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Title: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you owe us
Post by: mystery-ak on June 26, 2020, 10:02:13 pm
Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you owe us'
by Andrew Mark Miller, Social Media Producer
 | June 26, 2020 01:21 PM



Rep. Ayanna Pressley said on the House floor that the Black Lives Matter movement is a “mandate,” and the time has come for people to “pay us what you owe us.”

“I rise today on behalf of every black family that has been robbed of a child,” the Massachusetts congresswoman and member of “the Squad,” said. “On behalf of every family member that has been forced to see their loved one lynched on national television. Driving while black. Jogging while black. Sleeping while black. We have been criminalized for the very way we show up in the world. Under the harsh gaze of far too many, my black body is seen as a threat, always considered armed.”

“Centuries of institutionalized oppression will not be undone overnight, for racism in America is as structural as the marble pillars of this very institution," the Democrat added. "With the power of the pen we must legislate accountability, dismantle these systems, and move in the direction of justice and healing. The Justice in Policing Act is a critical step forward, and I applaud the leadership of the Congressional Black Caucus.”

Pressley continued: “But our work is unfinished. There is a rallying cry in communities across the nation. Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It’s time. Pay us what you owe us. Our black skin is not a crime, it is the beautiful robe of nation builders.”

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pressley-black-lives-matter-is-a-mandate-from-the-people-its-time-pay-us-what-you-owe-us (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pressley-black-lives-matter-is-a-mandate-from-the-people-its-time-pay-us-what-you-owe-us)
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: mystery-ak on June 26, 2020, 10:03:28 pm
How much do I owe you Ayanna?.... :poo:
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: Night Hides Not on June 26, 2020, 10:13:33 pm
They'll never stop Ayanna for "driving while black".

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Pressley does not drive an automobile and has never learned how to drive.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayanna_Pressley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayanna_Pressley)

 :rolling:  :rolling:

Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: mountaineer on June 26, 2020, 10:15:06 pm
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every family member that has been forced to see their loved one lynched on national television.
That would be zero, wouldn't it?
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: Night Hides Not on June 26, 2020, 10:19:40 pm
How much do I owe you Ayanna?.... :poo:

According to what I've found in Ancestry.com, I owe nothing in reparations.

One side of my family came from Germany around 1870, the other from Scotland around 1900.

I predict a new cottage industry to come soon: fabricating birth documents of ancestors to establish lineage as a descendant of slaves in the US.
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: Night Hides Not on June 26, 2020, 10:20:45 pm
That would be zero, wouldn't it?

Yeah, where'd that  :poo: come from?
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: mystery-ak on June 26, 2020, 10:22:17 pm
Yeah, where'd that  :poo: come from?

click more..it's at the very bottom
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: catfish1957 on June 26, 2020, 10:26:21 pm
Yeah, where'd that  :poo: come from?

Yep, and I am guessing that's not soft serve. 

And a side note to this bitch.  Your little reparations game is going to trigger a massive tax revolt. 
WE OWE YOU AND YOUR RACE F"N NOTHNG!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: Night Hides Not on June 26, 2020, 10:37:35 pm
click more..it's at the very bottom

Won't do that again...I avoid websites that force multiple ads on you to finally get to the article.
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: LMAO on June 26, 2020, 10:52:51 pm
From her perspective, I don't blame her for making such a bold statement.  They see corporations buckling to their demands and they see the government impotent to their riots.

When a predator sees a weak prey, they take advantage of the situation
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: catfish1957 on June 26, 2020, 10:59:23 pm
From her perspective, I don't blame her for making such a bold statement.  They see corporations buckling to their demands and they see the government impotent to their riots.

When a predator sees a weak prey, they take advantage of the situation

Problem is (and read her statement).....  These reparations are being done via proposed legislation....    Big difference in a corporation being guilty of stupidity, versus we the taxpayers footing the bill.   Big big difference. 
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: 240B on June 26, 2020, 11:03:15 pm
This is the last time you will hear any reparations parasite use the phrase, "Pay us what you owe us!"
Even the Black people know that we don't 'owe' them anything.

Don't know about you guys, but I wasn't alive in 1820, and neither were they. They want people today who have never even seen a slave, to pay Black people who have never been or even seen a slave, for something that happened 100 years before any of us were born.

From now on expect to hear, 'Pay us what we deserve!' or some variant of that.
The one thing that will always remain constant is, 'Pay Us! White Boy!' Because our skin color is dark! And that makes us 'victims'.

The most absurd part of 'reparations' are the details. Who is Black? Is half-White Obama from Kenya Black?
Is Kaepernick Black?

Do Blacks from Kenya who came here in the 70s get reparations?
And who is "White" to pay it? If it is paid from taxes, then Mexicans, Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, and 100 other ethnic groups who live in America will be forced to pay reparations by proxy. If it comes from taxes, even tax paying Blacks will wind up paying their own 'reparations'. How does that make any sense?

So, then the question reverses. Now the question is, 'Who is White?' And even if you can determine 'Whiteness' beyond doubt (like Elizabeth Warren), then they have to prove you were in America before 1850 or so.

Furthermore, giving one specific racial category a sudden cash windfall would cause immediate chaos in society. Robbery, mugging, extortion, kidnapping, chaos, would skyrocket. It is an insane idea which has never been completely thought out as to what the end result would look like.

Would reparations harm Black society and America in general more than the potential gain? How do we know when we are finished paying 'reparations'? Is it a one time payment, or will all people who are determined to be legitimately 'Black' by some DNA standard and had relatives who were slaves, suddenly become Feudal Lords who get a tithe every month from the national treasury forever, with no end?

As a White guy, if I am found to have some Black DNA in me, do I get reparations? What percentage of DNA qualifies any person of any apparent ethnicity as be a qualified (Aryan) Black person claiming reparations? This would usher in a whole new age of classifying people by genetics and assigning them to a caste system in society. We are no longer all equal. We will be assigned to social status groups solely based on our DNA profile.

These are only a few questions that would have to be sorted out. The program would be a disaster mess. It is an unresolvable knot which cannot be untied. It is an insane idea that makes no common sense.
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: dfwgator on June 26, 2020, 11:07:18 pm
From her perspective, I don't blame her for making such a bold statement.  They see corporations buckling to their demands and they see the government impotent to their riots.

When a predator sees a weak prey, they take advantage of the situation

To loosely borrow from Churchill's 1934 speech about Hitler:

They might say, it seems to me, "you are rich; we are poor. You seem well fed; we are hungry. You have been victorious; we have been defeated. .....You have had the past; let us have the future." Above all, I fear they would say, "you are weak and we are strong."
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 26, 2020, 11:23:48 pm
Let's go to the pocket calculator for this....

Average income of Blacks in the US:  $39,490.00
Average annual income in Nigeria:  $15,746.81 (normed to US Dollars)

(That ratio is 2.58 to 1)

Total number of Blacks, per the 2018 Census:  47.8 million

So that means American Blacks owe ($39,490-$15,746.81) / 47,800,000 = $2013.21 each

The way I see it, African Americans owe $2013.21 each for "Reparations."  Pay up, you effin' deadbeats.(I got these numbers from Gubmit websites)

ETA, because I forgot, that $2K X 155 years since the first Juneteenth = $312,015.  Cough it up, you OBLM bastards.
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: mystery-ak on June 26, 2020, 11:43:50 pm
 pointing-up

Won't do that again...I avoid websites that force multiple ads on you to finally get to the article.

Sorry I wasn't clear.....click [more] right under the smilies there are a lot more of them
@Night Hides Not
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 26, 2020, 11:45:44 pm
pointing-up

Sorry I wasn't clear.....click [more] right under the smilies there are a lot more of them
@Night Hides Not

Maybe I should have put the Schitts at the top of the Smiley window?  My bad....I like the Trump one.

 :pootrump:
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: PeteS in CA on June 27, 2020, 12:03:17 am
I owe you nothing, ignorant arrogant t#@t! Especially not my vote!
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: GtHawk on June 27, 2020, 12:12:33 am
If Black lives matter so damn much, why are Democrats so complicit in the abortion of so many Black babies? So odd when you think about it, you would think the party of the slave owner would want to have more slaves on the plantation not less, could it be that the slave owners see more value in the current market for Brown slaves than Black?
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: Fishrrman on June 27, 2020, 12:58:11 am
Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you owe us'

I don't owe you nuthin', ma'am.

Whatever debt that might have existed was paid in 1861-1865 by the blood of 600,000 whites.

Go to hell.
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 27, 2020, 05:55:26 am
According to what I've found in Ancestry.com, I owe nothing in reparations.

One side of my family came from Germany around 1870, the other from Scotland around 1900.

I predict a new cottage industry to come soon: fabricating birth documents of ancestors to establish lineage as a descendant of slaves in the US.
Let me tie it down a little tighter.

In this country, you don't inherit your forebear's debts.
Thus, nothing anyone did before me is relevant.
I never owned anyone,nor did my parents, nor did my grandparents...which is far enough back, I think.
I don't owe this lady) nor anyone else I have not incurred a direct debt with) so much as a plugged nickel.
Quit whining and get a real job.
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 27, 2020, 06:00:36 am
This is the last time you will hear any reparations parasite use the phrase, "Pay us what you owe us!"
Even the Black people know that we don't 'owe' them anything.

Don't know about you guys, but I wasn't alive in 1820, and neither were they. They want people today who have never even seen a slave, to pay Black people who have never been or even seen a slave, for something that happened 100 years before any of us were born.

From now on expect to hear, 'Pay us what we deserve!' or some variant of that.
The one thing that will always remain constant is, 'Pay Us! White Boy!' Because our skin color is dark! And that makes us 'victims'.

The most absurd part of 'reparations' are the details. Who is Black? Is half-White Obama from Kenya Black?
Is Kaepernick Black?

Do Blacks from Kenya who came here in the 70s get reparations?
And who is "White" to pay it? If it is paid from taxes, then Mexicans, Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, and 100 other ethnic groups who live in America will be forced to pay reparations by proxy. If it comes from taxes, even tax paying Blacks will wind up paying their own 'reparations'. How does that make any sense?

So, then the question reverses. Now the question is, 'Who is White?' And even if you can determine 'Whiteness' beyond doubt (like Elizabeth Warren), then they have to prove you were in America before 1850 or so.

Furthermore, giving one specific racial category a sudden cash windfall would cause immediate chaos in society. Robbery, mugging, extortion, kidnapping, chaos, would skyrocket. It is an insane idea which has never been completely thought out as to what the end result would look like.

Would reparations harm Black society and America in general more than the potential gain? How do we know when we are finished paying 'reparations'? Is it a one time payment, or will all people who are determined to be legitimately 'Black' by some DNA standard and had relatives who were slaves, suddenly become Feudal Lords who get a tithe every month from the national treasury forever, with no end?

As a White guy, if I am found to have some Black DNA in me, do I get reparations? What percentage of DNA qualifies any person of any apparent ethnicity as be a qualified (Aryan) Black person claiming reparations? This would usher in a whole new age of classifying people by genetics and assigning them to a caste system in society. We are no longer all equal. We will be assigned to social status groups solely based on our DNA profile.

These are only a few questions that would have to be sorted out. The program would be a disaster mess. It is an unresolvable knot which cannot be untied. It is an insane idea that makes no common sense.
How about descendants of black slaveowners? Would they have to pony up, too?
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: IsailedawayfromFR on June 27, 2020, 05:40:23 pm
Hard to believe such ignorance still exists.

This idiot is supporting the Democrat party which placed the chains onto the backs of blacks, and is condemning those who won freedom for the slaves and passed the Civil Rights Act to end Jim Crow laws.
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: roamer_1 on June 27, 2020, 06:16:51 pm
Don't know about you guys, but I wasn't alive in 1820, and neither were they. They want people today who have never even seen a slave, to pay Black people who have never been or even seen a slave, for something that happened 100 years before any of us were born.



More to the point - what ACTUALLY happened a century ago, for the first time in the history of Man, slavery was eradicated by the nations of the West.

I don't give a single crap about Jim Crow or plantations - Or any of the other bumps along the way. The single salient point is that moment, thundering down the halls of history, when Protestant Christian sensibilities came to the awareness that ALL men are created equal in the sight of Yah.

The VERY THING that America deserves the most credit *FOR*, bought in blood, is the very thing this damnable blood libel lie attempts to deny.

Blacks have no solitary claim on being slaves. Every creed and color, every nationality has born the burden of being slaves. And prior to the West (and to this day in much of the world), every nation participated in slavery.

And those hoping to tear her down en toto - America and the rest of the West, will find if they succeed, that this mean old world will surely revert to what it has always been. 
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: sneakypete on June 27, 2020, 06:46:28 pm
This is the last time you will hear any reparations parasite use the phrase, "Pay us what you owe us!"
 
 

@240B

As the rioting continues,she had better be VEWWY,VEWWY careful who she says that to,lest they give it to her.
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: Absalom on June 27, 2020, 06:59:05 pm
Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you owe us'
Pressley continued: “But our work is unfinished. There is a rallying cry in communities across the nation. Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It’s time. Pay us what you owe us. Our black skin is not a crime, it is the beautiful robe of nation builders.”
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* All lives matter, be they black white, yellow or otherwise!
* We owe the Negro nothing, as slavery was a wealth creator for their Tribal Chieftains since 4,000 years past and remained so into the modern era.
* Black skin may be many things, but one it ain't, is the "robe of nation builders" as Africa remains the least developed and stable Continent since Adam and Eve.
* We were a colony of Great Britain from Jamestown in 1607 till our Constitution in 1788; hence w/o Sovereign Responsibility for our culture/society.
Pressley is another political moron running off at the mouth!!!!!
 
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: catfish1957 on June 27, 2020, 07:08:14 pm
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* We owe the Negro nothing. as slavery was a wealth creator for their Tribal Chieftains since 4,000
   years past and remained so into the modern era.


Article from 2012 estimates the cost of welfare to the Amerirican taxpayer has been about $15T.  Almost 10 years later?  Got to be easily over $20T. And of that $20T, how much to blacks?
I think we the American Taxpayers are the ones that  need to be repaid.

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/11864-the-war-on-poverty-$15-trillion-and-nothing-to-show-for-it (https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/11864-the-war-on-poverty-$15-trillion-and-nothing-to-show-for-it)
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: Absalom on June 28, 2020, 02:56:30 am
Article from 2012 estimates the cost of welfare to the American taxpayer has been about $15T.  Almost 10 years later?  Got to be easily over $20T. And of that $20T, how much to blacks?
I think we the American Taxpayers are the ones that  need to be repaid.
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No intention of sounding like a Preacher talking down to others, yet something needs to be said.
Down through history stronger nations usually controlled/dominated those weaker.
Consider Great Britain, whose Empire spanned more than half the Globe between 1500 and 1900.
When their Colonies, such as Australia, Canada, Ireland, India, South Africa, among dozens;
achieved their freedom/independence, by whatever means, did they immediately present the
British Parliament w/a Bill for Reparations due them?????
Emphatically not, as these nation/states became consciously aware of the opportunity that freedom
gave them as well as unconsciously aware of the debt they owed Britain for exposing them to a
much larger world as well as a greater vision.
Consider a moment the Negro anywhere in the USA and compare him to the Negro anywhere in
Africa, at this very moment.
Which is better off in terms of chance, latitude and opportunity!!!
The current BLM blather is nothing but a contrived fandango to hustle gullible whites out of
their money.



Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: dancer on June 28, 2020, 08:12:24 am
 :silly:
How much do I owe you Ayanna?.... :poo:
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: dancer on June 28, 2020, 08:14:27 am
Dear Ayanna,
You might want to concentrate on the Johnson family.  According to colonial records, the first slave owner in the United States was a black man named Anthony Johnson.
Sincerely,
 888mouth
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: Slide Rule on June 28, 2020, 11:58:48 am

Yes a member of the House.   

I wonder if the Mafia knows that House members are encroaching on their best business territory?

Protection.





Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: Free Vulcan on June 28, 2020, 12:29:21 pm
(https://www.scarymommy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Ayanna-Pressley-cspan-1.jpg)

She needs that money to go find Vger.
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: sneakypete on June 28, 2020, 02:45:50 pm

@catfish1957

That headline is SUCH a double-edged sword!

That goober had better hope they don't get what *I* think we owe them.
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: sneakypete on June 28, 2020, 02:47:37 pm
Dear Ayanna,
You might want to concentrate on the Johnson family.  According to colonial records, the first slave owner in the United States was a black man named Anthony Johnson.
Sincerely,
 888mouth

@dancer

He eventually sold his Virginia tobacco farm and it's slaves,and moved to Pa to buy more slaves and open a horse ranch. That is where he died,and is buried.
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: andy58-in-nh on June 28, 2020, 03:03:59 pm
BLM is a heavily-funded project of Marxist radical organizations wholly committed to the violent overthrow of the United States government.
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: sneakypete on June 28, 2020, 03:11:15 pm
(https://www.scarymommy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Ayanna-Pressley-cspan-1.jpg)

She needs that money to go find Vger.

@Free Vulcan

We now have Cone Heads in Congress?

Since when have aliens from other planets been allowed to vote and hold office?
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: sneakypete on June 28, 2020, 03:15:00 pm
BLM is a heavily-funded project of Marxist radical organizations wholly committed to the violent overthrow of the United States government.

@andy58-in-nh

EVERYBODY that has paid the slightest bit of attention to those creatures knows this to be true,yet NOBODY has the stones to stand up in front of a microphone and state this truth.

ESPECIALLY no one holding public office,elected or hired.

HOW can we expect to win when our alleged leadership is afraid to even IDENTIFY THE FREAKING ENEMY,never mind fight them?
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: andy58-in-nh on June 28, 2020, 03:19:35 pm
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HOW can we expect to win when our alleged leadership is afraid to even IDENTIFY THE FREAKING ENEMY,never mind fight them?
@sneakypete

And that's one of our biggest challenges, right there.
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: bigheadfred on June 28, 2020, 03:49:33 pm
3 million slaves in1865.
Round out farm labor to $1.00/day, $365/year

3,000,000 x 365 divided by 47.4 million black people today in the U.S. equals $23. Per year.

So cut off all other benefits. Pay them their $23 per year in reparations.

Problem solved.

Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 28, 2020, 04:06:49 pm
3 million slaves in1865.
Round out farm labor to $1.00/day, $365/year

3,000,000 x 365 divided by 47.4 million black people today in the U.S. equals $23. Per year.

So cut off all other benefits. Pay them their $23 per year in reparations.

Problem solved.

I'm willing to cut the folks a break on this.  I can deduct that 23 bucks from the 2K I say we are owed for improving lives.
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: mountaineer on June 28, 2020, 04:18:01 pm
The taxes I've paid over the past several decades probably covered that $23 just fine.
Title: Re: Ayanna Pressley: 'Black Lives Matter is a mandate from the people. It's time. Pay us what you ow
Post by: andy58-in-nh on June 28, 2020, 04:31:05 pm
Tell you what, Ayanna:

I'll gladly pay you what you want right out of my refunded taxpayer share of the $6,000,000,000,000 or so that working Americans were forced to spend on the "War on Poverty" so that Democrats could destroy black families, trap them in multi-generational slums, turn their schools into cesspools of non-learning, and fill their streets with crime, drugs and hopelessness, just so that fifty years on, people like you could call me a racist because I believe all of the foregoing was an awful mistake. 

Just let me know when my check is in the mail. okay?