CreativeDominant -> RE: Unreasonable? (12/30/2015 10:39:32 AM)
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ORIGINAL: thompsonx ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant ORIGINAL: thompsonx institutional racism and white privilege and crying racism literally every time someone who doesn't agree with you, is a liberal position/tactic. so...not quite so much simple minded as observant. Since I have not brought those issues to this discussion that would be your imagination at work. *****Really? You and others might want to go back through these following posts of yours to see you "not crying 'racism': Posts 57, 81, 101, 106. You might want to get an adult who speaks english to explain the difference to you. Take note of the part I bolded in the comrade's statement. As for your position that you bring facts? Everything you are calling "cites" and "facts" are not...in fact...backed by any cite you have given because you have not given ANY CITE other than the Atlantic Monthly article. Unless you care to state where your "facts" come from, then...just like any other poster on here who posts without cites and won't provide them ..all they can considered to be is your opinion. The numerous links I provided are there even for the willfully ignorant to read. Do you dispute that there were 4 million slaves in the usa on the eve of the civil war? Do you deny that jim crow deprived those freed slaves and their decendants equal protection under the law? Do you deny that thousands of blacks were lynched?Do you deny that the slaves were not paid for their labor? Do you deny that children are entitled to the patrimony of their ancestors? Just which facts I have posited are you disagreeing with? Do you deny that you cried racist and/or racism in the posts I noted? The post you cite are my pointing out specific racist behaviour...not as alleged "caling racist everyone who disagrees with me. Perhaps you might find an english teacher to explain the difference to you.[8|] I don't deny the numbers of slaves, I don't deny the hypocrisy of the Jim Crow laws or their devastation., I don't deny the lynchings. What I deny is your continual mention of cites...the fact is, you have named one cite and yet, state that every fact you bring forward is a cite. It isn't. Citing something is giving the source of your facts. You don't. All of the below have been cited for you in this thread that you refuse to acknowledge there pressence speaks volumes. http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/greeley.htm http://www.civilwarcauses.org/stat.htm http://www.11points.com/News-Politics/11_Companies_That_Surprisingly_Collaborated_With_the_Nazis I also deny the need for generalized reparations. Why? That doesn't make me a racist Do you believe that children should inherit from their ancestors? If you do then why do you not feel that the decendents of slaves should inherit what was stolen from their ancestors? Specific racist behavior? Oh please...you might want to get an English teacher to point out to you there is no difference when you speak of my "racism" or that of other posters. I am against generalized reparations. I believe in what these black leaders have to say: that "the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed.". B. Obama that, "Given the fact that there’s plenty of blame to go around for slavery — plenty of blame to go around among African and Arab states, plenty of blame to go around among Western states — I think we’re better to look forward, not point fingers backward" C. Rice that "it's hard to see the space for significant debate on reparations. Instead of focusing on reparations, people must try and find some sort of a unified plan for reviving economic prospects". Artur Davis “The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefited them. If those who were enslaved were alive, they would deserve huge reparations and their captors would deserve worse punishments than our laws allow. But death has put both beyond our reach. Frustrating as that may be, creating new injustices among the living will not change that.”. Thomas Sowell "Reparations fall into line behind the fight for welfare programs that ‘only subsidized black inertia.’ ‘The demand for reparations,’ he said, ‘is yet another demand for white responsibility, when today’s problem is a failure of black responsibility.'”. Shelby Steele “By failing to draw a distinction between past and present, the reparations issue encourages the view that all blacks are victims, and that all whites are collectively responsible. Simply to regard all members of a group as victims neatly removes such terms as ‘character’ and ‘personal responsibility’ from the cultural dialogue. After all, what need is there for individual striving when it is plainly understood that all the difficulties that blacks suffer are the direct, indisputable result of incidents that occurred centuries ago? The real danger with reparations, then, is that it presumes victim status for all members of a fixed group.” Armstrong Williams “The issue of slavery was very prominent in the minds of the young men who went into the cannon’s mouth during the Civil War,” Keyes said in 2002. “[A] lot of folks went consciously, believing that God called them to give their lives to repair the moral wrong of slavery. Something money could not do. So, they gave their blood. “Now, it seems to me that by the very comparison you’re suggesting, almost I feel an insult to our slave ancestors. You want to tell me that what they suffered can actually be repaired with money? You’re going to do the same thing those slaveholders did, put a money price on something that can’t possibly be quantified in that way.”. Alan Keyes "Reparations advocates argue that this current generation of black people has not shared in the bounty that is America and that any pathology in the black community is rooted in the legacy of slavery. How a monetary payment will address either wrong is unclear, as does the morality of taking money from people who never owned slaves in order to pay people that were never enslaved. But reparations are not about righting historical wrongs; it is about massaging the egos of those leading the movement.”. Joseph C. Phillips "If there is a debt, it was created by another generation, another time and place in our history, and in America we do not embrace the notion that I am responsible for my father’s debts,” Ward Connerly
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