Posted on 02/21/2021 7:01:47 AM PST by Kaslin
Slavery really widespread among the populations in the south in that only 3% of southerners even owned slaves.
Thank you!
Reparations would simply be another government handout vote-buying scheme. And also the start of another civil war.
*Was NOT widedpread
A three percent who had wives and children. Just prior to the rebellion almost half the families in states like Mississippi and South Carolina had slaves. So slavery was way more wide-spread in the south and the cornerstone of their society to an extent Southern apologists like to admit.
But that fact is also completely irrelevant to the question of whether reparations will do any good and whether they will solve any problems. They won't.
“January 20, 2009, when racial tensions in this country were reignited, and all the progress that had been made was erased and pushed back decades.”
His legacy lives on.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Wow.
I want your post to be available every day. You have a PhD in Economic and it shows.
I once saw the cost of programs benefiting blacks since the LBJ Great Society began-—many trillions. Some could be proven (college money or house loan money available ONLY to blacks, etc.).
Others are merely common knowledge black privilege (such as set asides for black owned construction companies only).
Guard the cemeteries. Here come the zombies.
There can be no reparations. The wrong done cannot be undone. The push for reparations is designed to take all Whitey’s money, and then eliminate Whitey.
Where are the reparations for the whites who fought and died to free the slaves?
The Left would say that’s because of the impact of colonialism in Ghana.
It will NEVER be enough for the liberals. Never. No matter what.
A work colleague of mine, a distinguished African-American computer scientist, told me “We don’t want justice. We want revenge.”
I would argue that the wage in Ghana would be even lower without the colonialism that took place.
Well said!
My own 2nd great grandfather and his cousin - both Vermont VOLUNTEERS who joined the Union Army ( Company F, 10th Regiment Vermont Volunteer Infantry) when Lincoln called for volunteers in 1862 - returned from the war disabled veterans, my 2nd great grandfather's cousin having lost his left arm at a place called Winchester on 9/19/1864.
Neither they nor their ancestors ever owned any slaves.
What gets me is that the first (but not the only) legal slave owner in America was a black man named Anthony Johnson (1600-1670)! To whom is HE expected to pay reparations???
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/flashback-first-legal-slave-owner-america-black-man/
I'll just bet the "wokesters" running the "education racket" here in America aren't teaching this in their history classes!
My 2nd great grandfather ( company F 10th Regiment Vermont Volunteer Infantry ) suffered the deadly amoebic dysentery and as a result was also debilitated for the rest of his life. It is a historical fact that the ameobic dysentery killed at least as many Union soldiers as did enemy bullets.
I have it on an affidavit filled out by my 2nd great grandfather's cousin who served in the same company and regiment that even though my 2nd great grandfather was often as sick as a dog, he still did his duty between the frequent severe and untreated attacks, did not desert, served until the end of the war and was honorably discharged in Vermont when the war ended.
The consequences of amoebic dysentery that is not properly treated can be meningeal irritation and a crippling inflammatory arthritis. My 2nd great grandfather suffered these afflictions and was crippled to the degree that he was no longer able to carry out his trade in Vermont as a tack/harness maker. A letter to this effect was written on his behalf by a well-known Vermont lawyer named Ralph Orson Sturtevant who was later to become the author of the Pictorial History Thirteenth Regiment Vermont Volunteers War of 1861-1865. I have a copy of this affidavit among my other documents.
So if we are going to talk about "reparations...…"
My family DID own slaves. In fact, General Pickett is a relative thru marriage. But when people claim they need to take away the wealth that was earned thru slave ownership they don’t know what they’re talking about. My family lost EVERYTHING during the Civil War. Such wealth as they had was gone - no home, no property, no money. They had to pick up & start again from scratch. Maybe some slave owners did manage to preserve some wealth after the war. But I doubt it was much. It still doesn’t make their descendants responsible for their deeds.
Do you know which unit your G-grandfather served in?
1863.
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