On Talk of Reparations Revving Up Again

I've addressed this countless times already and, so, yeah, here we go again. Reparations are a ludicrous idea BECAUSE, the harsh fact that a) you would first have to prove that America's black slaves would have been better off had they remained in Africa, an impossibility being that these folks would have had to remain as slaves in Africa and had their lineage even survived they would have been destitute to this day (Botswana is the only country in sub-Saharan Africa in which the citizens are doing adequately and even those folks are worse off than African-Americans, b) whatever wealth that the country had accrued from slavery was completely obliterated by the Civil War, c) every slave that arrived in North America ALREADY WAS A SLAVE and being that this was easily the best possible option for them (staying in Africa and/or going to the Middle East, South America, or the Caribbean were all far worse) dishing out additional money seems absurd, d) there were tens of thousands of black slave-holders in North America (from the 17th on into the 19th Century) and it probably wouldn't be the greatest idea to reward the descendants of those folks, e) most slaves in the South were materially better off than the free blacks of the North and many were even better off than the poor whites of the South (compared to what? - always ask that question), f) blacks have already been given hundreds of billions of dollars in transfer payments over the years and you'd think that that would count for something, g) it was black slavers in East Africa who sold the slaves to Europeans and so if we're considering reparations going to the source would seem to be important, and h) there were hundreds of thousands of white slaves and servants in the 17th and 18th Centuries and being that a lot of their descendants are probably hand-to-mouth and living in Appalachia it wouldn't seem very kosher to exclude them...…………………………………………………...And even if we did dish out reparations, what guarantees do we have that this would permanently end the matter? I mean, it isn't as if civil rights, affirmative action, and the Great Society have satisfied the masses and so why in the hell would this? If you ask me, this is just one more way to fleece the American taxpayer.