As you will recall, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Harvard professor
w ho got arrested by Cambridge Police a week or so ago.
Fred Reed was a police reporter for one of the large Washington
newspapers. He now writes a column which can be Googled ~ "Fred on
Everything."
Fred published a weekly online column in which he got to say the
things his editors would never, ever have let him write in the paper. His
stuff is iconoclastic and various articles have probably offended
everyone.. regardless of political orientation. So, with the warning that
"This is definitely not politically correct," here comes Fred.....
The following is an essay regarding the failings of a system and a
culture. Please note that he elegantly describes the mood of many Americans
and he does so without prejudice.

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Slavery Reparations ..........by Fred Reed!

On the Web I find that Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of
Afro-American Studies at Harvard, is demanding that whites pay reparations
to blacks. It's because of slavery, see. He is joined in this endeavor by
a gaggle of other professional blacks. I guess he'll send me a bill, huh?

I feel like saying, "Let me get this straight, Hank. I'm slow. Be
patient.
You want free money because of slavery, right? I don't blame you."
I'd like free money too. Tell you what. I believe in justice. I'll give
you a million dollars for every slave I own, and another million for every
year you were a slave. Fai r enough? But tell me, how many slaves do you suppose I
have?
In round numbers, I mean...say to the nearest dozen. And how long
were you a slave?

Oh. In other words, I owe you reparations for something that I
didn't do and didn't happen to you. That makes sense. Like lug nuts on a
birthday cake.

Personally, I think you owe me reparations for things you didn't do
and never happened to me. I've never been coated in Dutch chocolate and
thrown from the Eiffel Tower.. I’ll bet you've never done it to anyone. I
want reparations. Kind of silly, isn’t it?

B ut if we're going to talk about reparations, that's a street that
runs in two directions. You want money from me for what some other whites
did to some other blacks in another century?

How about you guys paying whites reparations for current expenses
caused by blacks? Not long ago blacks burned down half20of Los Angeles, a
city in my country. Cities are expensive, Hank. Build one sometime and
you'll see what I mean. Whites had to pay taxes to repair Los Angeles for you.
You can send me a check.

Now, yes, I know you burned LA because you didn't like the verdict
in the tria l of those police officers. Well, I didn't like the verdict in
the Simpson trial. But I didn't burn my house and loot Korean grocers, or burn down a
city.

Over the years blacks have burned a lot of American cities: Newark
, Detroit, Watts, on and on. Now add in the fantastic cost over the
years of welfare in all its forms, the cost of all of those police calls
people had to make, for cells and jails and security systems in dep artment stores.

I can't live in the capital city of my own country because of crime
committed by blacks. Toss in the cultural cost of lowering standards in
everything for the benefit of blacks. See what I mean?

Now, I 'd view things differently if you said to me, "Fred, blacks
can't get anywhere in a modern country without education. We know that. We
need better schools, smarter teachers, harder courses, books with smaller
pictures and bigger words. Can you help us?"

I'd say, "Hallelujah! Hoo-ahh! Not just yes, but hell yes. Let's
sell an aircraft carrier and get these folks some real schools and get them
into the economic main-stream.' I'd say It partly because it would be the
right thing to do, and partly because I'd like to add you guys to the tax
base.
The current custodial state is expensive. I'd just love for blacks
to study and learn to compete and stop burning places. But is it going to
happen?
&n; bsp; You may not believe it, but I, and most whites, don't like seeing
blacks as miserable and screwed up as they are.

I spend a fair amount of time in the projects. Those places are
ugly. It's no fun watching perfectly good kids turn into semi- literate dope
dealers who barely speak English. It just plain ain't right. But, Hank,
what am I supposed to do about it? I can't do your children's homework. At
some point, people have to do things for themselves, or they don't get
done. Maybe it's time.

I'll tell you what I see out in the world, Hank... I think blacks
are too accustomed to getting anything they want by just demanding it.
True, it has worked for over half a century. Get a few hundred people in
the street, implicitly threaten to loot and burn, holler about slavery, and
sadly the Great White Cash Spigot turns on.

Thing is, whites don't much buy it any longer. Most recognize that
what once was a civil-rights movement has become a shakedown game. Few
people still feel responsible for the failings and inadequacies of blacks.
Political correctness keeps the lid on -- but everyone knows the score..
Which scares me, Hank.

On one hand, blacks hate whites and incline toward looting and
burning.&n; bsp; (The whites you hate are the ones who marched in the civil-rights
movement. Ever think about that?)

On the other hand, whites quietly grow wearier and20wearier of it.
Not good, Hank.

On the third hand (allow me three hands, for rhetorical
convenience), blacks keep demanding things. As I write, you demand
reparations for slavery . Blacks in Oklahoma (I think it was) want money
for some ancient race riot.

Other blacks reject the Declaration of Independence. Blacks in
New York hint broadly at burning and looting over a trial, yet more demand
the elimination of the Confederate flag, and the federal equal opportunity
apparatus, which means blacks want to sue Silicon Valley for not hiring
nonexistent black engineers. That's a lot of demanding for one month, Hank.

What happens if whites ever say, "No"?

Now, how about you? You've got a cushy job up there at Harvard, and
you can hoot and holler abou t what swine and bandits whites are. I guess
it's lots of fun, and you get a salary for it to boot. But don't you think
you might do blacks more good if you told them to complain less and study
more?

For example, if you want blacks to work in Silicon Gulch, the best
approach might be to find some really smart black guys, and get them to
study digital design ~ not Black Studies (as you teach). That's how
everybody else does it. It works. Then blacks wouldn't feel left out, and racial
tensions would decline. Sound like a plan?

Just out of curiosity, how many hours a week do professors of
Afro-American Studies spend in the projects, encouraging poor black kids to
study real-life sho-nuf subjects?
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Pass this one across America !!!



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