Real, real dumb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I suppose to be a billionaire, you don\u2019t have to be particularly intelligent. Read: Donald Trump.
Add: Robert Johnson. Who? Yeh, him. The guy that started Black Entertainment Television.
Then sold it. To become a billionaire. He said he wants a check for slavery from the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Somewhere around here there was a discussion about avoiding the discussion on black people. Never a comfortable conversation, but somehow it manages to just keep getting worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No to reparations. There \u2013 I said it. No. Nope. Nada. Not a thing. Why? No one alive today was ever enslaved.
So there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Many people alive today are descendants of those who were subjected to \u2026 that \u2026 and hostilities didn\u2019t exactly end on Dec. 6 1865 (Georgia last of the 27\/36 to ratify the 13th<\/sup> \u2014 Juneteenth what?\u00a0 and Mississippi waited until 1995 \/ who doesn\u2019t love that[snide<\/em>]) so there is an argument that even after the 13th<\/sup>\/14th<\/sup>\/15th<\/sup> amendments, certain natural-born Americans haven\u2019t really gotten the full benefits of being born here.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n George Floyd, here\u2019s looking at you, man. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Most will accept that as a given BUT a check? To whom, exactly? And paid by what? Through what? And why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n No. No. Aaannnddd \u2026 no. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Because those getting that check will likely just spend it at Best Buy. Or Target. Or for rent. And talk about some resentment<\/em>!?! If one believes racial (wait: humans R us? {Malachi 3:10<\/em>}) animus exists now, just wait until some other folks get to thinking about who got a check and why and from whom and for what. <\/p>\n\n\n\n No. No. Aaannnddd \u2026 no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n GOD gave me an answer for that too. He is \u2026 Is. I just love Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n GOD said (rough translation) \u2013 Hey, what was the underlying burden borne and benefit lost with the American institution and practice of slavery? No, not the rape and murder and the auctioning of infants. All that was bad<\/em>, yes, but one can move past that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The real problem was the theft of labor. Wealth tends to be generational, gotta build on that and blacks couldn\u2019t build on that because they had to build \u2026 well, everything else, sort of. And it’s not like they got prevailing wages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So \u2014 the suggestion?\u00a0 Tax break.\u00a0 Exemption from federal taxation.\u00a0 If one works, one gets paid.\u00a0 Whole check.\u00a0 No taxes deducted from the paycheck.\u00a0 If earn $20 hour, paid $20 hour \u2013 no deductions at the federal level, and the participating slave states?\u00a0 Them too.\u00a0 No social security benefits, no Medicare \u2026 unemployment yes because employers pay that but any other welfare\/entitlement benefits?\u00a0 Nopes, not if claiming the exemption. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Blacks get to enjoy the full fruits of their present-day labor, and others don’t really have a legitimate argument against it. Unless, you know, racist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You\u2019re welcome. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Real, real dumb. I suppose to be a billionaire, you don\u2019t have to be particularly intelligent. Read: Donald Trump. Add: Robert Johnson. Who? Yeh, him. The guy that started Black Entertainment Television. Then sold it. To become a billionaire. He said he wants a check for slavery from the government. Somewhere around here there was a discussion … <\/p>\n
And then what? <\/p>\n\n\n\n