It’s Not Reparations Being Demanded;
It’s Something Quite Different
American Thinker,
by
Vince Coyner
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
6/6/2023 6:57:45 AM
Democrats frequently talk about compensation for slavery and Jim Crow in the form of reparations for black Americans. Indeed, House member Cori Bush recently proposed $14 trillion as a good place to start.
Any reparations plan would be extraordinarily complex. First, if reparations are to be paid, to whom would they be paid? To every one of America’s 45 million blacks? Would that include the 4.5 million blacks who immigrated after Jim Crow was gone? Should the 33 million black Americans age 50 or below whose lives have all occurred since the Voting and Civil Rights Acts passed? How about black families whose ancestors lived in northern states
Reply 1 - Posted by:
sw penn 6/6/2023 7:19:31 AM (No. 1485649)
If reparations are to be paid (and they shouldn't)
they should be completely non-taxable.
So that the very government responsible for slavery
is not giving itself a windfall.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rand Al'Thor 6/6/2023 7:33:37 AM (No. 1485659)
Good article. The relative comparison between income and life expectancy between the USA and Africa truly puts things in perspective and shows that indeed reparations are due. I'll accept cash, check and PayPal.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 6/6/2023 7:34:32 AM (No. 1485660)
The destruction of the country is the plan. Reparations is only one of the means the left is employing.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
czechlist 6/6/2023 8:19:43 AM (No. 1485690)
"... the African kings were rounding up their own people. They had them in cages, waiting in the beaches....If reparations need to be paid, we need to go right back to the beginning of that supply chain and say, ‘Who was rounding up their own people and having them handcuffed in cages. Absolutely, that’s where they should start."
British royals expert Hilary Fordwich responding to Don Lemon about reparations
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/6/2023 8:23:40 AM (No. 1485696)
How about no more free stuff for anybody? Work for your food or starve.
How about each black radical spend a period of four years in Africa and receive an attitude adjustment?
How about appreciating the country that lets you whine like a baby and stomp your feet without getting spanked for it?
How about competing on an actual level playing field with everybody else instead of receiving every advantage known to man, still failing and making excuses for it?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
janjan 6/6/2023 8:26:17 AM (No. 1485699)
Democrats have been dangling this idea in front of Blacks for years. It has won votes from the extremely naive. There will not be any reparations. Any State that actually tries to do it will have to hike taxes enormously to pay for it. The U-Haul traffic leaving the State would be backed up for miles. There is no money for this, and as the article points out, no way to apportion payments. Anyway the looters and shoplifters already got their share.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Toodles3956 6/6/2023 8:49:05 AM (No. 1485715)
I would suggest that all of those seeking reparations tour Gettysburgh cemeteries or one of the other Civil War cemeteries. Those thousands of graves ARE YOUR REPARATIONS. Give it up, you deserve nothing except the honor of living in America. Get a job!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 6/6/2023 9:09:06 AM (No. 1485747)
Why are US citizens being asked for reparations and most other countries are not? Because we have the money. This is a classic legal tactic that goes after the people/company/government that has the money to pay. Further, as the article indicates, the process would be extremely complex and would require an army of lawyers and administrators managing trillions of dollars. The group would effectively become a shadow government that would have NO accountability to anyone and would be personally enriched by it far beyond any person benefits distributed. This is a scam against the American people, INCLUDING the people who would supposedly be the beneficiaries.
Then, when the reparation welfare ends and the money dries up, what are the "beneficiaries" going to do as their income collapses and they have not joined the productivity process that is the country's strength? A lot of Black "suffering" is because they reject the "White" process of education, work, and personal responsibility. A temporary money flow is NOT going to fix that.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mobiusmman 6/6/2023 10:02:48 AM (No. 1485806)
If those demanding reparations were honest about it, the first group they would be going after is the African tribes who sold other Africans into slavery. Without those African tribal "merchants" there would've been no slaves to buy.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/6/2023 10:25:48 AM (No. 1485820)
fta..."It’s not reparations that are being demanded, it’s revenge, which is a completely different thing altogether."
Came across a quote regarding revenge..."Do not seek revenge and call it justice". How many of these 'justice warriors' aren't looking for justice at all? The entire reparations meme is a scam.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/6/2023 11:18:34 AM (No. 1485879)
Let those that created and fostered Slavery/Jim Crow PAY the Reparations. Hey Democraps, time to PAY UP!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/6/2023 11:23:19 AM (No. 1485892)
I recall climbing the stairs to an Air France jet in Gambia. The well dressed black guy in front of me said to the flight attendant, "Close that door and get my black azz back to Dallas."
Does he get reparations ?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/6/2023 12:56:27 PM (No. 1485993)
What about 'black' people who are the descendants of slaveholders, like Kamala Harris?
Does she Pay or Receive 'Reparations'?
This whole thing is nonsense, designed to divide the country against itself.
By the way, stirring up internal dissent and trouble is a classic Chinese tactic to weaken a country before they invade.
With a country dealing with serious internal conflicts, there is little or no organized resistance to the Chinese invasion.
The Chinese have done this several times down through history..... no reason to believe that they have abandoned this tactic.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
AntiStatist 6/6/2023 1:42:20 PM (No. 1486020)
Since they want reparations, then they should likewise be accountable for the costs they’ve imposed upon the country.
Welfare, crime, institutions, free association, and those little costs of anti-crime measures.
I guarantee they will owe America once the accounting’s done.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
paral04 6/7/2023 6:12:54 AM (No. 1486522)
How about all the blacks descended from black slave holders? Or from Black slave trades?
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