According to a 2017 poll, a majority of American millennials preferred to live in a “socialist, communist, or fascist nation than in a capitalist one.” The Feb. 2019 cover of The Economist heralded “The Rise of Millennial Socialism” and featured poll results from Gallup showing 51 percent of people aged 18-29 approved of socialism. And most recently, our new poll indicated that 45 percent of Americans aged 18-24 agree that socialism is the ideal economic system for the U.S.
For quite a while it’s been argued with some vehemence that Black Americans living today are entitled to reparationsfrom the Federal government in the form of (taxpayer) cash because they’re the fifth or sixth generation removed from the slave ancestors.
Reparations like 40 acres and a mule, if implemented after the Civil War to the actual former slaves would certainly have been appropriate, but now 159 years removed from its abolishment via the 13th amendment, present-day taxpayers who had nothing to do with slavery should not be on any hook for the sins of perpetrators long dead, as are the people who were in the grasp of that”peculiar institution”.
This is speculation on my part, but I think the big stink in the room is what happened after the end of reconstruction.
It was going to be only a matter of time before the Democrat Party won back political power (added by its terrorist arm) first in the former Confederate states and then the federal government. The radical Republicans had died off or had been voted out, by the election of 1876 political violence was such a possibility that a compromise was reached to prevent it. Federal troops were withdrawn along with most federal enforcement. The solid South would be solid Democrat for the next nine decades, the age of “Jim Crow” had begun.
Needless to say, for Black Americans, life meant walking on eggshells and it was only going to get worse.
In the first part of the twentieth-century race riots were white mobs attacking black people, and burning down whole black neighborhoods, and business districts. It is no doubt an utterly shameful period in American history that everyone living today recognizes as such. While race relations were a power keg it was alleged interactions between white women and black menthat was the spark that set them off.
A black man is accused of sexual assault on a young white woman and despite significant evidence that the man is innocent, he is found guilty by an all-white male jury.
And then there was the horrific case of Emmett Till.
All white juries convict black defendants, All white juries acquit white defendants. ( Was it then any wonder many black people cheered when O.J. Simpson was acquitted.) Yes indeed, racism was real and ugly for most of the twentieth century.
When Donald Trump won the Presidency in 2016 denying Hillary Clinton her expected historic victory it sent liberals, white women liberals in particular into fits of apoplexy. Trump would be under attack from all sides throughout his presidency. White Liberal democrats found it easy and convenient to get woke and accuse Trump of being a racist.In the year 2020, Democrat-run cities exploded in mostly peaceful riots, sparked by the death of George Floyd. The organization Black Lives Matter was embraced by liberal white people andwhite women in particular.
In the election of 2020, the bad Orangeman was defeated. Happy days were here again. And virtue signaling rich white people could still enjoy their white privilege.
And after all the penance for their perceived racism and the sins of their grandmothers and great-grandmothers, what has it got them, no respect and a punch in the face?
To him to strike you on the one cheek, offer the other also. And from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who asks of you. And from him to take away your goods do not ask them back. Luke:29-30
If one reads this passage in today’s society without knowing the context of what Jesus was trying to say (click the link) this is incredibly naive. And Jesus wasn’t naive.
I can relate to what this guy was trying to do, but the parable doesn’t mention the injured man rising and beating the crap out of the Samaritan and robbing him. This is the reality today. This is what they voted for.