America is confused. It seems a sudden event, this confusion, but it has been a long time coming. Rational patriots hope only that the radical leftist and fascist forces have sprung their trap at the wrong time, thinking that Americans, particularly white Americans, have finally grown so soft that we’ll all just roll over and wash the feet of black people for the sheer joy and justice of fawning over a brown-skinned person.
Once we’ve reached that level of automatic love and justice, we can readily let brown-skinned criminals out of jail regardless of their offenses, because someone’s great, great grandfather was a slave, known or unknown. Just being brown is close enough. All of our successes and failures are contained in simple formulae: more whites are better off than the average black person, therefore whites, as a group, are ALL guilty of something that has negatively impacted brown-skinned people… as a group, you understand.
Now, black people are pretty smart. Most have larger cranial volume than most whites; they are physically stronger in most cases, and, as a group derive from dozens of tribal heritages – racial types you might say – but now that they are in the United States they are all one race, one tribe, one aggrieved group, one voting bloc, one drug-dealing, white-hating, criminal-minded, low mentality group – easily led to welfare and other addictions… if you don’t look too closely. If you do look at blacks and other brown people, really look at them, you’ll find that they are as diverse as white people, Asian people, Indian people, Arabic people and so on, and on and on.
Most black people work for a living. Doesn’t seem like it, but most are competent and responsible and trustworthy. But not all. There are problems, not all of their own making… if you really look at how blacks are marginalized by governments and weak-minded whites, among others. Among those others are black racial leaders. No one has marginalized blacks more effectively than purported leaders who gain both influence and wealth by placing black individuals into a group, contravening the real American Dream.
Like any American citizen, any black is an individual, and equally treated (by law) under the law. Any black or brown citizen should have the same opportunities to “get ahead” in society and status and wealth, based on that individual’s own strengths, attitudes, education and will to succeed. The “government” cannot give an individual higher status or a higher level of attainment, although it can give him or her money in various forms. He or she knows deep down, that he or she has not earned the money/support just received. Black racial leaders, on the other hand, make a living by making blacks believe that they are owed that money or support. Whites have treated blacks so badly in the past that they have taken away blacks’ opportunities in this racist society, and simple fairness requires reparations. Thanks to us, your black leaders, here they are.
Except, they aren’t. No, no. Welfare is separate. Money transfers up until now are barely just, though vital and seriously demeaning. They don’t “count” toward reparations. Real reparations involve big, large, grandiose, unheard-of and astronomical numbers of dollars. We’re talking about multiple TRILLIONS of dollars. Welfare, free health care, Head Start and WIC, AFDC and a dozen other transfers, are mere window-dressings, drops in very, very deep buckets. Once the “reparations discussion” gets serious, the real price tag and the breadth of beneficiaries will take shape. Suffice to say that a starting point for said “discussions” could be every black person of unspecified fraction of black ancestry, is deserving of a share. We’ll get to the size of the fraction when discussions get serious.
Barack Hussein Obama, for example, was born to a white mother and a dark-skinned Kenyan about 100 years after slavery ended with the capitulation of the Confederacy. He claimed more than once that he was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia, but everyone else who would benefit from denying that claim finally convinced him that he was wrong, after all, and was born in Hawaii. Maybe. Still his family had no connection to slavery, including the Arabic part of his father’s ancestry, and no connection to segregation and Jim Crow laws in the South after the Civil War. He appears to have lived a highly privileged life, in fact, even becoming President – a quite corrupt one it turns out, not in terms of money but of process, intent and belief.
Would he be “entitled” to reparations? Would his children, who are “blacker” than he is? If so, paid by whom? Taxpayers, obviously, particularly white ones. But what about the millions of brown and black taxpayers? What is their “debt” to black people? Prudence indicates that there isn’t one, so a lot of people would have to be excluded from the special reparations levy on white people.
There are millions of whites who emigrated to the United States since, say, 1870. Do they somehow share this unprecedented burden? Well, say BLM balloonists, “they” all were prejudiced against blacks, so they owe us, too. And Chinese indentured laborers – most of them weren’t willing immigrants; what do they owe? Nothing, seems Prudent.
And all of the immigrants over the past 60 or 70 years… or since World War II, let’s say, carry no burden of making black Americans richer because of slavery in previous centuries.
Then, we’ll have to exempt people related to courageous abolitionists who fought slavery their whole lives. There wouldn’t be a “Juneteenth” without them. Add in descendents of soldiers who fought in the Civil War to end the Confederacy, particularly of those who died – hundreds of thousands of them – and there are relatively few people: descendants of slave owners, who might be connected tenuously to the institution of slavery.
There are descendants of people who fought for the Confederacy, who might be prime targets of this scheme, except many of them were fighting for their states, not for slavery, per se, and many, like Robert E. Lee, who was very opposed to slavery, itself, were complex patriots, many, many of whom died. What more do they owe? If we isolate blacks who can trace their genealogy to slaves, do we then separate out those who are doing very well in America? Shouldn’t we look only at those who are still suffering from the effects of slavery? Or, from the effects of severe prejudice? How do we distinguish between racial prejudice and anti-social acts that would keep anyone from wanting to hire or help, or even be within the field of vision of the individual committing them?
Prudence knows who should be compensated: Native Americans. None of them emigrated since any time in American history. Their history and treatment is far worse than that of any other group, and they are a group that is identifiable.
Do you know who is enslaving blacks today? Mostly other blacks in the welfare-industrial complex. And they do so with the best of intentions; they hired on to federal and state welfare programs to help less fortunate black and brown people. Welfare is the second most corrosive acid ever concocted, exceeded only by other liberal-leftists, some of them, black, who make a living keeping hatreds raw. Shame on them. The continued failure of many blacks to advance economically and educationally, keeps those foul dragons powerful. Many actually fight against better educational opportunities for the very people they claim to share the suffering of. For shame.
There is a speech that a wise president ought to deliver – none has, so far:
“Ladies and gentlemen, Americans of all heritages, welcome! America does welcome you, it is our exceptional opportunity to do so. There are times in the life of every nation when its citizens must be reminded of their purpose and mission among the family of nations. None is quite like that of the United States of America. Our first Civil War was our separation from the Kingdom of England, of which we all were subjects. We paid mightily in blood and deprivation and with acts of heroism rarely seen even in war.
The United States were sorely tested on moral and Constitutional grounds in our second, ‘THE’ Civil War as we call it. By the numbers of participants on both sides, it was the bloodiest, most fatal war we’ve ever fought. At a time when medical practice was ignorant of germs, antiseptic conditions or instruments – often bone saws – or of anesthesia, patriots on both sides risked everything for their beliefs. Yes, Confederate soldiers were also patriots. Many cared not a whit for slavery, but they risked, and gave all for their state and their new country, not so many years – just ‘four score and seven’ – after the United States was itself brand new. The civil War of 1861 was a terrible purging of a nation’s soul. Work barely begun in the Constitutional Convention in 1787, was finally completed in the destruction of ‘the South.’ From the thousands of funerals on both sides sprang the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to our founding Covenant. When the Declaration of Independence declared it self-evident that all men are created equal, it did not clarify that non-whites were also men, and created equal too. Finally, that was rectified by the Fourteenth Amendment, and strengthened in terms of voting by the Fifteenth: the first voting rights ‘act.’
It took nearly 100 years more to rid our many states of ‘Jim Crow’ laws and codified segregation. But black people are amazingly strong and resolute, stoic and faithful. They are incredibly talented and beautifully expressive. For hundreds of years and in dozens of countries, whites and many other “non-black” people have tried to keep black people down, or separate. For shame. But they keep rising up!
Blacks constantly show their intelligence, creativity, skills and abilities in virtually every field of study, science, invention and strength. And as they rise up and excel in their professions, they lift up all of us. There are so many examples of excellence, duty, honor, fealty and faith among black men, why aren’t the loudest black politicians holding them up for young black men to follow? Is there no political power there? Is political power found only in marshalling hatred?
We have recently seen the harvest that hatred brings. Along with statues of Jefferson and Washington being torn down by ignorant, hate-filled rioters, a statue of John Greenleaf Whittier was vandalized, despite his outspoken abolitionism and calls for total emancipation. Yet even this was excused by one black apologist bemoaning the fact that black poets and writers of the same era did not receive enough attention. Perhaps this ignorant, stupid act of vandalism will ‘fix’ what didn’t happen in the 1800’s, but that is unlikely. What fools rioters and vandals and their apologists are.
Such acts of destruction and blind hatred must not be excused no matter how angry or hate-filled someone is. They must not be rewarded by venal politicians hoping to buy kindness from hate-filled gangs.
What fools these blind, empty-headed politicians are.
There is so much good that black and brown people are responsible for; there is so much good to build upon. Who among us truly believes that anything good will be built on utter, blind hatred?
My fellow Americans, it is time, indeed it is our duty to learn and grasp our own history, our own heritage, and the exceptional engine of freedom that our Constitution is. The mantle of American citizenship includes the defense of freedom and the inalienable rights that flow from it. If we don’t do so; if we let this fragile gift slip from our hearts, there is no one to our west who will save this, the last great hope of mankind.”