ANTI- REPARATIONS

The Voice Of Racism ANTI- REPARATIONS UNEDITED

The argument against reparations is divided between those who question the economics of the proposed plans, like William Darity, Jr in last Sunday’s NY Times, and those citizens who embrace racist reasoning to think that the plans are not necessary and are just punitive.

“Why are those people always looking backward? A car has a small rearview mirror and a large front window because we are supposed to be focusing on the future. Aware of what is behind us, but not focusing on it,” complained one interviewee. “We have given them opportunities that can only be considered ‘Reverse Discrimination.’ We let them go ahead of candidates that have worked hard and deserve those opportunities.”

This conversation made me think of the episode of “All in the Family,” where Mike is passed over for promotion by a candidate of color and told, “Well, you of all people should understand.” And, Mike looked very sour, because he wanted that promotion for his young family.

“Affirmative action started with President Kennedy in 1961 (with the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity). That is 60 years for blacks to jump the line and catch up. I think we have done enough. It’s time for blacks who have succeeded to help out others from their old neighborhood.”

For decades, our government has devised social programs to “lift up the oppressed minority” (not my words). While some have achieved, overall equality has not been reached. The cry from my interviewees was that the number of programs and the amount of money to be paid seemed to be infinite. “When will the blacks feel that they have gotten enough?” “When will we stop having to pay, pay, pay?” “If you got the Evanston money, then you are still eligible for more money. How many lines can one person stand in?” “Where is the list that says ‘You have been paid your

retributions, now go away?’”

“But if any government is going to pay, it should be the Africans. The reparations should come from the profits of the gold mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo. After all, it was their own people, in the Congo, that captured them and sold them to the slave trade. They are the start of the whole problem. They should pay those retributions.”

I fear that any action, perceived by whites as a tax on skin color, will deepen the latent racism, which will prevent equality from occurring for at least another two generations. These reparations must not be felt like retribution. Nor, as a means to transform the oppressed into the oppressor, which is a reoccurring fear amongst the elder white generation. “We do not want to be always asking forgiveness like the Germans are having to do with the Jews.”

“My father was born in 1888 in rural, free Kansas and spent his adult life in Evanston. He never knew slavery. He was buried in Kansas. At his funeral, a black man played the piano. ‘Pearly’ was his name. We never heard of him, but he knew all of us. He was from the only black family in the county. The teachers refused to teach him. He would come over every night and father would teach him what he learned in school and what he learned at his piano lesson.”

“The Evanston blacks would come to our back door for medical attention,” she continued. “My father had an office off the kitchen, where he would do examinations. Once, when he was removing an appendix, the surgery went awry. He packed the patient in ice, carried her to his car, and carried her into the local hospital to finish the surgery, over the protests of the other doctors and nurses. When the surgery was completed, the local hospital revoked his operating privileges for bringing in a colored. That was in 1933.”

“I don’t come from people who oppressed blacks. Why should my taxes be increased to pay I for their reparations?”

General Sherman created an assessment of the inherent wealth of every male slave liberated by the Civil War of, “40 acres and a mule” and a zero value for the female slaves. He did not have the authority to mandate this, but the cry of ‘I did not get my 40 acres and a mule’ echoes throughout this discussion. “Tell those blacks that their 40 acres and a mule are waiting for them in Africa.”

“Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address said our debt was paid as ‘every drop of blood drawn with the lash was paid by the Union sword.’” “You know that Lincoln created Liberia and Nigeria to get rid of the slaves. He wanted to ship them all back. They chose to stay. America. Love it, or leave it.” “My family struggled to get their financial house assembled. We sacrificed and scrimped and saved. We drove modest cars and did not take fancy vacations. We lived in modest houses and did not purchase luxury clothes. They buy drugs and fancy cars. They just all want a free handout. They are the Crickets, and we are the Ants.”

“What about the black families that settled in Evanston?” I asked.

“They were the train conductors and teachers. Nice blacks, with a lot of white in them, who worked to get a little house in Brown Town and send their children to a good school. ETHS had a trade school component. Anyone who graduated from ETHS held their head high. No one looked down on learning a trade like they do now.” “Today, that teacher is on dialysis in the back room of that nice house, with three or four generations piled in with her. Not one of them has a job. They all are on welfare. Those blacks really know how to work the system… And, if you offer them reparations, they all will have their hands out and be wanting even more…. No, reparations are a bad idea.”

”What about the ‘Inherent Wealth’ that the New York Times’ 1619 Project claims is missing from American black families?”

“Wealth is like knowledge: It cannot be gleaned in one pass across the field. Wealth takes time to build and is a privilege to have. Many of the restore-to-equality programs are attempting to gift wealth to the recipients in that single pass. Giving large sums of money to folks who have never had it will put them in bankruptcy. Look at the lottery winners. All in bankruptcy after three years.”

But, what about the businesses, still in existence, that benefited from slavery? Can they be assessed? And, how much? To whom would the payments be made?

“Slavery advanced American Capitalism via the ruling class exploiting inequality. If reparations are made by businesses, will we owe the Chinese citizens reparations for our outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China - often creating untenable working conditions - for the past 25 years?” The American ruling class (not just whites) has significantly increased profit margins by exploiting a global inequity. “Paying reparations is setting ourselves up for a slippery slope.”

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When the “word” went out in Evanston that I was creating a Reparations issue the strange occurrences began to happen. Not only did it expose businesses that mysteriously didn’t want to participate but individual voices seem to creep from under rocks. Like this article appeared in my inbox anonymously and unsolicited. Enjoy, as its posted exactly how received with a “core message”.

What makes Whites supremium?

Well, for starters Whites are not killing/wounding each other’s children by the hundreds/thousands in Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore…………

So far in 2021 in Chicago ALL BY ITSELF!!! 127 shot & killed, one every 15 h 31 m. 580 shot and wounded, one every 2 h 57 m. 73.3% blacks shooting other blacks. (BLnotMtoB) Shot by police 7. Reparations will not fix this.

Whites are 76% of the population, blacks 13%. Whites commit 69% of the violent crimes, 90.8% of their “fair” share. Blacks 27% of the violent crimes, 208% of their “fair” share. White under 18, 62.5%; black under 18, 33.9% Reparations will not fix this.

White women abort 12% of their pregnancies. Black women abort 34% of their pregnancies. Reparations will not fix this.

Reparations will just finance more guns, drugs, sports betting, unwanted children and Escalades.

BLM should be takin’ the guns and the NAACP should be handin’ out condoms.

*************** Rights have responsibilities. Obeying the laws is a big one. Break the law, lose some rights. A capital crime can cancel the right to breath. Dealing drugs and passing phony twenties is breaking the law. Giving the police a bad time when they appear or shooting at them is not a good idea. Chances are high the outcome might turn tragic. As an ex-con, Floyd would know that.

**************** Helping a friend move. Sold his house. $700,000 To a mixed-race couple. With “systemic” racism how is that even possible? Guess the new owners are outside The “SYSTEM.” He mentioned the Hispanic couple across the cul-desac.

Their son was just accepted into the Air Force Academy. Hmmm. Where is that “systemic” racism. Guess he stepped outside The “SYSTEM.”

Speaking of which: the new commandant of the AFA is a black general. How is that possible with “SYSTEMIC”^4 Racism.

Watched an ethnic Rockies pitcher blow a five-run lead in the ninth. Checked his contract to see if he delivered on his paycheck. $550,000 PER YEAR! Well, what do you expect? But he is most definitely outside The “SYSTEM.”

Patrick MaHomes 10 years, $504 million Cam Newton 1,750,000 PER YEAR!!! Both light years away from The “SYSTEM.”

Hamilton cast All of them way outside The “SYSTEM.”

In Chicago 2020 ALL BY ITSELF 2,700 blacks have been shot/wounded/killed by black brothers. Shot by police - 13 Bet they would like out of Their murderous “SYSTEM.” On the other hand, they should be glad they are not getting the justice they deserve.

There is no “systemic” racism. There is systemic ignorance of the facts perpetrated by the lying, riot inciting, fact free, rabble rousing, fake news MSM left wing propaganda machine powered by woke millennial twit and twat journalism majors and fashion, food and fluff editors.