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Reparations were always stupid and nothing but political pandering. It's all about blacks. No reparations for Native Americans. No reparations for other minorities. No reparations for imprisoned Japanese. No reparations for women. No reparations for the disabled or vets. But, once more, California will make promises to blacks and then pull the rug out from under their feet.Here are the problems with reparations to blacks in America:
(1) It is a grift. There is no amount of money you can pay to blacks that will stop the "trauma" and other B.S. Therefore, it would be a bottomless pit that never achieves its goal. So on a utilitarian level, it is not a wise plan. On an ideological level, it is straight wealth re-distribution, which does not comport with our system which values freedom and liberty of the individual.
(2) There is no objective measure. This relates to the first point. But it is worth noting separately in order to point out how arbitrary any such regime would be. Arbitrary and capricious laws are not things to aspire to having in a just and civilized society.
(3) Who is the aggrieved party to be compensated? Nobody today has been a slave of white land owners. We are several generations removed from that. Do we limit the eligibility to just those who are descended from slaves, like California is talking about? It seems to me that if slavery spoiled the entire American experience for negroes, then everyone should be eligible regardless of whether their can trace their lineage back to the slave days. Perhaps, however, harm should not be presumed at all. Instead, maybe those applying for reparations should be able to show some special harm resulting from the legacy of slavery. These are just a couple of issues. I point them out here to show how much there is to consider in such a folly, to expose how very little of this has been thought out to this point. Essentially, we are currently at the "Yo, I is gonna Git PAYD!!!" level.
(4) Blacks have ALREADY RECEIVED REPARATIONS. Blacks get so many preferences, set-asides, and carve-outs mandated by the federal government, along with cash entitlement benefits and subsides, one can reasonably conclude that they have already been compensated. Moreover, we did not ship them out of America after we freed them from slavery. We let them stay here in our country where they are free to engage in all of the opportunities (plus some due to their skin color) for advancement and prosperity as anyone else. If we had know what was to come then even Lincoln would have probably put all the slaves on a boat and set them free to return to Africa. But to be fair, who could have predicted what a colossal clusterfuck race relations would become. They have legal equality PLUS all other atonements offered by rich white guilt. And I don't even blame blacks for asking for as much as they can get because it is the white leftists who have been telling them for decades now how whitey has fucked them. Of course, the white leftists were not trying to help them. They were trying to keep them down and in a permanent victim class in order to perpetuate Democrat power. Essentially, the Democrats have re-enslaved American blacks.
So blacks have already been compensated. They get tons of handouts and preferences. They get to live in a country in which they afforded more freedom and liberty, and economic opportunity, that any other country of earth in the history of humankind. If Lincoln had deported them back in the day, sending them back to Africa, most of them and their descendants would not have survived, being felled by famine, disease, political strife, and eaten by various dangerous animals. Frankly, Lincoln letting them stay here pretty much makes us even, in my opinion. In fact, if allowing them to stay makes us even, we have actually OVERPAID blacks on account of slavery. Maybe they OWE US! Maybe they can make their debt to America good by stopping all the divisive tribalism and assimilate as a United States Citizen; not an "African-American", or some other fiction, but as individuals who first identify as American instead as of black. The opportunity is here, right now. But they will not take it. Why not? It is because the leftists want to perpetuate and exploit blacks' contrived status as victims. To do so furthers the ultimate goal of creating civil strife in America that they hope leads to a Marxist revolution.
Most black Americans today are tools of the neo-Marxists. Well, I got news for black folks. Your privileges in America are based upon your identities as individuals (with God given rights), not your membership in groups. Once that changes, and our constitutional republic is replaced by some Marxist government, you will devolve into a dehumanized commodity based upon your group. In others words, it is time for you to move on from your purported "ancestral trauma" and take responsibility for your lives exclusive of all the grifters and Marxists out there who have commoditized you based upon your skin color.
The Dead End of Reparations
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Have a nice day, WEATHER53. Come back when you can debate.
