The stupidest government idea ever: They're proposing that the Census ask people under an honor system to identify their ancestors’ slave status.

The government is presently considering modifying the Census to identify recipients for reparations. If the idea is operationalized, a possible future headline will be “2030 Census Shows America Has a Black Majority.” That would confirm that this was the U.S. government’s most brain-dead idea ever. However, with a couple of tweaks, it could be a brilliant idea.

The government’s idea (at page A6) is to ask all who check the “black” race box on the Census if they are descended from American slaves. The Census is not validated, and there’s nothing in the plan to change that. Anyone can check the boxes for “black” race and slave descendant—and now he or she has been identified as a candidate for free “reparations” money should it be paid.

It’s pretty clear that, in America, identity trumps biology, and people can change their identity on any given day, like the day the Census is completed. It’s not like this doesn’t happen all the time. The multiracial population jumped from 9 million in 2010 to 33.8 million in 2020. The number of people who identify as American Indian or Native Alaskan jumped 75% between 2010 and 2020, and in the same period, the number of Latinos identifying as white fell from 26.7 million to 12.6 million. Meanwhile, the white-identifying population fell by 31 million. With all the white supremacy and white racism blarney, who could blame anyone for not wanting to identify as white?

If some are enticed by the possibility of free money but are reluctant to identify as both black and descended from slaves because they don’t look or feel black, they should consider that, under long-standing American policy, they still could be black.

Race, like gender, is not a scientific construct.

It’s subjective.

You can call yourself anything you like these days and demand that people respect it.

Become ungovernable and this crap will end.

I doubt there is a single person around today who does not have ancestors who were slaves and slave owners.

Slavery was a universal institution for 99%+ of human history.

Until those pesky Christians got involved no one even thought there was anything wrong with it.

No one wanted to be a slave of course, but no one had trouble with the concept of slavery. That was just the way it was.

So, everyone stand in a circle. Now pass the person to your left a quarter. All past acts are now paid for. Everyone get back to work.

Since the US officially banned the import of slaves in 1810 would not those imported after the ban be the problem of those individuals importing them and not the fault of the US?

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.—Kipling

Reparations were paid in full, 1861-1865 on the altar of Human Sacrifice.

Over 700,000 dead
Tens of thousands of arms, legs, eyes destroyed
Lively hoods and families destroyed.

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