{"id":3508,"date":"2019-11-05T11:46:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T11:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/05\/illegal-aliens-and-black-reparations\/"},"modified":"2019-11-05T11:46:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T11:46:27","slug":"illegal-aliens-and-black-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/05\/illegal-aliens-and-black-reparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Aliens and Black Reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Here is another problem for the ill-starred notion of black reparations. Should those who reside illegally in the U. S. pay them? Why not? Don&#39;t they benefit from the putative legacy of slavery like everyone else?&#0160; On the&#0160; other hand, if you think that only the&#0160; descendants of slave-holders should pay reparations, then we citizens who are are not descended from slave-holders are off the hook. And what about the blacks who are descended from blacks who held slaves? Do they get reparations too? And who is black anyway? Rachel Dolezal?&#0160; If race is just a social construct, can I re-identify as black and get in on the goodies? If I can identify as a girl and then compete in an all-female athletic event, why can&#39;t I identify as black?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">There will never be black reparations for slavery. The idea is just too incoherent for implementation. And it perpetuates the victim mentality that keeps blacks on the bottom. <em>Nor should there be<\/em> reparations for slavery. See the following. Trigger warning! They are exercises in reasoned discourse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2018\/04\/david-horowitz-on-black-reparations.html\">David Horowitz on Black Reparations<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/06\/black-reparations.html\">On Black Reparations<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another problem for the ill-starred notion of black reparations. Should those who reside illegally in the U. S. pay them? Why not? Don&#39;t they benefit from the putative legacy of slavery like everyone else?&#0160; On the&#0160; other hand, if you think that only the&#0160; descendants of slave-holders should pay reparations, then we citizens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/05\/illegal-aliens-and-black-reparations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Illegal Aliens and Black Reparations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}