Reparations we can believe in
You’ve probably heard that John Conyers is back on the reparations mule. Ten years ago on January 6, 1999, Conyers tried to get his foot in the door with HR 40, here’s screen shot from thomas.loc.gov of that HR 40;
Well, on January 6, 2009, Conyers dusted off that failed bill from 1999 and submitted it again with the same HR 40 designation;
So that’s how the Democrats plan on healing the wounds of this country – by dividing us even further using the sins of people ages ago to suck even more money out our pockets. To make us MORE conscious of superficial differences in “Post-racial America”.
In January, 2002, Thomas Sowell wrote this about the reparation scam;
…the demand for reparations may seem like an exercise in futility. However, seen as a source of a lasting unmet grievance, it is a stroke of genius to keep blacks separated from other Americans and an aggrieved constituency to support black “leaders” in politics, organizations and movements.
This demand also mobilizes a certain amount of support or sympathy among whites, especially those in the media and in academia, where such support or sympathy costs nothing, and allows those who give it to relieve their own sense of guilt, while risking other people’s money — and national cohesion. Some white politicians can also benefit at little or no cost to themselves by expressing sympathy with the reparations cause or even voting for meaningless apologies for what others did centuries ago.
Not to mention that people like Jesse Jackson and the other race pimps stand between government and the Black community. He’s already been heard to say that individual reparations paid directly to the intended recipients would not benefit the Black community as much as if that same money was filtered through his grubby fingers first.
Also, in 2002, Jesse Peterson wrote about Jesse Jackson and his ilk;
The fading and desperate Jackson, who for over 30 years has built a lucrative career on the backs of black Americans, has paved the way for some of his “offspring” to push for reparations, a plot that if hatched will destroy the black community and divide our whole country. Among Jackson’s chief “descendants” are trial lawyer Johnnie Cochran, Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, and Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., who, among others, have banded together on this unholy crusade.
Masterfully, they have performed the two tasks on Jackson’s lifetime “To Do” list:
1. Indict contemporary white America for something of which it is not guilty.
2. Demand money, and lots of it.I can almost see a single tear roll down Jackson’s cheek.
If Obama wants to be “everyone’s President” he should put anend to this farce and potentially the most divisive legislation since the “stimulus” bill.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Liberals suck, Society
Guess what? I don’t owe anyone a damn thing. Not anyone, period.
I think Viet Nam Vets deserve reparations. I remember them coming home from serving there country to unprecedented disrespect and no jobs! Why no jobs… they were male and white and affirmative action was giving 90% of the jobs to people of color. Wasn’t that “reparations” enough? How many 100,000s of white men died in the Civil War that set the black slaves in this country free? How many lost arms and legs and the ability to support themselves? I think reparations were paid over the years, more advantages have been given in the name of making it up to black Americans in areas of employment and education. If any American’s deserve repararations, it’s the Japanese American’s who lost everything they owned and worked for when they were wrongfully interred during WWII. This whole principal of oweing anyone for what happened 200 years ago makes me want to puke.
Well,
If they are gonna go down that track, then there are a few little stumbling blocks in the way. First off, how do you tell who is a descendant of a slave? Second, just because your family might have had folks over here prior to 1860, that doesn’t mean they were slaves. Massachusetts had a HUGE number of free blacks, especially along the coastal areas where many worked on the whaling and packet fleets.
Then, of course, there is the little matter of the 1860 census data. There’s some interesting stuff in there if you care to spend the time going through it. For example, in 1860, there were more than 5,000 free blacks living in Virginia who were SLAVEHOLDERS. Yup.. that’s right. Right there in the documents. Black slave owners. Notice how that little gem never gets taught in the classroom? That’s because it doesn’t fit with the narrative.
Similar numbers are found in all of the southern states, as well as many northern ones too. Of course, there’s a the matter of reparations for the descendants of soldiers who died while serving in the Federal army during the civil war, and of the Navy and Marines as well.
Jonn said, in part:if that same money was filtered through his grubby fingers first.
There it is!
Reparations is a silly idea as noted by AW1 Tim et al.
For one thing it opens a can of worms that would thrill every Alinsky oriented socialist… divide and conquer and all that.
Native Americans, Indentured servants, the Spanish and French… reductio ad absurdum.
HoosierArmyMom posted:
Wasn’t that “reparations” enough? How many 100,000s of white men died in the Civil War that set the black slaves in this country free? How many lost arms and legs and the ability to support themselves?
Of course, the race baiters neglect to mention the hundreds of thousands of Union casualties that sacrificed so that black men could walk free.
I’ve never, ever discriminated against a person of color. Why should I pay for something that I had nothing to do with, my family had nothing to do with and my ancestors had nothing to do with? This reparations thing is a scam and Conyers is a communist.
’nuff said!
No truer words said rochester_vet. You can’t change history, and the descendants of those who do injustice should not be punished any more than the descendants of those who suffered should be allowed to profit from suffering they never had to endure.
The Union armies had from 2,500,000 to 2,750,000 men. Their losses, by the best estimates:
Battle deaths: 110,070
Disease, etc.: 250,152
Total 360,222
Lets put each Union soldiers life at 1,000,000 dollars
So thats $360,222,000,000.00
That should cover reparations.
AW1Tim,
Let’s not forget the wealthy black rice and indigo planters in New Orleans who actually formed a local militia and outfit the unit with money made off the backs of their “brothas”. Will the decendents of those folks be lumped in with whitey?
Claymore,
Oh yeah. What’s amazing is that those men formed an entire brigade, fully clothed and equipped, to serve the Confederacy, and the CSA turned them down! Then, in the last year of the war the Confederacy decided to open the gates for black soldiers to serve. Despite that, there were STILL plenty of blacks willing to enlist for the southern armies.
One of the other dirty secrets that doesn’t show up in the history books is the number of blacks who actually served as soldiers in Confederate units. The documentation is there, as are images. These weren’t as slaves or servants, either, but as soldiers in the line.
History is always a lot more interesting than what the books show, but in this case, it’s a situation where certain parties DON’T want the evidence to be seen, because it’s at odds with their narrative.
Considering the far left has been rewriting the history taught in “government schools” for years, I don’t think any of us would recognize the history today compared to what we were taught as children. If I wasn’t into reading a lot of books on my own, written by authors from the period in question, I wouldn’t even catch the subtle lies and distortions written into my son’s history books these days.
Just like a dilusional liberal, if they create the ‘words in print’, it becomes miraculously a ‘fact’.
Notice that only one member of the Congressional Black Caucus co-sponsored that bill. Where were the rest of them? If it was important to them, they would be on-board.
Also too, Obama said he opposed slavery reparations.
Conyers knew that. He has been making a symbolic gesture by introducing this bill. If there is a commission to study reparations, their research would show that the KKK was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.
Democrats would be responsible for reparations because of the Klan.
They don’t want blacks to know.
When Saudi Arabia abolished slavery and closed the slave markets
in November 1962- yes 1962 – they paid compensation. £ 1,000 per per slave to every owner who had lost his property by an action of the state. The White slave traders did not go to Africa and round up any blacks they could find. They bought them from their chiefs and the Arab slave traders who dominated the trade for centuries. If they paid $10 for a slave 250 years ago, at only 5% compound interest it would be $ 2 million today. For all you history buffs, slavery was started in the States by the Dutch, not the British.
H.R.40 – White Guilt Bill…
Got white guilt?
Link @YouTube
Well then this is the bill for you!
H.R. 40: Commission To Study Reparation Proposals For African-Americans Act (Reparations For Slavery
To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slav…