Reparations By Way Of Health Care Reform

IBD Editorials ^ | July 27, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

[Kaslin]

Legislation: Still believe in post-racial politics? Read the health care bill. It's affirmative action on steroids, deciding everything from who becomes a doctor to who gets treatment on the basis of skin color.

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President Obama is on the record as being officially opposed to reparations for slavery. But as with other issues, you have to sift through his eloquent rhetoric and go beyond the teleprompter to get at what he really means.

His opposition to reparations is based on the fact they don't go far enough. In a 2004 questionnaire, he told the NAACP, "I fear that reparations would be an excuse for some to say, 'We've paid our debt,' and to avoid the much harder work."

Never mind there are those who thought we apologized at Gettysburg and that an African-American president is a recognition of the hard work that has been done.

At a press conference with minority journalists last fall, candidate Obama was pressed for more detail on his reparations position. He said he was more interested in taking action to help people who were just getting by. Because many of them are minorities, he said, that would help the same people who would benefit from reparations.

"If we have a program, for example, of universal health care, that will disproportionally affect people of color, because they are disproportionally uninsured," Obama said.

This may be a goal of Obama's health care plan: the redress of health care disparities on the basis of race and the punishment of those believed to be responsible, such as greedy doctors who perform unnecessary tests and procedures and greedy insurance and drug companies lusting for profits.

[Jim Noble]

Why is race even mentioned in a healthcare bill?

Because white folks' greed runs a world in need, and revenge is the order of the day.

[Tarpon]

dittos, clarity comes quickly.

[dervish]

Not suprising. Everything now is racial. We all deserve to be punished by the post racial President who has set back race relations by decades.

Have you seen this story, not to be believed

‘White African-American’ Suing N.J. Med School for Discrimination
Paulo Serodio Says He Was Harassed, Assaulted After Defining Himself as African-American

http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=7567291&page=1