REPARATIONS - YOU ARE NOT GOING TO GET IT!

I don’t know what I can add to what was already said. The bottom line is I do not support reparations. Reparations by definition is compensation for insult or injury, Black people have done more harm to themselves than slavery has ever done.

The survival of the Black man and woman in 2019 is a testimony to our strength despite being brought to a land against our wishes. This bondage was facilitated by tribes in Africa who profited from the sale of those they captured; in other words Black people sold Black people to many people including to White men who were traveling to the New World.

In my limited study of history, which is far greater than many who argue for reparations, I have discovered great success of Black people despite the behavior of slave owners.

According to 1860 Census, which my liberal friends now want to deny, less than 50% of the White FAMILIES actually owned slaves.

1. MISSISSIPPI 49%
2. SOUTH CAROLINA 46%
3. GEORGIA 37%  
4. ALABAMA 35%
5. FLORIDA 34%
6. LOUISIANA 29%
7. TEXAS  28%
8. NORTH CAROLINA 28%
9. VIRGINIA 26%
10. TENNESSEE 25%
11. KENTUCKY 23%
12. ARKANSAS 20%
13. MISSOURI 13%
14. MARYLAND 12%
15. DELAWARE  3%

At the time of the 1860 census there were 33 states yet 15 were slave states. Even in Mississippi 51% of the White Families did not own slaves. If you listen to people ignorant of the truth a person would believe every White person in the 1800’s owned slaves. And every female slave was raped by old white men.

When Barak Hussein Obama was elected President in 2008 he also had a house majority; there was both a Democrat controlled House of Representative and a Democrat controlled Senate. This meant If the Democrats really wanted to give Black people reparations they could have easily did so then.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, a.k.a. The Stimulus package cost the nation over 700 billion dollars yet none of that money went for reparations. Democrats really do not want to give Black people money.

The Democrat party needs Black people dependent on them. Small government handouts have been working for decades. The promotion of physical pleasures, immediate gratification and the ability to blame someone else for the problems in the Black community has assisted both White and Black politicians to become multi-millionaires. They do not want Black people independent of them.

As long as Black people are looking back they will never see what is in front of them.

• They don’t have because they do not work.
• They are not working because they do not have the knowledge. 
• They do not have the knowledge because they have not been paying attention to the people they have been voting for. 
• The people they have been voting for have been taking the good and giving them the left overs.  But they always promise to do better tomorrow. 
• Black people cannot see tomorrow because they do not realize yesterday is gone. 

Instead of looking for the government to give us something each person must begin the process of fixing himself, herself. Each person must educate himself.   If Black men stopped killing each other and Black women stopped killing their babies and began the process of restoring the family change would come. Each person must put his own house in order and then help his neighbor do the same. Black people need to stop voting skin pigment and political affiliation and vote for those people who want to make families great again.

As slaves, families may have been divided but the family concept was in tact. Education may have been forbidden but the slaves found ways to learn. 

If those who keep looking back would look a little deeper they would discover Black men and women who achieved greatness despite the prejudice that existed.

• Mary Ellen Pleasant owned a chain of boarding houses during the 1840’s 
• William Alexander Leidesdorff had an import export business during the 1840’s (he died in1848)
• Sarah Breedlove better known as Madam C J Walker (December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) famous for her hair care products
• Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first Black man to be elected to Congress in 1870, a Republican stopped by the Democrats.
• And of course Fredrick Douglass and  George Washington Carver achieved greatness without reparations both very intelligent educated men. 

America has greatness in its’ roots Liberals want to chop down the fruit thereof and build monuments of division.

The bottom line is this: The Democrats will talk about reparations but they will never give Black people one dime because they don’t have to.                             written by Marsha L F Randolph

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