http://www.ncobra.com
Is it just me, or does this site seem a little extreme?
(BTW, if you read the guestbook, yours truly is Irish-Polish Chica).
I mean, the examples they give of reparations all are being given to people who suffered during WWII. They’re still LIVING.
sigh
I saw a T Shirt once, which summed up my feelings, if in a slightly un-PC manner. “If I had known it would cause this many problems, I would have picked my own Cotton.”
That ignores a lot of historical truth and all, but still…
I get tired of people dreging up the past for personal benefit. What are they going to do if they get $8 trillion dollars? Set up a seperate nation here in America? That didn’t work in the Civil War.
I hesitate to call this idiocy, but the sheer scale of their demands is galling.
Not to diminish the pain and suffering of the 8 million United States slaves who were screwed out of their proper reparations after the US Civil War, but…
By what leap of logic do their descendants claim reparations? Were they slaves? No. The time for reparations has passed. After all, you don’t see me claiming reparations from the Court of St. James for the deaths of my ancestors during the Irish Famine.
That was my reasoning. If that were the case, Betty Windsor owes me big time!
Also-what about the blacks who owned other blacks?
…and how about the African village leaders who sold their members to the whites?
Yeah! And what about Scarecrow’s brain?!
The idea of reparations is not only as compensation the whoever the victims are determined to be but also as a way of expressing dissapproval of such activity and to discourage others.
If you wait long enough do the crimes go away ?
Wealth was generated for the benefit of a cetain section of society and to a fair degree some of that wealth is enjoyed by their antecedants.
America, the UK and many other nations were built on slaves and drugs, does time launder the money ?
The best way to address this is not simply to hand out loads of money but instead to fund better education and medical facilities, better housing and a fairer society.
Nice words but the doing of them is the rub.
My first big problem with the site is that they assume that the government was fully and 100% behind the matter. That’s not the case, otherwise the Civil War wouldn’t have happened.
Secondly can we prove who was actually descended of slaves?
There were free blacks, would the be eligable under these premises? Doesn’t look like it to me.
Also, I would argue the staging a military occupation of the south to insure that the 13th-15th amendments to the constution were passed, installing blacks in office, and generally requring approval for every little redistricting done would erase some of the scars these people obviously suffer even today. If not, the Civil Rights Act of '64 should have helped. It’s not like the government as sat on it’s ass and done nothing.
So in the end, there might be an “Oops, Sorry.” by some President, but nothing else.