Liberals seem to find all manner of ways to feel guilty about their achievements and success, and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement plays on that white, liberal guilt. There is another group that is gaining traction, and it is even more preposterous than the BLM movement.
It is called the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, and it is an organization of white people created to work under the direction of the African People’s Socialist Party (of course), and has the goal of “liberating Africa and African people everywhere,” as well as demanding reparations for slavery that existed in the United States more than one hundred and fifty years ago. The video on page 2 demonstrates what the group is promoting.
It is not clear if Bernie Sanders supports this socialist offshoot, but as with virtually all socialist organizations, it seeks to divide the country by class and then to claim that they merely want equality and “fairness,” though it is actually seeking to create a new, privileged ruling class. In searching the Uhuru website, you can find out about how donations are spent but it does not include information on salaries paid to the leadership.
Be that as it may, demand for reparations seems to be a fetish that many in the black community cannot let go of. There are many reasons why reparations are unlikely, and they include the following:
Slave traders were primarily Arab, and they bargained with African princes and war lords to obtain their human cargo. It was not a “white” or European initiated activity.
Slave trading was practiced throughout the world, and in fact is still practiced in some African and Middle East nations. Most slaves ended up in Latin America, not the U.S.
Only 6% of southern states residents were slave holders, and only 1.6% of the entire nation.
Most African Americans are not descendants of slaves.
Conditions varied widely from owner to owner, and few found it beneficial to maim or torture their valuable help.
What many would now claim were inhuman conditions, were simply the general conditions under which ordinary people lived. Slaves did not have air conditioning, for instance, but then again, neither did anyone else. A dirt floor cabin seems horrendous to us today, but not to those who lived 160 years ago.
African Americans have been compensated many times over through welfare and other social programs. Although blacks make up only 10 percent of the U.S. civilian labor force and about 12 percent of the overall population, about 18 percent of the federal work force is black. Twenty five percent of employees at Treasury and Veterans Affairs are black, and 31 percent at the State Department. Thirty Seven percent of the Department of Education employees are black, 38 percent of Housing and Urban Development, 42 percent of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 55 percent of employees at the Government Printing Office, and 82 percent of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency are also black. That seems to be a gross over-representation of blacks in federal employment, an area well known for very generous compensation and benefits far beyond what any private industry could offer.
It is also well known that a black student seeking an education at an Ivy League university will have a much easier time gaining entry, with lower grades and SAT or ACT scores and fewer social and community achievements required, simply because of their ethnicity. And certainly many businesses also lower the bar in hiring.
In fact, it is clear that an African American student who applies himself or herself in school and stays out of trouble will actually have a much easier time when applying for advanced education and jobs than someone who is not “burdened” by the legacy of slavery. However, there are elements that hold back African Americans, including their extremely high incidence of legal infractions (black young men, comprising perhaps only 3% of the U.S. population annually commit over 50% of U.S. homicides), drug usage, and sociologically, the very damaging problem of out of wedlock births and the lack of fathers in the home. That is certainly a cause of poverty and instability in black culture. But there are those in the African American community who insist that the real cause for blacks being held back is racism and the lack of opportunity for blacks in our society. It would be much more productive if they spent less time playing the blame game, and more time trying to correct the issues in their communities.
The following video, however, shows confused and ill-informed non-blacks accepting the blame for black failure, and promoting the idea of black reparations. It is indicative of our poor public education which preaches this nonsense provided by their socialist masters.
See video on page 2:
I say come on down and meet my little friend.
I say ‘Come on Down !’ And meet my little friend!
Everything possible SHOULD be done to receive REPARATIONS for the Descendants of Slaves on the United States…
Come and try and take it brother
This is perfect a perfect picture of what has happened. Funny thing though, there’s never enough “justice” to appease the the left. There is no future petaling the current democratic story. The have nothing except hate for Trump. We all want the same thing. Peace and security. Does it matter “how” we get there?
I haven’t done anything wrong to slavery so I will not be volunteering a cent to distortion of my funds to any freeborn person of today. It invade myself, family ,or home I will respond with defensive force.
Not one cent! More whites have been enslaved than blacks! Ask the black people that sold the blacks into slavery to pay ask the blacks that owned slaves to pay my ancestors were enslaved but u don’t see my hand out!
Someone needs to euthanize these people. They are so brain dead they need to be gone from the real world.
The Black and Native extremists in Canada love demanding that their White fellow Canadians give them money, that’s right, just give them money, for nothing.
“Sugar settlers” they call it. I have never seen such a ridiculous, cringeworthy thing in my life. What kind of self hating White liberal would do such a thing, when no one that lives today played a part in the tragedy that befell the Native people.
They say that the land is all stolen. Really. So your ancestors lived on THIS HERE land? That’s funny, the Native band at the eastern edge of the lake in Central Alberta, west of Edmonton, (Wabamun) where I live was settled by their ancestors from FURTHER SOUTH in the 1800’s. This was their hunting grounds , to be sure, and that’s why they’ve got rights to this day to hunt that land without interference from the State. But the land itself was UNSETTLED for hundreds of years prior. Simply living on the same CONTINENT does not equal stolen land.
What of the treaties? To be sure, the Government has fallen short in meeting its obligations, big time. That needs to be addressed.
However, typically, in initial settlement of the Eastern Coast, the White settlers would barter with, or negotiate, terms in which they’d be permitted to settle nearby, UNUSED, lands.
“well, this HERE is our land, why don’t you guys settle over THERE”
“We really want this HERE land, it’s good for farming, how’s a bunch of guns and metal tools sound?”
TRADING does not equal THEFT.
As for the genocide of their people, that is squarely on the State, not Whites as a whole. The policy of attempting to raise Native children as Whites produced disastrous consequences.
What should happen, then? What is fair?
I don’t know, but whatever it is, it ought to not include tarnishing present day people as “land thieves”, “colonizers” (I guess your band of Natives never stole land from the others or enslaved them, huh?) or worse.
I’d say the STATE needs to make it right, and by that i do NOT mean “give them money”. That hasn’t worked.
They want to be free of Colonisation? Then give them Northern Manitoba north of about 50 deg, And Nunavut. “First People’s Confederation” or something of the like. INDEPENDENCE and EQUALITY. any Natives and others who feel that Canada has oppressed them can… LEAVE! We can trade and relate to them as an Independent Nation. That way it works for everyone
Come get me I’ll be waiting with sum thing in my pocket for yal