Sins of the father..... In North Korea, the rule is that three generations will be punished for the crimes of the one.
Reparations were paid in blood. 1861-1865. 700,000 gave up their lives, tens of thousands more gave up arms, legs, eyes over the issue.
We owe nothing.
All the people who deserved reparations are dead.
Only members and donors to the Democrat party owe that debt.
HAPPY JUNETEENTH!
The day that Republicans freed the last of the slaves from their Democrat slaveowners.
The Atlantic................File under Fiction and BS
Racist housing policy??? You bet - count me in...the lazy nonproductive feeders get free or next to free housing and I’m stuck paying a mortgage because I saved and persevered.
WHERE IS MY CHECK?
I’m tired of this.......
What about this idea? The best reparations are normalization and improvement of social conditions and opportunities for individuals. In other words, real quality of life progress for future generations, for blacks, and everyone else in the society.
The problem is, that problems with past “solutions” are either covered up, or outright falsified. If 22 Trillion $ in transfer payments made over the last 60 years have not had the desired effect, why would 14 Trillion or more make any difference? Progressive policy and doctrine have been a disastrous failure, even a negative burden upon blacks in America, so why keep on with this stupidity?
Figure out what the goal is. Is it to lift up future generations, or just to punish perceived racial enemies? Reparations would perhaps benefit some for a while, but the reality of what damage money thrown at a problem will wreak is inevitable. All that will ultimately happen is the enrichment of unscrupulous con men and expansion of corrupt and burdensome bureaucracies.
Reverse the mistakes of the past. End the welfare state, reform and de-federalize education, re affirm the 10th Amendment and get on with real improvement for all! Imagine, a “New Beginning”, a wonderland of Hope and Promise, all mankind could live together is peace and comfort!
Nah, forget it, it would never fly.
Very good (old) article.
Based on the statement below from this 2012 article, the total spent for many decades on various welfare handouts is probably $20 trillion by now.
As a result, the administration projects that “combined federal and state welfare spending will not drop significantly once the economy fully recovers ,”with the annual tab reaching $1 trillion in 2014 and the 10-year total hitting $10.3 trillion — an amount that, Tanner calculates, comes to “$250,000 for every American currently living in poverty, or $1 million for every poor family of four.”
A large part of that $20T has been given to African Americans since the 1960s. There are many African American families who have been on welfare for multiple generations without working at all.
Which brings us to the discussion of so-called “reparations” for contemporary African Americans who never experienced slavery first-hand...
Given the decades of generosity of Western Civilization to contemporary African Americans who far more affluent than “African Africans” yet rudely demand “reparations,” we should flatly decline any such greedy demands and state that they’ve already been more than fully paid via decades of welfare checks. This is your so-called “reparations.” Enough is enough. Grow up.
The standard of living of African-Americans is far better than any African people throughout the world, and certainly far better than “African-Africans.”
After all, African Americans have TV’s, cell-phones, Air-Jordans, cars, free food via welfare, free housing. In an odd twist of perspective, they should be thankful that their ancestors endured slavery so that contemporary African Americans could be born here to reap the benefits of civilized Western Culture and escape the very low standard of living they would otherwise have had in Africa.
Instead they are angry and hateful - and actually quite racist.
The author fails to mention that all of this happened south of the Mason-Dixon line. The north was against slavery. The north went to war with the south because of slavery. Why does the author deliberately hide this?
People who never owned slaves paying people who never were slaves. It’s a ridiculous money grab.