Davis Calls for Slavery Reparations

"African American people have been systematically and consistently wronged in this nation and exploited economically," Brown said. "We were forced to do labor without pay and built this nation. It's time for this nation to pay up."

The slavery issue sounds good until you realize the price that was paid to end in America a practice which started in antiquity and exists in Africa today. According to Sowell, the price in blood ammounted to one death for every 6 slaves emancipated--and the price in treasure compares with the value of the labor of the slaves. Cold comfort, undoubtedly, for those enslaved--but there is no residual slavery "equity" claim which I, 3 generations after the fact, can respect.
The more respectable but far less dramatic case would be for post-emancipation abuses. But if you factor in the half of the Great "Society" (great government, in liberals' conceit) program paid in the name of the black half of the 'poor,' even that bill is--on the input side, "paid in full."

Brown and Jackson have suggested reparations should not go to individuals but to "a major Marshall Plan-type program" to finance community groups and nonprofits that help black neighborhoods.

I emphasized the input side of the ledger precisely because the scheme for the enjoyment of this boodle does not compare favorably with the disaster Johnson called the "Great Society" program. And that is the way "reparations" should be dismissed--it is merely a call for Great Society II--"we didn't learn a thing."

Well, he and the other affirmative action/pc maggots in Kali will try to make everybody eligible for reparations.

In Kali we have people from the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific Islands, white women, and of course the broad category of Hispanics getting preferential affirmative action treatment. Not a single one had a ancestor who was a slave in America in our early days. Yet they benefit from the affirmative actions programs which started out as step one in the reparation scheme.

Davis knows this, and this reparations is code to all who are not evil white conservative males. It says, "Vote for me, and I will screw the evil white conservative males and pay you well for your vote!"

ABORT DAVIS FOR SANITY!

To add a bit of wood to this fire...is Davis aware that there were literally tens of thousands of English, French, and German people forced to come to the colony in the 1600 and 1700's as indentured servents? What reparations are you handing to these peoples? Oh, you cannot track who exactly they were....so you can't pay them reparations....hmmm....isn't that quiet the same problem with descendents of black slaves? There are actually slaves who were freed within one generation after arriving in the colonies....and this dates back to the 1640's. So we can establish that some blacks were freed men from 1640 until 1865. I find it amusing that the idiots who push reparations have no background in history...they all seem to have watched Roots and Uncle Toms Cabin, and little else. They probably have not read anything relating to US history in their entire life.

"If we are elevated, our elevation will have been accomplished through our own instrumentality... No people who has solely depended upon aid from others ever stood forth in the attitude of freedom."
- Frederick Douglass

Sometimes......people forget that we are each responsible for our own lives.

redrock

Connerly said that if Democrats support reparations to African Americans, they open the door to reparations for those who profit from illegal immigration today -- a move that could cost the state billions.

Oh yeah! If this BS "reparations" scam comes to pass, the trial lawyers will have the poor illegal Mexicans up next with their hands out for a massive amount of cash from California farms and businesses, if there are any left!

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