Posted on 03/10/2019 7:43:48 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
yesthatjallen wrote: “After much ‘debate’ (guilting and blaming white people) I suspect direct reparations will hit an impasse.”
The last time this came up, several black american leaders said that reparations would not be paid directly to individuals but would be funneled to programs designed to improve their economic well being. IOW, a welfare program for Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
The sin of slavery has been paid in full by the death of hundreds of thousands of troops both North and South.
Click the link below to see the true horror of that war.
https://discovere.binghamton.edu/news/civilwar-3826.html
It should also be noted that these numbers do not include civilian deaths due to the war.
THE DEBT HAS BEEN PAID IN FULL!
PS
I worked in Africa in the early eighties on drilling rigs for oil. A black American driller remarked after seeing what it is today, “Thank God for Slavery.” He realized if not for slavery he would have been them instead of a very successful American man in the oilfields.
PS PS
Slavery was a most obscene institution. The debt for this obscenity has been paid in blood. Today that debt is zero!
He’s got a point but most slaves are dead now.
Big Rock Candy Moutain is an old Pre WWII socialist song about a socialist Utopia. And the Donks are still pushing the same ideology. Nothing new, just dressed up differently.
Every time I here Booker, Harris or AOC talking about reparations, free medicare for all, and free college, I hear that tune playing in my head, LOL.
I am so glad that castro is willing to open his wallet to all the invaders.
I only know it from the soundtrack of O Brother Where Art Thou.
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