Just Say No to Black Reparations

Just Say No to Black Reparations

 

Black reparations are once again in the air, stinking up the atmosphere with more noxious fumes than all the coal generating plants in continental America combined, and without any of the energy benefits those plants provide.

Ridiculous demands by African-Americans for compensatory slavery damages are hardly news though they are getting more attention since a semi-African-American now occupies the White House and he has said he wants to share the wealth, although not his wealth.

Ethics-challenged Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) has been campaigning for black reparations for decades and in 1999 the Third World-dominated United Nations weighed in on the issue by insisting that Western nations pay African nations  some $777 trillion, more than the value of 10 years of the planet’s total gross domestic product.

Conyers’ monomania and the U.N.’s insanity only serve to accent the absurdity of taxing white Americans in 2014 for the national sin of slavery which was ended more than a century and a half ago, at a cost of 625,000 deaths.

The matter of forcing whites today to compensate blacks today was raised recently in the “Black Voices” department of the ultra-liberal HuffingtonPost.com.

HuffPo’s “Black Voices” editor Danielle Cadet gushed that, “In his groundbreaking piece ‘The Case for Reparations,’ Ta-Nehisi Coates presents a powerful argument deconstructing the effects of white supremacy on the lives and economic standing of black Americans [and] advocates for a systematic approach to solving the issue of inequity in America and why it is separate from the fight against poverty and other issues on the national agenda.”

Not a “groundbreakilng” as much as a rehashing, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The Case for Reparations” for the most part reiterates the old, discredited complaints of Rep. Conyers–and the Reverends Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and dozens of other black agitators seeking to salve supposed racial injuries with the healing properties of Big Bucks. 

Coates wrote, “The idea of reparations is frightening not simply because we might lack the ability to pay. The idea of reparations threatens something much deeper–America’s heritage, history and standing in the world.” 

Memo to Mr. Coates: The idea of black reparations is indeed frightening yet not nearly as frightening as your thinking that one segment of society, a huge segment comprising almost 80% of our total population, none of whom ever owned slaves, could be taxed tens of billions or trillions for a crime they never committed. 

Such an outrageous proposition, if ever implemented, would not merely threaten our “heritage, history and standing in the world” but would reduce the United States of America to a bankrupt, world laughing stock for  capitulating to the irrational demands of an all-too-vocal, venal minority. 

Left un-addressed by Coates’ lengthy piece . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=37368.)