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McConnell, a true Southerner from Kentucky, was saying,
in no uncertain terms, that the issue of reparations, if it
ever got to his bailiwick, the Senate, it would be dead upon
arrival.
Make no mistake, McConnell, as the upholder of all
things southern, white and male, would rather sing hip-hop
and twerk in his undies on the senate floor rather than call
for a vote on reparations.
Unless you understand that white America is in no mood
to shovel out hundreds of billions of dollars, directly or
indirectly, to the descendants of slaves, you will fail to
understand the underlying volcanic angst against the US
Treasury being “raided” by “you people!”
Currently, there are “debates” in Congress on the
issue of reparations and from where I sit, it will just be
that and that alone…. debates.
No one is going to jeopardize his vote with the white voters
in the South by taking a no prisoners stance about
supporting reparations to millions and millions of black
people (and do we include the Native Americans in this
discussion?).
White America wants to lay low on this hot topic issue
because a full scale and frontal assault regarding obtaining
monies for past and present racial injustices will cause a
breach in this society as big as the divide which caused the
Civil War.
Be assured that the Civil War was about keeping or not
keeping slavery in America. President Abraham Lincoln was
quoted as saying that if he could have kept the Union intact
and maintained slavery, he would have.
The Emancipation Proclamation was also a method by
which the Union could rally and enroll thousands of black
soldiers (formerly enslaved people) in their cause against
the South, which if it had their wishes, Lakeisha and
DeMarcus would have been slaves longer than the end of the
year 1865.
Imagine the mindset of a Mitch McConnell that he would
say that the passage of civil rights legislation and the
election of Barak Obama was white society’s payback to
enslaved people.
That is how little McConnell knows of American history
and also how callous he is to think that such “trinkets” as
doing the right thing vis a vis the civil rights acts of the
1960s and the subsequent election of a black man to the
highest office in the land was sufficient to eradicate the
debt of slavery.
Without supplying a book list of the incalculable
value and contributions of enslaved people to America and
done so gratis, ignorant people like McConnell speak in
racial gibberish when they want to short circuit
conversations about race in America.
It takes a person of unfathomable moronic intelligence
to remotely try to equate electing a black man to the
presidency as the equivalency to reparations.
Somehow, a black person serving eight years in the
White House compensates for hundreds of years of subjugation
and enduring post slavery in what is erroneously called, Jim
Crow (as opposed to being called: Neo-Slavery).
Somehow, Barak and Michelle Obama are being forced by
McConnell to serve as poster kids for the balm that would
cause McConnell, and others of his ilk, to sit back and
relax and say, “All is paid for!”
Now, remember, this is the same person who vowed after
the first election of Barak Obama, that he would work to
make Obama a one-time president. So much for championing
Obama as his reparations idol which would calm any
discussions of reparations.
If the Democratic Party uses reparations as one of
their “planks” in their party platform to run on in the
upcoming national elections, you can be assured that Herr
Trump and his racists minions will whoop and holler because
they can “tar and feather” the Democrats as beholden to the
black vote and they, in turn, are attempting to drain the US
Treasury.
If you thought the ads of Willie Horton that were used
by the past Republican Party standard bearer, George H.W.
Bush, to gin up racial animus against both the black voter
and the Democratic Party, imagine the ads that would be
cranked out If the issue of reparations was placed before
even white Democratic voters.
Chaos, anyone?
If black voters demand that the Democratic Party
include a reparations plank in the party’s platform, be
ready for the political fire storm to follow.
It would practically guarantee Herr Trump a second term in
the White House.
If you thought Herr Trump was an adept race baiter,
with the reparations issue as new fodder, Trump would, at
his rallies and through his tweets, slam and ram his
Democratic opponent as being beholden to special interest
groups.
I would not want to be on the debate stage with Herr
Trump and with a national audience looking on trying to
champion racial reparations, regardless if America has paid
reparations before to other identified injured persons.
The difference is that the recipients in this case would
be black people and the average white factory worker outside
of Scranton, Pennsylvania; Macomb County, Michigan;
Milwaukee, Wisconsin or the white cashier in Montgomery,
Alabama or the white farmer in Fargo, North Dakota would go
into that closed-door voting booth and with glee, pull the
lever for Herr Trump.
I guarantee it!
Contact Lafe Tolliver at tolliver@juno.com
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