Hate-Based Handouts for the Undeserving Always Solve a Nation’s Problems

I saw some character talking about slavery reparations, so I thought I should write this, not that it will do any good whatsoever.

Reasons why slavery reparations are stupid and unjust:

1. Single biggest reason: reparations have already been paid many times over through affirmative action and government assistance. Nearly every time I have applied for a job or admission to a school, I have been put at the back of the line behind minorities. Many people like me have been rejected because of affirmative action, costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars over the courses of their lives. My black friends in law school were quietly whisked away to a secret tutoring center in Arkansas where they were given summer courses to give them an advantage over everyone else before freshman year started, and the rest of us paid for it without being informed. They also had organizations working to give them scholarships even when they didn’t ask. My experiences are typical. The benefits already extended through affirmative action are far greater than the benefits that would be provided through further lump-sum reparations.

2. Wealthy blacks who have already outdone the rest of us financially would receive reparations paid for partly by poor and middle-class whites. Jay-Z can get two new tires for his latest Lamborghini.

3. Blacks whose ancestors were never slaves, including blacks who came here decades or centuries after slavery ended, would receive reparations. My wife is moving here from Zambia. Why should she get reparations from Americans?

4. Blacks whose black ancestors owned slaves in the United States (there were many) would receive reparations. Slavery would be rewarded.

5. Blacks whose black ancestors sold slaves in Africa (this is how nearly all slaves got here) would receive reparations.

6. Whites whose ancestors never owned slaves, and whites whose ancestors were abolitionists, would have to pay reparations.

7. Non-blacks who are not white and who came here long after slavery ended would have to pay reparations. Welcome to America, Koreans.

8. The descendants of whites who were enslaved through indenture would not receive reparations, but they would have to pay them.

9. Every black person who was alive when slavery existed in America is now dead, so the injured can’t be made whole.

10. Every white person who was alive when slavery existed in America is now dead, so the guilty can’t be made to repay. Fining an innocent person for what another person did is evil.

11. Virtually all non-blacks who are affluent now are affluent through assets accumulated long after slavery ended, so almost no living non-blacks have assets that came from slavery. Everything I inherited came from people who had nothing when they were young. What the non-black affluent have generally has no connection to slaveholding ancestors.

12. If we pay blacks, we will have to pay American Indians whose economic losses were hundreds of thousands of times greater.

13. If we pay blacks, we will have to pay Mexicans because we took a lot of the West from them. Try and put a price on Texas.

Hope this is helpful.

The theft scheme known as slavery reparations comes from a spirit of envy, not a desire to do justice. As the apocalypse unfolds, people will be filled with murderous hatred. The Revelation says so. Various canards will be used to justify the evils one group does to another. The reparations canard is no better than the “Jews sold us out at Versailles” canard.

It is important for us to forgive each other and realize our problems come from bad relationships with God, not from the bad intentions and acts of other people. If you are right with God, he will give you favor and deliver you over and over. If you live a life of sin and rebellion, you can generally expect to remain at the bottom of the food chain, regardless of your race.

Holding people responsible for what their ancestors are accused of is sick and evil. It will lead to bloodshed here in America.