Slavery Reparations, Again?
by Jeff Davis
Much like a vampire, who does not yet have a stake through his heart, the absurd and outrageous idea of white Americans paying “reparations” to every black man, woman and child now inhabiting the US, because their ancestors were slaves, has arose from the grave. The blacks simply won’t let it go. They all seem to be obsessed with the idea that one day they’re going to open their mail boxes and find the mother of all government checks addressed to them.
We have seen “reparations” in effect in Zimbabwe. Forget the fact that white farmers in Zimbabwe have endured malaria, tse tse flies and Marxist rebels to grow food to keep blacks there from starving for three or four generations. The Marxist government installed in 1981 has been taking farms away from white folks and handing the land over to blacks. The result has been disastrous with the entire population currently facing starvation.
If American blacks had been given 40 acres and a mule in 1865, a gaggle of Yankee carpetbaggers from New York would have swindled most of the blacks out of their windfall. The blacks who did attempt farming would have found it involved planning ahead, hard work and persistence. It’s doubtful they would have fared much better than their cousins in Zimbabwe. (more…)