Posted on 03/26/2024 9:26:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Leftist churches in Boston are calling on their fellows to get behind a plan for reparations for Black Bostonians to the tune of 15 BILLION dollars...and that is, they say, just a start.
To put that in perspective, the White population of Boston is about 300,000, more or less, who are being asked to shell out about $40,000 each as penance for what their ancestors did.
Boston's reparations leaders demand $15 billion, $5 billion of which will go toward closing "the education achievement gap between blacks and whites". They also demand people "tell the truth". OK, the truth is money won't close an achievement gap that lack of money didn't cause. pic.twitter.com/JGLtpp9MZJ— Frank DeScushin (@FrankDeScushin) March 25, 2024
Not a bad start for what promises to be an unending series of demands for ever more reparations, which will be necessary because even this large sum of money can't fix the problems of Boston's Black community, which are more social than economic.
Not to mention that if those problems were ever solved, the activists who themselves make a good living off proclaiming the victimhood of various demographics would have to find other work.
Boston’s religious leaders, joined by an assembly of Black and White clergymen, are calling for historic “White churches” to commit to reparations.
The substantial sum of $15 billion is being urged to support the Black community in Boston, as a measure of restitution for the churches’ past involvement in slavery, the leaders said in a gathering at the Resurrection Lutheran Church.
The demand was orchestrated by the Boston People’s Reparations Commission for the institutional role played by the city in the transatlantic slave trade. The sum is also intended to endorse further reparations from the city itself.
In some ways, the outlandish sum of money serves the political purposes of the Leftists who demand it. There is no way that Boston could disgorge this amount to the 167,000 Black residents of the city, ensuring that the grievance culture activists need to exist continues forever. Imagine if the city scraped together $15 billion and met the demand. Would demands ever cease? Could the debt ever be repaid?
Baptist leader Archbishop Leo Edward said the U.S. has failed to provide the promised “40 acres and a mule,” which was once promised to free slaves.
And what of Boston's Irish residents, who faced discrimination both here and abroad? Should Boston and Great Britain open their checkbooks? Perhaps the Italians and the Chinese could get in on the grift? Would Michelle Wu be eligible for reparations from Boston, Chicago, and mainland China? Her parents were Taiwanese; she was born in Chicago and now is the Mayor of Boston. She has claims of oppression from multiple jurisdictions.
The California Reparations Board proposed Black residents get $1.2 million in reparations each, a sum that was summarily rejected even by the liberal legislature and government. This ensures that activists will have decades of anger to generate at how unjust the state is to them.
And, in the end, that is what this is all about. No sane person would reject a large check if offered, but in this context people are justified in being angry that one wasn't.
Activists rejoice! Your grift has a bright future.
That is the issue too.
Mine didn’t arrive from Europe until 1889.
When my great grandparents came over from Germany and Poland.
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As did many of the Irish people in Boston.
We were farmers in upstate NY.
We never had any slaves.
Cloward-Piven at work.
Not supporting Reparations in any way, shape or form. Just throwing this out there:
Anyone who is a Third Generation Welfare recipient has already received their reparations in full.
Hopefully the initial response was something like “We will place your suggestions under consideration. In the meantime hold your breath while you pound sand.”
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WHAT A DISGRACE..... and have we forgotten about the millions of “Whites” who were enslaved and imprisoned in AFRICA???
Well......it is true that New England was the absolute epicenter of the slave trade industry for the entire western hemisphere. It is furthermore true that they derived enormous profits from peddling human flesh and that these profits went directly into building up their institutions like the Ivy League as well as providing the seed capital to start several large banks and major corporations. Finally, it is also true that they never disgorged this unjust enrichment. Unlike the Southern states which were left economically devastated for about a century due to the war and discriminatory taxes/tariffs, New England never paid any sort of price for their sins when it comes to slavery.
Given how much New Englanders loved to preach on the issue and how self righteous they’ve long been about it once they realized they could no longer derive massive profits from slave trading, I think it only appropriate that they finally start coughing up some money to make good on their moral obligation here. In fact, I’m all in favor of their reparations bill being quite stiff and staying in place for a long long time. Its only just.
For that very same reason you could give each & every black in this country two million dollars and come back one year later and find that 98.995% of them would be flat broke. Cultural failure.
They should also be reminded it was their fellow black people who caught and sold them to the slave traders. There were also plenty of white slaves under the guise of "indentured servants" who were worked, literally, to death whereas the black Africans were well taken care of so they would continue to serve their owners in perpetuity.
We are incompatible. How much more evidence is needed. Diversity is death and destruction.
Want reparations go to Africa it’s where the problem started no place else did.
How many Bostonians died in the Civil War to abolish slavery?
Reparations were paid in full in the form of blood sacrifice, for and against.
Over 700,000 dead, tens of thousands gave arms, legs, eyes to their cause.
How is it that of the 20m slaves brought across the Atlantic, 400k (or 2%) ended up in the United States and we’re still the great white satan? It’s because South America doesn’t have a democrat party.
Mine either, my ancestors migrated to what is now the state of Kansas in 1837. They never owned slaves, cleared the land themselves and started farming. I still farm that land today. I don’t owe a black person anything.
Reparations?
See u-tube for Irish slaves being brought to North America
before africans.Irish costs of cotton or tobacco VS 20 to 40 Lbs. Sterling for africans...
If I owe anything to a race a human beings it would be to the Pottawatomi and Shawnee Indian nations since we basically took their land and killed their bison.
The legal term for reparations is “kin punishment”. Highly illegal, immoral and bigoted.
I expect nothing less from anyone on the left.
Agreed…
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