What's section 8 housing,obama phones,food stamps,affimative action......
What that is is a bunch of programs that get people dependent on handouts. I would include a gradual phase-out of the race-specific aspects of those programs as part of a reparations deal. I think affirmative action is wrong in principle and in practical effect, so if I could wave my magic wand, I would end that tomorrow.
And what about about 150 yrs ago?I had a great grand father 4 times removed fought in I believe it was Buel's Army at Shiloh,he died from his wounds.Point being todays rioters weren't slaves and I wasn't a slave owner.We have a syrian & lebanese families down the the street finding jobs and owning homes.Also my favorite beverage store Ned's was bought by an Egyptian.
Albert Sidney Johnston is who you are thinking of at Shiloh.
You probably don't have any relatives who did one damn thing to any Japanese-Americans during World War II, but the country as a whole, including your relatives, paid reparations to those who had been wrongly interned and who lost almost everything they owned in the process. FDR's solicitor general lied to the SCOTUS in the
Korematsu case in which the Court ruled those actions constitutional.
The government at every level has done far more damage to black Americans than it did to the Japanese. Why are blacks not owed anything more than programs that stick them in poverty?
Every one has time,everyone can study,if an individual chooses to not pay attention at school or not pursue a skill,trade,profession that's on themselves.I'm on the measily end of the economic scale -make too much to collect any of those terrible free benefits.And I'm not in a high enough tax brackett to get the write offs that some of you here enjoy.The middle class is getting taxed into poverty.Too many section 8 renters get to vote on whether a home owner pays them more benefits/taxes on schools.People who don't see a bill for shit shouldn't be voting on whether I pay more money for something that benefits them and not me - taxation with out representation.My community has the 2nd highest tax rate in the largest most heavily taxed county in the state
This is not just a black thing (and I'm not saying that you implied that it is). Numerically, there are more white people in poverty and on welfare than blacks.
Mr./Mrs./Ms. Anonymous made this pithy comment: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.”
We seem to be there, brother. Red and yellow, black and white, we want our goodies from the gummint.
