BackAgain
Neutronium Member & truth speaker #StopBrandon
Just for a little balance.
There are actually many black Americans who persist in accepting the baseless and frankly silly contention that institutional racism from over 150 years ago (especially slavery and later Jim Crow-like laws) requires some present day reward to some of the descendants of those who were wronged.
I cannot repair what I never had a hand in. I don’t owe anyone “amends” for stuff I never did wrong to them.
And nobody has a right to demand anything from me for wrongs perpetrated on others by yet other people.
It succinctly gets to the heart of the underlying flaw in the demand for reparations.
I was never a slave holder. Nobody alive today was a victim of the institution of slavery. I deny the authority of my government to assess any “taxes” from me (or to use any portion of the taxes paid by citizens) to “repay” alleged victims who were never the actual victims of other people.
The demand for reparations has no present day philosophical support consistent with fairness or justice. It must be denied.
There are actually many black Americans who persist in accepting the baseless and frankly silly contention that institutional racism from over 150 years ago (especially slavery and later Jim Crow-like laws) requires some present day reward to some of the descendants of those who were wronged.
I cannot repair what I never had a hand in. I don’t owe anyone “amends” for stuff I never did wrong to them.
And nobody has a right to demand anything from me for wrongs perpetrated on others by yet other people.
The basic model for reparations is A wrongfully harms B, so A must compensate B and restore B to where B would have been had the wrong not been committed.
I just found these thoughts here:If this is our basic model of reparations, then we should ask, with respect to slavery, who are the As and Bs today? After all, both the slaveholders — the As — and their slaves — the Bs — are long dead. So the As and Bs today must be those who stand in the shoes of the slaveholders and slaves and inherit their obligations and rights.
The Misguided Call for Reparations
(Larry Alexander) The city of Asheville, North Carolina approved a measure giving its black residents certain benefits as reparations for slavery. Councilman Keith Young, who is black, referred to the “hundreds of years of black blood” that built the city. The mayor of Providence, Rhode Island...
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It succinctly gets to the heart of the underlying flaw in the demand for reparations.
I was never a slave holder. Nobody alive today was a victim of the institution of slavery. I deny the authority of my government to assess any “taxes” from me (or to use any portion of the taxes paid by citizens) to “repay” alleged victims who were never the actual victims of other people.
The demand for reparations has no present day philosophical support consistent with fairness or justice. It must be denied.