This is completely absurd and is a cash grab to police up votes. Worse the cash grab comes from the middle class whose ancestors more likely fought and died to end slavery and were never part of it or alternately were not in the USA antebellum.
Throw in reparations for the majority of white ancestors antebellum who were slaves themselves and all those disenfranchised first nations, also ground up and assimilated through slavery. Of course, those folks are also the same folks who are expected to pay a select body of blacks who again are heavily intermarried as well.
It really cannot be done at all in any manner that is not arbitrary and unjust.
And yes they all have way more important things to work on than this nonsense which should never see the light of day..
Black Democratic writer booed for testifying AGAINST reparations at House hearing (Video)
Posted on June 20, 2019 by usafeaturesmedia in Activism, Congress, Congressional Testimony, Culture, Current Events, Politics, Racism, Society // 3 Comments
By Jon Dougherty
https://thenationalsentinel.com/2019/06/20/black-democratic-writer-booed-for-testifying-against-reparations-at-house-hearing-video/
(NationalSentinel) A black columnist for Quillette online magazine and an admitted Democrat voter was booed by some in the gallery on Wednesday during a House committee hearing on slavery reparations because he is opposed to them.
Coleman Hughes testified that forcing taxpayers to pay reparations to blacks at this point in our history — 170-odd years after the institution of slavery was ended by the Civil War and subsequent constitutional amendments — would be inherently divisive and fail to address the real problems facing today’s black community.
He was also critical of the committee’s reparations hearing in general, which was called to consider legislation that would establish a “reparations committee” to study the issue.
“I worry that our desire to fix the past compromises our ability to fix the president,” Hughes noted. “Think about what we’re doing today: We’re spending our time debating a bill that mentions slavery 25 times, but incarceration only once in an era with no black slaves but nearly a million black prisoners.”
“I’m not saying that acknowledging history doesn’t matter, it does,” Hughes continued. “I’m saying there’s a difference between acknowledging history and allowing history to distract us from the problems we face today.”
He went onto note that the House of Representatives “formally apologized” for slavery in 2008, with the Senate doing so the following year.
Black people don’t need another apology,” Hughes said. “We need safer neighborhoods and better schools. We need a less punitive criminal justice system. We need affordable healthcare. And none of these things can be achieved through reparations for slavery.”
Cue the boos.
Hughes said he was told by many of his friends not to testify because though he’s always voted for Democrats, he “would be perceived as a Republican” for opposing reparations and thus anger “half the country.” He added that by distancing himself from the GOP, he would “anger the other half of the country.”
“The sad truth is, they were both right,” he said. “That’s how suspicious we’ve become of one another. That’s how divided we are as a nation.
“If we were to pay reparations today, we would only divide the country further,” the columnist said, “making it harder to form the political coalitions required to solve the problems facing black people today.
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“We would insult many black Americans by putting a price on the suffering of their ancestors,” he said. “And we would turn the relationship between black Americans and white Americans from a coalition into a transaction. From a union between citizens into a lawsuit between plaintiffs and defendants.”
Hughes went onto suggest that reparations should be paid only to blacks who grew up under “Jim Crow” laws and who “were directly harmed by second-class citizenship…like my grandparents.”
Posted on June 20, 2019 by usafeaturesmedia in Activism, Congress, Congressional Testimony, Culture, Current Events, Politics, Racism, Society // 3 Comments
By Jon Dougherty
https://thenationalsentinel.com/2019/06/20/black-democratic-writer-booed-for-testifying-against-reparations-at-house-hearing-video/
(NationalSentinel) A black columnist for Quillette online magazine and an admitted Democrat voter was booed by some in the gallery on Wednesday during a House committee hearing on slavery reparations because he is opposed to them.
Coleman Hughes testified that forcing taxpayers to pay reparations to blacks at this point in our history — 170-odd years after the institution of slavery was ended by the Civil War and subsequent constitutional amendments — would be inherently divisive and fail to address the real problems facing today’s black community.
He was also critical of the committee’s reparations hearing in general, which was called to consider legislation that would establish a “reparations committee” to study the issue.
“I worry that our desire to fix the past compromises our ability to fix the president,” Hughes noted. “Think about what we’re doing today: We’re spending our time debating a bill that mentions slavery 25 times, but incarceration only once in an era with no black slaves but nearly a million black prisoners.”
“I’m not saying that acknowledging history doesn’t matter, it does,” Hughes continued. “I’m saying there’s a difference between acknowledging history and allowing history to distract us from the problems we face today.”
He went onto note that the House of Representatives “formally apologized” for slavery in 2008, with the Senate doing so the following year.
Black people don’t need another apology,” Hughes said. “We need safer neighborhoods and better schools. We need a less punitive criminal justice system. We need affordable healthcare. And none of these things can be achieved through reparations for slavery.”
Cue the boos.
Hughes said he was told by many of his friends not to testify because though he’s always voted for Democrats, he “would be perceived as a Republican” for opposing reparations and thus anger “half the country.” He added that by distancing himself from the GOP, he would “anger the other half of the country.”
“The sad truth is, they were both right,” he said. “That’s how suspicious we’ve become of one another. That’s how divided we are as a nation.
“If we were to pay reparations today, we would only divide the country further,” the columnist said, “making it harder to form the political coalitions required to solve the problems facing black people today.
American Liberty: “Established 1776” Order yours now!
“We would insult many black Americans by putting a price on the suffering of their ancestors,” he said. “And we would turn the relationship between black Americans and white Americans from a coalition into a transaction. From a union between citizens into a lawsuit between plaintiffs and defendants.”
Hughes went onto suggest that reparations should be paid only to blacks who grew up under “Jim Crow” laws and who “were directly harmed by second-class citizenship…like my grandparents.”
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