Re: The Case for Raperations

On 26 May 2023, Lou Bricano <[email protected]> posted some
news:[email protected]: 

> On 5/26/2023 10:33 AM, Yak wrote:
>> On 5/26/2023 1:20 PM, Lou Bricano wrote:
>>> On 5/26/2023 10:14 AM, Yak wrote:
>>>> On 5/26/2023 12:03 PM, Lou Bricano wrote:
>>>>> On 5/26/2023 8:55 AM, Yak wrote:
>>>>>> On 5/26/2023 11:35 AM, Lou Bricano wrote:
>>>>>>> On 5/26/2023 5:50 AM, Yak wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 5/23/2023 1:48 PM, Lou Bricano wrote:
>>>>>>>>> The early American economy was built on slave labor. The
>>>>>>>>> Capitol and the White House were built by slaves. President
>>>>>>>>> James K. Polk traded slaves from the Oval Office. The laments
>>>>>>>>> about “black pathology,” the criticism of black family
>>>>>>>>> structures by pundits and intellectuals, ring hollow in 
>>>>>>>>> a country whose existence was predicated on the torture of
>>>>>>>>> black fathers, on the rape of black mothers, on the sale of
>>>>>>>>> black children. An honest assessment of America’s
>>>>>>>>> relationship to the black family reveals the country to be not
>>>>>>>>> its nurturer but its destroyer. 
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And this destruction did not end with slavery. Discriminatory
>>>>>>>>> laws joined the equal burden of citizenship to unequal
>>>>>>>>> distribution of its bounty. These laws reached their apex in
>>>>>>>>> the mid-20th century, when the federal government—through
>>>>>>>>> housing policies—engineered the wealth gap, which remains
>>>>>>>>> with us to this day. When we think of white supremacy, we 
>>>>>>>>> picture Colored Only signs, but we should picture pirate
>>>>>>>>> flags. 
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-f
>>>>>>>>> or-reparations/361631/ 
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hartung and his fellow Republiscum/QAnon racist white
>>>>>>>>> supremacists blame blacks' unequal condition and standing on
>>>>>>>>> "black pathology," but Hartung and his fellow
>>>>>>>>> Republiscum/QAnon racist white supremacists *created* and 
>>>>>>>>> *fostered* and *reinforced* that pathology at every turn. 
>>>>>>>>> It's like amputating someone's feet, then blaming them for
>>>>>>>>> being unable to run the race.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There is no case for reparations.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Wrong.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Right.
>>>>>
>>>>> No, wrong. 
>>>>
>>>> No, 
>>>
>>> No, wrong.
>>>
>>>>> There is a *compelling* case for reparations.  Slavery was evil
>>>>> and wrong, and simply ending it wasn't enough, particularly when
>>>>> *you* and your lot then inflicted Jim Crow on them and continue to
>>>>> engage in racist practices. 
>>>>
>>>> LOL...that was you and your shit democrat party
>>>
>>> No such party — ever.
>>>
>>>> of racists
>>>
>>> *That* Democratic party
>> 
>> was, and is, *your* party
> 
> Nope.  Not ever.
> 
> *Those* Democrats are all Republiscums/QAnon today. That's the party
> of white supremacy and the KKK.  This is settled.  I was a Republican
> for the first few years, then libertarian (and Libertarian) ever since
> — the *real* libertarian, not your fake pose.  You're actually a
> neo-Nazi. 

Democrats founded the KKK, don't try and deny it.

>>> doesn't exist.  That was the old *southern* Democratic party, and
>>> it disappeared more than half a century ago. Today, *all* racist
>>> white supremacists — you and yours — are Republiscums/QAnon.
>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And more needs to be taken from everyone who says there's no
>>>>>>> case. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All of it needs to come only from 
>>>>>
>>>>> You and your fellow KKK shitbags.
>>>>
>>>> Robert Byrd (D-WV) is 
>>>
>>> 1. dead
>>> 2. would be a Republiscum/QAnon KKK, just like priest-fucked Gak
>>> today 
>> 
>> 3. *My* hero — You're a racist
> 
> Correct.

That's progress.