American Thinker:
A congressional hearing was held on a bill to study reparations for blacks as payback for slavery. Reparations is simply another worm Democrat presidential candidates will put on the hook of their fishing rods to catch black votes.
I am a black man who is proud, grateful, and understands how blessed I am to be born an American. My response to the Democrats’ reparations scam is, “Please stop!”. Please stop telling black Americans that we are crippled, inferior and are helpless children who can only succeed via government handouts, lowered standards and special concessions. Just stop it!
The Civil War effectively ended slavery in 1863. After eight years of Americans making a black man the leader of the free world, Democrats are absurdly claiming blacks are suffering the negative repercussions of slavery and deserve a check. These people (Democrats) are evil, divisive, race-baiting and race-exploiting con artists.
In Maryland in the early 1950s, my late dad was among a handful of blacks who broke the color barrier to become Baltimore City firefighters. Despite humiliating racism within the fire department, Dad won “Firefighter of the Year” two times. Dad didn’t desire reparations or insulting lowered standards. All Dad and his fellow young black trailblazers desired was an opportunity to compete.
In the 1980s, I was promoted to supervisor of the art department at WJZ-TV, ABC affiliate TV station in Baltimore. Democratic friends attempted to rob me of the pride and dignity of my achievement. They demeaned my promotion, claiming it was due to affirmative action. I was insulted. My promotion was the result of being the most qualified. No brag. Just facts.
But this is what Democrats relentlessly do to blacks; always sending us the subliminal message that we don’t quite measure up. For example: When Democrats say requiring a photo ID to vote disenfranchises black voters, Democrats are really saying we are stupid, inferior to other Americans. Black Americans should be outraged.
Metaphorically, Democrats want to keep blacks barefoot and pregnant. Democrats despise and seek to destroy self-reliant, self-motivated, and independent blacks. I am referring to extraordinarily successful blacks like Herman Cain, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Dr. Ben Carson to name a few. Because these blacks took the traditional road of education, hard work, and making right choices to achieve success, they expose the Democrat and fake news media lie that blacks can only succeed in racist America via lowered standards and government programs.
Democrats and fake news media celebrates multimillionaire blacks like Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Spike Lee, Colin Kaepernick, Samuel L.Jackson and others who sell blacks the lie that America is a hellhole of racism against them. more here
The Leftist talk of “reparations” has no real purpose other than stirring up racial division and strife between Blacks and Whites (and other races as well since they, too, would be paying them).
The Leftists love this, it’s a “house divided” sort of thing for them.
Quite frankly you can see history repeating itself with democRAT pandering to “immigrants” & homeless. In LA country alone the increase has been 42% from 2010 to 2017. This is not by mistake. It is deliberate. We are witnessing the democRAT Klan cultivating a whole new voter base to herd to the polls and buss to vote in other precincts with little to no supervision of who actually votes.
Do they care about the Homeless?
Did they care about Blacks?
Nope.
All one has to do is just look at any typical run-down, shot-up, burned-out, poverty-stricken, crime-ridden, rat-infested, urine-soaked, feces-friendly, certified “Sh!t-Hole” flagship Plantation that´s been run for over half a CENTURY by total democRAT domination selling their Hope & Change Snake-Oil® where NOTHING ever changes!
They only want their vote… any way they can get it!
By the way, do they care about making America great? Do they care about the hard-working, tax-paying Americans who have to support all this?
Oh Hell no! They’re dirty little secret is they savage the “rich” middle class to pay for it with all their lies and feel-good rhetoric otherwise known as propaganda and pure bullshit!
The term.., Reparations.., only floats to the top of the democratic sewer barrel once every 4 years.., as a mean to ensnare the weak minded, who wait for that never ending supply of gubmint cheese.., meanwhile, under the previous administration.., it never came up.., but.., the poor huddled masses got bammy-phones, with more promises of hope n’ change, as he ‘radically transform’ this country..
Any Black that votes Dem is still a slave. Simple as that!
It’s the Slave Buy Back program
I once sat in a chair in which an African American had sat.
WHERE’s MY STUFF?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yELo-yNFv6Y
What makes the left believe that 60+ years of social services and affirmative action hasn’t been reparation enough?
This makes as much sense as me demanding reparations from Spain and Ireland for the devastating poverty athat motivated my grandfather and my great-great grandparents to emigrate to America.
Whatever injustices all our ancestors endured, whether getting here or being brought here, and then persevering in building a better life for their descendants, we would dishonor their sacrifice by demanding a payoff for it while living with a level of comfort, convenience, and opportunity they could never have imagined –and that their distant cousins back home envy.
Lloyd writes great pieces over at AT.
I would like to meet him one day.