Ta-Nehisi Coates has written a thing at The Atlantic making the case for reparations. …Not even the liberals can come up with a name for the “thing” in question.
Being a negro is a job description thing!
OK, let me try to get this straight. Who exactly is gonna have to pay these reparations? I am a white boy. What if my ancestors came to the United States after the civil war? What if my ancestors came here in the 1700’s but never owned any slaves? What if I am a “white” boy but have some black blood from a previous 300 year old affair? Are all non-black U.S. residents gonna have to pay reparations? Is this a one time payment by every white man over the age of 18 or will my children’s children also have a certain amount they will have to pay. Who will determine the amount of the reparation? Will the ancestors of black slave owners have to pay reparations? Do all blacks get the same amount of reparation pay? I really need to know so I can start my reparation withholding from my paycheck? It will be a cold day in hell before this happens!
Exactly when do blacks intend to start paying back all the trillions of dollars invested, reinvested, thrown at them that have been squandered? And when do they plan to start repaying society for their criminal activities, preferential treatment and countless idiotic lawsuits claiming discrimination?
Who are we going to pay reparations to, exactly?
Slavery ended at the end of the Civil War 1n 1865, just under a hundred years ago.
Everyone living then under slavery is long since dead and all are now equal in the eyes of the Lord.
Jim Crow ended 50 years ago 1964 with the passage of the Civil Rights Act so anyone who was an adult at the time effected by Jim Crow or racism is in their mid 60’s at the youngest and most are in their 70s to 80s.
We are now firmly in the Affirmative Action and Welfare Entitlements generation with the Gang Banger generation setting the stage for their coming ascendancy in the Black community.
Her essay is poorly written—that she has the opportunity at Duke shows how awful affirmative action really is. No white candidate that writes this poorly would ever be admitted to Duke.
“The Senate last week finally approved the multi-billion-dollar funding for the Pigford II and Cobell settlements, which will allow the government to pay out claims to African-American farmers...”
“”We’ve got to stand up at some point and say, ‘We are not gonna pay slavery reparations in the United States Congress,’” he said. “That war’s been fought. That was over a century ago. That debt was paid for in blood and it was paid for in the blood of a lot of Yankees, especially. And there’s no reparations for the blood that paid for the sin of slavery. No one’s filing that claim”. -Rep Steven King
LOL...I can't imagine why.