Kamala Harris
on the issue of reparations for blacks must be out of her mind
On the
budget busting debt adding effect she is totally blind
In our
history we have had one example of reparations during the dark days of World
War II
Fueled by
anti-Japanese hysteria an executive
order to intern for which we should always rue
In 1988 the
U.S. passed legislation to pay $20,000 to each of the 60,000 surviving internees
But no heirs
of internees could become a reparations payee
In the case
of slaves there are only descendant and no surviving ex-slaves
Following
the Japanese American analogy would no payment to descendents not interned by
waived?
46 million
blacks in this country with no accurate record of descendants among our 46
million blacks
And as
Elizabeth Warren has shown how many would falsely claim slave blood to get on
the reparations track
Estimates
range from 60 to 90 percent which on the low end would mean 27 million checks
to be spent
540 billion
dollars in more taxes to pay for reparations would cause many of us to reparations
resent
The analogy
of the Japanese-Americans gets even worse
Slavery was
not just for 2 ½ years unless freed on master’s death was a life time curse
$20,000
grand would be a mere drop in the bucket for a life time in chains
That ended
in 1865 when we ended slavery’s dreadful and heinous reign
Given the
harm suffered by slaves would not the payment amount be viewed with disdain
Compensating
for the true monetary losses suffered would flush our economy down the drain
Reparations
is an idea whose time should never be put into play
Too
expensive, prone to fraud and paid for already in Union blood the Rebels did slay
© March 11, 2019 Michael P. Ridley aka the
Alaskanpoet
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