Reparations and Jesse Jackson's 'illegitimate children'

It is an old column but here is what a black Reverend has to say about another black "reverend" and his causes. He hits the nail square on the head. I'm sure JJ would call hims an "Uncle Tom".

Reparations and Jesse Jackson's 'illegitimate children'

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: April 5, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

Rev. Peterson

"And so, my fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country." —President John F. Kennedy

Reparations for slavery, another illegitimate offspring of has-been civil rights "leader" Jesse Jackson, have hit the news.

The fading and desperate Jackson, who for over 30 years has built a lucrative career on the backs of black Americans, has paved the way for some of his "offspring" to push for reparations, a plot that if hatched will destroy the black community and divide our whole country. Among Jackson's chief "descendants" are trial lawyer Johnnie Cochran, Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, and Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., who, among others, have banded together on this unholy crusade.

Masterfully, they have performed the two tasks on Jackson's lifetime "To Do" list:

Indict contemporary white America for something of which it is not guilty. Demand money, and lots of it. I can almost see a single tear roll down Jackson's cheek.

For blacks who live in the most opportunity-rich country in human history to demand money for the sins of 140 years ago is absolutely shameful. For white Americans or any Americans – many of whose ancestors weren't even in this country at the time of slavery – to pay reparations is a deep injustice.

A closer look at reparations shows it to be a divisive and evil plot. It is only the latest in a long list of ploys by the modern-day black civil rights movement to control the black community and divide the races. First of all, very few whites even owned black slaves, yet the reparations movement indicts all whites by virtue of their skin color. If this isn't racist, what is?

Second, the debt of slavery has already been paid through a major war. For all those in failing public schools, I am referring to the Civil War, where many, many whites died so blacks could be free.

Third, blacks benefited enormously from American slavery. I have often said that I thank God that my ancestors were taken to America in boats. Had this not happened, I could be in South Africa right now with Nelson Mandela, and really be in trouble.

America has granted every wish of black Americans. It has made government the head of the black family; it has integrated the schools and neighborhoods; it has given blacks welfare and affirmative action; it has even apologized through Bill Clinton. There is simply nothing else that America can or should do. Blacks should feel fortunate to be citizens of this country. We are blessed, not enslaved, and those who say otherwise are enslaved only by their own hatred.

As President Kennedy might say if he were alive today, "When will blacks seek to give back to this great land instead of seeking for ways to loot it?"

The effect of reparations would be among the most devastating the country and the black community have ever experienced. There would be hell to pay – we would see an unparalleled backlash. Whites and blacks would be divided like never before. But you don't hear Jesse Jackson ever talk about this inevitable catastrophe – and he's supposed to be a leader with the well-being of black Americans first in his mind.

This shows that Jackson and his "children" are not striving for blacks' well-being, but for personal gain. I don't believe for a minute that average blacks would actually get money earmarked for reparations. The money would likely go to Jackson, Cochran, many of the black preachers and others and would stay with them and their interests.

Just as money that is given to supposedly "rebuild" black communities after they've been burned down by blacks in riots (read "justified civil uprisings" if you're Maxine "No justice, no peace!" Waters) this cash would likely be distributed no further than from these "leaders'" right pockets to their left.

I must say that I don't believe reparations will end up being paid out. Most whites don't want to pay money for something they're not guilty of, and 30 percent of blacks have sense enough to see through this nonsense. But the very fact that we are seriously allowing this ridiculous debate is itself divisive and inflammatory.

It is time that all Americans of goodwill stand up and say "No more!" A veil of darkness is descending upon our nation, and Jackson and his "legacy" are proponents of this evil. We must refuse to stand by and let these thugs in three-piece suits lead our country to hell.

Unless we want to see division like never before, and the utter destruction of the black community, we must stop reparations now

I can't wait for Reverend Peterson to finally make the MSM outlets when they can no longer deny the failure of their chosen 'black leaders' or the popular rejection of liberal orthodoxy in their message.

Rev. Peterson hits a few weak points on the perpetual slavery hobby horse of the Left, but I have a few more...

1. America became a sovereign nation in 1789 after nearly 300 years of European colonial rule. The American founders knew the slavery issue was devisive and they also knew it would be solved sooner or later. The principles in the Constitution were widely known to be universal but slavery itself as an issue was trimmed for the sake of preserving the fragile unity of the new nation. The point being that most of the founders knew it would be addressed and solved because they already accepted the ideals of universal humanity. Some actually freed their slaves, educated them and even left them an inheritance. This was a highly radical position for the educated elite of ANY Western nation, but it definitely marks America as the era's global leader in enlightenment and human dignity.

2. In 1865, the Civil War was over and the issue of slavery was finally settled on our shores. In the span of 76 years, a fledgling nation fought its greatest war, against itself, at a cost of a half million lives for the sake of the universal ideals contained in the founding documents. This death toll, alone, exceeds anything any other nation has ever done, in any way, to curtail slavery. Additionally, the fact the America dealt properly with this evil in the very short span of a single man's life speaks volumes about the basic justice of America. Europe, you'll recall practiced slavery for hundreds of years prior to our Civil War and nearly a century after we had settled the issue.

3. As we discuss the issue of slavery, it is important to realize that slavery was, and still IS, pandemic in Africa. It is, in fact, an ongoing evil with people being bought and sold under conditions even more primitive than the antebellum South. Alex Haley notwithstanding, many blacks are far crueler to one another than America ever has been.

4. It should be remembered that the post-war terrorizing of Southern blacks through agents like the KKK, Jim Crow laws, lynchings and the like, were inventions and tools of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Only after they gained the keys to the treasury in 1932 did they begin the formal shift from a reactionary mob mentality to using mob mentality to force a Marxian reordering of our society.

5. If they were an independent nation, it has been pointed out that American blacks would be the seventh richest nation on earth.

6. American Blacks enjoy greater economic mobility than any other nation where people of African ancestry reside. Even if poor, American Blacks (and any other poor folks) have the complete right to medical treatment at any emergency room in the nation - they cannot be denied by law. They have access to Medicaid, welfare, AFDC, Section 8 housing, food stamps, childcare programs, prenatal care, free school lunch programs and a range of other Federal programs.

7. American poor, including Blacks, are in no danger of starving. In fact, the most obese segments of our society are the lower classes. The problem is too many calories. For the poor around the world, this state of affairs would be a luxury. In addition, American poor, often as not, have an automobile, color television and air conditioning. By no standards that I know can we honestly talk about poverty this country with anything close to a straight face.

Well, that's a few of the additional points I use to slap the spit out of the liberals that I know. Shuts 'em up just fine.

I have always been mystified by racial grievance mongers who pontificate on the glorious Nirvana that their lives would be had they only been left in Mother Africa, notwithstanding the general quality of life there. Since most American blacks have some measure of Caucasian genealogical ancestry, and since slavery was the transmission belt that enabled the mixing of their black and white ancestor's gene pools,(whether by rape,semi voluntary or voluntary associations) than what they are really saying is that they and their decendents would rather not exist.

I acknowledge the kidnapping and suffering of my African ancestors, and the resultant decades of slavery, oppresion, and discrimination that amounted to a monstrous crime for them. But the result was me and my family living in a nation that provides the most liberty and opportunity for any African descended people on earth. I am profoundly grateful to be here. I welcome the opportunity for any clarifcation of the historical record, and should that clarification reveal more evidence of the often bestial nature of the American institution of slavery, than we should unflinchingly face and acknowledge it. The historical record should be properly contextualized, and honestly examined without any attempt to inflate the crime beyond the actual truth of the injustice. The endless racial navel gazing, racial identity posturing, and puffed up grievance mongering should be rejected for the PC irrelevance that it is.

The main reason that I am not entitled to slavery reperations is because I was NOT ENSLAVED. I grew up in an era in which I remember all of the visible (literally) signs of Jim Crow when I visited relatives in the south in the early 60's. I experienced numerous physical racial attacks as my newly acquired Souh side Chicago neighborhood underwent racial intergration. I experienced some minor racial discrimination at other times and places. The United States today is NO LONGER THE NATION THAT ONCE OFFICIALLY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST IT'S CITIZENS, unless you wish to consider "Racial Preferences" for preferred minorities, admittedly still discrimination. None of that changes the fact that I am blessed to be a citizen of the greatest nation in the history of mankind, with a higher standard of living, opportunity and liberty than any other. I am proud to have enlisted and fought for this country as a soldier during the Vietnam era, despite all those who told me that no black man should do so on behalf of such a racist and oppressive nation.

Sometimes it seems as though the race industry merchants and class action lawyers would divide us into warring ethnic enclaves with mortar pits in the streets sniping at each other ala the Balkans, all of them seeking racial spoils with government help. This is nothing more than a cultural Marxist wealth redistribution scheme.

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