Negroes in the U.S. should be thankful there was slavery, otherwise they probably wouldn’t even be alive today, or else they would be in Africa today running for their lives from hungry predators.
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I am not descended from slavery nor did any of my grandparents, who came from eastern Europe, own any slaves. The very first line of this article capitulates to the liberal notion of reparations.
Guilt is not passed down through DNA. Entitlement is not either. However, leftists act as if it were.
You could make the argument that African-Americans fathered by a slave-owner were unjustly disinherited, as opposed to their white half-siblings.
I’m white, and descended from several slave owners. In one case, my 8x great-grandfather left my 7x great-grandfather one dollar in his will, while leaving the farm and a slave named, uncomfortably and suggestively, Hagar to the eldest son.
Another got my white 3x great-grandmother pregnant but paid an Irishman to marry her. I don’t know if he got any slave women pregnant or did them any favors if he did.
A study of history will do this kind of thing to a writer. :-)
Two points:
— There IS a potential case to be made in the US for slavery reparations. Unfortunately for supporters of the idea, the case to be made is for reparations to the descendants of those who owned slaves in 1865, and had their titles to said “property” stripped by the US government with no compensation. I think this is a bad idea, in part due to point #2...
— The 14th Amendment (one of America’s uglier bits of victor’s justice), expressly prohibits such compensation. Indeed, a close reading of the 14th suggests that slavery reparations to the descendants of slaves might also be prohibited.
When I think about the trillions spent on things like Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” here, I’d say reparations have already been paid and then some.
Offer them a one-time choice.
Take the reparations, and forever lose eligibility for any form of public assistance (welfare).
Eschew the reparations, and everything stays the same.
After they get done calling you a racist, you will hear nothing more about reparations.
I have never owned a slave.
I don’t owe nobody a damned thing.
ISIS has sex slaves today.
We’ve already paid reparations many many time over in welfare, food stamps, section 8 housing etc etc- not to mention the civil war where Lincoln killed over 900,000 and wounded a million of his fellow Americans ‘to free the slaves’
A $100,000 for every day you spent as a slave sounds good to me. If you qualify send your invoice to the government. The Liberal plantation does not count.