Because blacks haven’t been given enough hand-outs already, dumbocrat Cory Booker thinks people who never owned slaves should pay people who never were slaves reparations for an institution that was long ago abolished and who’s victims have long since died.
Cory Booker introduces Senate bill on slavery reparations
Sen. Cory Booker on Monday introduced a bill that would study the possibility of reparations for descendants of slaves, embracing a push that recently has caught the interest of fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.
And those descendants of slaves deserve money because . . . ? Damned if I know.
The senator from New Jersey said Monday that “this bill is a way of addressing head-on the persistence of racism, white supremacy, and implicit racial bias in our country. It will bring together the best minds to study the issue and propose solutions that will finally begin to right the economic scales of past harms and make sure we are a country where all dignity and humanity is affirmed.”
The measure is a Senate companion to a bill introduced in the House of Representatives in January by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, which if passed into law would set up a commission to study the impact of slavery and continued discrimination against black Americans and make recommendations on reparation proposals for the descendants of slaves. The legislation was first introduced 30 years ago by then-Rep. John Conyers of Michigan.
“Since slavery in this country, we have had overt policies fueled by white supremacy and racism that have oppressed African-Americans economically for generations,” Booker added. “Many of our bedrock domestic policies that have ushered millions of Americans into the middle class have systematically excluded blacks through practices like GI Bill discrimination and redlining.”
Yeah, yeah, Cory. It’s always racism and white supremacy. It has nothing to do with personal responsibility or a lack thereof.
“Redlining,” “is a discriminatory practice in real estate, typically involving lenders that refuse to lend money or extend credit to borrowers in certain areas of town or when realtors won’t show properties to certain types of people in certain neighborhoods.” And it’s against the law. Those who violate that law are punished for doing so. If you want victims of that practice to get “reparations” for it, they are always welcome to take these individuals to court.
As for “GI Bill discrimination,” that dates back to World War II. As of 2018 only 496,777 veterans of that war were still alive. The total of all the blacks in every branch of the military at that time that served overseas was 125,000. So how many of those do you think are still living today? Not many. But they served their country and those still alive who suffered this discrimination probably deserve compensation. But as I stated, these individuals are still alive. Slaves are not.
Besides Booker, the idea of slavery reparations for black Americans is at least partially backed by at least eight other Democratic presidential contenders. They are Sen. Kamala Harris of California; Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts; Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont; former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, who served as housing secretary under President Barack Obama; South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg; former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas; Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii; and businessman and entrepreneur Andrew Yang.
Wow! If I could harness all that brainpower on that list it might just be enough to light the mini flashlight the NRA gave me for re-upping a few years back. It might light it up at least a couple seconds.
Several of them were asked specifically about Jackson Lee’s reparations bill during a conference last week of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network.
The push by the Democratic White House hopefuls points to the further importance of race and identity issues within the party. Yet while supporters say reparations are needed to address slavery and racist aspects of American history, critics claim such a move could cost several trillion dollars without solving the issue of racism.
All money aside, it’s not going to solve any issues about racism. If anything it will make the racial divide deeper. You want to talk about turning one race against the another? As stated in my opening paragraph. “Gimme some money for something that I never experienced because you’re white.” Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s guaranteed to create a WHOLE lot of bitterness and a whole lot of what everyone will call racism. When the whole premise is racist all on it’s own.
I found a classic response to all this in the comments section at Fox . . .
