"Manx" has some thoughts on reparations.
Today bore witness to one of the most profound dog and pony shows ever rubbed in the public eye by the confederacy of dunces on the east end of the DC Mall – the edifice called the Capitol building. REPERATIONS! MAKE ‘EM PAY. GIMMEE! – GIMMEE!!-GIMMEE!!!
OK, time for me to fess up. My Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Uncle Quayle Fargher finished off his many years on the high seas commanding slave ships from Bristol, England to dastardly North America. Only went on a couple of years or so but he retired to a life of country gentleman and squire of property holdings his family had amassed for many, many decades in the Isle of Man.
So I’m now asking for penance. Shove a hot poker up my bum ala Edward II. I want to pay my retribution now! I have a full book of S&H Green Stamps I wish to send to Rep. (D) Sheila Jackson Lee to compensate for my ill-gotten gains. What’s her mailing address? Thanks in advance.
As I recall several hundred thousand men gave their lives in the Civil War to end slavery.
Posted by: Franklin | June 20, 2019 at 04:04 PM
ANYONE who rationalizes reparations for slavery is stupid and greedy. The only people with legal standing to make such a claim have died decades ago - as have all slave owners. This whole argument is designed solely to distract from President Trump's success in uplifting our economy out of the quagmire of a democrat administration. BTW: Virtually ALL Southern slave owners were DEMOCRATS and Lincoln was a Republican.
Posted by: Ruwanna | June 20, 2019 at 05:46 PM
I wish to complain about Trump. He is so mean and selfish that he has chosen to deny 150 loyal Iranian Republican Guards the right to be martyred for Islam. Has he no mercy?
Posted by: Mullah Omar | June 21, 2019 at 03:26 PM
When do we taxpayers get reparations for the $17T spent into black communities since the BillRights was signed 40+ yrs ago? As a result the "inner cities" are dangerous gang infested, drug infested, criminal infested, welfare recipients who want more and more free stuff; and now reparations for slavery which they have never experienced. God bless all the black citizens who rose up, applied themselves, and took advantage of benefits and opportunities their grandparents could only have dreamed of. Unfortunately, those exhibits of the American Dream are too often hated by their inner city brothers.
Posted by: Ernie | June 25, 2019 at 09:56 AM