Black Reparations and Other Insanities
In an ideal world, all people would have sufficient food to eat, a good roof over their heads, and a decent life.
They would enjoy freedom from want and from fear, freedom of speech and expression, freedom to worship or not worship as they pleased, essentially FDR’s “Four Freedoms” as delineated in January, 1941 toward the end of the Great Depresssion and eleven months before Pearl Harbor, both of which changed everything.
Today, 70 years later, those freedoms are largely commonplace, taken for granted in America and largely elusive in much of the world for various reasons, yet Americans, to their credit for the most part, still strive for more, for perfection. At the same time, some Americans and international institutions of which we are a part are attempting to reverse our good fortune achieved through hard work, diligence, and dedication.
In a perfect American world, we would enjoy all the benefits of the Four Freedoms, with enhancements: All politicians would be honest and trustworthy, we would have a standing rib roast in every oven instead of just a chicken in every pot, we would have a new Lexus or two in every garage in lieu of a 2004 Taurus and an even more ancient Civic, we would win the Lotto at least once in our lives, and we would eat all the cheeseburgers we wish and never get fat.
In President Barack Hussein Obama’s ultra-civil, post-racial brave new world, Lady O. has proclaimed Bill Clinton’s fav food of old, cheeseburgers, definitely out and the chances of those other items on Americans’ wish list being fulfilled are as likely as, well, an ultra-civil, post-racial brave new world. Our president’s favorite international institution, the United Nations, is well on its merry way of insuring those non-eventualities.
With undoubted enthusiastic support from Black America’s Man on the Scene, Michigan’s Democrat House representative for life, Rep. John Conyers, who has virtually dedicated his life to the cause of black reparations, the U.N. is in process of declaring open season on the world’s white inhabitants who just happen to be a minority in the hallowed halls on New York City’s East River.
Undeterred by his wife Monica’s bribery conviction two years ago or his own ethics charges, Conyers is waiting in the wings to again visit his raison d’être on white Americans for their vile crime of imposing slavery on “his” people. Never mind that any slavemaster is long dead as are any former slaves and that America fought a bloody, four-year war to free “his” people, Conyers still wants reparations.
The whole idea, which Conyers has advocated for more than 40 years and which he hopes can be accomplished “without allowing the issue to polarize our party or our nation,” fits in neatly with President Obama’s stated dream of “sharing the wealth.” Why would either Conyers or Obama even imagine that picking the pockets of white Americans to line the pockets of black Americans cause any polarization? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4668)
Showing posts with label slavery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slavery. Show all posts
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
The "Let My People Go!" Cards
The "Let My People Go!" Cards
Go down, Moses,
Way down in Egypt land,
Tell old Pharaoh,
Let my people go.
That old Negro spiritual has taken on new meaning of late. The “people” have evolved into the New Black Panther Party and public labor unions and the new pharaoh has emerged as the Republican Party.
America’s Attorney General or, more precisely, African-Americans’ Attorney General Eric Holder, became mildly incensed–if incensement can ever be mild–over his department’s handling of the New Black Panther Party’s 2008 Philadelphia voter intimidation case. In a nutshell, Holder’s Department of Justice didn’t handle it at all. Rather they abandoned the cut and dried case.
See “That New Black Panther Party Holds AG Holder in its Spell,” http://tiny.cc/rjnko, and earlier articles that exposed the black racist doings at the DoJ.
Mr. Holder all but lost it during a House Appropriations subcommittee this week when Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) accused Holder’s department of doing what sworn congressional testimony by reputable DoJ attorneys has already substantiated as fact, namely that race trumped justice when it came to prosecuting the New Black Panther Party.
Holder, already on record as denouncing white people as cowards–even before his confirmation as the nation’s principal law enforcement authority–reacted as if it were a personal offense when Culberson read a statement by former Democratic activist Bartle Bull calling the NBPP “incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career.”
Instead of responding to the charge, Holder said, ”Think about that. When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia–which was inappropriate, certainly that . . . to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people.”
The AG then babbled on about his sister, and courage, and history and defensively rejected Culberson’s charge of “overwhelming evidence” of “a double [racial] standard” at the DoJ by saying, “I would disagree very vehemently with the notion that there’s overwhelming evidence that that is in fact true. This Department of Justice does not enforce the law in a race-conscious way:” http://tiny.cc/wquk1
Methinks Holder doth protest too much.
First of all, no comparisons were being drawn between the NBPP travesty and the Civil Rights Movement in the South and therefore no “disservice” was implied or intended. Secondly, that “overwhelming” evidence has already been presented to Congress, even if it has been ignored. Third, what’s this “my people” talk?
The Attorney General of the United States is supposed to represent ALL the people, not some people, not just Eric Holder’s “people.” Holder seems to forget or disregard that mandate all too frequently.
On the other hand, Rep. Charles Rangel (D, NY) forgets little or nothing, except when it comes to ethics and ill-gotten gains. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3789)
Go down, Moses,
Way down in Egypt land,
Tell old Pharaoh,
Let my people go.
That old Negro spiritual has taken on new meaning of late. The “people” have evolved into the New Black Panther Party and public labor unions and the new pharaoh has emerged as the Republican Party.
America’s Attorney General or, more precisely, African-Americans’ Attorney General Eric Holder, became mildly incensed–if incensement can ever be mild–over his department’s handling of the New Black Panther Party’s 2008 Philadelphia voter intimidation case. In a nutshell, Holder’s Department of Justice didn’t handle it at all. Rather they abandoned the cut and dried case.
See “That New Black Panther Party Holds AG Holder in its Spell,” http://tiny.cc/rjnko, and earlier articles that exposed the black racist doings at the DoJ.
Mr. Holder all but lost it during a House Appropriations subcommittee this week when Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) accused Holder’s department of doing what sworn congressional testimony by reputable DoJ attorneys has already substantiated as fact, namely that race trumped justice when it came to prosecuting the New Black Panther Party.
Holder, already on record as denouncing white people as cowards–even before his confirmation as the nation’s principal law enforcement authority–reacted as if it were a personal offense when Culberson read a statement by former Democratic activist Bartle Bull calling the NBPP “incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career.”
Instead of responding to the charge, Holder said, ”Think about that. When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia–which was inappropriate, certainly that . . . to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people.”
The AG then babbled on about his sister, and courage, and history and defensively rejected Culberson’s charge of “overwhelming evidence” of “a double [racial] standard” at the DoJ by saying, “I would disagree very vehemently with the notion that there’s overwhelming evidence that that is in fact true. This Department of Justice does not enforce the law in a race-conscious way:” http://tiny.cc/wquk1
Methinks Holder doth protest too much.
First of all, no comparisons were being drawn between the NBPP travesty and the Civil Rights Movement in the South and therefore no “disservice” was implied or intended. Secondly, that “overwhelming” evidence has already been presented to Congress, even if it has been ignored. Third, what’s this “my people” talk?
The Attorney General of the United States is supposed to represent ALL the people, not some people, not just Eric Holder’s “people.” Holder seems to forget or disregard that mandate all too frequently.
On the other hand, Rep. Charles Rangel (D, NY) forgets little or nothing, except when it comes to ethics and ill-gotten gains. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3789)
Saturday, October 2, 2010
A Timely Reminder from Barack: Don't Forget that White Guilt!
A Timely Reminder from Barack: Don't Forget that White Guilt!
No one will ever be able to conclusively prove the extent to which white guilt played a role in Barack Hussein Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008. What is definitely known is that 43 of every 100 whites cast their ballots for Obama in that election and that he garnered 96% of the black vote.
White guilt could be defined as that bizarre, much-denied, conscious or subconscious, feeling experienced by an untold number of white Americans that it was time to give the black man a shot at the Oval Office.
After all, white guilters somehow believed, African-Americans had been enslaved for centuries in America and the least whites could do to make amends for that societal evil would be to vote for a black man to clearly demonstrate, first, that they were free of prejudice and, second, to recompense today’s blacks for the sins of our forefathers.
It’s bizarre thinking for any white American today unless he or she were at least 147 years old and former slaveholders and the recipients of that compensation were at least the same age and former slaves since Lincoln, technically, freed the slaves in 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation.
Our president seems well aware of the white guilt phenomenon, so much so that he’s cashing in his racial chits a month ahead of the mid-term elections on November 2nd. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2058)
No one will ever be able to conclusively prove the extent to which white guilt played a role in Barack Hussein Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008. What is definitely known is that 43 of every 100 whites cast their ballots for Obama in that election and that he garnered 96% of the black vote.
White guilt could be defined as that bizarre, much-denied, conscious or subconscious, feeling experienced by an untold number of white Americans that it was time to give the black man a shot at the Oval Office.
After all, white guilters somehow believed, African-Americans had been enslaved for centuries in America and the least whites could do to make amends for that societal evil would be to vote for a black man to clearly demonstrate, first, that they were free of prejudice and, second, to recompense today’s blacks for the sins of our forefathers.
It’s bizarre thinking for any white American today unless he or she were at least 147 years old and former slaveholders and the recipients of that compensation were at least the same age and former slaves since Lincoln, technically, freed the slaves in 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation.
Our president seems well aware of the white guilt phenomenon, so much so that he’s cashing in his racial chits a month ahead of the mid-term elections on November 2nd. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2058)
Friday, August 6, 2010
New Black Icon Bites the Dust: The Sherrods, Slavemasters
New Black Icon Bites the Dust: The Sherrods, Slavemasters
All social movements require a hero or a heroine, someone who exemplifies the goals and aspirations of the movement, someone to admire as an icon, someone to point to as a model for their younger members to emulate.
Communist Cubans had their Che’, liberal Americans have their Obama, farmworkers had their Chavez, and African-Americans recently crowned a new heroine, Shirley Sherrod. Her status was upgraded to icon after her dust up with the NAACP, the USDA, the president, and Andrew Breitbart over a video excerpt.
Now it turns out that even if the video was misleading and Sherrod wasn’t preaching race hatred, she, and her husband Charles, are hardly pure as the driven snow. Both have a seamy history of virtual enslavement, discrimination, and gross mistreatment of their farm workers in the 1970’s.
No doubt that record will be dismissed as ancient history by some of Sherrod’s champions but it’s difficult to dismiss out of hand unless we also discount and dismiss all instances of discrimination if they took place thirty or so years ago.
I say “some champions” will defend her since it’s far from all.
Among those who have exposed Sherrod’s past is none other than Joe R. Hicks, former director of a Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) chapter and Ron Wilkins, former organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), two black activist organizations. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1829)
All social movements require a hero or a heroine, someone who exemplifies the goals and aspirations of the movement, someone to admire as an icon, someone to point to as a model for their younger members to emulate.
Communist Cubans had their Che’, liberal Americans have their Obama, farmworkers had their Chavez, and African-Americans recently crowned a new heroine, Shirley Sherrod. Her status was upgraded to icon after her dust up with the NAACP, the USDA, the president, and Andrew Breitbart over a video excerpt.
Now it turns out that even if the video was misleading and Sherrod wasn’t preaching race hatred, she, and her husband Charles, are hardly pure as the driven snow. Both have a seamy history of virtual enslavement, discrimination, and gross mistreatment of their farm workers in the 1970’s.
No doubt that record will be dismissed as ancient history by some of Sherrod’s champions but it’s difficult to dismiss out of hand unless we also discount and dismiss all instances of discrimination if they took place thirty or so years ago.
I say “some champions” will defend her since it’s far from all.
Among those who have exposed Sherrod’s past is none other than Joe R. Hicks, former director of a Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) chapter and Ron Wilkins, former organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), two black activist organizations. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1829)
Thursday, March 25, 2010
The Death of White Guilt
The Death of White Guilt
. . . American white guilt, if it exists at all, for the most part would be a deep, psychological element, a limited collective subconscious belief that because of centuries of slavery followed by a century of discrimination and segregation whites should do something, anything to compensate blacks.
And what better way to accomplish that compensation than by voting for a black to be the leader of all Americans, whites and blacks alike?
All of that is prelude to a new book, The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter, which should alleviate some of the angst associated with any remnants of white guilt.
Painter, a black woman who is also the author of Creating Black Americans: African-American History and its Meanings 1619 to the Present, believes race in America is a dead issue. Therefore, there’s no longer any necessity to obsess over black vs. white or to feel any guilt about any collective past.
Why a black historian better known as an artist would undertake . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1588)
. . . American white guilt, if it exists at all, for the most part would be a deep, psychological element, a limited collective subconscious belief that because of centuries of slavery followed by a century of discrimination and segregation whites should do something, anything to compensate blacks.
And what better way to accomplish that compensation than by voting for a black to be the leader of all Americans, whites and blacks alike?
All of that is prelude to a new book, The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter, which should alleviate some of the angst associated with any remnants of white guilt.
Painter, a black woman who is also the author of Creating Black Americans: African-American History and its Meanings 1619 to the Present, believes race in America is a dead issue. Therefore, there’s no longer any necessity to obsess over black vs. white or to feel any guilt about any collective past.
Why a black historian better known as an artist would undertake . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1588)
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Washington Outrage and Outrages
Washington Outrage and Outrages
Some people say the very existence of government is an outrage; they’re called anarchists. Many others contend what our present government is doing to America is outrageous; they’re called patriots.
There is some limited common ground between those two segments of the body politic and both should agree the following are affronts to America’s independence:
. Navy Seals Trial: Members of the Special Operations units of the United States Navy SEa, Air, and Land Forces (SEALS) have had one essential mission since their commissioning 47 years ago: to accomplish their assigned mission.
That mission as the acronym suggests can involve reconnaisance, hostage rescue, unconventional warfare, counterterrorism and other direct action assignments anywhere on sea and land.
The general mission of SEALS Matthew Vernon McCabe, 24, Jonathan Elliot Keefe, 25, Julio Antonio Huertas, Jr., 28 was to seek out and destroy Islamic terrorist enemies of the United States.
One captured suspect, Ahmed Hashim Abed, alleged mastermind of the 2004 murder and bodily desecration of 4 Blackwater USA operatives in Fallujah, has now accused these men of assault.
If that’s not absurd enough, the three SEALS are now in process of being disciplined by their superiors and could face anything from pay forfeiture to imprisonment to bad conduct discharges.
To add insult to injury, the Navy has refused to release its evidence of this awful, alleged crime committed against a terrorist even though trials are set for next month: http://bit.ly/4zuZqq
My questions: . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1364)
Some people say the very existence of government is an outrage; they’re called anarchists. Many others contend what our present government is doing to America is outrageous; they’re called patriots.
There is some limited common ground between those two segments of the body politic and both should agree the following are affronts to America’s independence:
. Navy Seals Trial: Members of the Special Operations units of the United States Navy SEa, Air, and Land Forces (SEALS) have had one essential mission since their commissioning 47 years ago: to accomplish their assigned mission.
That mission as the acronym suggests can involve reconnaisance, hostage rescue, unconventional warfare, counterterrorism and other direct action assignments anywhere on sea and land.
The general mission of SEALS Matthew Vernon McCabe, 24, Jonathan Elliot Keefe, 25, Julio Antonio Huertas, Jr., 28 was to seek out and destroy Islamic terrorist enemies of the United States.
One captured suspect, Ahmed Hashim Abed, alleged mastermind of the 2004 murder and bodily desecration of 4 Blackwater USA operatives in Fallujah, has now accused these men of assault.
If that’s not absurd enough, the three SEALS are now in process of being disciplined by their superiors and could face anything from pay forfeiture to imprisonment to bad conduct discharges.
To add insult to injury, the Navy has refused to release its evidence of this awful, alleged crime committed against a terrorist even though trials are set for next month: http://bit.ly/4zuZqq
My questions: . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1364)
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Slavery Reparations Part Two
Waiting in the Wings: Slavery “Reparations,” Part Two
Look, I’m as reasonable and equitable as the next guy.
I think everyone in the United States of America deserves an equal chance, at success in life, access to opportunities, and fair treatment by everyone else.
I even think the Chicago Cubs should win a pennant and a World Series, that is, if they ever again deserve to win a pennant and a Series. If not, Cubbie fans should switch to the Yankees.
That same thinking applies to Black, Yellow, Green, and Purple Americans: When they merit success, a win, based on their abilities, talents and exertions, then I wish them the absolute best.
However, no matter your race, I have an odd thought quirk. I think that if you expect a free ride, if you’re a Black expecting to suckle on a White breast, call it reparations, and thereby prosper in American society, you’re suckling the wrong breast and humping the wrong dog.
That mistaken suckling/humping is the chief fallacy of so-called slavery reparations.
Rep. John Conyers has been tooting the slavery reparations horn for 40 years. (See “Waiting . . . Part one:” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1235.)
Let’s assume Conyers gets his heart’s desire with the minefield of reparations and White Americans are penalized/taxed/punished for a crime they didn’t commit, unless, of course, they are at least 146 years old and as infants trained under Simon Legree.
Other minefield issues:
Shouldn’t only 146 year old, or older, Black Americans be eligible for reparations?
Wouldn’t it also be fair that Blacks would be taxed since many freed Blacks were known to be slave owners themselves? See http://bit.ly/2NOpLC and http://bit.ly/1wh8f8.)
Since it was mostly African chieftains who sold their brothers and sisters into slavery, should not a measure of responsibility be assigned to the descendants of those tribal leaders in various nations throughout Africa?
Those little known and ignored truths would make things a tad confusing for the reparationists, that is, Blacks taxed to pay reparations to Blacks and asking people yet living in huts with no running water, such as our president’s half brother, to pay up so that African Americans could have a second wide-screen tv.
Maybe Conyers could figure a scheme whereby only a certain percentage would be penalized?
Another dilemma would be what to do for the descendants of the thousands of Irish, Scots, and Germans imported to our shores as indentured servants, a euphemism for slaves. Do they get a share of the reparation pie?
Then there’s . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
Look, I’m as reasonable and equitable as the next guy.
I think everyone in the United States of America deserves an equal chance, at success in life, access to opportunities, and fair treatment by everyone else.
I even think the Chicago Cubs should win a pennant and a World Series, that is, if they ever again deserve to win a pennant and a Series. If not, Cubbie fans should switch to the Yankees.
That same thinking applies to Black, Yellow, Green, and Purple Americans: When they merit success, a win, based on their abilities, talents and exertions, then I wish them the absolute best.
However, no matter your race, I have an odd thought quirk. I think that if you expect a free ride, if you’re a Black expecting to suckle on a White breast, call it reparations, and thereby prosper in American society, you’re suckling the wrong breast and humping the wrong dog.
That mistaken suckling/humping is the chief fallacy of so-called slavery reparations.
Rep. John Conyers has been tooting the slavery reparations horn for 40 years. (See “Waiting . . . Part one:” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1235.)
Let’s assume Conyers gets his heart’s desire with the minefield of reparations and White Americans are penalized/taxed/punished for a crime they didn’t commit, unless, of course, they are at least 146 years old and as infants trained under Simon Legree.
Other minefield issues:
Shouldn’t only 146 year old, or older, Black Americans be eligible for reparations?
Wouldn’t it also be fair that Blacks would be taxed since many freed Blacks were known to be slave owners themselves? See http://bit.ly/2NOpLC and http://bit.ly/1wh8f8.)
Since it was mostly African chieftains who sold their brothers and sisters into slavery, should not a measure of responsibility be assigned to the descendants of those tribal leaders in various nations throughout Africa?
Those little known and ignored truths would make things a tad confusing for the reparationists, that is, Blacks taxed to pay reparations to Blacks and asking people yet living in huts with no running water, such as our president’s half brother, to pay up so that African Americans could have a second wide-screen tv.
Maybe Conyers could figure a scheme whereby only a certain percentage would be penalized?
Another dilemma would be what to do for the descendants of the thousands of Irish, Scots, and Germans imported to our shores as indentured servants, a euphemism for slaves. Do they get a share of the reparation pie?
Then there’s . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
Slavery Reparations, Part One
Waiting in the Wings, Slavery “Reparations:” Part One
With all the sturm und drang, in a word, the uproar sweeping the nation over health care, national defense, taxes, illegals, make no mistake that another storm and more stress are a-brewing and will be visited on Americans if and when the current storms subside: reparations for slavery.
Reparations are the raison d’être for powerful Michigan Democrat, Rep. John Conyers, second longest-serving House member and currently Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
For the inquisitive, such posts are awarded on the basis of seniority and longevity and Black pols who bring home the chittlins tend to be re-elected ad infinitum.
Think Reps. John Dingell, (D. MI), and Charley Rangel, (D. NY).
One has to wonder if that system should be changed when career minority politicians are effectively governing the majority of Americans, but that’s just an aside.
Rep. Conyers has dedicated his life to seeking reparations and was un-deterred in that goal even after his wife, Monica, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery in June.
Monica may be facing 5 years in the slammer, http://bit.ly/Batmq, but there are some things more important in life than bribery convictions or various charges of unethical activities against hubby, John.
Foremost is forcing White Americans in the twenty-first century to compensate Black Americans living in this century for cultural sins committed by White, and Black, Americans in the form of slavery, from the sixteenth though the nineteenth centuries. . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
With all the sturm und drang, in a word, the uproar sweeping the nation over health care, national defense, taxes, illegals, make no mistake that another storm and more stress are a-brewing and will be visited on Americans if and when the current storms subside: reparations for slavery.
Reparations are the raison d’être for powerful Michigan Democrat, Rep. John Conyers, second longest-serving House member and currently Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
For the inquisitive, such posts are awarded on the basis of seniority and longevity and Black pols who bring home the chittlins tend to be re-elected ad infinitum.
Think Reps. John Dingell, (D. MI), and Charley Rangel, (D. NY).
One has to wonder if that system should be changed when career minority politicians are effectively governing the majority of Americans, but that’s just an aside.
Rep. Conyers has dedicated his life to seeking reparations and was un-deterred in that goal even after his wife, Monica, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery in June.
Monica may be facing 5 years in the slammer, http://bit.ly/Batmq, but there are some things more important in life than bribery convictions or various charges of unethical activities against hubby, John.
Foremost is forcing White Americans in the twenty-first century to compensate Black Americans living in this century for cultural sins committed by White, and Black, Americans in the form of slavery, from the sixteenth though the nineteenth centuries. . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
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