Virgil Jones
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- Jan 2, 2019
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Now that congress has held the hearings, what do you think?
As I have said, many times in the past, find me someone who was held as a slave, and then show me the man, who owned him, and I will be happy to demand the latter giver reparations to the former
There seems to be an element to the discussion that bypasses out of wedlock births, meaning single parent homes. Why is that I wonder?
WTF? What has that got to do with it?
Now that congress has held the hearings, what do you think?
In the case of the freed slaves, who is the aggrieved party?The aggrieved party meaning refers to any party whose personal, property, or financial interests or rights are negatively impacted by another's action or by a statute, a judgment, or an order.
It is tempting to divorce this modern campaign of terror, of plunder, from enslavement, but the logic of enslavement, of white supremacy, respects no such borders, and the god of bondage was lustful and begat many heirs. Coup d’états and convict leasing. Vagrancy laws and debt peonage. Redlining and racist G.I. bills. Poll taxes and state-sponsored terrorism.
We grant that Mr. McConnell was not alive for Appomattox. But he was alive for the electrocution of George Stinney. He was alive for the blinding of Isaac Woodard. He was alive to witness kleptocracy in his native Alabama and a regime premised on electoral theft. Majority Leader McConnell cited civil rights legislation yesterday, as well he should, because he was alive to witness the harassment, jailing, and betrayal of those responsible for that legislation by a government sworn to protect them. He was alive for the redlining of Chicago and the looting of black homeowners of some $4 billion. Victims of that plunder are very much alive today. I am sure they’d love a word with the majority leader.
Now that congress has held the hearings, what do you think?
It entirely explains the problem they wish to address by claiming reparations are due. They claim that the reason black people struggle in modern society is because of slavery, which causes them to have all of their children out of wedlock, or something.
The crazy thing is that they all seem to have difficulties in other areas. They don't seem to have much infrastructure, or much wealth. They seem very poor. Perhaps I am missing something.
I see very little public support for this measure, yet every few years it crops up.