reparations that make sense
A flyer is circulating through Portland that depicts LeVar Burton as slave-boy Kunta Kinte from ROOTS with a chain around his neck and the word REPARATIONS at the bottom.
First off: You won't get a nickel from me.
But since it can be proven that most white Americans are descended from slaves rather than slaveowners, can we, too, get on the gravy train?
Someone once described the idea of modern-day reparations for slavery as (I'm paraphrasing) "forcing people who AREN'T guilty of something to pay other people who DIDN'T have the crime happen to them."
The sticky wicket which bludgeons the whole "boo-hoo, gimme money" mantra is the fact that black Americans enjoy the HIGHEST standard of living of any black population on EARTH. So if you want things "repaired" back to how they were before you were enslaved, a one-way ticket to Africa would do the trick.
Oh, no, no, no, no—they'd instinctually resist THAT plan. Ninety-nine out of a hundred would rather be "kept down" here than frolic amid the splendor of Mother Africa.
So shut up, already. There's a limit to white guilt, and you're REALLY pushing it.
