One of the issues with previous reparation cases, such as the Jews in Germany and the Japanese in California, where that the victims suffered actual financial losses. They host homes, farms, valuables. Also the victims compensated were living victims. There were no punative damages. What the current reparations movement is seeking is entirely punative damages. As horrible as the slave trade was, it was still largely the haves rounding up the have nots and selling them into slavary. It was certainly a crime against humanity to round these people up, shove them into cargo ships (where more than half died during the journey), and force them into chatel. But the loss was entirely human. The loss is incalcuable, meaning there is no way of ecnomically quantifying the loss. If the slaves had suffered real economic loss that could be documented, then the living victims might have a claim. But any settlement now would be entirely punative, who is going to be punished for the slave trade? There are no living slave traders. So why should people now living who had nothing to do with slavery be punished for something they had no control over? Liberals like to talk about fairness. How is that fair? Liberals like to talk about equality. Where is the equality in that?
And think about this -- there are many, many blacks who are now very rich. They are stock holders in many of the companies that might be sued under a reparations movement. They are also the tax payers who will be asked to pony up a greater amount of tax money after the inevitible tax increase to pay for a multi-trillion dollar settlement. Is it fair to them, those who have overcome our racist past, and made their own way in the world, to punish them? H. ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
