Posted on 05/30/2014 2:38:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In case you’ve been living under a rock, Ta-Nehisi Coates has written a thing at The Atlantic making the case for reparations.
For some, reparations to African Americans for enslavement and state-sanctioned apartheid (more benignly known as “Jim Crow”) is a shocking case to make. I am a sociologist whose training has been, in part, with economists like Sandy Darity at Duke University and Darrick Hamilton at The New School. For Darity, Hamilton, and many other serious scholars of race, history, and inequality, the matter of reparations is anything but novel or shocking. Neither is it hyperbolic. There are real programs, with feasibility studies and implementation suggestions, and they move far beyond Coates’ call for a spiritual reckoning of the body politic. If you have never heard of them, that is likely by design. Few powerful persons or institutions have ever been willing to seriously put a reparations program before the American people.
But I wager that you have heard a lot about how education and opportunity can be, through hard work and moral fortitude, the path to greater equality for African Americans. In many ways, when the formerly enslaved asked first for a national program to redress the forced, free labor that made the United States the nation we know it to be, they were given schooling instead of redress; opportunity instead of compensation. It is an attitude that persists in our policy and our cultural lexicon. When the demand is for justice, we are most likely to respond with an appeal, instead, to fairness. And in no institution is that more clearly evident than education. There’s just one problem: It’s not good enough.....
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I thought the South LOST the Civil War. Since they were defeated and no longer exist, the CSA is unable to pay reparations of any kind.
If the North freed the slaves from the southern slave owners and won the Civil War as they claim, then why do blacks claim reparations should be paid by their defenders.
I don’t recall any black reparation claims being made at the time of the surrender against the CSA. Their beef is/was with the CSA not the USA.
Not to take this lightly, many non-blacks on both sides died in the war. A dear price was paid. That should be enough reparations for their black ancestors.
How’d that one go?
Give a man a fish and you’ve fed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you’ve fed him for a lifetime..
You are right! America is the best thing that happened to them. Imagine their plight if the had stayed there.
Also, many of them overlook the fact that President Monroe created a COUNTRY, `Liberia`, for those who wanted to go home. America still funds this welfare state.
Gimmie money.
Gimmie money.
gimmie money.
Rinse,
Repeat.
The first slaves in America were called Indentured Servants. They were white. History seems to have forgotten about them as most never were released from their contract.
How about whites who came here as indentured servants? Will they get paid? How about the Slavics, since they were the first slaves (both have the same roots)?
For a PhD candidate, she's a lousy writer.
As for reparations, she can KMA.
LOL...I can't imagine why.
WTF is that?
I might be in favor of giving out a pile of money IF they then release all claims including the elimination of all “affirmative action” programs everywhere in the country (government, education, business, etc.) and the right to sue for or even mention racism ever again. It’s over. Take the money and shut up for good.
There’s no idiot quite like an “educated” idiot.
I suppose reparations would consist of a one-time cash payment to each individual. How much? $10,000? $50,000? $100,000? More? Much more?
Most of that money would be spent within a year or two with nothing invested in the future. Within a generation it would be as if nothing had ever happened.
And the cycle would start over again. “It wasn’t enough!” they would cry. Well, let’s avoid all of that...
“NO!”
REPARATIONS? SEND THE BILL TO THE KKK PARTY!!!
Soros and Hollywood will put the dough
An Open Letter to the Democratic Party (From Black Republican Woman)
Lincoln Heritage Institute ^ | 3-18-08 | Lt. Colonel Frances Rice,
“We, African American citizens of the United States, declare and assert:
Whereas in the early 1600’s 20 African men and women were landed in Virginia from a Dutch ship as slaves and from that tiny seed grew the poisoned fruit of plantation slavery which shaped the course of American development,
Whereas reconciliation and healing always begin with an apology and an effort to repay those who have been wronged,
Whereas the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices committed against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices and current soft bigotry of low expectations are having on us today,
Whereas the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,
Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them,
Whereas, according to leading historians (both black and white), the horrific atrocities committed against African Americans during slavery and Reconstruction were financed, sponsored, and promoted by the Democratic Party and their Ku Klux Klan supporters,
Whereas from 1870 to 1930, in an effort to deny African Americans their civil rights and to keep African Americans from voting Republican, thousands of African Americans were shot, beaten, lynched, mutilated, and burned to death by Ku Klux Klan terrorists from the Democratic Party,
Whereas Democratic Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission,
Whereas the Democratic party has used racist demagoguery to deceive African Americans about the history of the Republican Party that: (a) started as the anti-slavery party in 1854, (b) fought to free African Americans from slavery, (c) designed Reconstruction, a ten-year period of unprecedented political power for African Americans, (d) passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting African Americans freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote, (e) passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting African Americans protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, (f) passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 granting African Americans protection from the Jim Crow laws, (g) established Affirmative Action programs to help African Americans proper with Republican President Richard Nixon’s 1969 Philadelphia Plan that set the first goals and timetables and his 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act that made Affirmative Action Programs the law of our nation, and (h) never sponsored or launched a program, passed laws, or engaged in practices that resulted in the death of millions of African Americans,
Whereas Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka (a 1954 decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower) was a landmark civil rights case that was designed to overturn the racist practices that were established by the Democratic Party,
Whereas after Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the vote of African Americans, he banned African American newspapers from the military shortly after taking office because he was convinced the newspapers were communists,
Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law, opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was later criticized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for ignoring civil rights issues.
Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy authorized the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a communist,
Whereas Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, made a 14-hour filibuster speech in the Senate in June 1964 in an unsuccessful effort to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and was heralded in April 2004 by Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd as a senator who would have been a great leader during the Civil War,
Whereas when the 1964 Civil Rights Act came up for vote, Senator Al Gore, Sr. and the rest of the Southern Democrats voted against the bill,
Whereas in the House of Representatives only 61 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act as compared to 80 percent of Republicans, and in the Senate only 69 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, compared to 82 percent of the Republicans,
Whereas Democratic President Bill Clinton sent troops to Europe to protect the citizens of Bosnia and Kosovo while allowing an estimated 800,000 black Rwandans to be massacred in Africa, vetoed the welfare reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan,
Whereas Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore created harmful racial division when he falsely claimed that the 2000 presidential election was “stolen” from him and that African Americans in Florida were disenfranchised, even though a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations confirmed that he lost the election, and a ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission declared that African Americans were not denied the right to vote,
Whereas the Democratic Party’s soft bigotry of low expectations and social promotions have consigned African Americans to economic bondage and created a culture of dependency on government social programs,
Whereas the Democratic Party’s use of deception and fear to block welfare reform, the faith-based initiative and school choice that would help African Americans prosper is consistent with the Democratic Party’s heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and kukluxery, a perversion of moral sentiment among leaders of the Democratic Party whose racist legacy bode ill until this generation of African Americans,
Now, therefore, for the above and other documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon African Americans, we demand a formal written apology and other appropriate remuneration from the leadership of the Democratic party.
That brings tears to my eyes.
Just a little note for everyone.
Hillary’s planned dirty tricks campaign in her planned run for president in 2004 was derailed by Charles Baron in August(19?) 2002 when during the reparation for slavery rally Baron let it be known if there wasn’t reparations for slavery there would be “scorched earth” meaning race riots in every city of the US.
It derailed Hillary’s dirty tricks campaign for president because of his use of the term “scorched earth” to mean race riots.
During Bill Clinton’s impeachment Hillary had a campaign called the “scorched earth policy” which involved the release of FBI files..
Everyone assumed the term “scorched earth policy” meant the release of the FBI files Craig Livingston got and was a threat against repubs.
It didn’t and it wasn’t.
The FBI files Hillary threatened to release were the FBI files Janet Reno said she would release if she was confirmed as AG. Instead of releasing the files Reno fired all the US Attorneys.
They were the FBI files on police corruption from the R King case the dems used to gin up civil unrest in the black community that resulted in the LA race riots of 1992.
The “reparations for slavery” nonsense is once again part of Hillary’s dirty tricks campaign for president and once again they plan on using it to gin up civil unrest and orchestrate race riots.
“Take the money and shut up for good.”
DITTO.
And this is exactly why Obama came out opposed to “reparations”. There’s far too much power to be gained through the race industry.
You said SO much in just three words. Wow. That would be a great bumper sticker. Thanks.
This is not a new issue. It's been addressed many times in no small way, directly (ex.: incorporation of the nation of Liberia) and indirectly (ex.: $trillions in welfare & social services). Heck, there's that half-million dead "payment" just to end the institution outright.
Those promoting reparations never address what's already been done. Until they do, and start subtracting those payments from what they're demanding, they get nothing ... and if they're going to play the reparations game, they'd best be ready to pay refunds if we fairly conclude that they've been over-paid.
Thing is, this isn’t 1992. People are really getting fed up with all this nonsense and wouldn’t really care if the inner cities burned.
Heck, it would probably produce a political backlash akin to the 1968 riots and social unrest that brought Richard Nixon into the presidency.
An added benefit would be all the urbanized millenials who would learn first hand that all the tolerance and compassion in the world don’t mean a lot when caught in the middle of a riot of people who have been socialized for generations to hate you.
You might want to do a review of the Weather Underground playbook.
Race riots as a path to absolute power.
If it looks as if the left will loose power, Hillary doesn’t win, then with race riots in every city there is a path for absolute power.
The left in this country isn’t any different than the left in any other country.
The left doesn’t care how they achieve absolute power.
If they can do it with the cover of an election then they will do it. If not then they will use violence to seize power.
In her case, it stands for Piled Higher & Deeper.
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