I have noticed that the accusations people make often tell more about themselves than about those whom they accuse. This comes to mind as I read about the various liberal groups proposing reparations for the descendants of black slaves.
If the proposal were to pay reparation to the slaves themselves I would understand it and support it wholeheartedly. But why should the decendents of slaves, several generations later, be entitled to reparations? And why just to blacks? What about others who have faced systematic discrimination in our society like women, Jews, immigrants, Asians, the Irish, Native Americans, the handicapped, the poor, etc. etc? Indeed, almost all of us have ancestors who suffered discrimination and exploitation somewhere.
No, what I see here is clearly racism from the very people who are so quick to accuse anyone else who doesn’t agree with them of racism. And it couldn’t be more clearly a racist proposal – it proposes to offer reparations explicitly on the basis of race, and exclusively to one race – how much more racist could one get?
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