Posted on 05/26/2014 5:44:56 PM PDT by QT3.14
Prices would go up. But only for the first weekend.
If any of the people calling for reparations were serious about slavery being such an abomination that it still effects them generations later, they would be working to end slavery. I have yet to meet a race-baiter who even cared that slavery still exists now, or who even spared a thought for the people still going through it.
Let’s fix that by electing a real Black Conservative.
simple... it is a stupid idea
You have that pegged correctly. The Shoshone/Bannock
reservation was paid a huge settlement for hazardous
waste on their property. Instead of cleaning up the
mess with the settlement, it was distributed to the
residents. There were many fine cars and clothes sold
by local merchants in the ensuing months. That seems
to be over now. No more windfalls in sight. Back to
old habits.
The proper response to such accusations of RACISM! should always be, "So, what?"
If just a hundred and fifty years of living in slavery in America still negatively effect blacks to this day what is the effect of thousands of years of living in primitive, cannibalistic, Stone Age savagery in Africa?
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Reparations were already payed with the blood of Union soldiers, so shut the **** up Ta-Nehisi, and do me a favor and slap your daddy for naming you that.
That is true. For the South, it was too high a price to pay in order to maintain the institution of slavery. They should have gone along with the compromise of no slavery in the territories, and the eventual extinction of slavery. But they refused. In modern times. the options are a little more stark. We are facing reinstitution of slavery upon us through a marxist state that knows everything we think and everywhere we go, and our children and grandchildren will have it even harder than we will as the iron curtain falls on their lives.
From the endless human resources of Free Republic:
"The Rabbis teach that:
Slaves seldom dream of being free. They dream of being master.
Not the union army? But wait a minute. There was slavery in the north as well as the south, at least until the 1830-40’s (New Jersey being the last holdout circa Civil war). American Indians were also slaveholders and runaway slaves were returned to them. Families on the Trail of Tears took their black slaves with them. So let’s not keep repeating the myth that just the South had slaves.
While we are being fair...
Whatever reparations are made to blacks, because of slavery in the 1800s, ...must also be made to whites of Irish descent with compounded interest over a 100 years, as there were twice as many white indentured servants in the colonies than blacks in the 1700s.
(Be sure to deduct the black slavery debt of their transatlantic transportation costs, compounded since it occurred, since indentured servants already had to recompense that cost, which was never charged to the blacks....just business....)
On the other hand, we could just call it a wash, or accept the return of those blacks who never paid that debt as indentured servants until the debt is repaid..../s
bttt
How many will piss their lives away awaiting the false *hope* of reparations?
“Who they gonna blame when the debt has been paid?”
The same people they do now. If reparations are ever paid, the recipients and their handlers will never agree the amount paid is enough. There will be continuing demands for more.
A contract is only good if both sides agree to all of its terms. The recipients will never agree the debt is paid in full. From their perspective, whatever is paid is merely a down payment. Unfortunately slavery is a political issue that will never go away as long as people benefit from playing the victim.
Reparations - restore or repair.
Sounds like - send them back...
Plus, let’s not forget Liberia.
“How does extortion ever end?”
When liberal whites have exterminated enough blacks through abortion, and the survivors have killed each other off in drug-related violence. They’re well on their way; our cities are becoming much more Hispanic.
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