How to Increase KKK Membership

By: Vindictive | 05July2001

rep·a·ra·tion n. The act or process of repairing or the condition of being repaired. The act or process of making amends; expiation. Something done or paid to compensate or make amends. reparations Compensation or remuneration required from a defeated nation as indemnity for damage or injury during a war. - dictionary.com The reparations theory goes something like this... In 1169, Norman settlers and 300 soldiers from Wales arrived in County Wicklow in Ireland. From that time to when my Irish ancestors moved to America (and into the present), the English oppressed the good people of the Emerald Isle. They denied "us" religious freedom, denied us an education (including making it illegal to learn to read), quartered troops among us, raped "our" women, murdered our kinsmen and confiscated our property. Whereas, my Irish progenitors were financially (and otherwise) oppressed to increase the coffers of the progenitors of my neighbors of English descent, and Whereas, my neighbors of English blood who inherited wealth, or enjoyed a better education (or merely have a family tradition of a healthier emotional outlook) got it at the cost of my family's relative poverty (and mine), Therefore, my legal claim, as a person of Irish ancestry, is against those of English ancestry. For 800 years of English oppression and egregious treatment of the Irish -- some of which is still ongoing -- I demand compensation from my neighbors. The black slavery reparations theory... ...is similar to my "oppressed Irish reparations" scenario above (with about the same legitimacy). The difference is in a few of the details. In August of 1619, a Dutch slave trader ported his man-of-war in Jamestown and exchanged his cargo of twenty Africans for food. They became indentured servants, similar in legal position to poor Englishmen who traded several years labor in exchange for passage to America. The conception of a race-based slave system did not develop until the 1680s. As tobacco planting became successful, slavery of Africans was legalized in Virginia and Maryland, and became the foundation of the Southern agrarian economy. Initially, black slavery grew slowly, but by the 1680s, it became essential to the economy of Virginia. During the 17th and 18th centuries, black slaves lived in all of England's North American colonies. Before Great Britain prohibited its subjects from participating in the practice of trading slaves (in three bills passed between 1806 and 1811), about 650,000 Africans had been forcibly transported to North America. By the time the American Civil War of 1861 began, there were about 4 million black slaves in the United States. That Civil War ended and in 1863, President Lincoln issued an Emancipation Proclamation (which applied only to the "rebellious states"), stating that "all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free". The 13th Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in America in 1865 -- approximately 246 years after it began. Of course, white oppression of the black race didn't end with slavery. Racism and ethnocentrism cannot be wiped out by government mandate or legal revisions. Although conditions have continued to get better, throughout the US (but particularly in the ex-Confederate southern states), some members of the white majority have ill-treated members of the black minority -- legally, even, until the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Therefore (the argument goes), since the black race was oppressed, enslaved, raped, murdered and otherwise unjustly treated by the white race for so long, their descendants should be financially compensated. Applying the same logic... Lets assume that I showed up on your doorstep today bearing documentation that proves that for many years, my long-deceased great grandfather was forced to render services to your family -- under incredibly harsh conditions -- for years without any compensation whatsoever. Do you owe me back pay? Suppose the object of your family's mistreatment wasn't a dead ancestor, but my still-very-much-alive father and those in your family who received the benefit of his work are also still around. Perhaps my father should sue them, but do you, personally, owe me anything? The term 'reparations' has rightly been used to to cover compensation being demanded by Holocaust victims and interned Japanese-Americans. These are the two favorite models for those claiming payment for injuries suffered as a result of black slavery. However, there's one important moral and legal difference: the injured parties and the injurers are still alive, and able to make direct restitution. Who enslaved who? Assuming that slave reparations are only being demanded by American descendants of victims, of American descendants of slaveholders, it might be useful to bear in mind that although there was about 246 years of slavery on American soil, the first 157 years of it occurred before colonials presented a Declaration of Independence to King George the Third. Before that time, the legal responsibility for slavery belonged primarily to the British Empire. Even if we ignore my previous argument, and assume that you are personally financially responsible for injustices heaped upon others by your ancestors, no matter how distant, there's the problem of identifying who was a slave and who was a slaveholder. Who would pay and who would receive in an accounting for slavery? Many Americans have both slaves and slaveholders in their family trees. The vast majority of us have neither. Of Americans with ancestors who actually lived in America while slavery was practiced (most current American citizens come from families who weren't even in America yet), a much larger number fought against slavery than supported it. And what would we do about the approximately 12,000 black freemen who lived in the Confederacy who themselves owned slaves? Shall we go one step deeper and consider the root of the slave trade in Africa? The whites who owned and operated the ships that carried slaves to North American shores, trading them for food and tobacco, didn't personally capture and imprison black Africans; they purchased them from other blacks in Africa. 620,000+ dead Americans already paid! More Americans died in the Civil War -- the struggle to end slavery (among other agenda items) -- than have been killed in all other American-involved wars combined. Approximately 1.8% of the total population -- over 620,000 Americans -- killed other Americans so blacks could be free. At least that many more survived, but carried physical and emotional wounds to their deaths. America paid for its sin of slavery in the most valuable currency: blood. In case that wasn't enough... After the Civil War, America tried to compensate African Americans for what slavery and past injustices took away from them. Massive quantities of taxpayer money has already been infused into black communities in the form of income support, educational benefits and special programs. One economist estimates that over the last generation, American taxpayers have particularly targeted the black underclass with over $6 trillion in anti-poverty programs and payments. Affirmative action programs (rightly or wrongly) have ensured that minorities were given jobs that might have gone to better-qualified applicants. Aryans must love the slavery reparations movement. The claims of those demanding financial compensation for black slavery prove that dark skin provides absolutely no immunity to the widespread diseases of stupidity and greed. Even if we ignore my previous arguments -- that you aren't responsible for the debts of your ancestors; that it would be difficult to determine precisely who owed who; that America already paid the debt in blood; that blacks have already received (and are still receiving) compensation for being an "oppressed minority" -- to what degree of brain disfunction would a black person have to descend to even hint that all whites owe all blacks? Undoubtedly, the Ku Klux Klan and their ilk -- in order to support their claims that blacks are lazy and shiftless -- would like you to believe that blacks think whites owe them a living... something for nothing. If the slavery reparations movement continues to gain ground (supported by politicians looking for minority votes and attorneys who specialize in class action lawsuits), be prepared for a backlash from whites (as well as Hispanics, Asians and others) who are already overburdened by taxes that support current redistribution of wealth programs. If it happens (and I hope it doesn't), I predict that the day the first slave reparation payment is made, the membership of the Klan and other poisonous "white power" organizations and churches will triple. Joining these havens for whining, ignorant, scab-pickers will be a few basically good -- and justifiably angry -- white people.