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Quote of the Day: James Freeman on Reparations for Slavery
Last week, in his Wall Street Journal “Best of the Web” newsletter, James Freeman discussed Elizabeth Warren’s call for a “thorough national conversation on Reparations.” Here is what he said:
The basic idea is that the federal government will apportion among the citizens living now the historical guilt for heinous acts committed by people long dead against other people long dead. Then money would flow from people who have not been convicted of any crime to people who have not been found by any court to have been victimized by a crime.
That sounded like a very clever description of what the idea of current US taxpayers paying so-called reparations to existing black US citizens.
And do you notice, Democrats call for “conversations” about any number of hot-button issues, yet they try very hard to shut up anyone who might have opinions other than theirs?
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@kayofmt, I’m afraid you overestimate the rationality of the progressive mindset. It doesn’t matter if the black person was actually descended from slaves. Every black person has been harmed by the legacy of slavery. So to qualify, one would would merely have to be black. The question would be in what percentage of ancestry?
If this were done, I would have to identify as black and make my own claim.
Transracial is the new black.
You don’t understand. The money doesn’t go to you or any other individual. It goes to political advocacy organizations, who will use the money to elect people to congress, hire fake victims to attack judicial candidates, and attack capitalist oppression.
No, the Pigford money went to “people who attempted to farm”.
Yeahbut, those Pigford people had to submit evidence that they experienced discrimination. I don’t see how that works in the case of general reparations. Also, leftist advocacy groups have traditionally asked for payouts on this or that issue. They’re not going to be satisfied not to get in on the loot even if they don’t get to administer all of it.
No they didn’t. Just an affidavit.
Are you telling me that wikipedia lied?
See for yourself. This is the claim form. Note the standard of evidence for Track A.