OUT of Africa – many by MUSLIM slave raiders —the blood of those ancestors would have run into the earth over there several centuries ago, victims of the OTHER black tribes that captured them in one of the interminable tribal conflicts STILL ravaging that sad continent and these modern day would-be “plaintiffs” would not even exist.
And I would remind you that slavery is STILL practiced in parts of Africa (mainly by – American BLACK MUSLIMS LISTEN UP!! — MUSLIMS), the Middle East and Asia today. How ironic that disgruntled American blacks are embracing a system that participated mightily in their initial bondage – and would, if Islam takes root here, probably put any who cling to their Christianity back INTO BONDAGE – or to the sword. In fact, as the majority of muslims consider black folks as “sub-human”, many of you black muzzies will get the axe.
95% of the African slaves who were transported across the Atlantic went to South and Central America, mainly to Portuguese, Spanish and French possessions, and that less than 5% of the slaves who crossed the Atlantic went to the United States, it was remarkable that the vast majority of academic research, films, books and articles concerning the slave trade concentrated only on the American involvement, as though slavery was a uniquely American aberration.
And should the great-great-great grandchildren of SLAVE OWNING BLACKS also be subject to PAYING these reparations? If so, how do we find THEM?
And I have traced MY family back to the SLAVS. Although the term looks to be related to “slave,” depending on your source, it either means “glory” or “worshipper.” But my family research indicates that many of my ancestors LIVED lives of virtual or real slavery to some despot or other. Do I qualify for reparations? From whom?? And it begs a question: Are most of us now living here headed into a modern form of that servitude? But that – and the slave history of the Irish, the heritage of both myself and my wife – is a topic for another discussion.
The official US Census of 1830 lists 3,775 free blacks who owned 12,740 black slaves. Furthermore, the story outlines the history of slavery here, and the first slave owner, the Father of American slavery, was Mr Anthony Johnson, of Northampton, Virginia. His slave was John Casor, the first slave for life. Both were black Africans. The story is very readable, and outlines cases of free black women owning their husbands, free black parents selling their children into slavery to white owners, and absentee free black slave owners, who leased their slaves to plantation owners.
-”Selling Poor Steven”, American Heritage Magazine, Feb/Mar 1993 (Vol. 441) p 90
Of course, a full telling of Black History would not be complete without a recitation of the origin of slavery in the Virginia colony:
Virginia, Guide to The Old Dominion, WPA Writers’ Program, Oxford University Press, NY, 1940, p. 378
A few more salient points on the subject:Until the US declared independence, the Colonies were REQUIRED by the King of England to embrace slavery.
The Northwest Ordinance (1789) prohibited slavery in federal territories.
A law prohibiting the importation of slaves into the US became effective in 1808.
Beginning in 1820, the Democratic Congress started passing laws allowing and encouraging slavery.
It was only after the Republican Party (many of whom were southern Blacks) was formed some 40 years later that the anti-slavery movement was able to move forward.
And the holier-than-thou Northern liberals are strangely silent on recent archeological evidence from NEW YORK CITY clearly tracing the financing of the slave trade to NORTHERN BUSINESSMEN!!
At the height of his remarkable boxing career, Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay), once declared, “I’m glad my great-grandpa got on that boat.”
And speaking of ancestors, my paternal grandmother’s daddy, William Henry Robinson, joined with the 80th Ohio Volunteer Infantry early in the War Between the States (re-upped twice) and fought on the Union side at Vicksburg, Jackson and elsewhere in the deep South then joined up with Sherman for that infamous march to the sea through Georgia. My wife’s great-great grandpappy ALSO fought for the Union. While I revere the memory of my ancestors, inasmuch as that conflict was less about slavery than it was the economic exploitation and abuse of the South by the North, I fear they MAY have been on the wrong side.
Author Robert Hitt Neill tells of attending a Tennessee Mountain Writer’s Conference years ago with several other authors. Among them was Alex Hailey, celebrated author of “Roots.” Watching a TV news show, a group of them watched a demonstration in a Southern state against the “Rebel” flag incorporated into that state’s flag. The very next report covered a famine in Africa. Graphic images showed dead bodies, starving children with distended tummies and runny noses and dying people covered with flies, too weak to brush them away.
Mr. Hailey intoned in a low, serious voice, “Every time an American black sees a story like that, they should find a Confederate flag and kiss it.” He then pointed to the TV screen and continued, “Because these would be me and my descendants, except for American slavery. I thank God that my family and I are here instead of there.”
Next problem!
Dick Bachert
AFTERWORD:
A brief review of the FACTS on the subject:
Until the US declared independence, we were required by the King of England to embrace slavery.
The Northwest Ordinance (1789) prohibited slavery in federal territories.
A law prohibiting the importation of slaves into the US became effective in 1808.
Beginning in 1820, the Democratic Congress started passing laws allowing and encouraging slavery.
It was only after the Republican Party (many of whom were southern Blacks) was formed some 40 years later that the anti-slavery movement was able to move forward.
Keep talking with them as much as you can plus literature, books, pocket constitution, whatever. My experience has been most of them have never heard of or have little knowledge of the Founders, the Constitution, our early 'real' American History, capitalism, free markets, dangers of big government, socialism, communism, high taxes, excess regulations, etc.
“The biggest shift comes with millennials, with a majority — 51 per cent — saying that reparations should be paid or they were unsure of whether reparations should be paid.”
They also favor open borders, free college for “dreamers”, communism, H1-B visas, etc. .... we’ll see if they feel the same way in a couple of years when they graduate from college and take their naive butts to wait tables at Denny’s or flip burgers at MacDonalds (if not automated by then).
The majority of these precious little snowflakes will be worm food before the upcoming unpleasantness winds down to its bitter conclusion.
Ain’t their money, what do they care?
I think blacks should pay reparations to Hiroshima victims.
Those percentages will change somewhat when their brains become fully developed and they start paying taxes.