REPARATIONS

The government of the United States, my government, our government, has treated groups of people horribly throughout the years.  

For instance:

• Native Americans
• Slavery of Blacks
• Japanese Americans
• Chinese Americans

Because of what we did to our Native Americans, we gave them the opportunity to build casinos and recoup their loses (financially)...  while it was a poor subsitute for all the death we caused...  MONEY does seem to make those that we oppressed FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELVES.

I would like to propose the same for BLACKS...  let them have casinos.  I would even support our tax dollars building those casinos.  But, to give them reparations for what our ANCESTORS did is WRONG...  I am not responsible for what my ancestors did...  and, to give them reparations would only cause our RACISM PROBLEM TO WORSEN...

Blacks are now randomly shooting whites because they are white...

What happens if whites start to randomly shoot blacks in retaliation???

DO WE WANT RACE WARS IN THE USA?

12% blacks

60% whites

Since there are more whites than blacks, everything will favor whites unless we intentionally force everyone to deal with blacks before they deal with whites.

For instance:

1. Hire blacks before whites regardless of qualifications
2. Restaurants serving blacks before whites
3. Hospitals treating blacks before whites regardless of triage
4. Educators giving blacks better grades than whites even though their scores are lower
5. The military deploying whites before blacks if they are to be sent into a war zone
6. Prosecuting more whites than blacks to equalize the racial balance in jails
7. Selling homes to blacks before whites
8. The IRS taxing whites at a higher rate than whites
9. Restricting earnings potential of white millionaires
10. Allowing blacks to sell illegal drugs to whites but not vice versa
11. Limiting the number of white professional athletes to always favor blacks
12. Hollywood hiring more black actors than whites
13. More black movies produced than white movies
14. Hiring more black educators than white educators
15. Only allowing black candidates to run for political office
16. Selling tickets blacks on commercial aircraft before whites, making sure the ratio favors blacks
17. Forcing cruise ships to fill cabins with blacks first and make sure the onboard ratio favors blacks
18. Having social security to pay higher benefits to blacks than to whites regardless of quarters worked

NOW...  if we do this, then we should assume that they WHITES will not retaliate somehow...

GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!!!

IN LIEU of Reparations

As a Caucasian male, I did not participate in slavery and I do not know if any of my relatives did, but if they were involved, it is not my frigging responsibility, it is theirs and why should I feel guilty because of something they did?  Logically, makes no sense.

If my father was a seriel killer, should I be held accountable for his crimes?  NO...  I should not!!!

However, I sympathize and empathize with the descendants of slaves and I would like to propose that our US Government, give these descendants of slaves, LAND...  just like we gave the Native Americans for the damage we did to their relatives.  I would also suggest that we allow these descendants to build, own, and operate casinos, just like the Native Americans, and use the profits as reparations to be distributed as these descendants decree...

The other opportunity that I would like to suggest is to let these slavery descendants SELL ILLEGAL DRUGS LEGALLY and use those profits to be distributed on the basis of equity.  However, I would stipulate that sense these drugs are illegal at the present time, that the US Government be allowed to regulate and oversee their manufacture to minimize the harm to other Americans.

These are unusual times and as such, they require unusual solutions...

Slave Traders Cheated

Copper manilla bracelets from a late 17th-century Royal African Company trader in the Western Approaches. Photograph: Seascape Artifact Exhibits Inc.

Early English enslavers sourced copper from Cornwall to create manilla bracelets, the grim currency of the transatlantic slavery trade, and used an impure mix to maximise their profits, according to a study.

Dr Tobias Skowronek, a German scientist, has conducted a scientific analysis of horseshoe-shaped bracelets that were exchanged over hundreds of years for enslaved people from Africa who were transported to Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean.

His study revealed that copper had been sourced from Cornwall decades earlier than previously thought, overturning assumptions that it had come primarily from Sweden and Flanders until the 1720s.  READ MORE...

Ending Racial Disparities

 

DALLAS (AP) — After Opal Lee led hundreds in a walk through her Texas hometown to celebrate Juneteenth this weekend, the 95-year-old Black woman who helped successfully push for the holiday to get national recognition said it’s important that people learn the history behind it.

“We need to know so people can heal from it and never let it happen again,” said Lee, whose 2 1/2-mile (4-kilometer) walk through Fort Worth symbolizes the 2 1/2 years it took after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ending slavery in the Southern states for the enslaved people in Texas to be freed.

A year after President Joe Biden signed legislation making June 19 the nation’s 12th federal holiday, people across the U.S. gathered at events filled with music, food and fireworks. Celebrations also included an emphasis on learning about history and addressing racial disparities. Many Black people celebrated the

day just as they did before any formal recognition.

Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, commemorates the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to order freedom for the enslaved people of the state — two months after the Confederacy had surrendered in the Civil War.

“Great nations don’t ignore their most painful moments,” Biden said in a statement Sunday. “They confront them to grow stronger. And that is what this great nation must continue to do.”

A Gallup Poll found that Americans are more familiar with Juneteenth than they were last year, with 59% saying they knew “a lot” or “some” about the holiday compared with 37% a year ago in May. The poll also found that support for making Juneteenth part of school history lessons increased from 49% to 63%.  READ MORE...

Documented Slavery Pages Found

About 2,000 pages of historical documents related to the lives of free and enslaved Black Americans from the 1600s to 1800s were discovered in the attic of a house in Maryland. The 200-year-old house was being demolished, and the papers were put up for sale by a local auction house.  Historians and members of the local Black community raised funds to preserve the documents and archive them for the public.

Thousands of papers, some documenting the auction and sale of enslaved Black Americans, were headed for the auction block themselves before Black historians and community members stepped in to reclaim ownership over their past.

“It was important to the community because this will connect the dots for people and the younger generation, to let them know how things were. To move forward, you have to see what the past was like,” said Carolyn Brooks, a community historian with the Chesapeake Heartland Project.

About 2,000 pages dating from the late 1600s to early 1800s were found in a plastic trash bag in the attic of a 200-year-old house near Chestertown, Md., as the owner, Nancy Bordely Lane, was cleaning it out this spring. The foundation of the house, built in 1803 on property that had remained in the family since 1667, was reportedly damaged and the structure was going to be demolished. The documents were headed for the garbage, but were rescued and delivered to Dixon’s Crumpton Auction in waxed seafood boxes, John Chaski, an antique-manuscript expert, told the Washington Post.

Darius Johnson, a Washington College alum, was one of several people who saw pictures of the documents up on the auction house’s Facebook page. After moving back to Kent County from Baltimore, Johnson became part of the Chesapeake Heartland project at Washington College, in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and local partners. For him, the documents couldn’t have shown up at a better time.  TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE...

Cancel Culture

 

If you do not agree with me I will simply cancel you out as if you never existed at all...  

The last time something like this took place was in NAZI Germany and their specific target was the JEWS and all those who sympathized with the Jews...  the Jews were taken to concentration camps and medically experimented upon and subsequently killed in gas chambers.

Cancel Culture in America wants to do away with the conservative voice and all those who support or sympathize with the conservative voice.  Cancel Culture in America has teamed up with Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA basically because they believe that they will NEVER BE SUCCESSFUL unless the white race is destroyed...  specifically, the conservative white race because the liberal white race is sympathetic to their cause...

Cancel Culture in America wants to defund with police and take those monies and set up programs for blacks so that they have a better chance of being successful.  

Cancel Culture in America wants to do away with the CONSTITUTION and write a new constitution that is partial to the black man instead of all Americans.

Cancel Culture in America wants to rewrite the history books and remove all connections to slavery as if it never existed and those references to slavery will state HOW EVIL THE WHITE MAN IS and continues to be against the blacks.

Is America really willing to let something like this happen???

2021: Reminded of SLAVERY

I slept through New Year's Eve as I have done so many years before this one and when I woke up the next day, just like this morning, I found myself not only participating in a new year but in a new decade as well...  having said goodbye (in my own way) to the previous year and to the previous decade as well...  I suppose it was not much of a decade for most of us really when you consider it ended with a devastating GLOBAL PANDEMIC of which and for which CHINA is completely responsible...  and yet, I would suspect just like everything else that nothing will happen to them for fear of hurting our economy...

2021 will still be loaded with GREED...  of this fact, you can be absolutely sure...  and, the wealthy will become wealthier despite their best efforts at continuing to act STUPID as if it is ever so inconsequential.  the poor people will no doubt remain poor as they never had the mental capacity (motivation) to do anything else.  The blacks will receive better opportunities through a new kind of education and be afforded better police protection in that less will be killed by whites... BUT OVERALL, systemic racism will continue as it festers underneath a mountain of government rules and regulations.

Black will still hate whites for slavery no matter what the government does or does not do for them...  it is something that happened to THEM and they want to make damn sure that NO WHITE FORGETS IT...  and...  all that will do will serve to perpetuate the racism in different albeit unexpected ways...  as racism restructures and rebuilds underground.  Rap Music Lyrics will continue to preach KILL WHITEY just as BLACK CHURCHES will continue to preach that Blacks are Blacks and not White Americans...

How do I know this since I am no expert?

My answer is simple:  HUMAN NATURE

If Black discriminate against other blacks because they are either a darker black or a lighter black then they are damn sure going to continue to perpetuate hating whites...   and the only thing left to hate now that all the statues have come down is SLAVERY...  SLAVERY...  SLAVERY...  and it is that fact that will never be denied...  nor will slavery ever disappear....  because it is not the confederate statues that really remind blacks of slavery but the DAMN WHITES... As long as blacks continue to live in the USA and are confronted with the fact that they will just about always see WHITES, then they will always be REMINDED OF SLAVERY...  there is just no way around it...

Are Whites The Only Ones That Are Racists?

 I DON'T BELIEVE THAT ANYONE IS ASKING THIS QUESTION BECAUSE THEY ARE ASSUMING THAT ONLY WHITES ARE RACISTS BY DEFINITION...

WHY NOT?

BECAUSE...  the blacks are the ones feeling persecuted and seem to be taking advantage of the publicity surrounding the MURDERS of black people by WHITE OFFICERS...  consequently, the WHITE MAN has got to be to blame...  especially since we permitted slavery to exist in this country for hundreds of years...

...BAD WHITE MAN...

BECAUSE...   the mainstream media is more or less sanctioning the deliberate and premeditating killing of WHITE police officers as a form of RETRIBUTION rather than as a form of REVENGE...   which is exactly what it was...

BUT...  blacks are NEVER considered RACISTS...

The other issue that really strikes me curiously stupid is the fact that EVERYONE is HOLLERING that the WHITE MAN must change...  forget about the black man changing...  the change has got to come from the WHITE MAN...

• Whitey must change his attitude...   HOW?
• Whitey must change his whiteness...   HOW?
• Whitey must change his pre-conceived ideas...   HOW?
• Whitey must change his instincts...   HOW?
• Whitey must feel the pain and suffering of the Blacks...  HOW?
• Whitey must feel the guilt of slavery...   WHY? and HOW?
• Whitely must eliminate all biases against Blacks...   HOW?
• Whitely must accept all aspects of the Black culture...   WHY? 
• Whitey must stop acting white...  HOW? and WHY?

I don't understand how BLACKS feel and I never will no matter how hard I try...  and, this is just like asking people to feel what it is like to have CHEMO SICKNESS when one is not taking any chemo...  or, asking a man to feel what it is like for a female to have a baby, especially when the actually delivery takes several hours.

I was not a part of SLAVERY in America or in any other parts of the WORLD.  And, I don't believe that I should be held accountable for what my ancestors did.  I don't think slavery was morally or ethically valid or correct and I would be opposed to it ever happening again...

BUT...   I am just as much a current slave of the WHITE MAN'S SYSTEM as the Black Man simply because I am not wealthy, nor do I or ever did I hold positions of power and control that were exercised inappropriate because I let the power go to my head...

• I WILL NEVER HAVE THE BEST LEGAL REPRESENTATION IN COURT
• I WILL NEVER HAVE THE BEST MEDICAL TO CURE MY DISEASES
• I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO COMPETE AGAINST THE WEALTHY
• I WILL NEVER LIVE IN AN AMERICA WHERE ALL ARE TREATED EQUAL
• I WILL NEVER LIVE IN AN AMERICA WHERE THE BLACK MAN IS CONSIDERED RACIST

ANCESTORS

 

If my ancestors owned slaves, what do I care...

If my ancestors fought in the Civil War, what do I care...

If my ancestors were illegal immigrants, what do I care...

My father and my grandfather were HONORABLE MEN and that is really all that I care about or should care about because it is those two from which my skills, abilities, and personality was derived...

Anything before this time does not really influence me in my actions or my deeds; in fact, my father and my grandfather actually have had little influence on me and my behavior...   my attitudes...  and, my assumptions as to the validity of life...

The course that my life has taken has been diametrically opposed to the life that my father wanted me to take...  and, by the time that I was old enough to actually move into my own direction without influence, my grandfather was dead...  

I was forced to attend church until graduating from high school and now I don't attend much at all because of my perceived religious hypocrisy of others...

I flunked out of college and was the only family member to have enlisted in the military...  all the rest were officers...

I failed to remain a Democrat even though that is how both parents raised me and when I was a Democrat, I was even more LIBERAL than they could ever imagine...

My working career was predicated on the foundation that I KISS NO ONE'S ASS FOR ANY REASON...  nor did I use a family member to open doors for me...  I open my own doors or those doors remained closed...

My biggest concern is that our FREEDOM OF SPEECH right is being taken away from us as organizations, news outlets, and people CENSOR the CONSERVATIVE point-of-views...  but, by the time it really becomes a problem, I will be TOO OLD TO GIVE A SHIT...  and besides, as long as the LIBERALS are in power, I will get more benefits paid out to me by the federal government...  and since I am old, someone else is going to pay for them...

What Did Our Founding Fathers Believe?

According to Nicholas Rathod who wrote an article published by the Center For American Progress stated the following:  "In recent years, we have been told by a variety of conservatives that America’s founding fathers established the country under Christian doctrine—that we are a “Christian nation” and should operate accordingly.

This notion—that our country’s roots are explicitly Christian—is both foolish and wrong, for it devalues the Christian faith and disrespects the genius of the founding fathers. Christianity does not need to be endorsed by law or some fantasized re-interpretation of the Constitution in order to have meaning in people’s lives."

And while this is his personal opinion, he went on to write that:  The genius of the founding fathers is they understood that Christianity could not only stand on its own but would thrive without being written into the laws and founding documents of the country. 

Many of the founding fathers—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison and Monroe—practiced a faith called Deism. Deism is a philosophical belief in human reason as a reliable means of solving social and political problems. Deists believe in a supreme being who created the universe to operate solely by natural laws—and after creation, is absent from the world. 

And because of this absence our Founding Fathers adopted SLAVERY and created a Constitution and Bill of Rights that did not include the African Americans that had been stolen and sold to the wealthy in a NEW LAND as SLAVES...

One could construe that it was the SLAVES that built America not the white man...

It is true that our Founding Fathers created a UNIQUE EXPERIMENT of Democracy and drafted documents around which a great nation was built, but they did so by not treated everyone as equals under MAN'S Law or under GOD'S Law...

Celebrating JULY 4

For Americans
On July 4th, the Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence, which had been written largely by Jefferson. Though the vote for actual independence took place on July 2nd, from then on the 4th became the day that was celebrated as the birth of American independence.

What does July 4th mean to/for AMERICAN BLACKS?

Well...  the best way to answer that is to take a looksee at Thomas Jefferson...

According to WIKIPEDIA:  "Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, owned more than 700 African-American slaves throughout his adult life. Jefferson freed two slaves while he lived, and seven more after his death. Jefferson consistently spoke out against the international slave trade, outlawed while he was President, while he advocated gradual emancipation and colonization of domestic slaves.  

Jefferson believed black people were inherently inferior to white people and thought it was best the two races remained segregated."

NOT BEING BLACK MYSELF, I cannot fully grasp nor can I fully appreciate what this means for our American Black Communities...  Our great country is BASED UPON the US CONSTITUTION and it is the same US CONSTITUTION, written by the slave owner Thomas Jefferson who believed blacks were inferior... that saw BLACKS as 2/3 of a person...

How in the hell can someone actually be TWO THIRDS OF A PERSON?

It is also INTERESTING, at least to me how AMERICAN BLACKS refer to themselves as African Americans when that is not actually ACCURATE especially since they were born in the USA...  You are AMERICAN BLACKS with African Heritage...

BUT, that is really a minor point when it comes to our 4th of JULY CELEBRATIONS and how AMERICAN BLACKS participate in those celebrations because there is really no CELEBRATION for them at all until the Emancipation Proclamation which was an Executive Order of Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1962...

This is the date that AMERICAN BLACKS should be celebrating and this date should be a NATIONAL HOLIDAY... 

But, what is even more interesting is the fact that while Abraham Lincoln did not directly own slaves, his wife owned slaves while they were married...

If I was an AMERICAN BLACK IN TODAY'S WORLD,  I would be just as pissed off at Abraham Lincoln as I am with all of the Founding Fathers that owned slaves and would want his statue removed along with all the other statues.

IN FACT, I would arrange an HUGE PROTEST MOVEMENT on the 4th of July because it is not really a Day of Independence FOR AMERICAN BLACKS...

The More I think About It The More Pissed Off I Get

I DID NOT HAVE A FRIGGING THING TO DO WITH SLAVERY AND BECAUSE I AM CAUCASIAN I AM BEING BLAMED FOR WHAT SOMEONE ELSE DID...

And...  when I think about what is happening with this damn Black Lives Matter Movement it just seems like this is the last thing about which we should be complaining...

YES...  COPS should not kill Americans

YES...  COPS should not kill Black people

YES...  Black Lives Do Matter

YES...  I am white but I had nothing to do with COPS KILLING BLACKS and I damn sure didn't have anything to do with slavery

Let's put all the CONFEDERATE STATUES in a frigging MUSEUM...   and if, you want to see the damn things you can...  Personally, I could care less about those Confederate Statues and when I pass by them I pay no attention to them.

Let's rename all the MILITARY BASES that have been named after Confederate Generals and name the damn bases after BLACKS like Malcolm X or Al Sharpton or Angela Davis or Sami Davis or Michael Jackson or Michael Jordan...

Let's change all the NATIONAL HOLIDAYS into HOLIDAYS with the names of BLACKS or better yet let's use the name of the blacks that POLICE HAVE KILLED.

NONE OF THIS MATTERS...

WHY?

BECAUSE THAT WILL NOT STOP RACISM

I don't care much for RAP or HIP HOP music

I don't care much for the way black people dress

I don't care much for the way black people talk

I don't care much for the way black people worship

BUT,

I admired Mohammed Ali

I would pay to see any movie with Denzel Washington

I thought Floyd Patterson was the consummate pugilist

I believe James Baldwin to be an outstanding novelist

I thought Martin Luther King Jr was an superior orator

I thought Lena Horne was a marvelous singer

I think Vanessa Williams is a simply beautiful actress

so...  does this make me RACIST?