Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

Fred on Everything-Slavery Reparations ...........by Fred Reed!

Oh, WOW !!! This so good, and so TRUE !
As you will recall, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Harvard professor who got arrested by Cambridge Police some time ago.

Fred Reed was a police reporter for one of the large Washington newspapers. He now writes a column which can be googled ~ "Fred on Everything."

Fred published a weekly online column in which he got to say the things his editors would never, ever have let him write in the paper. His stuff is iconoclastic and various articles have probably offended everyone...regardless of political orientation. So, with the warning that "This is definitely not politically correct," here comes Fred.....

The following is an essay regarding the failings of a system and a culture. Please note that he elegantly describes the mood of many Americans and he does so without prejudice.
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Slavery Reparations ...........by Fred Reed!

On the Web I find that Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of Afro-American Studies at Harvard, is demanding that whites pay reparations to blacks. It's because of slavery, see. He is joined in this endeavor by a gaggle of other professional blacks. I guess he’ll send me a bill, huh?
I feel like saying, "Let me get this straight, Hank. I'm slow. Be patient.
You want free money because of slavery, right? I don't blame you." I'd like free money too. Tell you what. I believe in justice. I'll give you a million dollars for every slave I own, and another million for every year you were a slave. Fair enough? But tell me, how many slaves do you suppose I have?
In round numbers, I mean...say to the nearest dozen. And how long were you a slave?
Oh, In other words, I owe you reparations for something that I didn't do and didn't happen to you. That makes sense. Like lug nuts on a birthday cake.

Personally, I think you owe me reparations for things you didn't do and never happened to me.. I've never been coated in Dutch chocolate and thrown from the Eiffel Tower. I'll bet you've never done it to anyone. I want reparations. Kind of silly, isn't it?

But if we're going to talk about reparations, that's a street that runs in two directions. You want money from me for what some other whites did to some other blacks in another century?
How about you guys paying whites reparations for current expenses caused by blacks? Not long ago blacks burned down half of Los Angeles, a city in my country. Cities are
expensive, Hank.
Build one sometime and you'll see what I mean. Whites had to pay taxes to repair Los Angeles for you. You can send me a check.
Now, yes, I know you burned LA because you didn't like the verdict in the trial of those police officers. Well, I didn't like the verdict in the Simpson trial. But I didn't burn my house and loot Korean grocers, or burn down a city.

Over the years blacks have burned a lot of American cities: Newark, Detroit, Watts, on and on. Now add in the fantastic cost over the years of welfare in all its forms, the cost of all of those police calls people had to make, for cells and jails and security systems in department stores.

I can't live in the capital city of my own country because of crime committed by blacks. Toss in the cultural cost of lowering standards in everything for the benefit of blacks.

See what I mean?

Now, I'd view things differently if you said to me, "Fred, blacks can't get anywhere in a Modern country without education. We know that. We need better schools, smarter teachers, harder courses, books with smaller pictures and bigger words.

Can you help us?"

I'd say, "Hallelujah! Hoo-ahh! Not just yes, but hell yes. Let's sell an aircraft carrier and get these folks some real schools and get them into the economic main-stream.' I'd say it is partly because it would be the right thing to do, and partly because I'd like to add you guys to the tax base.

The current custodial state is expensive. I'd just love for blacks to study and learn to compete and stop burning places. But is it going to happen? You may not believe it, but I, and most whites, don't like seeing blacks as miserable and screwed up as they are.
I spend a fair amount of time in the projects. Those places are ugly. It's no fun watching perfectly good kids turn into semi-literate dope dealers who barely speak English. It just plain isn't right. But, Hank, what am I supposed to do about it? I can't do your children's homework. At some point, people have to do things for themselves, or they don't get done. Maybe it's time.

I'll tell you what I see out in the world, Hank..... I think blacks are too accustomed to getting anything they want by just demanding it. True, it has worked for over half a century.
Get a few hundred people in the street, implicitly threaten to loot and burn, holler about slavery, and sadly the Great White Cash Spigot turns on.

Thing is, whites don't much buy it any longer. Most recognize that what once was a civil-rights movement has become a shakedown game. Few people still feel responsible for the failings and inadequacies of blacks. Political correctness keeps the lid on -- but everyone knows the score.... Which scares me, Hank.

On one hand, blacks hate whites and incline toward looting and burning. (The whites you hate are the ones who marched in the civil-rights movement. Ever think about that?)

On the other hand, whites quietly grow wearier and wearier of it. Not good, Hank.

On the third hand (allow me three hands, for rhetorical convenience), blacks keep demanding things. As I write, you demand reparations for slavery. Blacks in Oklahoma (I think it was) want money for some ancient race riot).

Other blacks reject the Declaration of Independence. Blacks in New York hint broadly at burning and looting over a trial, yet more demand the elimination of the Confederate flag, and the federal equal opportunity apparatus, which means blacks, want to sue Silicon Valley for not hiring nonexistent black engineers. That's a lot of demanding for one month, Hank.
What happens if whites ever say, "No"?

Now, how about you? You've got a cushy job up there at Harvard, and you can hoot and holler about what swine and bandits whites are. I guess it's lots of fun, and you get a salary for it to boot. But don't you think you might do blacks more good if you told them to complain less and study more?

For example, if you want blacks to work in Silicon Gulch, the best approach might be to find some really smart black guys, and get them to study digital design ~ not Black Studies (as you teach). That's how everybody else does it. It works. Then blacks wouldn't feel left out, and racial tensions would decline. Sound like a plan?

Just out of curiosity, how many hours a week do professors of Afro-American Studies spend in the projects, encouraging poor black kids to study real-life sho-nuf subjects?

https://fredoneverything.org/

bahmer

Excellent post thanks.

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

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I had never considered it before but if white people owe them reparations for slavery then why shouldn't they owe reparations for all they have costs society through riots and other crimes?

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

This so stupid its like me asking German people to pay me (Im Jewish) for something that Hitler did to Jewish people during WW2,,And its even worse because 6 million jews died in the concentration camps

plainlogic

Roy? The truth sho urts. Whens Ebonics guna been teached?

Seriously Roy, that essay ( by Fred on everything Reed ) speaks volumes. Good one to send to friends and make it go viral...

out of the woods Loc: to hell and gone New York State

Telling it exactly how it is, about time more of us stood up and did the same.

kcstargoat

Excellent column. No handouts for black or the American Indians, for that matter. They all have a chance to succeed.

silvereagle

The blacks got their reparations When they were freed each and every xslave got 40 acres and a mule.I wonder how many families still have the land.Lbj gave them reparations When he was president.He gave them free housing,free medical and free food.

wuzblynd Loc: thomson georgia

Spot on. Didn't miss nothing. Very well said and all true.

debeda

Very true. Funny how that part is forgotten by the loons of today. I'm personally sick of it because my family on both sides is mostly German. And they mostly immigrated here (legally) in the 1880s and 1890s. As did so many other white Europeans. None of us have jack to do with slavery, nor did we have anything to do with Hitler. These European immigrants (whose descendants now number in the millions) only wanted more opportunity and a better life for their families. And now those descendants are being hated and marginalized for the color of their skin and being forced to pay usurious taxes to support ongoing reparations for something neither they nor their ancestors had a thing to do with. Sounds like racism to me - against whites. I'm so sick of hearing about slavery. let's talk about the housing projects and welfare systems that have created a subculture of entitled and lawless, violent people. And those few that escape that subculture go on to go into debt with student loans to pay for a useless degree in "black studies" or "women's studies" or "community organizing". Let's get over the past and stand up and say NO. Education from K through college should have standards to teach useful life skills like reading writing math and unamended history instead of social programming.

johnsorrell7

This article is right on. The answer to making the blacks happy and productive is to take them back to Africa where they came from. Take their cool clothes, give them a spear and a bow and arrow and let them hunt monkeys all day like they used to, for food.They were happy then. They can hide by the water holes and grab and rape the women as they come down for water for their tribes. Raid and kill all the men and take the women they want, kill the rest. These people will no ever assimilate into our society, it ain't in their genes.

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

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This is a very intelligent post

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

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Yes Black Lives Do Matter

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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

I know of no white person alive today in the United States who has ever legally owned a black slave, or any slave for that matter. Almost 700,000 mostly white men died 160 years ago to end slavery. Jim Crow ended generations ago. Yet black America, for the most part, is still locked in inner-city gang violence and economic hardship. Why?

Is it because America is racist? Is it because of some overhanging white supremacy? Is it because of the Illuminati?


No, unfortunately, it is because of black culture and the adoption of Democratic Party government dependency.


We have just had eight years of the first black president. Black athletes, and entertainers, routinely earn multi-million dollar incomes. I can easily name several black billionaires without even trying too hard. A large percentage of black America is very successful. But, it is not enough. Too many black youth are being left behind.


And it is no one but black America’s fault.


No one can solve this problem but black America. No one can throw enough money at it. We’ve tried that. Black America needs to look in the mirror and stop blaming others, especially white people.


I am obviously white and conservative, and I served in the military, which, during my time, was as color blind as you could be. I can also honestly say I don’t give a damn what color your skin is, neither do any of my friends. I do care about your actions.


Blacks are around 15 percent of the population. Depending on what study you look at, they commit around 40 percent to 50 percent of violent crime in America. Of course, there is going to be a problem with police. And, of course, there are some bad policemen. However, those bad apples do not kill black people statistically anymore than they kill white people. Even Harvard said that recently. If you were a cop, and you had to work in a neighborhood infested with crime and murder, wouldn’t you act differently than in a neighborhood where there was little crime? The most effective thing black America could do to improve its relationship with police is to significantly reduce violent crime where they live. Yes, that means change the culture of where you live and your community.


I for one am tired of being blamed. I am tired of dealing with people who only want something from others. I don’t oppress anyone. I don’t hold anyone down. I’m tired of getting on the D.C. metro and seeing white people being harassed by roaming gangs of black youth with their pants around their knees. Yes, you want a white person uncomfortable? That makes me uncomfortable. It’s our nation’s capital and it’s embarrassing.


Blacks have nothing but opportunity in America. Try finding the same opportunity anywhere else in the world. If you are born in America you’ve won life’s economic lottery. Take advantage of it.


The problem is this generation has been taught an agenda of cultural Marxism by our education system. They’ve been taught to be a victim, and it’s still going on. All you have to do is watch the young black, female student at Yale screaming at the college president to understand that. Blacks in America don’t even know how good they got it.


Don’t kneel when my anthem is played. Too many people died for that flag. You are free to protest but not then. I am free to not watch, or pay to watch you play if you do that. The NFL should make it a rule that you stand for the national anthem. There is no free speech to disobey a private employer on private property. This would solve the problem immediately.


The NFL has deeply offended most of America. They will pay an economic and reputational price, as they should.


We have a real cultural problem in this country, the result of the Leftist multicultural agenda. Multi-ethnicity is perfect and should be encouraged.. Having more than one American culture is destroying the country. But then again, that is what the Left wants.

Do Black Lives Matter?


It is your job to determine if this is a racist rant or just a review of factual data...


WHAT IF ALL THE BLACKS SUDDENLY LEFT AMERICA, WHICH IS 13.3% OF THE TOTAL U.S.POPULATION:
Amount of people in poverty would drop - 34%,
The prison population would go down by -37%,
Welfare recipients would go down by - - - 42%,
Gang members would go down by - - - - - 53%
Chlamydia cases would go down - - - - - - 54%,
Homelessness would go down - - - - - - - -57%
Syphilis would go down - - - - - - - - - - - - 58%.
AIDS & HIV would go down by - - - - - - - -65%,
Gonorrhea would go down - - - - - - - - - - -69%,
Average ACT scores would go UP - - - - - 5.5 points.
Average IQ would go UP - - - - - - - - - - - -7.4 points, putting us 3rd in the world tied with Japan,
Average SAT scores would go UP almost - - - - -100 points,
The average income for Americans would go UP over $20,000 a year,
BUT DEMOCRATS WOULD LOSE 76% OF THEIR VOTING BASE!!!
And, many criminal defense attorneys would have to find another line of work!


Yes, Black lives DO matter!

debeda

Wow now THAT'S an eye opener. Good post!!!

Radiance3

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Very true. Those have been happening since 2009. Reverse discriminations for political correctness. Whites and Asians students are being by-passed by low grade performing blacks and Latinos for the sake of race. Results became epidemic that everyone now follows the same trend. Colleges and universities got more rotten products as times go by.
The destruction of US within.