If Anybody Should Pay Reparations For Slavery, It’s The Democrat Party

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If Anybody Should Pay Reparations For Slavery, It’s The Democrat Party
By: Winston Brady
March 06, 2023


If anyone should pay reparations to black Americans for the injustices of slavery, it should be the institutions that preserved slavery’s legacy.

The call for reparations attracts more supporters every day. Even Disney has joined the cause, weaving the issue of monetary payments to the descendants of slaves into a storyline on the “The Proud Family” series on the company’s streaming service. But what generated the most controversy was one episode in which the show’s protagonists perform a song entitled “Slaves Built This Country” after they discover the founder of their town was a slaveholder.

Setting their frustrations over racial injustice and hardship to music, the cartoon children sing that slaves “made your families rich from the southern plantation, to the northern bankers, to the New England ship owners, the Founding Fathers, former presidents, current senators.” Catchy though the song may be, the children leave out one prominent beneficiary of slavery, one in the best position to provide the reparations called for: the Democratic Party. 

One may argue for or against reparations on many different grounds. At its heart, supporters for reparations say that freed slaves never received any kind of compensation for their hardship from their owners. Thus, the descendants of slaveowners owe financial restitution to the descendants of their slaves, which would alleviate income inequality and atone for slavery, America’s “original sin.” Opponents of reparations argue one group of people, who did not commit the original wrong, should not be forced to make restitution to a group who indirectly received the wrong. From this angle, reparations seem more like “legal plunder,” a term coined by the French economist Frédéric Bastiat. Such an act “takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong.”

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https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/06/if-anybody-should-pay-reparations-for-slavery-its-the-democrat-party/

[Kamaji]

Reparations - recompense for the additional economic burden derived from the slavery of one's ancestors - has been paid for the last 50 years, through the excess share of welfare paid to blacks.

[Fishrrman]

When will the whites learn?

The author of the above article certainly hasn't learned anything.

To try to "rationalize away" the "need" for reparations is to lose from the beginning.

The only possible (and "rational") answer that whites must give to this argument is:
NO !!!

Because "the other side" will never accept anything less than that as the answer.

Look at it another way:
The worst thing you (as a white) can do when someone accuses you of "racism" is to reply by claiming "I'm not a racist". To do so at once cedes the advantage to the leftist accuser and in doing so you have put yourself on the pathway to losing.

[The_Reader_David]

Well, the Democrats and the descendants of the Kings of Benin.  The Kings of Benin were really the only people too get filthy rich off of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

[Kamaji]

Here's the thing about reparations - it's supposed to compensate the recipient for what he/she supposedly lost as a result of the acts committed against them.

If we apply the concept to the descendants of African slaves, then we have to apply it rigorously and consistently, which means in part that we have to consider what their position would most likely have been if there had been no slave trade at all - that is, if their ancestors had remained in Africa instead of being brought to the New World.

On that score, most of them are not only not owed anything, they, in fact, owe something for the fact that their ancestors were brought to a place - the New World - where they, the descendants, would actually have a real chance to prosper and build wealth.

The fact of the matter is, those arguing for reparations are only applying a half-measure - they want to start measuring from the point at which their ancestors landed in the New World, and want us all to assume what they and their ancestors would have obtained if they had been free to start working for themselves at that point in time.

But that's not how it works.  The only reason they are here now is because their ancestors were brought here as slaves, and those ancestors were slaves when they left the shores of Africa.

So, the only consistent way of measuring reparations is to start from the point immediately prior to the point in time when their ancestors were enslaved in Africa, and determine more or less what their economic well-being would have been if their ancestors had remained in Africa.

On that score, they aren't owed a g-d-damned thing.