Opening old wounds and stirring resentments is divide and conquer 101. It's such a transparent betrayal of every shred of decency that anyone engaging in it will surely find their sorry, backstabbing souls in a chapter in Paradise Lost 2.0.
Abandon all hope, ye who poison the wells we all share of comradery, fellowship, and family, and who seek to sever every thread of common ground between us.
From 1965 to the present day, 60+ years, we’ve had racial preferences for those of the same skin color as the enslaved persons. Reparations have already been paid, in fact overpaid.
This is just a grift. It has always been a grift. The existence of committees to discuss this is also a grift.
In this debate no one ever mentions the fact that, post Civil War and prior to the civil rights movement of the sixties, the black community had built businesses, hospitals, schools, colleges, churches and entertainment venues that combined to create thriving communities. The marriage rate for black Americans in the 1950s were higher than for whites. Then came the civil rights movement and the "war on poverty" and marriage rates plunged, illegitimate births sky-rocketed, and those thriving black communities perished. I'm not defending Jim Crow or the fact that black citizens were denied the right to vote, or to shop or patronized restaurants, hotels, or other businesses of their choosing, or that fact that they were forced to sit in the back of the bus, and that their schools were underfunded compared to white schools. I'm just wondering which was worse: what happened post-slavery, or what happened post- war on poverty. Oh, and if you don't believe me that such thriving communities existed, I invite you to visit the Negro Baseball museum in Kansas City, and watch the film of black Kansas City residents describing their communities in the 1940s and '50s. It's eye-opening.
Your comment also made me think about all the race riots that have burned down black-owned businesses and left those same neighborhoods blighted and in very much worse shape than pre-riot. And then I think of BLM raking in all those donations by mostly-white liberals, and that money being spent on things OTHER THAN rebuilding black communities.
This is just a mid-terms concocted strategy so the dems get their base back. Sad but true. And sadder still, it might just work. Greed trumps everything to these losers.
Of course we all know that anything beyond compensating the ACTUAL enslaved back in the 1860s-1870s range is pointless, but what about…
The Irish slaves?
The African tribes that CONQUERED the blacks and sold them into slavery?
The Muslim traders who bought them and sold them to European and Colonial slave traders?
Where is everyone ELSE’s responsibility in this equation, not just the current deep-pocket money-printers in the US government? (Who then pass that debt onto our grandchildren.)
Yes, the US government protected slavery for a while, but then it also abolished it under Republicans and elected its first black congressman by republicans, so shouldn’t all republicans also be excluded from this equation?
How about we just trace all of the lineage of KKK members and see who is still (Graham Platner) practicing racism or still (Graham Platner) wearing Nazi tattoos and just make THEM pay reparations, so that the few who can prove their slave ancestry can get their duly-owed 73¢ and we can put this argument to bed once and for all.
The Globalists’ agenda is Managed Decline, so when society hits rock bottom, they can Build Back Better. Reparations at this scale is Accelerated Decline. The Globalists are running out of time.
Jpeach, agreed. They are running out of ideas as well. So much so that BS like this is all they’ve got? The black community that have had their eyes opened aren’t coming back, and they’re still leaving exponentially. And Hispanics. At this point if the left completely lose their grip on stolen elections, and it looks like they will in all but solid blue states, I would say the globalists are managing their OWN decline. If good people vote in November, it will be one more death nail.
I want some reparations from the Democrats while I’m still alive. For a broken family, a grandchild groomed into trans and supporting and facilitating drugs and mutilation, for being exposed to mentally ill people 24/7, emotional turmoil, mental despair, loss of freedom, theft of money, being threatened by refusing a needle stuck into my body. I can add more. Or they can just all go to hell if correctly adjudicated by a Higher Power.
The easy answer and probably most accurate is that in any government program more than half the money goes off the top in grift to the government officials and workers. What better way to line his pockets, than have Moamdamni pretend to collect money for “poor Black peoples” then skim it for his $50M grocery store and a few more designer suits and tooth whitening sessions?
Not a single member of my family was anywhere near this country during slavery. Curious to me that none of the people proposing this seem to have any issue with current substandard schools that cheat minorities and poor students out of a decent education. Nor did they protest closing public schools during Covid while allowing private schools to be open, widening the education gap and future economic opportunities for less privileged kids. Gotta get that Teachers Union vote.
1/4 of my family WAS here. Fought in the revolutionary war and every war that followed. Never owned a single slave. Poor farmers who worked hard and made their way. And yet…I have to pay? So. Dumb.
But have you have you heard about the wealth tax that’s being tossed around? The asset tax? That’s the one that’ll get you. That will get me. That will get all of us. It makes reparations look like small potatoes. And we’ll all be broke.
This is one of the most retarded things the left has come up with. Illogical on all fronts. Where and to whom do I send the trophy?
I was going to say, “This is so dumb.” You said it better.
This constant money grubbing by today’s aggrieved democrat party patsy is just so tedious. Make it stop.
Opening old wounds and stirring resentments is divide and conquer 101. It's such a transparent betrayal of every shred of decency that anyone engaging in it will surely find their sorry, backstabbing souls in a chapter in Paradise Lost 2.0.
Abandon all hope, ye who poison the wells we all share of comradery, fellowship, and family, and who seek to sever every thread of common ground between us.
—Milton from the Future (probably)
From 1965 to the present day, 60+ years, we’ve had racial preferences for those of the same skin color as the enslaved persons. Reparations have already been paid, in fact overpaid.
This is just a grift. It has always been a grift. The existence of committees to discuss this is also a grift.
In this debate no one ever mentions the fact that, post Civil War and prior to the civil rights movement of the sixties, the black community had built businesses, hospitals, schools, colleges, churches and entertainment venues that combined to create thriving communities. The marriage rate for black Americans in the 1950s were higher than for whites. Then came the civil rights movement and the "war on poverty" and marriage rates plunged, illegitimate births sky-rocketed, and those thriving black communities perished. I'm not defending Jim Crow or the fact that black citizens were denied the right to vote, or to shop or patronized restaurants, hotels, or other businesses of their choosing, or that fact that they were forced to sit in the back of the bus, and that their schools were underfunded compared to white schools. I'm just wondering which was worse: what happened post-slavery, or what happened post- war on poverty. Oh, and if you don't believe me that such thriving communities existed, I invite you to visit the Negro Baseball museum in Kansas City, and watch the film of black Kansas City residents describing their communities in the 1940s and '50s. It's eye-opening.
Your comment also made me think about all the race riots that have burned down black-owned businesses and left those same neighborhoods blighted and in very much worse shape than pre-riot. And then I think of BLM raking in all those donations by mostly-white liberals, and that money being spent on things OTHER THAN rebuilding black communities.
What a cruel joke.
This is just a mid-terms concocted strategy so the dems get their base back. Sad but true. And sadder still, it might just work. Greed trumps everything to these losers.
Of course we all know that anything beyond compensating the ACTUAL enslaved back in the 1860s-1870s range is pointless, but what about…
The Irish slaves?
The African tribes that CONQUERED the blacks and sold them into slavery?
The Muslim traders who bought them and sold them to European and Colonial slave traders?
Where is everyone ELSE’s responsibility in this equation, not just the current deep-pocket money-printers in the US government? (Who then pass that debt onto our grandchildren.)
Yes, the US government protected slavery for a while, but then it also abolished it under Republicans and elected its first black congressman by republicans, so shouldn’t all republicans also be excluded from this equation?
How about we just trace all of the lineage of KKK members and see who is still (Graham Platner) practicing racism or still (Graham Platner) wearing Nazi tattoos and just make THEM pay reparations, so that the few who can prove their slave ancestry can get their duly-owed 73¢ and we can put this argument to bed once and for all.
Chief Warren with an Afro made my Monday- thanks!
Same. She’s always standing with her hands open for our money
Squakahontas' voice is nearly unbearable.
I laughed out loud, had to show my husband and continued to laugh. 😂 It felt good!
The Globalists’ agenda is Managed Decline, so when society hits rock bottom, they can Build Back Better. Reparations at this scale is Accelerated Decline. The Globalists are running out of time.
love it ! managed and accelerated decline , boy oh boy howdy
all semantics , went from slaves to wage slaves , for the most part
Jpeach, agreed. They are running out of ideas as well. So much so that BS like this is all they’ve got? The black community that have had their eyes opened aren’t coming back, and they’re still leaving exponentially. And Hispanics. At this point if the left completely lose their grip on stolen elections, and it looks like they will in all but solid blue states, I would say the globalists are managing their OWN decline. If good people vote in November, it will be one more death nail.
I want some reparations from the Democrats while I’m still alive. For a broken family, a grandchild groomed into trans and supporting and facilitating drugs and mutilation, for being exposed to mentally ill people 24/7, emotional turmoil, mental despair, loss of freedom, theft of money, being threatened by refusing a needle stuck into my body. I can add more. Or they can just all go to hell if correctly adjudicated by a Higher Power.
INDEED. So sorry for all of this, Janet. Truly.
Thanks, Jenna. I was an active Democrat. Seems you have to get out of it before many will look back in and see the rot. 🐸 💦 🥶🥵
God is close and always good.
If we're going down this route, then we should start at the beginning.
Black people whose family owned slaves should be denied money.
Muslims should be denied money, but charged double taxation for their role in Slavery.
Anyone whose famiky fought in the Civil War should not have to pay.
Anyone whose family had Democrat connections during slavery should pay.
The easy answer and probably most accurate is that in any government program more than half the money goes off the top in grift to the government officials and workers. What better way to line his pockets, than have Moamdamni pretend to collect money for “poor Black peoples” then skim it for his $50M grocery store and a few more designer suits and tooth whitening sessions?
"The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination."
They admit that - in their worldview - this will never end.
“There’s only one thing I love more than money: 💰 other people’s money!”
Not a single member of my family was anywhere near this country during slavery. Curious to me that none of the people proposing this seem to have any issue with current substandard schools that cheat minorities and poor students out of a decent education. Nor did they protest closing public schools during Covid while allowing private schools to be open, widening the education gap and future economic opportunities for less privileged kids. Gotta get that Teachers Union vote.
1/4 of my family WAS here. Fought in the revolutionary war and every war that followed. Never owned a single slave. Poor farmers who worked hard and made their way. And yet…I have to pay? So. Dumb.
But have you have you heard about the wealth tax that’s being tossed around? The asset tax? That’s the one that’ll get you. That will get me. That will get all of us. It makes reparations look like small potatoes. And we’ll all be broke.
The audacity of these “vote-buying” charlatans is breathtaking!