Jack Kemp

Today American Thinker ran another discussion on Reparations payments to black descendants of slaves. It is a good article. It included these words:

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This brings us back to the fact that blacks weren't suddenly treated fairly the day that the South surrendered.

Perhaps we should look at the group that fought the Civil War to keep slavery legal, the group that founded the KKK, the group that passed all the racist Jim Crow laws in the South, the group that fought to keep schools segregated, the group that passed a welfare plan that destroyed black families, the group that has supported genocide against black people – according to Jesse Jackson – the group that ignores thousands of blacks being shot each year in cities that it runs, the group that wants to deny inner-city blacks a decent education...that's right, the Democrats!

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I felt compelled to add, once again, the same comment I have posted in the past when the topic of Reparations is brought up at American Thinker. Here below is that comment of mine:

Almost every time reparations comes up at Amer. Thinker, I have to post the unique story of my family's personal history.

My father was a Jew in the Polish Army in WWII who, as a Prisoner of War, did slave labor for the Nazi regime. After the war, he received monthly reparations checks for slave labor. When he died, those checks came to an end. I am not entitled to continued slave labor reparations. In fact, I had to send his last check back to the German Consulate in NY because he died before the first of the month. The German government required annual proof of his being alive, so any attempt on my part to "appropriate" and cash a check or two or three after his death (I actually had a relative who suggested I should have done this later on) would have probably resulted in my arrest for some crime and my name and possible picture in the NY Post and NY Daily News. So I returned the last check with a letter and a copy of my dad's death certificate to the Consulate. I did not start a street protest about how my not getting new checks was "an attack on my civil rights" or "unfair" or "racist" or "antisemitic." A word from Tim:

The notion of blood guilt has long been gone from Western thinking, except in a few horrible instances, and with good reason. How long must a debt be paid? Certainly black slaves were owed a debt, but there are no slaves still alive and how long will their children demand payment from people who had nothing to do with it? There are no people alive who kept slaves, or fought for the Confederacy, and no doubt there are more people descended from immigrants who came after slavery than from those who practiced the institution.

Shoot; I'd be happy to pay these reparations if it would be an end to all the bile and acrimony and accusations, but you know it will only feed them. If we were to pay this out there would be more demands later, and more accusations. All of the government programs designed to support the minority underclass would continue. This would be an answer to nothing, except to enrich race hustlers and empower the radicals.

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