No more of a joke than reparations for blacks.
Finally somebody gets it.
I don't think blacks should get reparations either, for what? What was taken from them can't be bought back with money.
Yes it can. They've been selling their votes to Democrats for decades now. Their payment is a welfare check and a food card.
Frankly, if there are any reparations due black Americans, it is for the injustice in what that welfare check and food card has done to some black Americans. All honest black historians agree that black Americans were the most rapidly advancing group economically right up to Johnson's Great Society initiatives. And soon thereafter, when those policies kicked in, that advancement stalled and regressed in many ways.
Nobody is saying ALL Great Society initiatives were not beneficial.
But those that stripped fathers of their pride and respect in supporting their families and actually encouraged them to distance themselves decimated the black family. Up to then, black children had a mom and dad in the home comparable to white children. Urban renewal uprooted vital supportive old neighborhoods and separated black Americans from the institutions that had supported and sustained them and were soon replaced with government welfare initiatives.
The new shiny projects would soon deteriorate into rat infested slums while the old neighborhoods were bulldozed to make way for freeways and commercial development. Gangs took place of playgrounds. Violence took place of mutual support and too many black youth feel forced to join the Crips or Bloods or some other gang just to survive in a violent and dangerous environment.
And of course that is not the story for all black Americans as many have prospered and achieved great things. But it is the fate that we have arranged for far too many.
How about some reparations or at least a merciful remedy for that?