The Call For Reparations Isn’t
About Justice, It’s About Power
The Federalist,
by
John Daniel Davidson
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
6/27/2019 5:29:37 AM
What do we mean by reparations? Writing recently in the Washington Post, Sheryll Cashin, a law professor at Georgetown University, argues that “reparations should repair what white supremacy still breaks. Atoning for the legacy of chattel slavery is simply not enough.”
That is, reparations must be broad enough to encompass the many crimes and injustices perpetrated against black Americans throughout our history, from slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration. The effects of these injustices, says Cashin, are “direct and measurable” among slavery’s descendants: wage gaps, educational disparities, homeownership and property values, incarceration rates, health outcomes.
She is of course right. There is no question that black Americans
Reply 1 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 6/27/2019 6:30:45 AM (No. 107719)
Democrats caused the problem - send them the bill.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lazyman 6/27/2019 6:42:38 AM (No. 107729)
I have friends that like me don't obsess every day about what color God made them. They are black and because of their lack of paranoia and normal attitude toward the world, we remain friends.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 6/27/2019 7:03:40 AM (No. 107737)
Dems 'care' about blacks like they 'care' about metsikans.
The trick is to aggravate their suffering, turn up the heat, bring it to a rolling boil and then cash it in for political power.
Conservatives can only offer the thin gruel of liberty and dignity and personal responsibility.
Illegals are storming our walls to glean the benefits of conservative prosperity while it is being whored out as collectivist largess.
This is the "nightmare planet" where the good people are stuck in cold molasses while the hucksters run free on the beach smelling like "Hawaiian Tropic" and Mr. Zoog's Sex Wax,
Surf's Up !!!!!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
planetgeo 6/27/2019 7:18:54 AM (No. 107743)
Reparations? What do you think preferential college admissions policies based on race are? What do you think Affirmative Action hiring policies are? America has been self-flagellating for the last 5 out 6 decades in an orgy of reparations that never seem to end and never seem to be acknowledged or appreciated by the recipients.
By now it's become a con game and everyone knows it but nobody is willing to say so or stop it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bubby 6/27/2019 7:22:03 AM (No. 107745)
FTA "The goal here isn’t to heal or to bring together, but to divide. Cashin, the law professor, tries to shoehorn reparations into nothing more than increased taxpayer spending on “richly resourced schools and community centers, public transit, opportunity fellowships, housing choice vouchers, and mandatory inclusive housing elsewhere.” Nothing more than balancing out public spending in the face of “opportunity-hoarding among affluent whites.”"
Reparations is a fools errand. Not one single descendant of slaves will see a penny of any reparations. If reparations are ever paid out they will go to existing racial hate organizations like Black Lives Matter, those run by Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson etc. Once they siphon off their needs little will be left. The descendants of slaves will not benefit in any meaningful way and will feel betrayed and still in need of real "reparations"! So the cycle of victimization of blacks proclaimed by racial hustlers will continue subsequent to reparations! It's a terrible idea!
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Strike3 6/27/2019 8:16:25 AM (No. 107797)
One would think that every advantage given to Blacks over Whites since the implementation of The Great Society would have had some effect. Having every food and housing need addressed, preferential treatment in busing them from inner city schools to "white" suburban schools, lower minimum scores on college admissions, government grants to operate "Black colleges," the Affirmative Action programs that have placed people in jobs for which they have no qualifications, the insertion of black faces into every commercial and TV program. One would think that they would not be committing the bulk of the murders in this country, they would not be over-represented in the prison population, they would be excelling in academic performance, starting their own companies, not terrorizing the inner city neighborhoods of every major city, not stealing cars and holding up or shoplifting every store on the block. But one would be wrong. Further reparations would only exacerbate the current problem that is the Black race in America, entitled, arrogant and a significant criminal problem that shows no sign of abating. Go ahead, democrats, give each and every one of the 13 percenters a check for doing nothing, see where it gets you.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
vhs68 6/27/2019 9:22:55 AM (No. 107894)
And don't forget the Pigford settlements. Yes, the government made 2 batches of settlements. Billons of $$$.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Congar 6/27/2019 10:48:54 AM (No. 107980)
Paying blacks for an injustice to no living black seems like another Democrat idea on how to squander money.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
little guy 6/27/2019 1:49:41 PM (No. 108158)
Folks, take this more seriously than it sounds right now.
Everything the Dems pull off they start with a "big picture" and then negotiate down. Like smoking. Started out not permitted in restaurants --- then billions in settlements from the tobacco companies and huge taxes on the products. That money was supposed to be spent on people with "tobacco related" illness. Instead it was used to balance budgets, give unions pay increases, etc. Marijuana smoke, however, is fine for your lungs!
The reparations gig is meant to soften everyone up to new Federal programs for people who can "prove" they're black. How about a $100 billion fund (to start) that pays off your mortgage, credit cards, school loans, etc. Another $100 billion loan fund (no interest, no pay back) for you to start a small business? Just prove you're black!
If this flies --- and it will when Trump is gone --- there will be a long line with people looking for their reparations too. The 400+ recognized Indian tribes ( sorry, Native Americans) will be next, then the gays and tranies, then the people who were illegals and then got amnesty will need to get $ as they weren't covered by Federal and state programs when they first got here, etc.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/27/2019 4:09:05 PM (No. 108267)
Another in the long line of memes. Reparations is about Power. Rape is not sexual, it's about Power. Communism isn't about fairness, its about Power. Power this, bozos.
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JrSample 6/27/2019 4:46:16 PM (No. 108301)
What they are calling "mass incarceration" is simply putting criminals behind bars. That is not an injustice, that IS justice. They belong in prison. They committed crimes were arrested, tried, and convicted by a jury. They were put in prison, because the belong in prison. Just because over half of the violent crime in this country is committed by a certain demographic group does not mean that they do not belong in prison or putting them in prison is some kind of injustice, like slavery or Jim Crow.
As for the "wealth gap" that is being caused by a high out-of-wedlock birth rate, a high rate of participation in drug-related crime, poor schools, lack of interest in academic achievement, and a high rate of drug usage. It has nothing to do with slavery or Jim Crow, but is behavioral. Throwing other people's money at it will only make it worse.
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