Here's a little personal tidbit you might not be aware of. I'm a black man. Not 100%, probably less than 5%, but I am. At least I'm pretty sure of that. I'm also a white man, and, I think, just a wee bit Eskimo. I'm not sure about the Eskimo part, but I know I really love their pies.
So, what's my point? It's this...I think it's high time we all stopped making race an issue. That goes for this reparation foolishness. And it really is foolishness when you think about it...I mean really think, not just emote.
First question, who gets repared. I guess that's the word. Or, maybe it's just repaid. But who gets the money? The obvious answer is descendants of slaves get it. Okay. great. I'm for that. At least the black man part of me is for that. The white guy part isn't all that thrilled. But, I have always been a little stingy on my white side.
Consider this, ever since the first Afro-Africans were brought to this country in the early 1600s, there's been a lot of intermingling, if you get my drift. Can anyone today truly claim to be 100% anything? I don't think so.
So, who gets the money? Wouldn't everyone who had an ancestor who was a slave be entitled? That only seems fair. So, where do I line up for my money?
Next question, who pays? Does everyone who has a shred of white blood in him have to pay? Again, I'd think that would be the fair thing to do. So, all the descendants of slaves who want reparations, are you willing to pay it too, because I bet most of you have some white blood in you.
So, I have an idea. I think it would save a lot of time fighting and figuring to do this: Let each of us descendants of slaves decide how much money we'd want in reparations. Then let us have our slave-owner-descendant-side write us a check. I think if we're repaying ourselves, we're going to bend over backwards to be fair to ourselves, and, after all, isn't that what everyone wants...fairness?
Call me the great peace maker, please. Yes, I'm a modern day Rodney King. Can't we all just get along?
I mean aren't there more important things to worry about. For instance, why is it that on one side of the street gas is selling for $1.97 a gallon and on the other side of the street, there's a station selling it for $2.14 a gallon? And furthermore, why are there two guys filling their cars on the $2.14 side?
Now that's the sort of person who needs some sort of reparation.
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Why don't just the slaveowners make reperations to those they wronged? Oh, yeah--they've all gone to rest. Too late.
Wow. If my great-grandfather owed his schoolmate some lunch money, can I expect the schoolmate's great-grandson to come knocking on my door to collect it?
Where would it end? Maybe Japeth stole a log from Shem when building the ark. Does that mean I owe Rabbi Ehud a toothpick?
A toothpick? What with interest, I'd say you owe Rabbi Ehud a ham dinner. Oh, yeah, that's right. Well, nevermind.
But, you are correct, Anonymous. My grandfather was from Scotland, and, according to history the Romans were rather rough on the clans (with a "c").
I think the Romans owe me something, maybe an X spot at the very least.
When did you graduate from the Frank Hargrove school of sensitivity? By the way. Did you realize that more white men from the USA died fighting to stop slavery then any other group of people in the past 500 years. That should exempt all white male in the U.S. from any need for payback. The CSA could be made to do the payback thing, but they were wupped to extinction.
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