Slavery Reparations

All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting good of the present wretched race of slaves. — Oliver Ellsworth, a signer of the Constitution

A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. — Woodrow Wilson

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. — Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French politician and writer

Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But God help law enforcement officers, air marshals and border agents who try to use those same factors to combat terrorism and protect American lives. — Michelle Malkin

Blacks...can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk: 'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is'....And I blamed the kid until I heard the [parents] talk....Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads....You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth! — Bill Cosby at an NAACP conference

Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks. — Thomas Sowell

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of White Men and do not apply to them. — Mary F. Berry, chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission (By definition, only whites can be racist)

Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination. — Thomas Sowell

Data compiled by the Heritage Foundation show that teens from homes headed by single, never-married women are twice as likely to be sexually active than teens from homes headed by married couples. Black children are three times more likely than white children to be living in a single-parent household and are three times more likely to be poor. So despite arguments from Planned Parenthood and other liberal advocates that inserting government between parents and their children protects children, things are quite the opposite. The reality of the black community is testimony that the formula for keeping children poor, and assuring that their children will be poor, is to destroy the integrity of the family. Government subsidization and protection of irresponsible behavior has gotten blacks into the social black hole in which they now find themselves. Black kids are not suffering because they need more rights. They are suffering because they are not learning, from an early age, about responsibilities and consequences. — Star Parker, Nov 2005

Election of our nation's first black president is delivering an unexpected message to our black population. Blacks are discovering that what a man or woman does -- their actions -- is what matters, not the color of their skin. It seems ridiculous to point out that this was supposedly the point of the civil rights movement. Purge racism from America. But blacks themselves have been the ones having the hardest time letting it go. — Star Parker, Aug 2011

I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil [slavery]. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery. — Patrick Henry, 1773

I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. — Harriet Tubman

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In order to avoid poverty, just do three things: finish high school, marry before having a child, and don't have a child until you're at least twenty years old. Only 8 percent of people who do all three of those things wind up poor, but a staggering 79 percent of those who fail to do them wind up in poverty. — Bernard Goldberg, Arrogance, p 12

In order to get beyond race, you have to go to race. To suggest race neutrality as a remedy for racial discrimination is sophistry of the highest order. — Julian Bond, NAACP Chairman, responding to a recent Supreme Court decision (Huh?)

In our attempt to blame poverty on prejudice, we have taught the poor to be prejudiced against the basic values necessary to sustain a free and civil society....We've taught them there are no real absolutes to the human condition -- except perhaps that the highest value in life is to acquire things. — Star Parker

[I]n the post-civil-rights era, two competing ideas about discrimination, particularly racial discrimination, have arisen. The 'conservative' view is that discrimination is wrong, period. The 'liberal' view is that discriminatory means are acceptable in pursuing a noble end. — James Taranto

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral and political evil in any Country. — Robert E Lee, Confederate General, 1856

It is much to be wished that slavery may be abolished. The honour of the States, as well as justice and humanity, in my opinion, loudly call upon them to emancipate these unhappy people. To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused. — John Jay, Supporter of the Constitution after its creation and an author of The Federalist Papers, 1786

Liberals can't just come out and say they want to take more of our money, kill babies, and discriminate on the basis of race. — Ann Coulter

The average poverty rate in Black Caucus districts is almost 50 percent higher than the national average. Yet, these black politicians have 100 percent re-election rates. — Star Parker, Aug 2011

The bottom line is that the civil rights struggle is over and it is won. At one time black Americans didn't share the constitutional guarantees shared by whites; today we do. That does not mean that there are not major problems that confront a large segment of the black community, but they are not civil rights problems nor can they be solved through a 'conversation on race.' Black illegitimacy stands at 70 percent; nearly 50 percent of black students drop out of high school; and only 30 percent of black youngsters reside in two-parent families. In 2005, while 13 percent of the population, blacks committed over 52 percent of the nation's homicides and were 46 percent of the homicide victims. Ninety-four percent of black homicide victims had a black person as their murderer. Such pathology, I think much of it precipitated by family breakdown, is entirely new among blacks. In 1940, black illegitimacy was 19 percent; in 1950, only 18 percent of black households were female-headed compared with today's 70 percent. Both during slavery and as late as 1920, a teenage girl raising a child without a man present was rare among blacks. If black people continue to accept the corrupt blame game agenda of liberal whites, black politicians and assorted hustlers, as opposed to accepting personal responsibility, the future for many black Americans will remain bleak. — Walter E. Williams, economics professor, George Mason University

[T]he Constitution allowed Southern States to count three-fifths of their slaves toward the population that would determine numbers of representatives in the federal legislature. This clause is often singled out today as a sign of black dehumanization: they are only three-fifths human. But the provision applied to slaves, not blacks. That meant that free blacks–and there were many, North as well as South–counted the same as whites. More important, the fact that slaves were counted at all was a concession to slave owners. Southerners would have been glad to count their slaves as whole persons. It was the Northerners who did not want them counted, for why should the South be rewarded with more representatives, the more slaves they held? — Thomas G. West (“Was the American Founding Unjust? The Case of Slavery,” p. 5.)

[T]he day before a black child, minority child, steps into a classroom, half the achievement gap already exists. That is, they already start behind. — Joe Biden, US Senator

The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights based on race, gender and, any day now, sexual orientation. The great liberal revolution, centuries in the making, that brought forth equality in law has been overthrown. In its place we see rising a new feudal legal order of status-based rights. — Paul Craig Roberts

The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. — Louis Farrakhan (By definition, only whites can be racist)

The truth about black poverty today, as Kay Hymowitz of the Manhattan Institute has aptly put it, is that it is 'intricately intertwined with the collapse of the nuclear family in the inner city.'... Black children don't need politicians of any color who claim to hold the keys to their future. They need parents who know their names. Two of them. — Star Parker (Sep 2005)

Whenever I see any one arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. — Abraham Lincoln

Why doesn't the Left mind racial discrimination against whites? — The Federalist Patriot, 23 Sep 2005

Why is it that hose who clamor the loudest for diversity seem to believe that diversity does not include straight white Christians? — Blaine Nay

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