“Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?” Dr. Thomas Sowell, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute.
It was estimated that there were over 65,000 Southern Blacks in the Confederate army. Over 13,000 of these soldiers saw combat. These Black Confederates included both slave and free. The Confederate Congress did not approve Blacks to be officially enlisted as soldiers, except as musicians, until late in the war. But in the ranks it was a different story. Many Confederate field officers did not obey the mandates of politicians as they frequently enlisted Blacks with the simple criteria…
With President Donald John Trump back in the White House, and Harris remains the irrelevant loser, there is a new push by the radical progressive left to fund reparations for an incident that ended in April, 1865…the surrender of the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. These are hard-core woke progressives, with little to no chance for ratification on either the state or federal levels. Yet, they never indicated where that money would come from! Why non-other than the US taxpayer, who had nothing to do with the particular institution of slavery.
And let’s not forget that during the 2024 campaign season, Obama took to calling out Black men for not supporting Harris, for whatever reason each person chose. That was an interesting and insulting manner to pander for votes!!
From the historical perspective, which she never brought up or was asked, Harris descended from a slave owner named Hamilton Brown, who was born in Ireland (1776-Sept. 18th, 1843), who immigrated to Jamaica. Brown is Harris’ great-great-great-great-great grandfather who owned slaves in Jamaica. It is also likely that Harris’s great-great-great-great-great grandmother was his house slave. This is an ancestral fact shared by many Black Americans. A genealogical expert estimates that about one-third of all Black Americans are descendants of slave owners because of coerced sex with female slaves.
Brown became a prominent sugar planter and owner of slaves, according to one historical record. Brown died in 1843 at the age of 68, 46 years before Kamala Harris’s paternal great-grandmother Christiana Brown was born and 121 years before Harris’ birth. This would make it likely that the slave owner Brown was at least seven generations removed from Kamala. In 1807, as slavery was outlawed in Jamaica, Brown illegally purchased white Irish slaves, which were later freed. Would Kamala Harris, the descendant of a slave owner, actually cut a check to fulfill her own words? Doubt it!
It is absurd and illogical to ask people whose relatives came to the United States after 1865 to take responsibility for injustices 160 years ago is not something they are necessarily willing to swallow. On a personal side, I owe nobody nothing to nobody considering my grandfather came through Ellis Island in 1905. No one alive today was born in the first half of the 19th Century.
For a number of years, there has been a movement afoot to garner reparations for people who have determined that they were wronged by the institution of slavery. However, if that’s the case, these people would be very, very, very old! Therefore, it’s a safe bet that no one alive today was neither slave nor owner. If you want to push the limits of reparations, slavery has been around as long as human beings were bi-peds. Even today, the average modern-day slave is sold for $90-$100 compared to the equivalent of $40,000 some 200 years ago, said Kevin Bales, Professor of Contemporary Slavery at Britain’s University of Nottingham. Then each of the ancient civilizations…Rome, Athens, Egypt and Mesopotamia, along with additional ancient civilizations, would be held accountable for the actions of people long since gone.
As for the Holocaust, it has taken many years for Germany to stand up for the crimes committed against humanity by the Nazis. While there has been reparations, along with the return of family heirlooms, people who survived the Holocaust are alive and remain so today. A direct link was established.
The latest Global Slavery Index, produced by the human rights group “Walk Free,” revealed the 10 countries with the highest prevalence of modern slavery are North Korea, Eritrea, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, Tajikistan, United Arab Emirates, Russia, Afghanistan, and Kuwait. The report revealed six G20 nations are among the countries with the largest number of people in modern slavery, India (11 million), China (5.8 million…Uyghurs), Russia (1.9 million), Indonesia (1.8 million), Türkiye (1.3 million) and the United States (1.1 million). The US domestic slave labor market was fueled by Biden’s failed open border policies as illegal aliens were smuggled into the country, along with drug trafficking, child trafficking, sex trafficking, weapon trafficking and money laundering.
Any Democrat worth their salt should look up these following Democrats: Edward Rutledge, Preston Brooks, Roger Taney, Fernando Wood, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Robert Byrd, Lyndon Baines Johnson and George Wallace. It’s easy to make the guess that the aforementioned names are people who were staunch Democrats…one person signed the Declaration of Independence…Rutledge. Another was a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina who nearly caned to death abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner(R-MASS)…Brooks. You have a Supreme Court Justice…Taney, three Presidents and a Governor from Alabama…Wallace, who stated, “Segregation now, segregation forever.” The Senator from West Virginia who mentored Bubba and Hillary Clinton, was a Klansman…Byrd. And speaking of the KKK, the first Wizard is listed here…Forest. The Klan, with support of Southern Democrats, suppressed voting rights of Blacks and Republicans in the South through violence and intimidation during the elections of 1868. And included in this group is a former Mayor of NYC who threatened that New York would succeed from the Union if the 13th Amendment was ratified when he was a member of The Congress…Wood. Look them up!
From Reconstruction to the entitlements of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the overwhelming majority of Black Americans were staunch Republicans…including Frederick Douglass, John Stewart Rock, Pearl Bailey, Eunice Carter, Eldridge Cleaver, Rosie Grier, Wesley Hunt, The Right Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., The Right Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., Representative Robert Smalls and Jesse Owens. After 1964, there has never been a time since that the Democrats have not had a perceived absolute control over most of the Black population in America. They have used victimization and the race card in one way or another to maintain power ever since. And they continue to take the Black Community for granted! However, record numbers of the Black Community voted for a Republican than ever before in President Donald John Trump. And the progressive left still doesn’t get it and still maintain that Harris lost because of racism and misogynistic attitudes. Not that she was incompetent!
Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827– January 16, 1901) was a Republican, a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War. Elected by the Mississippi legislature to the Senate as a Republican to represent Mississippi in 1870 during the Reconstruction period he was the first Black to serve in either house of the Congress.
And speaking of the 19th Century, it was an amazing, interesting, violent and politically charged time in American History. As the Civil War was raging, and coming to a bloody conclusion, President Abraham Lincoln had already formulated a plan to welcome the rebel states back into the Union. It was the Reconstruction Era from 1865-1877. Reconstruction was a period in American history following the Civil War that lasted until the Compromise of 1877. The main goals were to rebuild the nation after the war, reintegrate the former Confederate states, and address the social, political, and economic impacts of slavery.
During his second inaugural speech of Saturday, March 4, 1865 his words first opened the possibility of a rebuilding peace as he stated: “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” The Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery had already been ratified, much to the chagrin of the peace delegation from the Confederacy at the Hampton Roads conference, who were suing for peace. The amendment was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865, and proclaimed on December 18, 1865.
Sadly, President Lincoln was assassinated on Friday, April 14, 1865 while watching the play, “Our American Cousin,” at Ford’s Theatre. For those who forgot, President Lincoln was shot by actor, and Southern sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth. And a Southern Democrat to boot!
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. Usually considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addressed granting citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the Civil War. The Fourteenth Amendment countered the argument from former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney(D), whose court ruled 7-2 on March 6, 1857, in the case of Dred Scott v. John Sanford, that Blacks “were not and could not be citizens.”
Taney wrote that the Founders’ words in the Declaration of Independence, “all men were created equal,” were never intended to apply to Blacks, who could not vote, travel, or even fall in love and marry of their own free will, all rights granted, according to the Declaration, by God to all. It was the culmination of ten years of court battles, Dred Scott’s fight to live and be recognized as a free man. He lost and was returned to his master, but freed in May, 1857. Dred Scott later died of tuberculosis, but a free man.
The Taney Supreme Court’s decision went even further, declaring laws that restricted slavery in new states or sought to keep a balance between free and slave states, such as the Missouri Compromise, were unconstitutional. In essence, Black Americans, regardless of where they lived, were believed to be nothing more than commodities.
Interestingly, the Taney Supreme Court was dominated by Democratic pro-slavery judges from the South. Of the nine, seven judges had been appointed by pro-slavery Presidents — five, in fact, came from slave-holding families. The decision was viewed by many as a victory for the Southern “Slavocracy,” and a symbol of the power the South had over the highest court. The primary rationale for the Court’s ruling was Taney’s assertion that Black African slaves and their descendants were never intended to be part of the American social and political community. Taney was appointed to the SCOTUS by President Andrew Jackson(D-TN), who appointed four additional justices, with one from Pennsylvania. Additionally, President Martin Van Buren(D-NY) appointed two justices who were Southerners. And let’s not forget that Jackson, Taney and Van Buren were all Democrats.
During the Antebellum period, there were approximately 3,700 free Blacks in the South that owned over 12,000 slaves. The one that stands out is William Ellison, a South Carolina plantation owner, who owned 75 slaves. He can be found in the 1860 US Census. As I previously stated, no one alive today was neither slave nor slave owner.
Richard Edward Dereef was an African-American slave-owner, lumber trader, and politician. A member of a wealthy family of mixed African and European descent, Dereef was a prominent member of South Carolinian society but was subject to discrimination due to his race. He was considered one of the wealthiest African-American men in Charleston, South Carolina and served as a city alderman during the Reconstruction era.
As for the push for reparations, you need to go back to the beginning of the supply chain. And that supply chain could be found in Africa, where the tribes brought the conquered people, or the losers, to the beach and sold them to the Spanish or French. The English were the first people to outlaw slavery. Additionally, thousands of English sailors lost their lives trying to stop the slave trade heading towards North America and French Guyana. The United States suffered through the Civil War as the institution of slavery was ended at an extremely high cost to Federal soldiers and the President of the United States…Abraham Lincoln.
-Approximately 17,000 to 20,000 members of the Royal Navy died after 1807 Abolition of The Slave Trade Act was ratified by Parliament. Between 1808 and 1860, the Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron seized over 1,600 slave ships and emancipated 150,000 slaves.
-Approximately 300,000+ Federal soldiers were killed during the Civil War.
-Approximately 500,000+ Federal soldiers were permanently physically and mentally disabled, but considered insane, the forerunner of shell shock, battle fatigue and now labeled PTSD.
The question of reparations are specifically being endorsed by the radical, liberal, progressive Democrats in ultra liberal crazy California, Massachusetts and New York State. But who gets money and what machinations will be used to determine the what, when and who? Go talk with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Democratic shill, who’s great, great grandfather was Cornelius Vanderbilt(1794-1877), yes the railroad guy, was a slave owner in South Carolina. Was Cooper a slave owner or trader? No. Was he alive and responsible for family from 150 years ago? No. It’s a sad part of history and something society has not learned from. And history is a very harsh teacher!
In an NPR interview during her original failed 2019 presidential campaign, Harris made the bizarre claim that Black people were still suffering from medical problems due to slavery. “You can look at the issue of untreated and undiagnosed trauma. African-Americans have higher rates of heart disease and high blood pressure. It is environmental. It is centuries of slavery, which was a form of violence,”Harris falsely claimed. Slavery was abolished over 150 years ago. No one today has been enslaved in America. Heart disease is not caused by slavery. It is caused by genetics, diet, environment and lack of exercise.
Lastly, as reparations were on the table, Harris tried to use identity politics as the DEI candidate to harvest votes. And taking into account her ancestry from a slave owner, it’s highly unlikely that she has a connection to any claims for repatriations. Would Kamala Harris, the descendant of a slave owner, cut a check to fulfill her own words? Doubt it! Was she responsible for the actions of a family member from the 18th century? No. So her demand for reparations is just a tad hypocritical. Yet she has repeatedly used the term “systemic racism” and as previously cited, supports reparations. Did she, along with other progressives, present a plan to distribute the money? No! Just more empty words…same as her time as vice president and presidential candidate.
It’s interesting that the push for reparations is suddenly back in vogue, but still won’t be ratified. However, there are caveats to the demands, which is what they are. If one received any social entitlements they are exempt. If one has a police record or was incarcerated, they are exempt. And if one failed to submit, and or, satisfy their tax obligations, they are exempt. And at least three pieces of evidence and provenance.
Let the push for reparations finally be put to rest…
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