Perhaps that is the NYT's goal, to force such an issue on the country, (as had been the strategy of the abolitionists and Republican backers of Lincoln, to force the issue of anti slavery on the South,) having failed now for all to see, with the long LIEO since WWI and WWII, and with nothing now left to lose from the left.
Left and liberal backs are now to the wall, and they seem now to be looking for desperate rallying and evocative measures to radicalize and unify as much of the country as possible to their heavily fragmented side.
The sense must be that if negroes can feed at the trough of Democratic liberalism, then other interest groups will be given a way into the trough in due course as well, including illegal latinos, women, the young, and LGBTs.
The irony of reparations is that it is really an unprovoked assault, from liberals and the left, if not quite out of a clear blue sky, at least a sky otherwise untroubled by something as farfetched and unrealistic as this.
But Democrats have been promising negroes things they did not deliver on for a long time now.
Just one major problem with the idea is that it fuels an already out of control false Whig interpretation of American and Western history that blames only white males for everyone else's sordid heritage.
The fact that this heritage was a sordid but typical heritage for most whites too back then has long been forgotten.
At least the South had made colorable threatening moves adverse to Northern ideology in the runup to the Civil War.
Just try to imagine how descendants of slave owners would take it.
On the other hand, try to imagine how descendants of Northerners would take the suggestion that they too, rather than Southerners only, should contribute to negro reparations.
Just try to imagine how descendants of slave owners would take it.
On the other hand, try to imagine how descendants of Northerners would take the suggestion that they too, rather than Southerners only, should contribute to negro reparations.
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