Democrats have been talking about reparations a lot lately and that’s a clue that they are having a really hard time figuring out what the American people want. Do they really think that’s something they should be prioritizing? Giving money to people because of something that happened 150 years ago? Obviously, slavery was awful and it’s one of the darkest aspects of American history but reparations are at the bottom of most people’s priority lists even in minority communities.
That didn’t stop Beto O’Rourke from saying the following…
From Fox News:
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke appeared Wednesday to back off his initial opposition to slavery reparations, saying he would support a bill in Congress to study and consider the payments.
The former three-term congressman from Texas made his comments during an appearance in New York before the National Action Network, a civil rights organization founded by Al Sharpton.
Asked by Sharpton if he would back a measure introduced by Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a fellow Texan, O’Rourke answered, “absolutely I would sign that into law.”
Beto could have been just pandering here. He was with Al Sharpton and probably was just saying what he knew the crowd wanted to hear.
But still, pretty pathetic.
Reparations are not popular with the American people.
From Five Thirty Eight:
Reparations: A July 2018 survey from the left-leaning Data for Progress found that 26 percent of Americans supported some kind of compensation or cash benefits for the descendants of slaves. A May 2016 Marist survey also found that 26 percent of Americans said the U.S. should pay reparations as “a way to make up for the harm caused by slavery and other forms of racial discrimination.”3
So why is Beto supporting it?
Because he knows that identity politics is the way Democrats win elections. Divide and conquer.
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What do we get for Uncle Syd? How much would he and all of his ancestors have produced that we didn’t get because he gave his life to free slaves?
Seems only fair.
What about the Irish slaves ?
#Whiteslaveslivesmatter
Was slavery so “awful and one of our darkest moments”? Imagine living in Africa in the 1700s. Tribal wars are a constant threat. Food, water, clothing, shelter, etc are hard to impossible to come by but disease is quite readily available. Medical care is covered by the resident shaman which consists of waving some feathers over an open fire?
OR,
living on a plantation where water, food, shelter, clothing and maybe some limited medical care are available.
I would love to know the life expectancy between the two and I know which life I’d prefer, without question.
Imagine living in Africa in the 21st century.
Feel free to move home “my brothers”.
Or to paraphrase the great Muhammad Ali: “I’m sure glad my grandaddy got on that boat!”
Here is a fun fact.
The “slaves” brought to Virginia colony were actually just Indentured servants.
Not a great life
but at least not slaves
So it was that from 1620 to around 1645 people from all walks came to the colony and did their turn and several years service. The deal being that if these folks were of good steed they would be given their freedom.
And so it was that Anthony Johnson, brought to America indentured became a free man.
With time he started a farm and became rich for his time.
Mr. Johnson at some point became embroiled in a financial dispute with John Casor.
With time Johnson won and Mr. Casor was declared the first person made a slave in a civil case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist)
I wonder if his descendants are aware of this.
I also wonder if Beto has a plan in to figure this fact into his equations.
I doubt it for some reason…
As a native Virginian and an older SCV, I’m well familiar with the State’s history. In the 1600s inter racial marriage in the Tidewater (southeast Va.) was accepted and little thought of it. It was not until the 1740s that it became an issue. In the 21st century it’s a freakin’ disaster.
Using wikipedia….is like using snopes.com
Just don’t.
All right then try this…
Here is a link… from snopes.. lol
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/facts-about-slavery/
Gotta thank you though. I am going to have to research this moar…. I find this interesting to say the least..
and one from the Smithsonian (actually linked from wiki)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/horrible-fate-john-casor-180962352/
How much do I have to pay to never hear their shit again?
There isn’t enough $. They’ve been paid now for 3 generations and the volume just gets louder.
funny how that works…
What do phony whites that claim minority heritage have to pay and to who; Warren the phony Indian, Beto the phony Mexican.
This would be enough to fuel another civil war. You can only fuck us over so much. Where will it end? What about coons born next year?
They’re already getting reparations: Look at all the money we’re spending on niggers right now: AFDC / SNAP / Section 8 / School meals / General Assistance / Medicaid / …. the list is endless. Niggers are a net drain on our society.
One good thing – get all the niggers to give us their DNA for determining their ancestory to slaves. Then run the DNA through the FBI database – and arrest 50% of the niggers for past, unsolved crimes.
50% is the over/under? I’ll go with the over.
Dutch,
You are absolutely right about this. Makes me wish my wife didn’t get so mad at me when I use the ‘N’ word.
Seems like the Romans, now Italians owe me some money for enslaving my ancestors. Waiting for the check.
American blacks are too fucking stupid to let this go and move on. They blame society for their lot in life and refuse to move on. This just puts a “!” to their stupidity. South Africa is what we’ll be when that mentality becomes the majority.
I’m not sure it’s even the blacks. Seems like the Progressives want to use this to get votes.
and cause division…
This -hit is getting completely out of hand. “Slavery” was atoned for w/ the lives of 600k+ in the 1860’s. That s-its done. My family didn’t even come here til (about) 1904. If you want $ “my family owes” from before 1865, go ask Denmark for it. I’ve been paying taxes, alot of them, my entire life … towards the end, 48% of my paycheck was gone before I ever got it.
Taking full advantage of the ‘exclusion rule’ you would only pay $100 for a formal letter certifying that you had now ancestors here during the slavery era.
In case anyone isn’t certain what they intend to do to us:
Just substitute ‘white people’ for bourgeoisie and ‘upper class,’ and you’ll have a good handle on things.
It’s interesting to study Stalin, who was at the center of the revolutionary effort for years and must have recognized the nature of his Comrades. Once he was safely in charge, he eradicated most of the old Jewish Bolsheviks he had previously relied on and started purges of Jews from Soviet public life. One book I read about him pointed out how Stalin, for all his Communist credentials, once he rose to power essentially turned himself into a Red Czar and returned the trappings of Czarist Russia, such as the Army’s shoulder boards and discarded the revolutionary shlem caps and the odd rank structure from the 20s-30s, and legalized the church after the German invasion. I wonder if he found the complete destruction of his homeland was perhaps not everything it was cracked up to be?
Ayn Rand’s protagonist in We The Living, was surprised to learn her family was part of the bourgeoisie when they returned from vacation to discover their home lived in by four families because there were four bedrooms; therefore four families. She’d lived in a mansion and not known it.
(Edited… the comma after We The Living is a typo. However, I left it to demonstrate why I’m running so low on them. I use them frivolously, plopping them in places they don’t belong, wasted.)
We the Living is the least readable of her very pedantic and structured prose, but I do give her a break. She grew up Russian and her thinking was structured in Russian. You can teach an old dog new tricks but it only understands the one language and has to re-translate to dog.
However, if you manage to read the entirety of We the Living you will perhaps get the sense that some of the harrowing experiences the young woman has as she tries to find work or ways to earn enough social credits to get her family some bread or grain to make bread (forget about meat!) are not fictional at all. Those experiences she lived. Those of us who still read between lines can tell which ones those are…
I wonder if Beto thinks that forcing people to pay reparations whose ancestors were not even here for the Civil War will help race relations. Will Blacks be paying Northern families whose ancesters died in the war fighting to free them? Or does this only go in one direction?
So we are supposed to pay for slavery that ended 154 years ago ( 7 generations? ) but DACA illegal aliens ( 1 generation ) are not required for their parents crimes?
Great debate tactic, when you have no counter argument, bring up the illegals. Your logic is not helpful, you seem to be saying that slavery was a crime. It wasn’t. Old Abe freed the slaves as a punitive measure against the recalcitrant South. Over time, the story has been changed into some social justice action. That way, they can keep demanding stuff. It’s a variation on an old theme; the slave-ocaust.
Hillary had some deranged theme she called, it takes a president. She described how the slaves didn’t win their freedom, it was given to them. How cool is that? Then they got used to freebies.
“Oh yeah, you freed us and for what, so we can starve or maybe have to go to work?”
I wasn’t debating anyone. I was was pointing out the hypocrisy of people who say we need to pay reparations to ancestors of slaves, (good luck figuring out who they are) and also say other descendants should not bear the sins of their fathers.
I’m not sure what you are saying about Hillary, your writing is a bit unclear to me.
Will descendants of black slave owners also be penalized? Seems like we ignore that aspect of history. Will Sons of Black Confederate Veterans be forced to pay up, too? Will Sally Hemmings’ family receive money or pay, since they’re also technically former Slave Owners?
Clinton has invited comparison with Johnson in the past. When asked in her 2008 primary campaign to comment on her then-opponent Obama’s emphasis on hope, Clinton unwisely made a flattering comment about Johnson at the expense of Martin Luther King Jr. “Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act,” she said. “It took a president to get it done.” – The Atlantic
This shit has got to stop. Transferring wealth from those that earn it to those that do not is a high crime, and one day it will force a collapse of the entire nation. It is inevitable.
I disagree. I think minorities should have to give all of their money to white people.
This case requires neutering. No more rehabilitation, no more counselling, no more appeals; NO MORE FUCKING AROUND — – just cut this disgusting animal’s equipment off, then stuff him down a deep coal mine for lots of digging.
The only funding for Africans should be the one-time-good-deal farewell cheque that is disbursed upon arrival in Wakanda, or other Sub-Saharan garden spot of choice, and, most importantly, with surrender of the U.S.A. passport.
A.M.F.
If only
Does anyone remember what I said about The Bartender and not allowing them to set the language, and thus the terms of the debate?
Bobby O’Rourke is another one.
That nickname of his is bullshit and blatant pandering to the guest voter crowd.
I have a name for him, too. One I think fits him very, very well.
Never call him Beto again.
But if you can’t avoid it, use this name. As a child of privilege who married into a wealthy family and basically had his way paved for him through life, I have a name for him: Master Beto (pronounced BAY-TOH )
If people called him Masterbato, I think he would drop the nickname fast.
It’s Beh-toe not Bay-Toe.
Camel toe.
That’s Harris, not O’Rourke.
No, it’s pronounced Pandering.
And he’s Fake-O. For the purposes of my disrespect, it’s Masterbato.
Sadly the pandering works. My small town in w Texas is about 70% latino. There were plenty of Beto signs last Nov.
My neighbor(Mexicans) had been raving about his great new job at a local company that supplies sand for fracking. Business is booming. He’s making $30/hr, 3x what he had been making previously in town.
He had Beto signs in his front yard. Yep he’s supporting an Irishman with a fake nickname who would shut fracking down in a heart beat.
And there are millions of 80 IQ latinos pouring in here.
What could go wrong?
I thought the latinos had slightly higher IQ’s than the 85 IQ blacks.
Learn something new everyday.
He’s a beat-off.
If they want this discussion, where do the billions in existing transfer payments fit in?
And didn’t the black guy in charge of Freddy Mac say in 2008 he approved as many high-risk/low-profit black loans as possible as reparations?
And if we’re going to talk justice, how about the massive amount of slave-on-master crime we’re suffering today? Rack it all up and they probably owe us a lot more than we owe them for all the rapes, assaults, theft, and murders.
And if they want to calculate what we owe them, let’s add in the costs of transportation and civilizing and educating them up to today.
I’ll pay reparations to them when they board a catapult for their trip home. If they accept the money, they have to go back to Africa and take the DNC with them. They’ll need them when they get to Africa a whole lot more than we will.
The thought occurs- would it be cheaper to just bring slavery back?
It might be a great unemployment solution.
I would totally buy a slave right now, if I could. It would be so much easier to have a slave doing the housework, dealing with the yardwork, and keeping an eye on Young One while I relax after a long day at work. In an age when robots are putting people out of work, anyway, it might be a reasonable alternative. Taking in a slave, offering them room and board, making them a part of our family, teaching them useful employment skills and giving them the experience of working for a living might be a great leg up in preparation for being a freedslave. I don’t know how many indigent slugs we have today who would be good candidates, though. Lazy, entitled, argumentative idiots might not be good slave material.
A number of you have somewhat addressed the part that a Canuck just can’t figure out- this Reparations thing is that one Race has paid more into the pot than they have taken out, apparently calculated on initial below market labour rates. Fine.
So, given the massive input of Race A towards Race B pre-Civil War we accept that A is ahead of B. We then need to calculate + or – since the War/ end of Slavery. Pre-Civil would be ‘We owe them’ – post Civil would be they owe us. Subtract & you get a negative #.
So where on Earth are Blacks going to dig up the massive imbalance? No signs are evident.
The massive economy that I have long seen, yet never seen addressed, is simple: It costs $X to keep criminals in US Prisons. The vast majority are Black. Put it out to Tender: Indonesia bids $Y for 5 year incarceration periods, Mali bids $V. Choose from these providers, charter aircraft, & have an Accountant keep track: $67K per pedo saved/ year vs US costs, $800K pre-death penalty total saved by Bidder B vs US costs.
Each year will show significant savings ‘earned’ by Blacks. As with a 25 year Mortgage, results won’t be instant but the accumulation will add up & give the proud Black a feeling of truly ‘repatriating’ $ to the marvellous nation in which he has chosen abode for generations.
This is why Hector’s son was thrown from the walls of Troy… so he nor his descendants would seek reparations. Reparations are the fiat version of retribution. It isn’t the same thing but it spends well at the Walmart store and Reparations will eventually kill the Repaired Party and the Re-Tribute will be completed.
Has anyone checked the socio-economic status of Greece lately? Is that still there or have the Trojans returned the gift of a horse with roaches?
And, does anyone think Helen really was worth all that?
I have so much to say about this it’s difficult to know where to begin. Ah, let me start with this. This is nothing more than a “white” tax. Just another attack on “whitey”. Undeniable says it best. An interesting thought about Kameltoe Harris, her great-grandmother was “white” who owned slaves in Jamaica. This would eliminate her from receiving reparations, right? hmm. More ramblings….
1. My ancestors, as well as quite a large portion of the population, immigrated to US in the early 1900’s. Someone tell me why we are responsible for reparations?(Racism)
2. How far back in history do we go to make reparations fair? My ancient ancestors were enslaved by the Romans, the the musslifuks of N. Africa and mid-east, turks, blah, blah, blah. (You’re white, you’re not down for the struggle.)
3. Why is it that we never hear how much money they want to dispense to each qualifying recipient of such a magnanimous socially engineered program? (Just print it).
We have been paying reparations for 50 year sand it has not done them any good.
I’d give them money to go back to africa.
AC , glad to see at least someone knows a little history about the murdering Jews . The Jews are planning on using ” people of color ” to murder us here in the America. The media which they control is already Anti white. They are Just waiting for us to enter minority status so they can convince these ” people of color ” to do the dirty work. I hope whites will wake up and face this dangerous situation . Soon it will be to late . Never will I give up my guns and ammo. I usually don’t like to say never but this is one never I will keep. Have a great day.