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Wednesday - July 08, 2009

Williams on Reparations

Outstanding. Not only is the essay a concise bit of wonderful, the first few dozen comments are pure genius. Read, read, read! If “they” haven’t yet revoked Williams Race Card, taken away his government cheese, and reclassified him as a white guy, then this essay will do it.

Senate Slavery Apology
by Walter E. Williams

It goes without saying that slavery was a gross violation of human rights. Justice would demand that all the perpetrators—that includes slave owners, and African and Arab slave sellers—make compensatory reparation payments to victims. Since slaves, slave owners and slave sellers are no longer with us, such compensation is beyond our reach and a matter to be settled in the world beyond.

Absent from the reparations debate is: Who pays? Don’t say the government because the government doesn’t have any money that it doesn’t first take from some American. So which Americans owe black people what? Reparations advocates don’t want that question asked but let’s you and I.

On black people’s side of the ledger, thorny issues also arise. Some blacks purchased other blacks as a means to free family members. But other blacks owned slaves for the same reason whites owned slaves—to work farms or plantations. Are descendants of these blacks eligible and deserving of reparations? There is no way that Europeans could have captured millions of Africans. They had African and Arab help. Should Congress haul representatives of Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Muslim states before them and demand they compensate American blacks because of their ancestors’ involvement in capturing and selling slaves?

Reparations advocates make the foolish unchallenged pronouncement that United States became rich on the backs of free black labor. That’s utter nonsense. Slavery has never had a very good record of producing wealth. Think about it. Slavery was all over the South. Buying into the reparations nonsense, you’d have to conclude that the antebellum South was rich and the slave-starved North was poor. The truth of the matter is just the opposite.

The comments are ... superb!

The idea of reparations is ludicrous. Any politician who mentions it again should be kicked in the butt from one end of Pennsylvania to the other. What a bunch of slimeballs.

perhaps it might be cheaper if the country makes a one time reparation payment to every black that sees itself as a permanent victim of life. In exchange for receiving the money, each victim signs a release both absolving all whites from further blame for events they played no part in. In addition to getting the reparation payment, the recipient also renounces all future claims to any and all affirmative action program and any gov’t handout programs. Public housing, free lunches, food stamps and any other giveaways also come to an end.

I think the Senate could do something more meaningful if they apologize to the American taxpayers for wasting their money. Apologized for exporting jobs overseas. Apologized for not securing the borders.

John Casor was the first legal black slave in colonial America—and the man who pressed the court case to keep him a slave was also a black man. Who owes whom reparations? http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1993/1/1993_1_90.shtml [Drew: it’s a 15 minute read, well worth it!]

Had the gov’t not created the welfare state of gov’t dependence, black communities would likely not be the ruins that they are. If not infantilized with incessant “help”, slavery would have taken its place among other miseries in history and not considered as a reason for the condition of black cmmunities.

Sure, slaves got a bad deal from the slave trade. *Modern* American blacks, however, got a great deal. The average American black is far wealthier, healthier, and freer than the average African black, so slavery actually benefited modern blacks (and it did so at the expense of previous generations of whites whose wages were held down by the cheap black labor). So, logically, if any reparation payments are to be made, they should flow from blacks to whites.

I want . . . Reparations for all the terrible hardships my Irish ancestors went through when they migrated here. After all, it was very MEAN of people in the USA to discriminate against them just because they were Irish.

In the democrat Jim Crow south black American tax dollars were used to build up white social systems, public education and public universities that democrat would not allow black Americans to attend. Black Americans fled democrat hate and violence in the South from 1920 to 1950, only to run into democrat urban discrimination in the North. The apology for slavery and racial discrimination to black Americans must come from the democrat party ... not the United States.

Something you will never hear from the Reparations crowd… Thank you to the many thousands who died in a war to end slavery.

If and when reparations are paid, then what? Does that mean Sharpton and Jackson go away? Will that end the race problem forever, just like electing a black president was supposed to?

It might be worth it, to pay reparations just to be able to say. “Ok reparations have been made now get on with your lives and quit making excuses.”

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Posted by Drew458

on 07/08/2009 at 11:41 AM
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