The Scam of Slavery Reparations

A few years ago, I received a news article through e-mail regarding the pending "slave reparations" law suit. Here is an excerpt: "A powerful group of civil rights and class-action lawyers who have won billions of dollars in court is preparing a lawsuit seeking reparations for American blacks descended from slaves. The project, called the Reparations Assessment Group, was confirmed by Harvard law professor Charles J. Ogletree and appears to be the most serious effort yet to get American blacks compensated for 244 years of legalized slavery. Lawsuits and legislation dating back to the mid-1800s have gone nowhere."

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With that in mind, read the following excerpt of President Andrew Johnson from his veto of the second Freedmen's Bureau Act of 19 February 1866:

"The third section of the bill authorizes a general and unlimited grant of support to the destitute and suffering refugees and freedmen, their wives and children. Succeeding sections make provision for the rent or purchase of landed estates for freedmen, and for the erection for their benefit of suitable buildings for asylums and schools, the expense to be defrayed from the Treasury of the whole people. The Congress of the United States has never heretofore thought itself empowered to establish asylums beyond the limits of the District of Columbia, except for the benefit of our disabled soldiers and sailors. It has never founded schools for any class of our own people, not even for the orphans of those who have fallen in the defense of the Union; but has left the care of education to the much more competent and efficient control of the States, of communities, of private associations, and of individuals. It has never deemed itself authorized to expend the public money for the rent or purchase of homes for the thousands, not to say millions, of the white race, who are honestly toiling from day to day for their subsistence. A system for the support of indigent persons in the United States was never contemplated by the authors of the Constitution, nor can any good reason be advanced why, as a permanent establishment, it should be founded for one class or color of our people more than another. Pending the war, many refugees and freedmen received support from the Government, but it was never intended that they should thenceforth be fed, clothed, educated, and sheltered by the United States. The idea on which the slaves were assisted to freedom was that, on becoming free, they would be a self-sustaining population. Any legislation that shall imply that they are not expected to attain a self-sustaining condition must have a tendency injurious alike to their character and their prospects.

"The appointment of an agent for every county and parish will create an immense patronage; and the expense of the numerous officers and their clerks, to be appointed by the President, will be great in the beginning, with a tendency steadily to increase. The appropriations asked by the Freedmen's Bureau, as now established, for the year 1866, amount to $11,745,000. It may be safely estimated that the cost to be incurred under the pending bill will require double that amount -- more than the entire sum expended in any one year under the administration of the second Adams."

If I were a lawyer for the to-be-named defendants in the threatened law suit I would simply point out to them that the reparations have already been paid -- at least $23,490,000 worth, which, as Johnson pointed out, was more money than the total annual Government expenditures under John Quincy Adams. You can also see in the above excerpt the origin of the modern welfare State, which was instituted strictly for the benefit of the Blacks at the expense of the Whites. Furthermore, under the Freedmen's Bureau Act, Whites were to be subjected to trial before a court-martial for discriminating against the Blacks due to "local law, custom, or prejudice." Sound a little like "Federal hate crimes"? Andrew Johnson definitely foresaw what was ahead for America if this Act was passed and became "a part of the permanent legislation of the country" (and it was and did). It is no wonder why he is hated so much today by Black leaders and the liberal White politicians who prostitute themselves for the Black vote. It is also no wonder why the "r" word is flung about so frequently. These people have had their hands in our pockets for the last 140 years and they certainly don't want their milch cow to wise up.