Our View: It's time we started talking about slavery reparations

The Cape Cod View ^ | April 29, 2015 | The Editors

[2ndDivisionVet]

Twenty trillion dollars just since 1965 wasn't enough?

A quarter of a million dollars, tax-free and a one-way ticket back to Africa and you renounce your US citizenship upon arrival. Deal?

[Unam Sanctam]

So long as Democrats, the party of slavery and the KKK, are the ones paying.

[Norm Lenhart]

My position evolved. I am now in favor of reparations paid by those calling for them.

[21twelve]

“A quarter of a million dollars, tax-free and a one-way ticket back to Africa and you renounce your US citizenship upon arrival. Deal? “

There was a thread the other day, and a freeper was explaining how in the late 1600’s after a black indentured servant had served his 7 years he was to be sent back to Africa (Liberia). Many of them, after 7 years, sold themselves as slaves to avoid having to go back.

[Billthedrill]

OK, here’s my contribution: NO.

[JennysCool]

Sounds great. They can start with a CVS store in Baltimore, and we’ll move on from there.

[Pelham]

“OK, here’s my contribution: NO.”

And I was hoping the slaves would pay us.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

The left is constantly dreaming up new ways to take money from Republicans and give it to Democrats. This is most appalling in that the Democrats were the slavery supporters while Republicans had anti-slavery statements in their platform from the beginning.

[dead]

There's points in this essay where I think, "maybe this is very high level absurdist satire" and it could border on genius.

Then, dejected, I realize it's just the usual collection of liberal cliches and logical mishmosh, totally devoid of the sardonic brilliance I imagined.

[PGR88]

Coming from “the Cape Cod View?”

How about inviting some black folk to your vacation homes as a start?

[4rcane]

Those who are calling for it aren’t calling for themselves to pay for it, but by others. Similar to “lets tax on the rich, but not me even though I’m rich”

[2ndDivisionVet]

As maids, nannies, cooks or gardeners?

[Dead Dog]

700k dead before 1860. Just leave the plantation anx we call it even.

[jimpick]

300,000 Yankees died for their freedom. When do we get the respected deserved for their sacrifice? This does not include all the wounded.

Make the KKK party pay for it. And while the dems are paying back the slaves they can chip in for the Yankees as well.

[faithhopecharity]

reparations time, yes!
how about paying me my raparations for when I was admitted to a leading major professional school...but the faculty decided to divert all available financial aid to persons of one particular skin pigmentation (not my own)

or when, prior to that, I was turned down by many other schools to make room for LESS QUALIFIED persons of that other racial group

Racism definitely exists in Amerika today, indeed it thrives...parricularly in leftist collectives like (most) universities

just saying.
I harbor no ill will. Just observing that if reparations for racial discrimination are to be the order of the day, that I am definitely in line for my share!

[AmericanExceptionalist]

In other words, twenty-first-century white Americans should pay for the sins of their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ancestors.

By the way, it may be worth noting that Rep. Conyers--who appears to think that "reparations" are a simply splendid idea--seems to have advanced fairly well in society, absent any such thing...

[AnalogReigns]

Let me see, we have a bunch of hoodlums looting—and that proves we should give them money? For unspecified crimes our distant ancestors are alleged to have done to their distant ancestors?

And the author learned common sense where?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Journalism school.

[Salamander]

[chris37]

I owned no slaves, therefore I owe nothing.