Wednesday, July 19: A commenter provided a link to an article on black slaveowners.
Memo to anyone who takes the NAACP seriously. The national NAACP is a social club of limousine liberal Negroes who care nothing about “poor” blacks or “social justice.” The organization’s usefulness is over, part of ancient history.
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I know you loyal readers are on the edge of your seats every morning waiting for my riveting commentary, but I don’t have anything to say today.
Well, not really. (Come on! You know me better than that.) I thought I’d comment on the perpetual conflict in the Middle East from a Christian perspective and link to Cal Thomas’s latest column, Understanding the temper of the times, but I changed my mind. I’ll save my ideas for an article I’m writing for The Jerusalem Connection magazine.
Then I had a spark of motivation to write a “Give it up, GOP!” post after reading an article about national Republicans’ collective whine about “reaching out” to black voters and black voters’ collective whine about the “uncaring” GOP. Then I lost the spark. Boring, trite…
Last week someone asked me to blog about slavery reparations, which I intended to do last week. But more important matters came up, like contemplating the expansion of the universe and what effect, if any, it has on little old me. 
Seriously, though, this is my opinion on slavery reparations: Reparations are given to someone who has suffered at the hands of another. But since all American slaveowners — white and black — are dead and no black currently living was ever owned by a white American (just a guess), there is no one to receive reparations from and no one to pay reparations to.
But let’s suppose we [the people] redefine reparations just for blacks and say, “OK, let’s make amends to the descendants of those harmed and force the ancestors of the perpetrators to send each of them a big fat check to make up for the bondage thing.”
Who will pay? Who will receive? Will interracial/multiracial Americans have to pay and receive? Or perhaps their pay-out share would be reduced. Who decides how it will be reduced? Do we employ the “one-drop” rule to determine how “black” they are? What about whites with slave ancestors? Or blacks with slave-owning ancestors? It’s dicey, any way you slice it. And illegal, if the Constitution has any meaning at all.
Bottomline: Blacks already receive reparations with every lowered standard, every welfare check, every skin color-entitlement government contract, every race-based program subsidized by taxpayers, and every politically correct doctrine that seeks to suppress honest discussions on race and encourage others to apply different standards to black Americans in just about every area of American life.
If only reparations would stop the complaints, excuse-making, pandering, envy, and hostility! I would be the loudest proponent, donating my share to the poorest of the poor, shouting from the rooftop, “Thank God for this cash, for now my people are free, satiated by the ultimate government check!”
But we all know money is not the answer, nor will it ever change human nature.
So…that’s why I’m bored with politics, which is merely a small part of the cosmic struggle to get our way with as little effort as possible. That’s what the GOP’s hunt for the “black vote” is all about, that’s why the immigration debate rages (a cheap and servile labor force, maximum profits v. the rule of law, preservation of American culture), that’s why some black folks are clamoring for more government hand-outs, and that’s why some whites are willing to give it to them, hoping they’ll go the heck away and stop all the “woe is us” whining.
Tell me, readers, what in the fallen world is going on besides wars, rumors of wars, the destruction of a great country, and the loud (and wrong) call for more hand-outs?
Bring me good tidings! 
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Update: Some contend that the Civil War was a form of slavery reparations. What say you?
At the NAACP’s annual party meeting, president Bruce Gordon comes close to the mark but misses. Gimme, gimme, gimme!
I wonder if chairman Julian Bond recycled that same, tired speech. The words, “needs,” “fresh,” and “blood” come to mind.
