You are a flippin idiot. You are going to get another sermon. First, equating 160 acres of sometimes near worthless land, and the fact that much of it was turned worthless during the dust storms that happened later, to half a million dollars is just sheer stupidity. I mean my great grandfather bought 500 acres of rich, fertile, farmland in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains for $500 in 1945, almost a hundred years after your half million 160 acre plots. Your 93 million number is not the number of "whites" living on homestead land. It is the total number of descendants of homesteaders, including those black ones. What, did those homesteaders never leave, not for five generations. You live in a flippin fantasy world. Just one hundred people own 40 million acres.
And to land ownership. In 1910 210,000 blacks owned 4 million acres of land. You can't blame all the loss of that land on ******. Tenancy in common was the biggest culprit, it took just one heir wanting to get his hands on some money, to force a sale to ******.
And your numbers, that is money LOST. Do you understand what that means? The damn money is LOST, it never happened. It didn't get stolen, it is not sitting in some bank somewhere waiting to be distributed to you lazy ***** holding your hands out. Could of, would of, should of--all bullshit.
And who the hell are you to judge me. I don't give a rat's ass how successful and educated the blacks are that are making the ignorant argument for reparations. Hell, if anything, it shows that obstacles can be overcome. And I agree, people should be willing to pay for the benefits they got and didn't deserve. That is why I support a strong estate tax. That is why I support a progressive income tax. But enough already. I mean I could lay around all day and talk about how I, and my ancestors, got shit on. Sharecroppers, tenant farmers, I respect them too much to make excuses for them, or myself. And yes, it is about HONOR. And I am sorry, but if you want to ***** and moan about how bad ****** has treated you, you have no HONOR.
And if this is not about slavery, then why in the hell did you post that stupid shit about the value of that slave labor, and then add compound interest to it and act like you have proven something? And you cannot tell me not to quote Martin Luther King. I am quite sure he didn't just mean "white racism".
one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
You really think you can command reparations, or payments, or whatever you want to call it, from your brothers and sisters?
Look, I am all about providing equal opportunity, at least as close as we can come to it. The reality is we are not all created equal, some of us are more intelligent, some of us are healthier, some of us are stronger, faster, And those are gifts we are born with, just like the gift of being born into privilege. But we can increase the funding for inner city schools, invest in underdeveloped inner city areas. Tighten restrictions on diesel truck exhaust and address the problem of asthma among those in the inner city. I mean lots of things we can do to help. But talk of reparations, or compensation, does absolutely nothing to alleviate the problems, and instead increases the divide between the races. You are not attempting to be brothers and sisters with everyone, you are attempting to divide just to get some free money that you are not entitled to despite what you might think.
You are unwilling to compete on a level playing field. You don't have a problem with discrimination, you just have a problem with being discriminated against. You don't have a problem with affirmative action, you just want to benefit it from it, like the women did. Which is so damn funny.. I mean everyone has it it better than you. What a crock of shit.
And since you are unwilling to compete on a level playing field, since you have to wear your blackness as a shield, I can only assume that you still believe that you are inferior to the white man. You need that crutch, you need that compensation, because you just can't do like every other minority, from the Irish Catholics to the Asian railroad workers, overcome obstacles and push forward. You can't do it because you are trapped in the past and feeling sorry for yourself.