The U.S. House of representatives has just issued an apology for slavery. You can assume this is directed at blacks. There is a phrase that applies:
"If sorry worked we would not need the police"
And of course there would be alot less blacks in jail on felony convictions. This phrase is especially funny in the case where you apologize to people who are all 100% dead. So why do it? Present day blacks have not seen a single day of slavery. Maybe the whites whom they tax like slaves are who they are apologizing to. That would be more applicable. Blacks actually vote 90% for democrats so I have to assume they actually want to be slaves.
Now I do not know whether congress has ever heard that cogent phrase but they should study it. It is a tell that congress has done this apology now when a black candidate is probabilistically near winning the presidency.
Do you think the blacks will come out of the wood work if Obama is elected and ask for reparations? I think this is a certainty. They will with 100% probability ask for reparations. I do not feel comfortable Obama will say no to their request.
Some one needs to ask Obama his view on this subject. He has already said he supports affirmative action. Never mind if some white guy stood up and said we need programs that place white guys at the front of the employment line he would be stoned to death by the media.
When asked about reparations Obama in a 2004 questionnaire, he told the NAACP, "I fear that reparations would be an excuse for some to say, ‘We’ve paid our debt,’ and to avoid the much harder work." To which I respond:
- Have we not coddled these people enough? What else shall we do? Serve them as slaves ourselves in spite of the fact they have had every opportunity to improve their lot ?
- Many of us white northerners have ancestors killed liberating the black slaves….will they be included in reparations? They gave MORE…they gave their lives
- In spite of the fact that every other race of the world has come to the USA and made it on their own we are to believe that blacks deserve a special hand up? But rather does this not shine an unfavorable light up blacks? What is it about them that they are the only ones who need help?
Obama mentioned "the much harder work" in his response. Give me a break. We have already paid reparations 4 times over in the form of welfare and affirmative action. It is about time we end all talk of these sorts of racist approaches. It will only take one liberal black president to cure all non-black people of their "white man’s burden" guilt. Slavery was 150 years ago!! Read that again 150 years!
Forget about it…you are not getting one red cent. Its about time you realize that and start making it on your own like the rest of us poor schlubs.