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May 10, 2006
The Dems and Reparations
To give some idea of what's in store for this country if Democrats take back Congress, John Conyers, the noted turkey thief who will be Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee should that tragedy befall us wants to hold hearings not only on impeaching the President (basically on the grounds that Dems wish he hadn't been elected), but also on paying reparations for slavery.
As most people know, slavery existed throughout the world, from before the beginning of recorded history. It is now limited to parts of Africa and the Middle East, largely thanks to the efforts of the British Empire. There was of course slavery in parts of the USA up until the Civil War ended it a century and a half ago. No one alive then is still alive now.
Most white Americans have no ancestors who owned slaves in this country. Many black Americans have no ancestors who were slaves in this country. Most black Americans have European as well as African ancestors. Obviously, the idea that whites should be forced to pay money to blacks because of slavery is ludicrous in the extreme.
However, any debate that helps stir up racial animosity serves the interest of corrupt race-baiting demagogues like Conyers, just as anything that fragments our society by encouraging us to think of ourselves as whites or blacks instead of as Americans advances the corrosive electoral strategy of the Democratic Party.
Hat tip: Wiggins
Posted by Van Helsing at May 10, 2006 2:42 PM
Comments
The Republicans continue to be blessed with enemies who are even more incompetent than they are!
Posted by: Sam Houston at May 10, 2006 3:43 PM
It doesnt surprise me.
Posted by: mickey at May 10, 2006 4:40 PM
Oh my, would that be the same Democrat Congressman Conyers who, at taxpayer expense, has his congressional web site in Arabic? Or the same Democrat Congressman Conyers whose wife has apparantly gone to the Cynthia McKinney School of Martial Arts?
Yep, it would be one and the same.
Posted by: retire05 at May 10, 2006 4:49 PM
