Angela Rye: ‘There’s Nothing Un-American About Reparations’

Washington Free Beacon ^ | November 22, 2016 | Madeleine Weast

[Ueriah]

Historical fact: something like 3% of Americans owned slaves.

[Maverick68]

To Democrats, volume = veritas....they think by talking loudly and twerking their heads back and forth they will be taken seriously.

[Cboldt]

Rye also thinks national borders are unamerican. Seriously.

[CodeToad]

Yes, there is. Americans don’t operate on lies, thievery, or blatant racism.

No one alive today was a slave or held slaves.

This is just another racist claim that blacks cannot live without white man’s money.

[jeffersondem]

“Guilt only ever rests with those who actually do evil, never with those who simply fail to prevent it.”

I suppose if I point out the federal government itself used slave labor - to construct the Capitol, for example - you would say that was the sole responsibility of the contractors.

But you make a valid point when you write, “The moral responsibility for those laws rests entirely with the states which enacted them.”

And what states were slave states? Let's name them: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virgina, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

Yes, four of the 13 slave states ended up in the southern Confederacy.

We need to own-up to the fact that slavery existed. That is the first step in rejecting the notion that the Egyptian pyramids should be torn down or removed to another location.

[isthisnickcool]

Mine is a smidgen past that 145 mark. Unfortunately, the number does not seem to work in my case Octoberhen it comes to women. My most retard moments have been in that area.

[sourcery]

I suppose if I point out the federal government itself used slave labor - to construct the Capitol, for example - you would say that was the sole responsibility of the contractors.

Guilt is not transitive. If it were, we'd all bear guilt for any crimes committed by those with whom we do business, or by those who do business with whom we do business, etc.

Are you guilty for the theft committed by the state when it taxes people without their consent? Especially when you advocate such theft, and deny that it's theft? That's a far bigger crime than slavery, because it affects far more people, and the amount of wealth stolen is far larger. Do you support reparations for the crime of "taxation"?

"Most people agree that slavery is immoral. But what makes it so? Slavery denies a person the right to use his property (body) and the fruits of his labor the way he sees fit. Slavery forcibly uses one person to serve the purposes of another. Tragically, most Americans, including blacks, whose ancestors have suffered from gross property right violations, think it quite proper that one person be forcibly used to serve the purposes of another." - Walter E. Williams

We need to own-up to the fact that slavery existed.

And just who do you think is failing to own up to that? Certainly not me and my family, who have a long history of being abolitionists.

That is the first step in rejecting the notion that the Egyptian pyramids should be torn down or removed to another location.

???

[jeffersondem]

“And just who do you think is failing to own up to that (the fact that slavery existed)? Certainly not me and my family, who have a long history of being abolitionists.”

You are to be congratulated.

[JimRed]

So, there's something American about reparations?