Asked and Answered
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Property insurance payouts for damages from the BLM riots of 2020 totaled something close to $2 billion. Of course, many insurance policies specifically do not cover damages due to rioting— for example, in just the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area alone it’s estimated about $200 million in damages were not covered by insurance. In short, while insurance companies paid out upwards of $2 billion to cover damages, that figure is just a fraction of the actual losses. And the uninsured losses don’t take into account the loss of livelihoods when businesses (usually smaller, family-owned businesses) were bankrupted by riot damage.
So, back to the young lady’s question “Where are my reparations?” I’d say they are in those burnt-out buildings and shuttered former businesses. There’s your reparations, Miss.
I do hope you enjoyed them.
Why don’t you put down your sign and go to work?
I have Irish blood. Where is my money? The Royals owe me!
The “Entitlement” mindset is fit for one thing and one thing only. Imprisonment.
You deserve everyone else’s money? Here…move into this penitentiary. I help fund it. You’ll get three hots and a cot. You won’t have to do anything …not even hold up a cardboard sign on some street corner.
There’s your reparations grifter.
Buried at Gettysburg, Antietam, the Wilderness…
Begin with the annual personal income per capita of black Americans. Subtract from that the personal income per capita of Nigerians. Then calculate the discounted present value of a perpetual annuity of that amount. That’s how much you’re in the hole sister.
Art Deco.
Brilliant. :👍)
I will pay double wages for any year or part of a year that I received the benefit of your labor without compensating you.
Unwanted, correct, answers are the most necessary to give and the hardest ones to give. They are particularly hard to give charitably.
Reparations for what? She is not a slave. She has never been a slave. Her parents, her grandparents, her great grandparents are and were not slaves.
Everyone who was a slave in the USA is dead. Everyone who owned a slave in the USA is dead.
“Reparations” is another term for a permanent entitlement.
The earliest ancestor of mine who emigrated to the USA set foot here in 1866….in Western Maryland (Allegany County), never a major slaveholding region, AFTER the end of the Civil War. My ancestors owed her ancestors NOTHING.
Throw away the sign and get a job.
I left her reparations check in her work boots … I can’t imagine why she hasn’t found it yet.
This is really weird. The girl holding the sign could be my wife’s maidservants doppelganger.
Remarkable. 😎
Each of the tens of millions of murdered black babies could hold up that sign. Guy, Texas