The push for reparations in California, a state that never
had slaves
Needs to have the outrageous amounts demanded sent to the
grave
Slavery was and will remain a terrible stain
But cannot be supported by the angry “You kidnapped us
refrains”
Slavery was present in Africa long before Europeans’ first
step ashore
Africans held millions of fellow Africans in bondage due to raids
and war
The fates of those Africans now slaves to a life of bondage
was sealed
Either to be worked until dead or turned into cash by sales
having great appeal
It is true that ships from the colonies were willing buyers
of slaves
None of whom were willing participants to a life of bondage
across the waves
The nations that should pay reparations are not those on the
docks who bought
But those African nations that actively from weaker nations slaves sought
The best example of justified reparations is the payment to Japanese-Americans
interned
To be eligible to receive the $20,000 you had to have been
interned or lost property but descendants not interned that payment was not
earned
All the slaves freed by the 13th Amendment have
long since died
Yet proponents for reparations oppose payments to those born
free being denied
The descendants of those who died fighting to save the union
and also slavery end are not in the reparations line
Nor we hope the descendants of blacks who were free or who had slaves confined
Nor we hope black migrants who came here after the Civil War
that slavery had not snared
Nor we hope the millions of blacks like Obama, Winfrey,
Scott, O’Neal, Jackson, Thomas and 13 other black billionaires
SCOTUS ruled today you cannot favor Americans due to the color
of their skin
Paying black individuals reparations in excess of a million dollars belongs in
a trash bin
© 6/29/2023 Michael
P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
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