State GOP candidate suggests some white people deserve reparations: ‘Never happened in human history before’

While announcing his run for office earlier this week, Ohio Senate GOP candidate Bernie Moreno proposed reparation payments for the survivors of the white people who fought for the Union Army during the Civil War.

“We stand at the shoulders of giants, don’t we? We stand on shoulders of people like John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington. That this group of people took on the largest empire in history. They said no, we will not stand for this. That same group of people later, white people, died to free black people. It’s never happened in human history before, but it happened here in America,” he said.

“They make it sound like America’s a racist, broken country. Name a country that did that — that freed slaves, died to do that. They talk about reparations. Where are the reparations for the people in the North who died to save the lives of black people? And I know it’s not politically correct to say that, but you know what — we have to stop being politically correct!” he added.

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In response to Moreno proposing this bold idea, leftists predictably called him a racist and bigot.

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It’s not clear how this idea is any less offensive than the notion of taxpayer funds being doled out to black Americans who never experienced slavery themselves, but whose ancestors were enslaved several centuries ago.

Yet the latter idea has taken hold both in far-left states like California and in far-left universities like Duke University. In fact, just this week Duke University economics professor William Darity, a black man, proposed $350,000 in reparations for every black American. He announced the proposal during a “Dr. Phil” appearance.

“The first condition is that reparations should be paid to black Americans whose ancestors were enslaved in the United States. The second is how much should be paid, and the amount should be dictated by the disparity in wealth between black and white Americans, which at the current moment amounts to [an] excess of $840,000 per household,” he said.

“It would be paid by the federal government in the same way in which the federal government has met the expenses that were paid out for the purposes of trying to deal with the great recession and also, most recently, with the economic downturn associated with the great pandemic,” he added.

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During the same “Dr. Phil” episode, civil rights activist Bob Woodson debunked the idea that any reparations need to be paid out, in the first place.

He accomplished this by debunking the root idea undergirding the call for reparations: so-called systemic racism, i.e., the thought that white people are to blame for all the problems faced by black men, women, and children alike.

“Blacks really benefited more the first 100 years after slavery than we have in the last 50 years. I was born in 1937 during the Depression. Everyone in my small, low-income Black community, 98% of the households, had a man and a woman raising children,” he said.

“Elderly people could walk safely in that community without fear of being assaulted by their grandchildren. Never heard of gunfire during that time. Never heard of a child being shot to death in the crib, but there are 50 children today who have been shot and killed in our cities,” he added.

He continued by stressing that solving these modern-day problems will require introspection, not handouts.

“If you’re talking about remedies, we’ve got to look beyond saying that every solution has to have a winner and a loser – that blacks can only benefit if whites lose. We have to be defined [as] more than just victims of oppression. When whites were at their worst, blacks were at their best. When we were denied access to hotels, we built our own,” he said.

“We have to communicate to our people the history of how they achieved in the face of oppression. But if we continue to sit back and say all of the challenges that we face in out-of-wedlock births, the violence, that somehow the control of that is in the hands of white America, and therefore, until white people change, there’s nothing that we can do – this sets up a terrible situation for this nation,” he added.

Vivek Saxena

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