Of Reparations and Such

It is hard to imagine that after the Civil War ended in 1865 the shame of slavery would have ended beginning in early American history with the Christian abolitionist movement and culminating in the Emancipation Proclamation. Instead of dying out as it should and shameful words like “nigger” ending in use, it is ironic that the real shame today is that this embarrassment still thrives today as well as imbecilic words like the “N” word.

Much to our own doing of allowing everyone to be a victim, a sector of our society today still believes that we must undo what has already been undone and by souls braver than ourselves. The hardest thing in life to do is to reflect at the image in the mirror and truly see the warts and blemishes for what they are. The strength of true Christian values would not let this horror of slavery go unnoticed and it seems to come up in every major piece of legislation and national dispute- despite the fact that very few things were national at that time. Our founding fathers held slaves but that was the norm and not the exception with many of them freeing their slaves upon their death. To our eternal credit we convulsed as a nation until slavery was outlawed. To say that Christianity is irrelevant and dead is to deny the realities of how slavery died.

Today many wear the shameful S on their chests with pride in hopes of shamefully gaining economically what rightfully would belong to their ancestors. Even more shameful is the reticence to let go of the word “nigger” from today’s language. We should gladly want to pay out to those who suffered but they are long dead and they themselves did not seek out such payment. Why should anyone today wish to do so except for selfish ill gotten benefit? The state of our nation today allows for such foolishness and who do we have to blame but ourselves?

With a mixed color President there is a renewed call from charlatans like Al Sharpton and his ilk to gain support for reparations. The real fact is that no amount of money will satisfy them as it is never enough. Let’s say we give them reparations and the funds are foolishly spent (being liberals what else would happen?) what “injustice” will they next seek to have financial justice served? Funny how money seems to make everything better.

I say we should put the matter to rest and give a jobs program where they can benefit by having new skills and working with pride to repay back the jobs program and get the “reparations” we may all be able to live with. Oh no, don’t look now but I see the Irish, the Chinese, the Mexicans, and Italians, the gays and lesbians, the American Indians, the transsexuals, the bisexuals all coming wanting their “reparations of justice too”. Heck, here come the handicapped, women, exploited children, the dwarfs and midgets, the circus freaks...