If Reparations Are Owed ... the Democratic Party Should Pay Them

[rangerrebew]

February 9, 2023
If Reparations Are Owed ... the Democratic Party Should Pay Them
By Joe Fried
Every so often, some Democrats call for reparations to compensate Black Americans for slavery and other indignities.

The latest plan comes from San Francisco, where a reparations committee is considering a program that would offer $5 million per qualified Black resident.

Let’s analyze the issue of reparations from the standpoint of morality and practicality.

Most people believe that compensation for misdeeds should come from the people who caused the misdeeds. For example, if John Smith and Joe Brown recklessly damage your car, you expect Smith and Brown (or their insurance companies) to pay for the repairs. Normally, you would not expect the repairs to be financed by the entire town in which you live: That would make no sense.

What if Joe Brown died shortly after the accident? Would you expect his children or grandchildren to pay you? Probably not. Instead, your claim for compensation would be focused on the surviving reckless driver, John Smith. We can apply this logic to the reparations issue.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/02/if_reparations_are_owed__the_democratic_party_should_pay_them.html

[rangerrebew]

My family already gave - at Andersonville POW camp!  That's enough!

[catfish1957]

I'll pay $1M to every slave my family has owned the past 150 years. 

There ought to be some form or level of statute of limitations for this stupidity.

[roamer_1]

No reparations are owed, and the notion stands against the very founding principles of this nation.

Here it does not matter who your daddy was, or who your grand-daddy was.

Here you have the opportunity to lift yourself up by your OWN bootstraps and make the best of what YOU are, without impediment.

If this generation is held down by racism (which it is not), then that can be corrected to level the field. Whatever happened in the past has no bearing and is incidental...

MANY have come from nothing, and through hard work and perseverance, have found their way to wealth - and that in far more numbers than anywhere else in the history of this planet.

[Idiot]

I now identify as black....  Where's my money???

[Kamaji]

No reparations are owed, and the notion stands against the very founding principles of this nation.

Here it does not matter who your daddy was, or who your grand-daddy was.

Here you have the opportunity to lift yourself up by your OWN bootstraps and make the best of what YOU are, without impediment.

If this generation is held down by racism (which it is not), then that can be corrected to level the field. Whatever happened in the past has no bearing and is incidental...

MANY have come from nothing, and through hard work and perseverance, have found their way to wealth - and that in far more numbers than anywhere else in the history of this planet.

[goatprairie]

No reparations are owed, and the notion stands against the very founding principles of this nation.

Here it does not matter who your daddy was, or who your grand-daddy was.

Here you have the opportunity to lift yourself up by your OWN bootstraps and make the best of what YOU are, without impediment.

If this generation is held down by racism (which it is not), then that can be corrected to level the field. Whatever happened in the past has no bearing and is incidental...

MANY have come from nothing, and through hard work and perseverance, have found their way to wealth - and that in far more numbers than anywhere else in the history of this planet.

Like most self-proclaimed leaders, the scoundrels urging reparations are hurting the people they claim to be championing.
Telling people that they can become wealthy by sitting on their rear ends doing nothing waiting for manna from heaven is horrible advice.
Black Americans aren’t owed anything except an opportunity to succeed like everybody else.

[roamer_1]

Like most self-proclaimed leaders, the scoundrels urging reparations are hurting the people they claim to be championing.
Telling people that they can become wealthy by sitting on their rear ends doing nothing waiting for manna from heaven is horrible advice.
Black Americans aren’t owed anything except an opportunity to succeed like everybody else.

Exactly right.

[goatprairie]

February 9, 2023
If Reparations Are Owed ... the Democratic Party Should Pay Them
By Joe Fried
Every so often, some Democrats call for reparations to compensate Black Americans for slavery and other indignities.

The latest plan comes from San Francisco, where a reparations committee is considering a program that would offer $5 million per qualified Black resident.

Let’s analyze the issue of reparations from the standpoint of morality and practicality.

Most people believe that compensation for misdeeds should come from the people who caused the misdeeds. For example, if John Smith and Joe Brown recklessly damage your car, you expect Smith and Brown (or their insurance companies) to pay for the repairs. Normally, you would not expect the repairs to be financed by the entire town in which you live: That would make no sense.

What if Joe Brown died shortly after the accident? Would you expect his children or grandchildren to pay you? Probably not. Instead, your claim for compensation would be focused on the surviving reckless driver, John Smith. We can apply this logic to the reparations issue.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/02/if_reparations_are_owed__the_democratic_party_should_pay_them.html

One of the biggest lies pushed by liberals is that all the big Southern segs became Republicans after the 1964 CR bill was passed.
Only one, Strom Thurman, switched parties. All the others remained Dems until they left Congress or died in office.

[berdie]

No reparations are owed, and the notion stands against the very founding principles of this nation.

Here it does not matter who your daddy was, or who your grand-daddy was.

Here you have the opportunity to lift yourself up by your OWN bootstraps and make the best of what YOU are, without impediment.

If this generation is held down by racism (which it is not), then that can be corrected to level the field. Whatever happened in the past has no bearing and is incidental...

MANY have come from nothing, and through hard work and perseverance, have found their way to wealth - and that in far more numbers than anywhere else in the history of this planet.

Well said. And far better than I could have!

[BellyAche]

No amount of money in the world will change the reprehensible behavior of many who are faced with life's difficulties and blame everyone but themselves.

[Fishrrman]

The fact that the fumbling whites are trying to formulate arguments against paying blacks "reparations" -- instead of simply dismissing the ridiculousness of the idea with a simple "NO!" -- indicates to me that eventually they're going to lose the argument, fold, and pay out the money...

[goatprairie]

The fact that the fumbling whites are trying to formulate arguments against paying blacks "reparations" -- instead of simply dismissing the ridiculousness of the idea with a simple "NO!" -- indicates to me that eventually they're going to lose the argument, fold, and pay out the money...

P.T. Barnum was right….there’s a sucker born every minute. Most of them are American liberals.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

No reparations are owed, and the notion stands against the very founding principles of this nation.

Here it does not matter who your daddy was, or who your grand-daddy was.

Here you have the opportunity to lift yourself up by your OWN bootstraps and make the best of what YOU are, without impediment.

If this generation is held down by racism (which it is not), then that can be corrected to level the field. Whatever happened in the past has no bearing and is incidental...

MANY have come from nothing, and through hard work and perseverance, have found their way to wealth - and that in far more numbers than anywhere else in the history of this planet.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

I personally have no problem with blue cities like San Francisco voting themselves into fiscal oblivion for the sake of "reparations".  Hell, I support it!

Not because the recipients deserve it, but because those the leftists who voted for it and will have to pay do.

[Sighlass]

Only Reparations I wouldn't mind paying is for them to be shipped back to Africa w/ an economy boat ticket with the promise to stay there forever. Once back in their homeland they can try to get reparations from their own kin that gathered them up to sell. Otherwise shut the heck up. America is paradise compared to anywhere in Africa. Sorry, not sorry, but the best thing to ever happen to most slaves was perhaps being shipped to America instead of being slaughtered by neighboring tribes.

[goatprairie]

I personally have no problem with blue cities like San Francisco voting themselves into fiscal oblivion for the sake of "reparations".  Hell, I support it!

Not because the recipients deserve it, but because those the leftists who voted for it and will have to pay do.

I would love to see the exodus of non-blacks if that abomination gets passed. And of course all blacks would be eligible whether they had recently moved to SF or had been living there.
The stunned looks on the faces of all the would be thieves when they realized all the people they were trying to rob had left would be priceless.

[Idiot]

I would love to see the exodus of non-blacks if that abomination gets passed. And of course all blacks would be eligible whether they had recently moved to SF or had been living there.
The stunned looks on the faces of all the would be thieves when they realized all the people they were trying to rob had left would be priceless.

Seems that California is now toying with the idea of taxing former residents, this way they can still get their greedy hooks in them.

[goatprairie]

Seems that California is now toying with the idea of taxing former residents, this way they can still get their greedy hooks in them.

I don’t know how they’d manage that. If I moved out of my state, and they still tried to tax me, good luck. Any request for tax money for money earned in a different state would be met with a huge middle finger.
I seriously doubt they could constitutionally do it. Not that they wouldn’t try. Many big cities are trying to implement plans to tax suburbs for their worthless liberal schemes/scams.

[Hoodat]

If Reparations Are Owed ... the Democratic Party Should Pay Them

Agree 100%.