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Thread ID: 7127 | Posts: 7 | Started: 2003-06-04
2003-06-04 23:36 | User Profile
For some people, the past is something they will never be able to put behind them. The livelihoods of race-hustlers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are dependent on drudging up old greviances. It's time to break out your wallets once again, folks, as yet another milestone in the "reparations" movement is now in full swing.
Another magnet for race hustlers
By Thomas Sowell
It is especially painful to read a proposal to create a "National Slave Memorial" on the Washington Mall. Supposedly this memorial will promote "reconciliation" and "healing," according to both the Republican and Democratic supporters of this proposal. It is hard to imagine that any sane adult actually believes those words. You know and I know that a slave memorial will not reconcile anybody to anybody nor heal any racial divisions. Just the opposite.
A slave memorial is guaranteed to become a magnet for every race hustler from Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton down to any local demagogue who can scare up a crowd to go stand in front of the slave memorial and spew venom at American society on TV. Some reconciliation, some healing! Anyone whose IQ is not in single digits must know that, once a slave memorial is put on the Washington Mall, it will be politically impossible to remove it. Expediency-minded politicians of both parties may think of a slavery memorial as a cheap way to "throw a bone" to the black community, as someone put it, but it is in fact just a down payment on racial polarization that can cost this country dearly for years to come.
What a memorial would do is perpetuate the fraud that slavery was something peculiar to the United States, when in fact it was one of the oldest and most widespread of all human institutions, existing for thousands of years on every inhabited continent, involving people of every race and color as both slaves and slaveowners. Even in the United States, there were thousands of black slaveowners, and in Africa many more.
The United States was one of many Western nations which turned against slavery in the 19th century -- while non-Western nations bitterly resisted efforts by the West to get them to abolish slavery. Only the fact that Western imperialists had more firepower enabled their revulsion against slavery to prevail.
Maybe we should have a monument to historical truth somewhere, though Washington hardly seems the place for it.
é2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
-- Thomas Sowell, an economist at the Hoover Institution, is the author of many books, including Preferential Policies: An International Perspective (Morrow), Inside American Education: The Decline, The Deception, The Dogmas (Free Press/Macmillan) and Migrations and Cultures: A World View (Basic Books).
2003-06-05 00:20 | User Profile
Originally posted by kminta@Jun 4 2003, 23:36 ** Supposedly this memorial will promote "reconciliation" and "healing," according to both the Republican and Democratic supporters of this proposal. It is hard to imagine that any sane adult actually believes those words. **
Nobody believes it. But I heard the whole point is to throw some gunk at the Holocaust hustlers -- which makes it okay by me.
Look, another few years & every town in America is gonna have a Holocaust museum. Fight now (with whatever you got) or forever hold your tongue.
2003-06-05 01:31 | User Profile
Well, if someone were to make sure that the Slave Memorial had a section that showed the involvement of jews in that "peculiar institution" it could make for some interesting ... meetings between two groups each trying to build larger and larger monuments to their victimhood.
2003-06-05 01:48 | User Profile
It would also be nice if the creators/benefactors/directors of this "memorial" recognized the tireless work of Michael Hoffman II with regards to White slavery which was long dropped down the memory hole. Of course, they wouldn't even dream of doing such a thing. Not only do they deny it, they are all convinced that slavery was a solely Black social condition.
2003-06-05 19:20 | User Profile
They're learning from the jews. The slavery reparations people see how well the Holocaust ™ has worked for the jews and they want a piece of the action. White Guilt continues to prove to be a very valuable asset.
2003-06-05 22:23 | User Profile
It is a sad fact about America, but one of the determining features of its culture is that everything has to be turned into a racket. I know of no scholarly work done on the subject , but my long observation leads me to believe it is true. Government and religion are rackets, as are education and the legal system. The reparations swindle and its bed partner, the DC slave monument are just new touches in a long history of heists foisted on people who can be made to pay, usually taxpayors or the soft-headed. Not one politician in DC will have the guts to resist such outrages, and the media will push it to the utmost.
2003-06-06 01:58 | User Profile
solutrian: It is a sad fact about America, but one of the determining features of its culture is that everything has to be turned into a racket. Yes, everything has been judaized. Like it or not, thousands of goy hucksters are emulating the rabbinical carnival barkers.