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Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations
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Patricia Dickson has been a logical voice to listen to on issues in the black community.

Here she exposes the false reasoning surrounding the debate on reparations.

Like Candace Owens, Dickson is spreading a message of independence, Christian values, and conservative values. I suggest checking her out on YouTube.

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The slavery reparations argument is built on a false premise

By Patricia L. Dickson

The growing debate on reparations for African-Americans finally intensified to the point that Democrats held a congressional hearing to discuss H.R. 40, a bill that proposes a commission on reparations.  Many African-Americans believe that they are owed reparations (payback) from the U.S. government for the enslavement of their ancestors.  They want payback not only for slavery, but for the discrimination endured as a result of Jim Crow laws.  However; the debate on reparations is based on a few false premises.  In fact, the main false premise is what causes such intense debate among many uninformed black Americans.

One false premise is the assumption that every white American's ancestors owned slaves.  Just witnessing the hate and vitriol spewed from race-baiting black so-called leaders proves how deeply this belief is held.  Testifying at last week's reparation hearing, Episcopal bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton said the following:

When I'm talking reparations, I'm talking about those left behind, but I'm talking to my white brothers and sisters.  You need this more than we do.  You need this for your soul.  You need this to be able to look black persons in the eye and say I acknowledge the mistake, and I want to be part of the solution to repair that damage.


According to historians, there was a white class structure in the South, and only 6.6 percent of whites owned more than 50 slaves, whereas over two thirds of white households in the South did not own any slaves at all.  By 1860, only 0.1% of whites owned more than 100 slaves, and 76.1% of whites were non-slave-owners.

The main false premise that the entire reparation debate is built on is that the slaves built America.  This false premise is difficult to break down and explain to angry blacks who feel that all of today's rich white Americans are living off the wealth earned from the free labor of their ancestors while they, on the other hand, are living from paycheck to paycheck.  The first problem with this belief is that it exposes a lack of knowledge about money and finance.  However, what I find most difficult to believe is the revealed ignorance of American history.  To believe that slaves built America, you would have to ignore the fact that there were some states that were not part of the Union during slavery.  Are we to believe that the wealth in those states came from African slave labor?  Alaska had slaves, but they were indigenous people from other tribes, not African slaves.  The state of Hawaii was not part of the union during slavery, and African slaves were never transported there.  Does all the wealth in Alaska and Hawaii come from African slave labor?  The false premise also ignores the fact that other groups like the Chinese and Irish helped build America as well.


The worst part of the false premise that slaves built the America we live in today is the fact that it overlooks the different periods in America.  After slavery was abolished, we had the Reconstruction period and the Second Industrial Revolution.  Whatever parts of the South the slaves built, it was destroyed in the Civil War.  Everything had to be rebuilt.  The same goes for buildings and infrastructure destroyed by natural disasters.  Slavery was over during the Second Industrial Revolution.  What about the roaring 1920s, when America saw the large-scale development of inventions like the automobile and the building of skyscrapers?  During that period, America gained dominance in world finance.  What part did African slave labor play in that period?

To claim that all of America today is enjoying the wealth that was built by slave labor is ridiculous.  The pro-reparations crowd also believes that every wealthy white person today inherited his wealth from his ancestors, who earned the wealth from slave labor.  To believe that preposterous claim, one has to assume that every white person's ancestors were wealthy to begin with.  It also overlooks the fact that many wealthy white people today are first-generation millionaires and billionaires.

Contact the author at patdickson@earthlink.net.  Follow her on Twitter at @Patrici15767099 and YouTube.

https://www.americanthinker.com


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Edited by XUL (06/23/19 12:12 PM)

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Re: Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations [Re: XUL]
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Quote:
One false premise is the assumption that every white American's ancestors owned slaves. 


Nobody thinks this unless they are completely retarded. Who didn’t learn in like the fourth grade that slavery was limited to the southern states. 🤦‍♂️

Reparations aren’t about punishing anyone. It’s about the multi century state sanctioned ownership of black people (African slavery) in the United States that prevented the accumulation of any family wealth for most black people until just a few generations ago. Even two generations ago, black people were effectively unable to fully participate in the American economy by being excluded from the kind of activities that other Americans have used for centuries to accumulate wealth,
Like high paying jobs and home ownership.


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NotSheekle said
“if I believed she was 16 I would become unattracted to her”

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Re: Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations [Re: koods] * 1
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Why would people who had nothing to do with slavery have to pay for people who owned slaves?

Your point still makes no sense considering this:

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two thirds of white households in the South did not own any slaves at all.



It seems that most people's families weren't involved, but you want to get them involved.


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Re: Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations [Re: XUL]
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How are those families getting involved?


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NotSheekle said
“if I believed she was 16 I would become unattracted to her”

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Re: Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations [Re: koods]
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Wait, so you are going to genetically track down only families who owned slaves and make them pay alone?

Will this include black families who owned slaves?

Sincerely.


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Re: Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations [Re: XUL]
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Are you being intentionally obtuse or do you really just have no clue what is going on?


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NotSheekle said
“if I believed she was 16 I would become unattracted to her”

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Re: Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations [Re: koods]
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Answer the questions.

Is this proposed tax for reparations limited to only families who owned slaves or does everybody have to pay?

Are black families who owned slaves going to pay reparations?


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Re: Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations [Re: XUL] * 2
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Xul, the unsung hero of African American values. :crymeariver:

Every time you mention African Americans you are screwing them over in some guise or form.


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Re: Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations [Re: XUL]
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Reparations for slave ownership is an interesting topic. I was brought to the subject thanks to the Chappelle Show back in the day. A comedic skit but based on what could happen if the US went thru with it.

I would argue the best way to deal with it would be genetic/DNA tracking. For example, perhaps look at the records of slaves (if there is any) and find descendants of those slaves and give them some amount of money per month or per year. That part is sorta easy.

But the source of the money would be more difficult as well as how much does every descendent get. Who would pay for this Reparations? Would the whole nation pay a tax on it? Would genetic/DNA testing be used to find the descendents of the slave owners and have them pay up? No real easy answer for that. I would argue treat it like Social Security or the Veterns Association system just have everyone pay a tax to it like any other social tax. That would make the most sense to me.

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Re: Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations [Re: Asante]
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The article was written by Patricia Dickson.

Is she screwing them over?


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Edited by XUL (06/23/19 04:03 PM)

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Re: Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations [Re: XUL]
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I have no idea who that is. So what?


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NotSheekle said
“if I believed she was 16 I would become unattracted to her”

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Re: Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations [Re: koods]
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I was talking to Asante.

I asked you to answer two questions.


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Re: Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations [Re: XUL]
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@Asante

XUL said:
The article was written by Patricia Dickson.

Is she screwing them over?




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Re: Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations [Re: XUL]
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XUL said:
Answer the questions.

Is this proposed tax for reparations limited to only families who owned slaves or does everybody have to pay?

Are black families who owned slaves going to pay reparations?


Nobody is going to single out families to pay anything.

You make such dishonest arguments. (I say this assuming you’re not the retard your questions make you appear to be)


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NotSheekle said
“if I believed she was 16 I would become unattracted to her”

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Re: Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
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LogicaL Chaos said:
Reparations for slave ownership is an interesting topic. I was brought to the subject thanks to the Chappelle Show back in the day. A comedic skit but based on what could happen if the US went thru with it.

I would argue the best way to deal with it would be genetic/DNA tracking. For example, perhaps look at the records of slaves (if there is any) and find descendants of those slaves and give them some amount of money per month or per year. That part is sorta easy.

But the source of the money would be more difficult as well as how much does every descendent get. Who would pay for this Reparations? Would the whole nation pay a tax on it? Would genetic/DNA testing be used to find the descendents of the slave owners and have them pay up? No real easy answer for that. I would argue treat it like Social Security or the Veterns Association system just have everyone pay a tax to it like any other social tax. That would make the most sense to me.


How is taxing people that had NOTHING to do with it "make the most sense to me"? 

I'm Polish American, why penalize me for something that occurred hundreds of years ago?  That make no sense to me at all. My Polish ancestors had NOTHING to do with slavery in the US.

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Re: Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations [Re: qman]
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Its paying back to the past. We already do it with Social Security, Americans helping elderly people survive, people we have never known for the most part.

Is it so different to trace slave owners and have them pay up for social debts incurred?

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Re: Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations [Re: qman]
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qman said:
LogicaL Chaos said:
Reparations for slave ownership is an interesting topic. I was brought to the subject thanks to the Chappelle Show back in the day. A comedic skit but based on what could happen if the US went thru with it.

I would argue the best way to deal with it would be genetic/DNA tracking. For example, perhaps look at the records of slaves (if there is any) and find descendants of those slaves and give them some amount of money per month or per year. That part is sorta easy.

But the source of the money would be more difficult as well as how much does every descendent get. Who would pay for this Reparations? Would the whole nation pay a tax on it? Would genetic/DNA testing be used to find the descendents of the slave owners and have them pay up? No real easy answer for that. I would argue treat it like Social Security or the Veterns Association system just have everyone pay a tax to it like any other social tax. That would make the most sense to me.


How is taxing people that had NOTHING to do with it "make the most sense to me"? 

I'm Polish American, why penalize me for something that occurred hundreds of years ago?  That make no sense to me at all. My Polish ancestors had NOTHING to do with slavery in the US.


First off, it wasn’t hundreds of years ago.

You and your polish ancestors live in a country that was partly built on the free labor of kidnapped Africans. That’s what you have to do with slavery. You can move to Canada or
Poland if you don’t want to anything to do with the consequences of the enslavement of those people.


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NotSheekle said
“if I believed she was 16 I would become unattracted to her”

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Re: Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
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It’s only logical and human nature to not believe ADOS deserve reparations bc it doesn’t affect me.


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Re: Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
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LogicaL Chaos said:
Its paying back to the past. We already do it with Social Security, Americans helping elderly people survive, people we have never known for the most part.

Is it so different to trace slave owners and have them pay up for social debts incurred?


Yeah, it's radically different. I had nothing to do with slavery, how is taxing me to pay for reparations ethical under those circumstances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_medieval_Europe

Who's going to pay for this social debt?  Should I be waiting for a check in the mail?

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Re: Dickson exposes the lies behind reparations [Re: qman] * 1
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How is taxing you to pay for drone strikes in Yemen ethical?

Strange how there’s never a fiscal concern until we’re helping minorities instead of hurting them.


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