The Disgusting Reparations Scam

Trying to get paid based on other people's pain                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 [Open in app]( or [online]() [The Disgusting Reparations Scam]( Trying to get paid based on other people's pain [John Hawkins]( Jan 19 ∙ Preview   [Save]()   Compensating people monetarily for injuries that have been done to them is an imperfect but valid way to try to right a wrong. If let’s say, a rich guy gets drunk, flips his car over, and slides into a school bus killing a kid, he would face both criminal and civil charges. If he was forced to pay a million dollars to the family that lost the child, that’s certainly not a fix since that money can’t replace a child’s life. However, it would at least be an acknowledgment that the rich guy in question had done something wrong to that family and it would be an attempt, albeit inadequate (most people wouldn’t trade the life of their child for any amount of money), to repair that injury as best as possible. That makes sense. Well, what if someone else, based on the fact that they’re the same race as the little girl, ALSO demanded that they be paid a million dollars? In addition, the million dollars wouldn’t come from the rich guy who was responsible, it would come from the whole community. Would that make sense to anyone? No? Well, what if I told you that ludicrous situation would make EVEN MORE SENSE than paying people reparations for slavery today? After all, if we’re being perfectly honest, we should acknowledge that slaves may have suffered terribly, but their ancestors benefitted TREMENDOUSLY from their suffering. How can that be? Well, how could it not be? [Where did American slaves come from]( Of those Africans who arrived in the United States, nearly half came from two regions: Senegambia, the area comprising the Senegal and Gambia Rivers and the land between them, or today’s Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Mali; and west-central Africa, including what is now Angola, Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon. The Gambia River, running from the Atlantic into Africa, was a key waterway for the slave trade; at its height, about one out of every six West African enslaved people came from this area. In addition to the nearly 50 percent of the total number of enslaved Africans in the United States from these two regions, a considerable number of enslaved people had their origins in the West African nation of Ghana, as well as neighboring parts of the Windward Coast, now Ivory Coast. Others originated in the Bight of Biafra (including parts of present-day eastern Nigeria and Cameroon), an inlet of the Atlantic on Africa’s western coast that was a hub of extensive slave-dealing operations. Let’s see. What’s the per capita income for black Americans in the United States? [Twitter avatar for @EndWokeness] End Wokeness @EndWokeness This chart totally obliterates the woke narrative about race in America: [Image]( PM ∙ Jan 12, 2023 --------------------------------------------------------------- 51,923Likes11,729Retweets]( Now, what’s the [per capita income in]( Angola: $1953 Cameroon: $1666 Congo: $2,290 The Democratic Republic of Congo: $577 Gabon: $8,635 Gambia: $772 Ghana: $2,333 Guinea-Bissau: $795 Mali: $873 Nigeria: $2,065 Senegal: $1,636 There’s a reason all the people that are telling you America is a racist hellhole and they deserve reparations for giving us the gift of their presence aren’t moving to where their ancestors were captured. It’s because, despite all their whining and complaining, they have it several orders of magnitude better here than they would there and they know it. Nobody deserves to be able to play the victim card in 2023 because of things that happened to their ancestors more than a hundred years ago and even if they did, black Americans are far from the only people that suffered. White people died fighting to put an end to slavery in the Civil War and were sharecroppers. Different white ethnic groups like the Italians and Irish were horribly discriminated against. So were Asian immigrants. You could certainly point out ways that Americans back then mistreated Indians, but the Indians also massacred Americans and kept slaves themselves. Additionally, contrary to the impression you get from the ahistorical nonsense going around on the Left these days, slavery has been around as long as human beings have and it wasn’t just a black thing.  It's worth noting that, other than Great Britain, the United States has done more than any nation in history to put an END to slavery. Although we should be ashamed that we had slaves, we should also be proud that our nation did so much to END SLAVERY. So, maybe we need a national day of thanks to the United States for doing so much to end slavery across the world? It would certainly be well deserved. All that being said, if there were living slaves and slave owners today in America, I would be perfectly fine with them being paid reparations by the people that profited from their involuntary labor. That would seem to be one of the most just uses of reparations imaginable. However, all the slaves and slave owners are long dead. It’s also worth noting that one of the critical concepts used to sell the ludicrous idea of reparations for slavery is that America “got rich” off of slavery. This idea [doesn’t even survive the most basic level of scrutiny](... Keep reading with a 7-day free trial Subscribe to Culturcidal by John Hawkins to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. 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