{"id":150933,"date":"2022-12-20T09:59:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T13:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=150933"},"modified":"2022-12-20T09:59:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T13:59:59","slug":"theres-a-very-bad-reason-why-the-donkey-democrats-are-pushing-reparations-so-hard-this-year-and-until-the-2024-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=150933","title":{"rendered":"Theres a very bad reason why the Donkey Democrats are pushing reparations so hard this year and until the 2024 election."},"content":{"rendered":"

Why reparations now?<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n


\nBy Mark C. Ross
\nAmerican Thinker<\/p>\n

The absurdity of the concept of reparations for slavery, an institution that ended several generations ago, is beyond mind-boggling.\u00a0 But there\u2019s a blatantly cynical reason for the sudden lurch in that direction: formerly reliable Black voters are now slipping away from the Democrats.\u00a0 This also explains Biden\u2019s recently expressed profuse generosity towards the nations of sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n

What is also painfully obvious is the lame, demagogic pandering that is the Democrats\u2019 knee-jerk response, especially to a defecting constituency: just throw money at them and that\u2019ll keep \u2018em on the reservation.\u00a0 Never mind the exposure to ridicule attached to redistributing money from people who never owned slaves to people who never were slaves, since the despicable practice was abolished over 150 years ago.\u00a0 \u201cOh, the wealth and education gap that plagues the inner cities is the enduring legacy of slavery.\u201d\u00a0 Even if this were true, just throwing money at the problem is of particularly dubious benefit.<\/p>\n

The dystopic nature of our inner cities cannot be traced back to slavery.\u00a0 Modern-day political machines are the culprits.\u00a0 Paying women to have fatherless children; running schools that avoid imparting basic math and literacy skills while lowering the standards for achievement; suppressing police responses to avoid bad optics and litigation\u2026 all add up to\u00a0imposed squalor<\/em>.\u00a0 And none of this can be traced back to slavery or any of its aftereffects.<\/p>\n

You may call it the \u201cTrump Effect\u201d or whatever — \u201cworking-class\u201d voters have been shifting to the Republican party.\u00a0 This includes Black folks and other \u201cminorities.\u201d\u00a0 Nowadays progressive Democrats are mostly appealing to trust-fund-baby treehuggers and other guilty, virtue-signaling middle-class liberals. This\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0what\u2019s happening.\u00a0 And Trump didn\u2019t even start it.\u00a0 Some years ago, Pat Caddell, political advisor to Bill Clinton, bemoaned his perception that the Democrat party had been taken over by an \u201celite gentry.\u201d\u00a0 Trump did, however, accelerate the process of blue-collar defection by\u00a0allowing<\/em>\u00a0the economy to fiercely expand and thus embrace many of those stuck on its bottom rungs.<\/p>\n

Another disquieting aspect of the reparations movement is its complete reliance on skin color.\u00a0 Much like affirmative action, reparations promises to further institutionalize racism — as did Jim Crow laws in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.\u00a0 This despite the suppressed reality that not all slave owners were white.\u00a0 Just ask Kamala Harris\u2019s Jamaican father, who freely admitted that his Black ancestors owned Black slaves.\u00a0 This was further corroborated by my late former neighbor.\u00a0 Though having been a Tuskegee airman, he admitted that his Hattian ancestors owned slaves.\u00a0 Ironically, one of the founders of modern environmentalism, John James Audubon, was also Hattian — though of French descent.<\/ins><\/p>\n

It also so happens that not all slaves were black Africans.\u00a0 Originally, the British colonists brought in Scots and Irish slaves to fill the labor deficit created by the vastness of America.\u00a0 These were\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0indentured slaves who only needed to work off the cost of their passage to achieve their freedom.\u00a0 They were true\u00a0chattel<\/em>: property that was bought and paid for.\u00a0 However, these northern Europeans were way too susceptible to malaria and proved to not be of much economic value.\u00a0 A further irony lies in the particular common genetic trait of tropical African natives that allows them to be significantly more resistant to malaria than Europeans — it is also the cause of sickle cell anemia.<\/p>\n

So, should Americans with Scottish and Irish surnames also be entitled to reparations for slavery?\u00a0 Is there any limit to the absurdity to which craven political hacks will stoop to cling to the reins of power?\u00a0 After all, they cooked up affirmative action ostensibly to nullify whatever lingering damage that was done by previous racism\u2026 but instead, they enshrined privilege based on pigmentation.<\/p>\n

To cap it all off, California has a\u00a0reparations task force<\/a>\u00a0that is supposed to figure everything out by next July 1.\u00a0 This includes eligibility, amount(s) of payment, etc.\u00a0 The question of what actual fiscal impact such a splurge will have on a state with a rapidly evaporating tax base simply does not come up. That\u2019s entirely within character for the nincompoops who run states like California.\u00a0 The folks who are having the money thrown at them have no reason to complain and the folks whose money it used to be have little, if any, voice left to complain.\u00a0 What a country!<\/p>\n

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