Reparations, History, What If's and Reality

Let’s take a moment for a quick-fire repartee as it pertains to reparations, after all it is a contentious and hot topic.  Without doubt slavery, and the systematic subjugation of African Americans was vile. Its legacy is wicked. Its surviving traces are evil. It is not a sin that is unique in the world, but it is an evil that is unique in the context of America. Its consequences remain largely with us, as anyone with eyes to see can discern for themselves.

Unlike the Japanese American WWII internment case, American reparations program would necessarily be vague, there being few if any specific legal relationships by which eligibility and liability could be established. Is there a Confederate treasury to seize or present antebellum plantations to appropriate? The few corporate relationships that existed then and now are few and far removed from vassalage. Additionally, by and large the people represented by that government overwhelmingly oppose reparations, in part because many of them believe that their government justified itself at Gettysburg and paid its debt. Think about this. As of today, “2023, millennials are the largest living adult age group in America,” born in 1981 or tater, the 72+ million American millennials would have to go back at least five, six, even seven generations to find a slave or slave owner in their lineage, if there were any at all.

But it is more complicated than that. White Americans are the most strongly opposed to reparations, and not without reason. It is not obvious that an American whose forbearers or ancestors arrived here from Ireland, or Poland, or Italy or Sicily (as my ancestors did in the early 1900’s) ... after the Civil War has sins of the father to bear and atone for on this score.  And, without diminishing the wickedness of slavery, Americans of Jewish, Catholic, Southern and Eastern European... and other historically disparaged ancestries can point to discrimination and exclusion, too. To ask white Americans with no personal connection to slavery to accept guilt for it by virtue of their being white is to ask them to accept an idea that is fundamentally alien to our political culture.

How about some historical context? Do we not stand on the shoulders of historical American Revolutionary war patriots? Indeed, we stand on the shoulders of people like John Adams, Sam Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Nathen Hale, Crispus Attucks… who encountered and triumphed over what was then the largest empire in history. They said no, we will not stand for this. Thus, victory became America’s reality... Fast forward 72 years, America is embroiled in a Civil War to end slavery... Fast forward another 158 years following the end of slavery. social justice warriors (SJW), race hustlers and leftist politicos panning for future votes demanding descendants of slaves receive reparations for past wrongs. Are past wrongs deserving of compensation? If so, are we looking through dark lenses as to who deserves reparations? I suggest, if reparations become the new social norm, we need to re-examine the target recipients.

Why not expand the Reparation groupings. Why are there no ‘Reparations’ for White ancestral descendants of Civil War Union Soldiers who fought to free Black slaves from bondage? Why not reparations for survivors of uniformed serve members who perished in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam... regardless of color? Same goes for law enforcement officers, fire fighters and EMT’s killed in the line of duty. 

Should people so far removed from slavery be held accountable for the damage? I am of the opinion that no one currently living is responsible for righting the wrongs committed by long dead slave owners. I’ve said my piece, what say you, be it pro or con or ambivalent?  

 

 

Biden's Revision of Title IX Would Degrade Womens Rights

In prior posts and commentaries, I have suggested that women’s rights are under assault by the left and some within the current administration. How so? Lest we forget, the trend of allowing trans athletes to compete according to their identified gender. The anti-biological born female shards have destroyed the aspirations of female athletes,’ girls at the top of their game.  Nothing in Title IX or its federal regulations explicitly protects LGBTQ people, but the Biden administration is advocating that the law should be interpreted to protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Thus, the Biden administration has signaled that its upcoming regulation will explicitly expand Title IX to protect LGBTQ students from discrimination. If finalized as a federal regulation, it would carry the force of law. What President Biden should do is revisit, review and rethink the issue from a woman’s perspective and restore Title IX to protect women’s sports. Those who believe their rights have been violated can also bring their cases to federal courts through Title IX lawsuits. Think about this new rule that President Biden is proposing. What does it accomplish in the long run? It really just opens up the door for biologically born females to be discriminated against on the playing fields, courts, pools, tracks... It’s disturbing, discouraging, demoralizing, distressing, deploring... that we are approaching a world where biological born women are discriminated against in the name of equality.

Who’s to Blame

What say you about women’s rights in athletics and the public at large? As for me, my opinion, for what it is worth follows: For those who would suppress, menace, intimidate, harm, shout down women... and other people who stand-up for “Women’s Rights” is categorically non compos mentis or in the least display a lack of good sagacity. Have these nonsensical malefactors, fools as they may be, yet to learn, that it is better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. Who’s to blame for this societal absurdity? Why not put the blame where it belongs. How about government, the media, and the governing bodies of sports and Corporate America. They all seem to be delighting in allowing the transgender activists to sow chaos and provoke those who are against their ideology that are pushing for biological males in women’s sport for the sake of inclusion. 

However, it’s not just the entities mentioned that are intent on pushing this agenda on the public at large. Albeit the government and the media seem to be delighting in allowing the transgender activists to sow chaos and provoke those who are against their ideology. Some see it as a new civil rights movement. Could there be a more sinister explanation? I have heard it suggested by more than a few sources that a more sinister explanation is that the Biden administration is interested in destroying all the institutions and enshrining its own political power. It doesn’t care who it devastates in the process.  Final comment: D+E+I, do not = Equality for Women, nor the American public in general.

Escape the Left's Woke Dystopia

 

We as Judeo-Christian grassroot patriots must do what it takes to defeat toxic Leftist ideologies like Critical Race Theory. Is it not past time for pursuing and ridding CRT’s toxicity out of America’s classrooms, boardrooms, financial institutions, big tech, DC’s political apparatus... forever. Putting the horse before the cart, we as a free people must be able to counter a number of belief systems being propagated by the above-mentioned entities. Additionally, how do we as Judeo-Christian patriots free Americans of color and all minorities from the tyranny of the Left's victimhood mentality and inspire them to pursue their American Dream and achieve victory against the radical Left? How do we go toe-to-toe with an entity that engages significantly in finance, mass media, toxic pop culture, biased educators/school boards, teachers’ unions, Big Tech, boardroom members, Federal, State, and local politicos... et cetera? It starts by learning the ideology of the opposition, study, research, and a desire to offer more life altering stratagems… unmask and debunk even more of the Left’s venomous and racially intentional prejudiced deceit, deception, duplicity… and reach even more minorities with inspiring message about the American Dream.  Additionally, working together with the Cross before us we can aspire to inspire people, young and old, regardless of ethnicity and economic backgrounds to expose the left leaning  Democrat’s toxic and racist lies and empower more Americans to escape the Left’s “Woke” dystopia and to love America and pledge our allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.  In summation, is not America, now gripped in a struggle between an increasingly liberal secular society that pushed for change and a conservative opposition that rooted its worldview in divine scripture?  If we are to help America become what our Founding Fathers envisioned, then it is up to us to call attention to the dynamic in order to help America, come to grips with the unfolding conflict and, perhaps, defuse some of the tensions we all see and/or read about daily. We must fight the good and righteous fight to save America from the extreme left and by extension win today’s culture war. What say you?

What Are They Trying to Hide

What are they trying to hide? The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ),  an organization dedicated to the defense of Constitutional liberties secured by law... “exclusively obtained critical records showing that senior officials, including someone who is now a “principal advisor” to Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas, worked through the night to get the press release on the capture of Yemini terrorists crossing at the U.S. southern border scrubbed, coordinating efforts with unknown senior FBI and Customs and Border Protection officials.”

Back story follows: Following a major document dump against Biden’s surreptitious network of especially nonelected government officials and more than likely, yet unknown private entities, operating extralegally to influence and enact government policy, that includes senior Staff Officials closely tied to HS Mayorkas and Yemeni terrorists caught after crossing the border, details of which were reported and later expurgated. Why did these yet named, Senior Biden Officials attempt to censor the details squash the incident by redacting the details reference, the Yemeni terrorists caught crossing the border? Could it be the yet named officials were doing everything they could to keep America’s citizenry from knowing the truth? It is also purported that unknown officials at the highest level of the FBI were involved. This being the case, why not identify the officials by name. They remain unidentified because the Biden Deep State redacted their names. If the allegations made by ACLJ are indeed factual, do you the reader, suppose, there is something rotten in Washinton, DC? By withholding the truth, what could the Deep State hope to accomplish other than digging a deeper hole for themselves. Fact is that’s’ exactly what the ACLJ lawsuit uncovered. Now ALCJ is going back to court in this case. Why? For the reason, that not even President Biden does not get to pull the wool over the American people’s eyes. Lest we forget, if someone pulls the wool over your eyes, they deceive you in order to prevent you from discovering something. What is that something?

At the helm of Biden’s DHS, Mayorkas has utterly neglected his duty by not having any sort of answer regarding the location of suspected terrorists caught attempting to infiltrate our southern border.  Question! Is the open border a joke or a game? I am of the opinion that neither is a joke or game.  Allowing unvetted or inadequately vetted illegal aliens into America is irresponsible at best and is deliberately gambling with American lives. 

Does not Biden’s weak border policies allow cartel smugglers of drugs and potential terrorists the opportunity to exploit an underdefended southern border and, as a result, American citizens are being exposed to increased risk of potential terrorist attacks? That being said, the ramifications of the Biden administration’s open-border policies have already been exposed. If terrorists can easily pose as asylum seekers and abuse the laws so egregiously, it raises the question: How many domestic terrorist attacks are currently being planned? How many Americans will die as a result of these intended terrorist attacks? This writer fears more will depart this life in the near future than those souls who perished on 9/11. Simply stated, Biden’s border crisis is not just a border calamity, nor just an illegal immigration problem. It’s the most evident, preventable national security threat America currently faces. Now that the horse is out of the barn, what can we do about it?  

SVP Collapse a Portend of Things to Come

Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) collapse should be a “wake up” call for all Americans, be they Democrat or Republican about the sad state of the U.S. economy. Perhaps the American people will finally wake up and understand that we’re living in in a valley of unmitigated bad times, that, in fact, a recession may have previously started. Who knows? But it doesn’t look good.

I feel bad for all of these people that lost whatever money they had saved and or invested in this woke bank. More distressing still, was the fact SVB officials sold off their stock before the doors were shuttered. It’s both sad and, to an extent, par for the course. Who knows whether the DOJ will go after them or be apathetic? They’re a woke company, so I guess not. And they’ll probably get away with it.

The Fed keeps raising rates and inflation keeps going in a northerly direction (the wrong direction). It’s not staying where it should be. Why are our elected officials blind to the Middle- and Working-class struggles? People can’t pay their bills. They can’t fill their tanks with gas. And if you think that’s a good sign, you are either a radical left leaning ideologue, an idiot or asleep at the proverbial wheel.  I don’t think it is a good sign. And we have an administration that’s imperceptive as in unperceptive to this. They just keep talking about the great times and how good they are. It’s not good.

Opinionated Postscript: Today, 13 March 2023 it was Scranton Joe to the rescue of the five most dominate companies in the information technology industry, saving a business sector that provides major campaign backing for Democrats nationwide. Per President Biden: “No losses will be borne by the taxpayers. Instead, the money will come from the fees that banks pay into the deposit insurance fund. Because of the actions that our regulators have already taken, every American should feel confident that their deposits will be there if and when they need them.” 

To say it clearly and simply, the bailout comes from taxpayers, who pay increased banking fees to cover banks’ increased fees to the deposit insurance fund. Furthermore, the current administration has pushed many of these banks into being more concerned about global warming. … These banks are badly run because everybody is focused on diversity and all of the woke issues. Instead of protecting the shareholders and their employees, they are more concerned about the social policies. Additionally, it is apparent SVB’s risk management personnel spent too much time focused on woke “DEI" nonsense. The FDIC will reopen SVB under the auspiciousness of a larger, healthier bank, but for sure, American taxpayers will be paying for the losses of depositors who made bad business decisions to leave all their cash in one bank, uninsured.

 

Where does it Begin and How Does it End

It is apparent the likes of George Soros, Hansjorg Wyss, Klaus Schwab, Antonio Guterres, John Kerry, NWO and WEF billionaires, Globalists, Dark Money groups are buying off individuals within the ranks of the radical left, to include more likely than not some politicos in high places. Additionally, the already mentioned entities and groups are funneling megabucks, to include foreign money in our elections. Why would both the FEC and IRS decline to investigate the mounting evidence against the nemesis, mentioned? 

Unless one is brain dead, or lives off the grid, they in the least recognize the Soros name. On the other hand, every patriot, every conservative in the country knows of George Soros and the appalling effects his impact has had on America and other European governments. But when he was subsidizing, sustaining, and propping up leftist District Attorneys across the United States, few in the mainstream had caught on until it was too late. Now that they are embedded, how do we rid ourselves of these DA rogues, while in the meantime they push our cities, suburbs, and towns closer to societal implosion, collapse, insolvency, disintegration, ruination... etc.? Where does it begin? It begins by investigating Left wing organizations and the individuals tied to them and coordinating with likeminded attorneys general to shut them down. Whatever it takes, these rogue DAs must be recalled. For those who are waiting a sign from God before righting a wrong, remember this; "God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails." 

The Left does their most devious strategic planning behind closed doors, through layers of lies, and it’s up to you, me and the liberty minded electorate to expose them for who they are and defeat them. Lest we forget, there is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk of failure to act. Why no one organization or top government official(s) or Chief Executive has yet to step up to the plate is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. Do you suppose we the people are the key? With God's help, we can be triumphant.