Reparations aren’t about justice. They’re an act of revenge

[Kamaji]

Reparations aren’t about justice. They’re an act of revenge

By Douglas Murray
April 30, 2022

Ten years ago, the idea of “reparations” sat on the political fringes in America. The question of whether or not compensation should once have been paid to former slaves had died out.  Not least because by the start of the 21st century, no one in America had actually suffered from slavery. The country was a century and a half away from the bloody civil war it had fought over the issue.

But there’s a tendency in our own age which does not allow wounds to mend or heal. Indeed, there is a movement that locates long-healed wounds in order to rip them open again. And then complain about the hurt caused to themselves.

In 2014, the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote an essay in The Atlantic making “The Case for Reparations.” In recent times, few articles have had more impact. The issue of reparations began to be picked up by the radical left and then made its way to the political center. By the time of the Democratic primaries in 2020 all of the party’s candidates were willing to talk about the issue. Some, including Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, expressed support for some form of reparations. Such candidates pointed to the disparity between average household wealth in white families and black families in America.

Once the Democrats were in power, one of the first things they did in Congress was apply pressure on President Biden to set up a commission to study reparations for black Americans both for slavery and for “systemic racism” — a guilty verdict that was already in.

It certainly is true that there are disparities of wealth between black and white Americans. But there are disparities between black and white Americans and Asian-Americans as well. In America in the 2020s Asian-Americans significantly outperform every other racial group in their earnings.  They earn more on average than white Americans, who in turn earn more than Hispanic-Americans, who in turn earn more than black Americans.

All talk of reparations must confront this statistic. If the cause of black economic underperformance in America in the 2020s is systemic racism, why do other groups outperform them? Why do groups who have arrived more recently outperform them? And why is the “systemic racism” of America not holding down Asian-Americans if it is so all-pervasive?

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/04/30/reparations-arent-about-justice-theyre-an-act-of-revenge/

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Yep.  Reparations are impossible as there are no slaves to be found nor are there any slaveowners to go after for payments.

It is 100% political to incite people of color and to cause racial anguish.

[Fishrrman]

Not so much "reparations", as it is just another new-fangled form of wealth redistribution.

What about the next generation of blacks that comes along?

Aren't THEY going to be "entitled" to THEIR "reparations", as well...?

This isn't "pro-black".
It's anti-white.

[goatprairie]

It's just another euphemism for thievery by which people who can't make an honest living seek to rob the money of people who have made honest livings.

[240B]

Just like the 1920s, Democrats want to pay their Black puppets with your money. That's what Democrats have always done.