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| 2019-06-28 |
| [American Thinker] The genesis of the Democratic Party’s current infatuation with the idea of reparations for slavery and Jim Crow can largely be traced to an article in the Atlantic from 2014 by Ta’Nehisi Coates’ "The Case for Reparations." Make no mistake, the "Case for Reparations" is not about money, it is about "moral reckoning" and remaking the United States. Like most things Coates writes, few people who cite his work appear to have actually read it. In 2014 Coates was the enfant terrible of the left, now replaced by another even less impressive pseudo-intellection who goes by the moniker "AOC." But for a certain and relatively large subset of liberals (and particularly white liberals) Coates is the touchstone to most things black. That is, if Coates if for it they are, and more so, if Coates wrote it, or said it, it must be morally justified. It pretty much goes without saying that within this liberal subset are pretty all the Democratic presidential candidates. Reparations are not about money. They are about a day of judgment for the United States that will restore justice to African-Americans by eradicating "white supremacy." The immediate means would be through H.R. 40 a House bill that’s been pending for decades. On June 19th the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held a hearing on H.R. 40 -- star witness Ta’Nehisi Coates, along with actor Danny Glover and other worthies. The stated purpose of H.R. 40 is to establish a Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. As the hearing continued into this week, President Trump weighed in on Tuesday saying "I don’t see it happening." Of course, that’s likely only to encourage the movement. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 The REAL TRUTH about reparations is that whites deserve more than the blacks. Slavery and Jim Crow were devised to keep poor Southern Whites in line. There is a reason the South consistently lagged behind the North in economic development. The South was the last region in the US to eliminate diseases like anthrax. It was the last region to have rural electricity and indoor plumbing. LBJ worked long and hard to dismantle Jim Crow - not because it hurt Blacks but because it hurt Southern Whites worse. Al |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2019-06-28 13:55 |
| #5 History itself teaches us that any oppressed class, if given the opportunity will retaliate with maximum ferocity and seek to displace/slaughter/enslave the other. That is the general history, yes. But as a Jew I come from a class oppressed in both Christendom and the Ummah, yet we are not known for displacing/slaughtering/enslaving our former oppressors after being granted full citizenship. Likewise, no rumour of such behaviour has reached the ken of man regarding those who separated from the African-American community over the past half dozen or so generations to pass as white. In fact, the examples of both revolutionary France and — shortly thereafter —Haiti show that the behaviour is not racial but cultural. That the white underclass of Britain, whose degradation has been so thoroughly documented by Theodore Dalrymple, has not equally brutally overthrown its masters is another nail in the coffin of the inevitability of this particular teaching of History. This demand for reparations is the product of a small group within the Democratic party, and is in fact nothing more than perennial political grandstanding. Even if a bill on the subject were to pass in the House, where it has been pending for decades under presidents Democratic as well as Republican, it would not pass in the Republican Senate, and hasn’t a hope in hell of being signed by President Trump. In other words, the defence against this kabuki will be entirely civil. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-06-28 08:26 |
| #4 what should it be replaced with: egalitarianism, black supremacy or Islamicist supremacy? Famine. |
| Posted by: Flert Ebbeasing8240 2019-06-28 08:14 |
| #3 "Restoring justice by eradicating white supremacy?" More hogwash or ontological goo from the left. Why should we accept that this statement is true? Assuming there is some (dubious) truth; what should it be replaced with: egalitarianism, black supremacy or Islamicist supremacy? That has not worked out well for the world. How are things in South Africa these days? They traded white apartheid for black apartheid. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-06-28 08:07 |
| #2 "To save what is dear to us from being trampled by the ravager, we must sometimes descend to moral depths we cannot expect from normal men." - Ancient kshatriya proverb There is no civil way to defend yourself from this. The Jim Crowe laws were based on the premise that the same access to employment, education and franchise as applicable to Americans, must not be shared by expatriated African slaves and their offspring. History itself teaches us that any oppressed class, if given the opportunity will retaliate with maximum ferocity and seek to displace/slaughter/enslave the other. It has not evolved to understand and value the centuries of civilization that have gone by under the administration and efforts of the original civilizing class. Therefore it shall also seek to destroy every edifice and every symbol of the original. It is very simple really. Survival. If the whites are to survive, they've got to start playing dirty. It doesn't matter who enslaved whom, or what was done to their forefathers. All that matters is, your children are being obliged to lay their heads down at guillotines for it. If Americans truly value their future, they will fight for it. With things like a white antifa(do call it something else), million-strong protests, educating the fringe white communities so they don't end up embarrassments always, coordinating a nationwide campaign against black power, guerilla activities against gangs and enforcers, - sacrifices are inescapable, but once it is in motion, caucasian peoples the world over would join it. Also, everybody else who has witnessed the reality of the inherently regressive African race. Anything less, and we are witnessing the first lazy whorls of a downward spiral that will lead to the ravaging of the greatest nation on earth. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-06-28 04:40 |
| #1 If you're curious about where this is all headed: Welcome to the official Truth and Reconciliation Commission Website The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up by the Government of National Unity to help deal with what happened under apartheid. The conflict during this period resulted in violence and human rights abuses from all sides. No section of society escaped these abuses. The TRC was based on the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, No 34 of 1995 (pdf) "... a commission is a necessary exercise to enable South Africans to come to terms with their past on a morally accepted basis and to advance the cause of reconciliation." Translation: A necessary exercise until all of your stuff becomes our stuff. Mr Dullah Omar, former Minister of Justice The TRC effected its mandate through 3 committees: the Amnesty Committee, Reparation and Rehabilitation (R&R) Committee and Human Rights Violations (HRV) Committee....more |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-06-28 01:47 |