The Reparations racket is still with us

An unpopular truth

[Reprinted from Issues & Views April 19, 2004]

The black Reparations movement (see here) has not gone away. Its own leaders optimistically describe its present state as "burgeoning." Much of the impetus was knocked out of it in the aftershock of the 9/11 tragedy, when Americans were compelled to turn their attention to more concrete matters. But today, groups like the National Black United Front (NBUF) and N'Cobra have returned with new strategies.

Advocates of Reparations are now forced to move more slowly towards their long-range goal of procuring money and resources. Their main targets are still the federal government and any existing corporations on whom they can pin past histories of "complicity" in the slave trade or unfair practices against blacks during the segregation period.

In the meantime, Reparations leaders have decided to make city governments the targets of their demands, and are dunning city councils to produce proclamations containing a promise that the respective city will take up the issue of reparations. For example, last month, a Houston City Council meeting was the butt of an angry intrusion by members of Houston's chapter of the Black United Front, who insisted that the council put a reparations resolution on the agenda for a future vote. The Chicago city council has already acceded to these demands, along with a couple of other municipalities.

In Houston, the crusaders barged in, shouting at the council members and heckling Mayor Bill White. Several NBUF members were forcibly ejected by the police. The strategy is to keep up such uninvited visits and badgering behavior, in the expectation of wearing down Council members, who will then acquiesce and offer a hearing on the subject of Reparations. (By the way, in almost every city, there are blacks on the councils of government. These members come in for extra special insult and bullying by the Reparations fanatics.)

We learn from the Houston Chronicle (4/13/04) that Mayor White insists he will not be pressured into placing a reparations resolution on the city's agenda:

"I understand and sympathize about the need to dialogue," White said. "But I don't think there is any consensus about reparations and compensation. This is a highly charged issue, and that makes it more divisive." White said the city should focus on issues where it can make an impact, like improving traffic and neighborhoods. . . .

"His words were candy-coated cyanide," [Minister Robert] Muhammad said. "It was poisonous, although it was meant to taste sweet. He gave us nothing of substance."

Which translated means, We'll be back again and again.

These resolute victims of racial oppression, still whining over the Atlantic slave trade, refuse to see the writing on the wall telling them that the 1960s spirit of coercive mau-mauing is not completely over but is definitely in its waning stages.

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