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

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

[Islander7]

Racial, Ethnic, Cultural, and Linguistic Diversity on Cape Cod unquestionably, white residents dominate Cape Cod, comprising almost 96% of all citizens recorded by the Census 2000. --- Blacks or African Americans number nearly 4,000 on Cape Cod (or 2% of our permanent, year-round resident population). --- Today, with over 200,000 year-round residents, our population density is 562 persons per square mile (of land area)

The inexperienced demanding others assuage their white guilt.

[Nervous Tick]

>> 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?

That would be a billion bucks to get rid of 4,000 of ‘em.

Kind of steep, but your idea has possibilities. Especially if we get to pick which 4,000. :-)

[rbg81]

I think reparations will probably be approved after most of us are dead. That is, when Whites are in the minority (maybe about 40%) or so. In fact, by that time, all former minority groups may vote reparations for themselves.

That is the bad news. The worse news is that such a law will be one of the last acts of the United States of America. The total collapse of the USA will occur soon after that.

[bray]

Many of us have relatives who were killed in the Civil War, where are our reparations?

Pray America is waking

[Bulwyf]

Those Yankees did not die for their freedom, they died to consolidate power in DC. I wish people would at least know what the war was about without just coming up with what the media was spewing at the time.

Of course many “liberated” blacks were pressed into service, hence the underground railroad to Canada.

[liberalh8ter]

I can't help but notice “the editors” who wrote this hogwash neglected to name themselves. Good thing, I can't imagine anyone wanting to be personally associated with this ridiculousness. Reparations = entitlement and entitlement is exactly what makes these feral thugs think they're justified in stealing. If they want to talk reparations, how about the feral finally making reparations to the responsible citizens who pay for their housing, food, cell phones, electricity, Internet service and policing.

[Flick Lives]

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

True that. At first I thought this has to be satire. It's so over the top. But nooo!

[itsahoot]

we work for nothing, we own nothing, and our freedom is essentially an illusion.

Hard pill to swallow, but swallow it we must if the Republic is to survive.

[Caipirabob]

Yes. Let's have that "chat".

[wetgundog]

How about a one way ticket home to Africa.

[MortMan]

Their crime makes an undeniably convincing argument for the need to discuss slavery reparations.

So now it is only right to reward crime.

The stupidity is breathtaking...

[dennisw]

They owe reparations to me!!! They have taken lots more out of the system than anyone else all because they had a great grandparent who was a slave 160 years ago

Its one big giant scam to get Gov’t money one way or another

[MrB]

It’s been paid - 22 trillion.

Now STFU and get to work.

[MortMan]

Allow inner-city entrepreneurs to hire people on welfare and pay them only a couple dollars per hour, so the $$$ amount that they pay is only the difference to bring them up to the minimum wage, or slightly higher, and allow the workers to keep their welfare checks and medicaid.

In most of these riot-torn cities, welfare is higher than minimum wage.

[bert]

Part was repaid in genes..... Michael Jordan

[gr8eman]

Was stationed there in the 80s. I’m convinced it’s something in the water up there. Funny how none of these obnoxious d-bags ever call for reparations for Mary Jo Kopechne’s family.

[ladyjane]

The Cape Cod view stopped publication in 2013.

This article is from a New Bedford publication called South coast today. It has a history of being very left wing.

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20150429/OPINION/150429374/101228/NEWS0301

The comments after the article are really good. Not a lot of support for the editor’s view.

[Noamie]

More blacks have immigrated here since 1890 than were here pre-slavery.

Sorting out if you were actually the 100% ancestor of slaves and not an Ethiopian immigrant from 1970 might cost a trillion dollars and 75 years before one dime was paid.

But, hey - 2/3 of America has at least a portion of Af.American DNA.

We all g’on be rich.

[RJS1950]

My union ancestors paid reparations many time over. No reparations, only repatriation.

[Noamie]

If you went on the campaign trail and kept calling for “our black community to finally get their repatriations!” it would only be 1 in 10 blacks who would realize you WEREN’T talking about reparations. That would be fun to watch.