April 5, 2019 7:00 AM
Morning Reads for Friday, April 5, 2019
- There may be hope for Southerners after the coming Armageddon.
- Saving Macon.
- Ironical. Seems like Tech would know that “tech” people know 404 as something completely different. Ahhh, the mockery.
- Rock on, Judge.
- Unattractive in a “contrived, unattractive French maid kind of way.”
- Maybe the thieves were having a really big steak cookout.
- How the cities grew.
- Only in New York City.
- The Electoral College evens the playing field.
- Why there’s no Wendy’s over the pond.
- But…but…but…
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Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee sponsored a bill to study the question of reparations and recently many Democrats in Congress are giving support. I wrote this a few years ago and I believe it is relevant today.
The left along with some Democrats are again calling for slavery reparations and my response is and always will be slavery reparations were already paid. Let’s see what President of the Union Abraham Lincoln had to say in his 2nd inaugural addresses as he spoke about the continuing Civil War.
“Yet, if God wills that it (the war) continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
Let those words sink in.
The National Park Service puts the total war loses for the Confederates at 914,660 and the Union at 853,838 for a total of 1,768,498. More than all other wars to date combined. The monetary cost of the war would take many years to pay off. According to Lincoln we paid all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s and blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword. President Lincoln was also one of those who paid by the sword. Reparations was paid in full by the blood of the men who decided the question on the battlefields of the Civil War.
The debt owed for the sin of slavery wasn’t just paid by the south but also the north. Slavery was the law of the land until the 13th amendment to the constitution. The sin was on the United States and according to Lincoln, “He(God) now wills to remove (Slavery), and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came.
Did you read that? He gives to both North and South this terrible war. The bottom line is the debt for slavery was paid in full.
The result of the war cumulated in the 13th amendment which officially freed all slaves. The key word is freedom, not acceptance or respect. Acceptance and respect cannot be granted by laws, it must be earned by changing minds which no law can ever do. The 13th amendment did give the freedom to go after acceptance and respect and for years the fight has been going on for it.
Is the fantasy of reparations which has already been paid, not according to me but according to President Lincoln, worth losing the acceptance and respect that has been earned to date? Are you willing to sell your acceptance and respect for the possibility of a small amount of money? I pray not because what you will lose is far more precious than anything you would receive.
You must decide is it worth it.
From the congresswoman’s official website: “In short, the Commission aims to study the impact of slavery and continuing discrimination against African-Americans, resulting directly and indirectly from slavery to segregation to the desegregation process and the present day. The commission would also make recommendations concerning any form of apology and compensation to begin the long delayed process of atonement for slavery.”
There are loads of ways to look at reparations that aren’t cash based. But I think of all the black families that were run off of their farms at the beginning of the 20th century in Forsyth County and other places who probably would be millionaires from selling to developers now and I’ve got no idea how society can square that divestment of generational wealth.
That’s the point of such a commission though right? To figure out how we can start squaring things.
An apology? Process of atonement for slavery? Your words. Are you going to advocate those things for the people who fought and died on both sides during the Civil War so slavery was once and for all time ended in the US. That was Lincoln’s point, the people who fought and died paid all of that.
I think you miss the point, “squaring” things was done already on the battlefields of the Civil War and there is nothing left to do.
“Nothing left to do”…
Says you.
Unfortunately: 1) Many countless things in this world have transpired since Lincoln and the Civil War; and 2) You can not dictate the terms of anyone else’s experiences.
If the issues of the past were clearly and fully resolved, they would not be an issue today. So there clearly remains some work to be done.
It makes no sense trying to deny it- the feelings and realities exist despite your protests.
But there are potential countless benefits to addressing it in the best way we can.
I can’t claim to know any of those answers, but a commission seems a harmless but potentially useful step.
This type of arrogance and paternalism is exactly why we can’t move past the ugly history of genocide and slavery that still exists in this country even today.
You said it, that settles it, just get over it and move along, nothing to see here!
I think you rally believe what you wrote and that’s the real problem.
I didn’t think it would be long before someone regressed to the ridiculous. So you claim a history of genocide and slavery that still exists in this country even today. So where does this genocide and slavery that you say still exists in this country today, name it please. And if slavery was really a thing for you it is still going on in the same places it did hundreds of years ago, Africa and the Middle East. Why aren’t you screaming and protesting about that or is that not a problem for you?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_trafficking_in_the_United_States
If you’re interested, try googling about racial disparities in income and poverty and school outcomes and incarceration rates and etc. Maybe even look at papers on historical and contextual factors. Maybe Google Scholar is a better starting place.
I could elaborate but somehow I don’t think it would do any good and it might cause you to miss the time at the club with Thurston and Becky.
I don’t think that means what you think it means.
The “bondsman” phrase is saying that it may be God’s will that every drop of blood spilled due to 250 years of slavery be repaid in blood of war. He wasn’t saying it was already paid, and he wasn’t talking about money.
And the idea that he wanted both the North and the South to bear responsibility for the war in no way indicates a debt paid in full.
Benevolus and betthebalance what does Sex Trafficking or disparities in income and poverty and school outcomes and incarceration rates and etc. have to do with Rep Jackson-Lee sponsored a bill to study the question of slavery reparations? Nothing. Those things go on a heck of a lot more in the rest of the world than here. Poverty, go look at Venezuela, Haiti, anywhere in Africa it’s much worse there.
Benevolus I think Lincoln meant what he said exactly as he said it. Here is the whole statement
“The Almighty has His own purposes. “Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.” If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
Back in my school days we spent much time on this subject. I think I even memorized the 2nd Inaugural but I doubt I could recite it today.
Anyway I believe the time has expired on this subject today. Thanks for getting into the discussion and have a good weekend!
If you don’t read anything more recent than 1860-something about race relations or the socioeconomic consequences of slavery or Jim Crow, you will probably not learn the connections.
“Yet, if God wills that it (the war) continue until all the wealth piled by…” How do you read any of this to mean that by that time Lincoln considered all debts paid? It’s pretty ludicrous on it’s face as the war wasn’t even actually over yet and reconstruction hadn’t even begun. There were many costs yet to come.
“Elected representatives of Georgia have voted, and I believe that the federal government should respect the people of Georgia to make this critical decision for themselves,” wrote Buddy Carter, who asked that Georgia be removed from the agency’s offshore energy plans until “the concerns of the legislature are addressed.”
All for the pipelines and drilling necessary to support carbon-based energy, just NIMBY. (Remember a year or two ago when a coastal Georgia pipeline was killed but one in SW Georgia was approved?)
73 year old Herman Cain to be appointed to the Fed? Does the GOP know it’s a 14 year term? And Heritage Foundation’s Stephen Moore being appointed too?
There’s no longer any surprise when it comes to Trump appointments and GOP Senate consent, but it being normal for the GOP doesn’t make it normal for the country as a whole.