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2014-12-23 Home Front: Politix

Reparations would change the status quo of racism

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Posted by badanov 2014-12-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 In a single year, the current occupant of the White House nets over twice the author's suggested compensatory award. All of that money does not appear to have done a thing to belay his racism and hate.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-12-23 00:27|| 2014-12-23 00:27|| Front Page Top

#2 one white that works and one black that suffers

A rather damming admission. Black society needs whites to make it work.

Posted by phil_b 2014-12-23 01:20|| 2014-12-23 01:20|| Front Page Top

#3 From a Cost–benefit analysis (CBA) aspect, the author's single, one-time buy out scheme is actuarially unsound. The rolling entitlement and welfare programmes currently in place provide a much greater long-term return. Statistic show that large, single payment options tend to simply be squandered. Besides, pissing it all away in small increments is much less painful.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-12-23 01:22|| 2014-12-23 01:22|| Front Page Top

#4 While we are in FIFY Mode:
In 2014, there are people in America who hate their white-, brown-, black-, red- and olive-skinned neighbors.

Posted by SteveS 2014-12-23 02:10|| 2014-12-23 02:10|| Front Page Top

#5 IMO the fundamental problem in modern Western societies is that where are too many white collar jobs. And every moron who doesn't work with his/her hands considers him/her self an intellectual.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-12-23 03:13|| 2014-12-23 03:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Reparations -- Danegeld -- would make it worse. It would be an admission that blacks simply aren't as capable, that they're children who need to be carried.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-12-23 06:32|| 2014-12-23 06:32|| Front Page Top

#7 In2014, there are people in America who hate their brown-, black-, red- and olive-skinned neighbors.

Notice the absence of 'yellow'. That's right. Asians the new "Whites". That embarrassing color in the Left's rainbow of selling racism. People actively discriminated against for nearly a hundred years (can you say Chinatown, internment), that today are denied equal opportunity in those hot beds of progressivism, academia. Too many successful gifted and over qualified who are turned away for unqualified members of the special interest oligarchy (aka diversity in Newspeak).

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-23 07:23|| 2014-12-23 07:23|| Front Page Top

#8 "Olive" skinned?? Who hates the Italians?

One of the first lessons taught in my Econ 101 course was that if you gave everyone in the city the same amount of money, by the end of the week some would be rich and some would be broke.

In this scenario who would be which?

Posted by AlanC 2014-12-23 07:38|| 2014-12-23 07:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Alan, I do believe Reverend Wright had some choice words for Italians. I suspect he hated them for being too pale, though.

By "olive" I suspect they mean Middle Eastern.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-12-23 08:32|| 2014-12-23 08:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Wasn't the whole Pigford nonsense nothing but a hidden reparations scheme?

Posted by Woozle Scourge of the Wee Folk4194 2014-12-23 09:11|| 2014-12-23 09:11|| Front Page Top

#11 Pretty much, but on too small a scale to wash our souls free of your great great grandpappys sins.

Posted by Shipman 2014-12-23 10:03|| 2014-12-23 10:03|| Front Page Top

#12 Perhaps the reparations could be credited against the Great Society trillions wasted? When will that balance due get paid?

Posted by Frank G 2014-12-23 10:14|| 2014-12-23 10:14|| Front Page Top

#13 My great great grand pappy came over on a boat, after the CW-1 mess was settled. Weren't none of our business.

Posted by Woozle Scourge of the Wee Folk4194 2014-12-23 10:43|| 2014-12-23 10:43|| Front Page Top

#14 A question I've long had about reparations: who should be eligible? For example, Obama's father is from Kenya. His ancestors were never slaves of Americans. Should he be eligible? How about someone who immigrated to the US any time after 1865?

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-12-23 10:55|| 2014-12-23 10:55|| Front Page Top

#15 I also noticed there are no racists that hate whites. HMMM, the struggle to destroy the this nation continues...

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-12-23 11:01|| 2014-12-23 11:01|| Front Page Top

#16
#13 My great great grand pappy came over on a boat, after the CW-1 mess was settled. Weren't none of our business.
Posted by: Woozle Scourge of the Wee Folk4194 || 12/23/2014 10:43 Comments || Top||

You came to the promised land entirely build by highly skilled cotton pickers and brick makers, you still gotta pay.

Posted by Shipman 2014-12-23 11:17|| 2014-12-23 11:17|| Front Page Top

#17 You came to the promised land entirely build by highly skilled cotton pickers and brick makers, you still gotta pay.

Sure, I'll pay. In base metals propelled by chemical reaction. Just waiting for the balloon to go up, like a lot of people.

Posted by Woozle Scourge of the Wee Folk4194 2014-12-23 11:25|| 2014-12-23 11:25|| Front Page Top

#18 Do we get a credit for Al Sharpton's unpaid taxes?

Posted by Matt 2014-12-23 12:14|| 2014-12-23 12:14|| Front Page Top

#19 Reparations have been taking place since the inception of The Great Society in the 60's.

No matter how full the trough, it will never be enough.

Maybe an offer of $100k cash for a one-way to Liberia would solve a number of current and future problems.

Posted by Hupineger Glomomp7489 2014-12-23 12:20|| 2014-12-23 12:20|| Front Page Top

#20 I'd be happy to pay reparations and even throw in a one way air ticket in exchange for the passport and birth certificate.

Posted by Vespasian Oppressor of the Visigoths8235 2014-12-23 12:57|| 2014-12-23 12:57|| Front Page Top

#21 On a Bumper Sticker seen in the Western part of Maryland, far from the PC center:
: "If I'd have known it was going to be this much trouble, I'd have picked the cotton myself!"

Posted by Jeatle Scourge of the Sith7082 2014-12-23 13:23|| 2014-12-23 13:23|| Front Page Top

#22

The Founding Fathers knew the cultural gulf was too wide, hence the creation of Liberia and the hope of return. Cheap labor is never cheap, and it's not just cotton, it's gold, diamonds, farming and domestic help as well.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-12-23 13:33|| 2014-12-23 13:33|| Front Page Top

#23 John Palchak is director of the local Catholic Charities

Ah, another reason for me to be glad I left the church. There seems to be a new one every day.

Posted by tu3031 2014-12-23 17:28|| 2014-12-23 17:28|| Front Page Top

#24 Do NOT mistake "Catholic Charities" yoyo's like these for the Catholic Church. These are usually Social Justice Warriors who wrap themselves in the appearance of Catholicism without taking any of the substance (faith, sin, forgiveness, the Trinity, transubstantiation, the 7 Sacraments, strict Pro-Life, no gay "marriage" etc). Mention any of those and the official stance of the Catholic Church and they run screaming.

This guy is no more likely a genuine faithful practicing Catholic than is any random Berkeley protestor or ISIS footsoldier.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-12-23 18:40|| 2014-12-23 18:40|| Front Page Top

#25 2 branches of my family. One got off the boat and bled while liberating the slaves, the other came here leaving everything except family behind, to escape the Nazis in Budapest just prior to WW2. And every generation of us on both sides has served in the military since we got off our respective boats.

I figure I owe them nothing. Lets see them justify that.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-12-23 18:43|| 2014-12-23 18:43|| Front Page Top

#26 I already pay reparations: FICA, FED taxes, State and local, Property, Sales, Utility.... and I owe part of 18 trillion that went to others. If you are trying to bring people together the notion of having one person pay (who did not enslave anyone) to another (who was not enslaved) is the worst possible idea ever. Does anyone think John Roberts understand this concept?

Posted by airandee 2014-12-23 20:35|| 2014-12-23 20:35|| Front Page Top

#27 I read somewhere that less than two percent of families in the south owned one or more slaves, according to a "slave census" conducted back in the 1800s.

We've had three generations of this sort of exchange whereby taxes collected are transferred from one sector of society to another. Back when it started, I don't know the reasoning for it, but now it is said it is because of "historical racism". And that on top of admonitions about using the wrong words with reference to other races, constant admonitions, were issued to whites, but not to non-whites. 60 years and no resolution in sight.

You'd think after such a long time it would dawn on both those paying and those receiving that transfers such as this are more punitive than remedial, and serve only to encase in stone whatever hateful sentiments that continue to justify it. Now, those transfers are an expression of the hostility of the state towards its citizens.

Posted by badanov 2014-12-23 20:54|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2014-12-23 20:54|| Front Page Top

#28 At least here in Louisiana there were significant numbers of slaves held by black plantation owners.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-12-23 21:05|| 2014-12-23 21:05|| Front Page Top

#29 Would Obama have to pay? It is far more likely that his ancestors were slavers who captured and sold slaves than my ancestors being slave owners.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-12-23 22:06|| 2014-12-23 22:06|| Front Page Top

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