U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism,’ says U.N. panel
Huh, must be April Fools day? As soon as you head down this road, you have to make the same judgement for every group ever oppressed, which means you have Native Americans, Filipinos (yes we did some bad things there in the 20's), Irish, Italians, etc. What about the British? We beat them up a couple of times, and took their colonies away... Come to think of that, then every colonial country (80% of the world) has a claim against their former masters, and, oh yea, the Maya and Incan Indians have a really good claim against the Spanish. We haven't even begun to debate the legality of a quasi-self appointed group telling a sovereign nation they owe...But I am sure there will be lot's of lawsuits with this. If it comes to pass, I will lobby my Represenative to get back all the welfare money spent on everyone, with interest, since reparations would address that as well...what a mess...
"The first freed slave is welcome to step right up and receive his reparations."
That comment was only in regard to the USA, of course, Other remarks looked pretty much like what I'm reading here.
The UN has become a stupid joke. I've read here and there that Obama want to be its chairman.
Should that happen, guess I'll call him The Joker after that Batman villain.
ted to free his slaves but was not allowed to be-
cause he was in debt. (I still don't understand why
he couldn't have paid off the debts by selling the
land, and then have set his slaves free, however).
I am one of the basket of deplorables for sure, and I am NOT politically correct. But these are my thoughts as of today.
I am going to take heat for this, but I really think that the intellectual idea of inferiority because of "race" is really dead. One could argue that that concept was known to be inaccurate even during slavery, but was perpetuated so as to get free labor from an easily identifiable group of human beings by making them feel inferior. That was BAD.
That said, this is 2016, and although a lot of people want to get a bigger piece of the pie at the expense of others, its no longer an issue of "race'. Its what they can get away with based on economic or political power- whether its paying women less for the same work as a man, or whatever.
Everyone profiles in so many ways today. The world is too complex to initially spend time on each person, product, place to live, etc. Profiling allows us all to make choices quickly that are not 100% accurate all the time, but are sufficiently accurate to allow is to live in the complex society.
I dont look at race at all. I dont even see color of skin. There are so many people of mixed race that it just doesnt make sense to look at that. I think Obama has done more damage to relations between blacks and whites than we realize. He prefers blacks specifically (look at his appointments to government). Look at his reactions to "black lives matter".
This has nothing to do with "racism" which I would define as including someone as a legitimate member of humanity with the associated human rights. True racism died a long time ago. Now the charge of racism is just used to get special preferential treatment for some people.
I am not a racist at all. But I am certainly a culturist in that I prefer dealing with people who exhibit certain cultural traits- entitlement NOT being one of them, whether it be the entitlement of royalty, statist party members, or "black lives matter" proponents
Racism is not an outdated concept no longer valid. The facts which give rise to it are judging people on the basis of inherited physical characterics like color, which we see throughout today's society from and directed at individuals of all kinds.
The entitlement mentality within some groups is dangerous but is not countered by racism. You should read or reread Ayn Rand's essays "Racism" in The Virtue of Selfishness and "Global Balkanization" on "ethnicity", entitlement by birth, and racism and their cause and their role in the process of the decline of civilization in The Return of the Primitive. Also Peter Schwartz's "Multicultural Nihilism" in The Return of the Primitive.
But I don't think it's an "injustice" to like or not like anyone. I respond to someone's core values, which seems to be formed to a large extent by the culture in which they are raised and by their reaction to it.
If I lived in a town of 50 people, I could take time to know each of those people and react to each of them individually. In Las Vegas with nearly 3 million residents and 40 million visitors- one needs to develop ways to more quickly evaluate the people one meets.
Hence the concept of profiling came to be used as a way to more quickly but less accurately form initial impressions of people based on observation of certain traits and personal experience. It's a normal and reasonable reaction to living in a populated place. It's not racism. It's a recognition of the powerful effect of cultural upbringing. You could call me a culturist, but not a racist. For example. I have no issues with Ben Carson , an obviously black man. I
don't know him and I really don't notice his color or care about it. On the other hand when I see black young people with their pants hanging halfway up, I initially categorize them as undesirable, as I would a white person who acted that way. My initial assessment could be wrong possibly, but that's a chance I am willing to take
Profiling in a legal context means to narrow down suspects of a crime in accordance with known partial descriptions, recognizing that is only an investigation under which everyone is innocent under the process proven guilty.
It does not mean that everyone who may meet the partial description is guilty and it doesn't mean that such people have the same ideas associated with their color. "Profiling" in that way is racism. It's an irrational, crude collectivism grouping people into 'classes' on the basis of race.
We profile all the time, not only relative to other people, but also relative to neighborhoods, restaurants, etc. I like your definition of profiling in your post.
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We are all tired of hearing some black people chanting O-bam-a' as they demand free Obamaphones and the equivalent in their mindless, anti-conceptual shrieking, but we are also tired of the white (olive, brown, yellow, orange, etc.) intellectuals and agitators supporting it. It can't be opposed by becoming racist oneself, sinking into the tribal battles.
It is an anti-conceptual trend which is itself racist and ethnist as it promotes the primitive in the name of an alternate "culture". For the relation of this process to the rest of the decline we are seeing, read the articles cited above in Ayn Rand's anthology *The Return of the Primitive". This rot is much deeper than crude racism and welfare statism, but thoroughly related to both. You will find a lot in those essays that you already see in what your object to, plus a more fundamental explanation.
Adopting tribalist ideas is an intellectual state, which itself usually includes its own racism but is not inherited along with color. In particular it is thoroughly anti-conceptual. Read Ayn Rand's essay on "Global Balkanization" cited above.
Rome, Greece, and over 100 others.
Slavery Present:
Most Muslim States
When to those reparations start? What about current slavery? What about so-called White Slavery? What about the German reparations for the Jews?
Stupid is as stupid does. -- Forrest Gump
The Japanese who were American citizens were taken from their homes, their jobs, their professions and were set into what only can be called upper class concentration camps. And by upper class, I mean better than Germany's but not as good as a citizen could do for himself. If the Constitution meant anything at all, putting American citizens in such a setting is illegal, and I'm not so sure about non-citizens. And if we were being strictly fair, Native Americans probably fall into that category. But, I wasn't advocating reparations for Japanese Americans, only pointing out that as you say, there's no end to payoffs once that Pandora's box is opened.
Typical reporting by the Dark Center Post and typical socialist accusations by the UN.
One of the statists best weapons that helps them to concentrate more power is accusation of racism to set groups against each other and distract from who is currently guilty of pushing millions into serfdom and slavery under their UN masters.
reparations from other American Indian tribes, for
the many wars they fought against each other?--
This notion of holding people responsible for the crimes of their ancestors has no validity.--But what do you expect when you have an international organization which tries to get worldwide dominance? We should pull out of the
United Nations and send it out of New York.
Yet another power grab by FDR. More government, more government.
The question is just how long the U.S. is going to continue our masochistic relationship with that corrupt body. I say send the whole pack of bandits back to Geneva, where they can share quarters with the EU corruptocrats.
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How about Africa paying back themselves for slavery, the same goes for all muslim countries and what about Egypt, Rome and china...they owe mankind a lot too!
How about the Cannibals give us back all the human bodies they eat...Hell, lets go after the Anunikki on planet Niburu for the nephilim and for molesting our daughters? How about all the aliens that mutilated all our cows in the Midwest?
See how ridiculous it gets?
Maybe, I should condense it a little and put it on an electronic billboard...
BTW, these same idiots after October 1 (unless Congress finds some integrity and guts) will be running the Internet as well. Goodbye freedom and sovereignty!
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How about: Let's see where slavery is still practiced... Oh, in Africa - where junta lords conscript young boys to fight wars for them! And everyone involved is BLACK.
How about: recognizing that this is just another cult of blame that does nothing but dwell on the past instead of moving toward the future?
How about: making someone who isn't culpable pay for someone else's actions is in and of itself slavery. Your great-great-grandparents were slaves, but somehow that entitles you to collect reparations from someone else's great-great-grandchildren?
Garrrhhhh. These things just get my blood pressure up because they are so STUPID.
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