Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee is pushing a bill to study reparations for slavery and what she describes as historic “racial inequality” and “racial injustice.” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked whether Joe Biden supports reparations, and she responded by saying Biden supports the “study” of reparations. The question is… would YOU pay?
Rather than actually pushing for unity as called for by Joe Biden and the Democrats, what those on the left are doing is trying to further divide the country. There are plenty of ways to help disadvantaged communities, but reparations is NOT one of them.
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On his white mother’s side, Barack Obama’s ancestors were slave holders. On his half-Arab father’s side, his ancestors were slave holders.
Does he owe reparations?
Two of my great grandfathers were soldiers in the Union army. One was too young. The fourth still lived in Belarus.
Do I owe reparations?
Reparations Have Been Paid!
• 360,000 Union Troops Gave their Lives to End Slavery.
• 55 Years and Trillions of Dollars Spent on Great Society and Welfare Programs.
• Dozens of Preferential Treatment Programs for Scholarships, College Acceptance, Jobs, Promotions, and Minority Business Set Asides.
• All Kinds of Government Paid Job Training Programs.
• Enough is Enough.
Time for Blacks to Stand on their Own.
REPARATIONS FOR 81 YEARS (1784-1865) OF SLAVERY?
After reading about the divisively ignorant and conceptually twisted reparations proposal in the attached article, its become glaringly apparent that there is a need to introduce some American history in order to correct said ignorance and perhaps instill a more complete and realistic perspective of the times and the peoples whom comprise our nation.
An indelible fact of the first year of the Civil War was that the Union Army suffered a series of discouraging battlefield defeats. As a consequence, the Civil War rapidly became unpopular in the North and fresh recruitments volunteering to serve in the Army were quickly becoming quite rare, increasing the very real possibility that Lincoln’s Unionist could lose the war against the Confederacy States.
Lincoln needed soldier replenishments in large numbers if the Union were to have any chance of winning the war before the next Presidential election arrived. Without them defeat was a certainty. Conscription was discussed with Lincoln’s Congress as a solution but his Congressmen in both Houses were dead set against it as they didn’t want their own sons to serve and risk death or maiming, which also reflected the feelings of their wealthy sponsors (special interests today) whose sons could also be affected.
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They would only agree to Conscription (the Draft) if their sons and their wealthy sponsors’ sons were excluded from it.
With the knowledge a couple of million native Irish people, i.e. – Irish emigrant families were fleeing Ireland to escape certain death due to British government induced starvation, could provide a plethora of potential Conscripts for the Union Army, Congress reached a comprise with Lincoln, i.e. – their sons and the sons of the wealthy and lesser well off families could avoid Conscription with either a payment of $300 USD or the provision of a substitute person to serve in place of their own sons.
In a terrible twist of ironic fate, during the first second and third quarters of the 1800’s, millions of Irish natives had died of British enforced starvation whilst Ireland was generating bumper crops volumes for British merchants’ exports.
Millions more, barely surviving Irish were desperately attempting to escape British induced death by starvation genocide on their own farmlands and in their cities during the eras of the so called ” Great Hungers” during the continuing British genocidal efforts to force them off their lands. They were welcomed to come to the United States of America…
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They were welcomed to come to the United States of America… Those starve diseased, near death Irishmen, upon arriving in the Boston, New York City and Philadelphia Ports on “Coffin Ships” (fully one third usually perished in the trans Atlantic voyage of starvation related diseases) during America’s Civil War, whilst exiting their Coffin Ships, coming down the coffin ships’ gangplanks, those starved, near death Irishmen were subjected to Lincoln’s new Conscription Law, i.e. – unless they had $300 USD to purchase their exemption for the US Draft (forced conscription into the Army) … which of course none of them had, ergo they were immediately drafted into the Union Army right off their arriving ships’ gangplanks.
If those unfortunate conscripts had arrived with wives and children, they were left there, penniless in the streets, to fend for themselves without a husband or father. Their survival tales weren’t pretty either.
Those whom were too sick to serve (deemed unfit for conscription) were put right back on the coffin ships, which pretty much sealed their fates. There were at least half million documented Irish immigrant turn backs then, of which very few survived the return crossing.
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As a consequence, many, many thousands of these poor Irish souls, whom came here to save themselves from certain death by starvation, whom never owned slaves themselves and whom in fact had a much longer history of being multiple variations of slavery in their own country than any ethnic group in America experienced in the US … were used as human fodder and sacrificed by the Union Army on the battlefields of the Civil War, i.e. – killed and maimed in huge multiples of thousands during the American Civil War to free the African slaves. That, that particular ethnic group produced more Medal of Honor medals than all others combined is further evidence of their overwhelming numbers in military service and the types of combat intensities they were subjected to.
It is supremely ironic and tragic that many more Irish immigrants died to free African slaves than African slaves died to free African slaves. Further, I doubt there are any records of Africans dying to save Irish slaves or non-slaves or having died on behalf of the Irish in any of Irelands revolutionary wars to gain its independence.
Not that any Irishmen or women expects any, but with regards to the crazy contemporary notion of reparations for slavery, its a bizarre twist as well as a historical fact that African Americans already owe an unfathomable, un-repayable amount of reparations to the descendants of those native Irish immigrants.
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A rhetorical question, should the descendants of those native Irish immigrants, now be subjected to additional taxations to pay reparations or should it be the other way around, that they too should receive reparations pay, especially since their losses were far greater in in the fight for and the achievement of independence for slaves?