How dare you, a white man, question somebody's honor. Your gender has a history of dishonor you want hidden and that's why those like you whine about anti white racism.. Son, your argument is ignorant. Slavery did come in only one version. This ain't about be overworked and underpaid. And keep Dr. Kings name out your mouth. Kings dream was that his children not be judged by whites as to the color of their skin. He wanted white racism to end. It has not ended. Instead white racists are trying to use his words against blacks who are talking about the content of character that still manifests itself in white racism.
The Homestead Acts passed in 1862, gave away 246 million acres of land. Research shows that 99.73 percent of that land went to whites, including white immigrants. 1.5 million white families were given free land or the equivalent of a minimum of $500,000 per family. Today 93 million whites still live on homestead land, which is at least 40 percent of the white population in America. That land has helped whites accumulate the wealth they have today.
Notice the numbers foolio .0.27 percent of 246 milliion acres went to backs. Some of what was built was burned down by whites. Whites were handed the equivalent of $500,000 each by this government and still today nearly half of the white population lives on land given to them by the government that blacks could not get.
Since 2000, U.S. gross domestic product lost that much as a result of discriminatory practices in a range of areas, including in education and access to business loans, according to a new study by Citigroup. Specifically, the study came up with $16 trillion in lost GDP by noting four key racial gaps between African Americans and whites:
$13 trillion lost in potential business revenue because of discriminatory lending to African American entrepreneurs, with an estimated 6.1 million jobs not generated as a result.
$2.7 trillion in income lost because of disparities in wages suffered by African Americans
$218 billion lost over the past two decades because of discrimination in providing housing credit
And $90 billion to $113 billion in lifetime income lost from discrimination in accessing higher education.
We can state our case for reparations on these numbers that started in the year 2000. If we only take lost income from racism starting in 2000, it equals 56,250 per black person in America. If we take into account all of the areas blacks have lost money in due to white racism since 2000, it's over 300,000 per person. Now if you want to exclude the 36,000 blacks worth at least 1 million, then its going to be closer to 400,000. And this is money owed NOW, for things done in OUR LIFETIMES.
It's the same dumb ass argument every time. This issue is not about being paid for the past it is a cumulative payment that includes today. So let me make this clear to you since you want to preach.
I'm the beneficiary of the biggest affirmative action program in American history: A free education, a loan for a house. But black veterans didn't get it. We got made middle class by our government program.”
The Rev. Jim Wallis
Our society has allowed low lives into our national discourse on race. These liars and disingenuous opinion-makers have sold many in modern white America a race-baited tale of opportunity lost and failure of black Americans that when examined against the facts, fails every fact check known to humanity. In the history of this country, I as a layman ordinary average joe can point to 3 specific instances where whatever government was in power, whether a colonial or constitutional republic, provided direct economic stimulus or assistance to whites. Headrights, The Homestead Acts, and the New Deal to include the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act.
So basically all your words were nothing more than evidence of a common psychosis that afflicts a portion of white America. Do not lectutre me about scraping and hard work white boy because I guarantee that to make what I have made of myself, that is a man who has sucessfully built or helped build 3 NPO's, that I have worked far harder than you or any of the other racist scrubs in here who think they can lecture people about what they need to do combined.
Each of the blacks you guys try lecturing either own a business or are highly successful in their field of work. All are educated and highly skilled. None of you can match these people, your ignorant unlearned psychobabble shows this. I have been here for several years and from the very day I started, I posted that the issue is not slavery. Yet you stupid motherfuckers keep talking about slavery and what you didn't do. This argument is about what YOU have benefitted from. From women like Molly and the others who benefitted from Affirmative Action more than anybody else, the whites in this forum today living on homestead property, to you who were kids to parents that were able to take advantage of the GI Bill and raised you in suburban comfort, to those whites who farmed and got subsidies black farmers could not get, those who grew up with parents who got jobs and promotions blacks were refused, those who have been given loans blacks have been denied to start businesses and have been able to accumulate wealth, all this continues now and whites living today benefit from continuing racism.
So take your little sermon and shove it son, and seek help for you psychosis.