Timothy Birdnow

"investing in black is not a criminal act.”

chicago mayor Brandon Johnson

Not at all, but stealing money from people - white, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Native American - to give "reparations" to black people is. It's still theft.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

And most white folks in America didn't even have ancestors here during slavery, and many didn't have them during Jim Crow.

He complains about not retaining memories of this, not forgiving anything. I suppose he wants America to be like the Balkans where they still kill each-other over a dispute a thousand plus years old.

The genius of America is that we have all been able to put such grievences aside and come together as one people. Forgive and forget. Yes, there has always been some tensions between traditional enemies; the Irish and the English got into range wars in the West not so much over cattle as over the old hatred. But by and large most such hatred die within a generation. I'm half Irish, for example, and my wife is half English. It just stops mattering after a point in time. Or it should.

What Johnson is exemplifying is greed masquerading as "equity" and hatred masquerading as justice. But you can put lipstick on a pig and it still squeels.

When I worked in real estate we hired Bosnians to work in the maintenance department. One time we slipped up, hiring a Serb. They HATED him, would do nothing but curse at him. They were all still holding the grudge from the old country. That is what the black leadership wants for America.

As Booker T. Washington observed:

"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public."

This is the type of black man that founded the NAACP (which was largely founded as a counter to Washington, who advocated working hard and making money to gain acceptance for black folks as opposed to trying to seize political power) and this Mayor is the same such person. Washington had it right, at least where those self-proclaimed leaders are concerned.

Why? There's lots of money in it. It's a whole industry; just look at the money Jesse Jackson made, or Al Sharpton, both mediocrities who built empires on greivance.

Keep in mind there are a great many black folks who bust their tails and earn their places in society - and they are just as victimized by the greivance whores as the Asians or the Hispanics or the White People. This attitude is the enemy of all (including those it ostensibly claims to want to help, who are held in a kind of eternal plantation mentality.)

Earning your way and making your life your own is the essence of being a success. Being given your life, no matter how pleasant, is just another form of slavery.

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