Posted on 07/01/2014 2:06:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I may be bad, but every time I hear of reparations, I think of the movie “Cat Ballou” where Kid Shelleen almost drank himself to death.
“You could have killed him giving him fifty dollars cash at one time!”
The decedents of those who chose to remain have no claim to reparations. Besides, reparations won't fix what their complaint is - that their ancestors were forced to come here as slaves. Only returning to Africa will right that wrong.
Don't even bother to try.
Since the US is still paying a couple of Civil War pensions to children of Union soldiers, I suspect there might be a couple who would qualify for your second category.
Assuming a man born into slavery in 1865 fathered a child at the age of 70, that child would be 79 years old this year.
Um, don't the Canucks have their own little history with their indigenous people? Seems to me they should concentrate on their own house instead of telling others how to keep theirs.
I was recently talking with a man who has spent his professional life in public education. He worked tirelessly for Blacks’ civil rights. He was talking about how the system has failed. I asked him “What is the solution?”
Without hesitating he said “Segregation.” Lots of black educators he knows say the same thing.
The Canadians also interred the Japanese in WWII under conditions far more punitive and primitive than prevailed in the US. Most Canadians, of course, aren’t too keen on talking about it, as they much prefer clucking over US misdeeds, real and imagined.
I have simplified it even more: Kiss my lily white non slave owning azz.
Let the bastards collect it from themselves; it is far more likely that their ancestors bought, sold, or owned slaves than mine, since mine were poor Welsh who came over here after the Civil War. There are tens of millions more like me, who are white but have no descendant that have ever owned slaves, do these idiots think all the white people came over on the Mayflower?
Brown v. Board of Education decision was issued in 1954. Article (what I read of it, anyway) doesn’t make sense.
Nothing will ever be enough, not the great society money, not the stimulus, not the civil war dead, not Liberia, not affirmative action and set-asides... nothing.
Between the northern white dead from 1861-1865 and the entitlements paid out since the 60s there is no debt remaining.
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