Those who are asking for reparations are slaves who want to gain at the expense of others. They want to live as slaves. It’s embarrassing to see young black-folks walking with pride, black power symbol raised high, asking white-folks for reparations. They’re claiming that it’s the sweat of their black enslaved ancestors that built the United States of America the freest Nation in the world. The Nation that fought a civil war for the rights of its citizens to be free. A task black folks in these United States can’t or won’t repeat for themselves, to build something or to set themselves free.
These proud descendants can’t find a way to build for themselves. I
They are countless black folks living in poverty in South America and Africa who could use their knowledge and support instead, they march on Congress asking for reparations with an enslaved morality pride. Why build for ourselves when we can shame white-folks into giving us reparations.
But America being what it is, free. Someone will always come forth with clarity that will shine a light yet still be ignored by the people who want to remain on the plantation.
Coleman Hughes, “But I worry that our desire to fix the past compromises our ability to fix the present. Think about what we’re doing today: we’re spending our time debating a bill that mentions slavery 25 times and incarceration only once, in an era with no black slaves but nearly a million black prisoners. A bill that doesn’t mention homicide once – at a time when the Center for Disease Control reports homicide as the number one cause of death for young black men. I’m not saying acknowledging history doesn’t matter. It does. I’m saying there’s a difference between acknowledging history and allowing history to distract us from the problems we face today.”
Hughes, Congressional hearing on reparations, June 19,2019
Tony Morrison, “…Free dedicated artists reveal a singularly important thing: that racism was and is not only a public mark of ignorance, it was and is a monumental fraud. Racism was never the issue. Profit and money always was…”
Toni Morrison, Portland State University , 1971
