One of the Biggest Arguments Against Reparations Is Based on a Lie

Representative Mike Johnson, Republican from Louisiana, at Wednesday’s House Judiciary hearing on reparations. Photo: C-SPAN Representative Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, issued his party’s opening statement at Wednesday’s House Judiciary hearing on reparations. The committee was gathered on Capitol Hill to discuss House Resolution 40, known officially as the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act.

Johnson concluded, “That’s what [Thernstrom] wrote to this committee the last time, or one of the last times this was debated. Those great leaders encouraged people to take control of and responsibility for their own lives because that gives every human being a greater sense of meaning, purpose, and satisfaction. And I know everybody in this room probably agrees with that idea, that principle.”

It is an odd conception of purpose, to be sure. Overcoming racism gives purpose to black people in much the same way that overcoming hunger gives purpose to the starving. Suffering through such a travail might make a person extraordinary, or extraordinarily resilient. But it does not make them virtuous — only human. And whatever character-building capacity such an ordeal possesses does not supersede the injustice of hunger in the first place.

zakcheneyrice Well here’s an argument: how about not robbing from people who never owned slaves to pay people who never were slaves. Crazy!!!

zakcheneyrice I'll tell you the reason - because close to half a million American men were killed or grievously wounded fighting in the Union army. My great grandfather among them. Their descendants can't be called on to apologize or pay reparations - the payment was made in blood.

zakcheneyrice his hair is the lie tho

zakcheneyrice Please don’t. Stops this talk now or trump will be re-elected.

zakcheneyrice Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King...was not a PhD but a plagiarist, cultists and criminal. Another example of fbi being criminals and supporting Fake lying people to control the population. FakeNews

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