Candide, Tea and the Chinese

Piano anyone? No? OK then, you shall have oranges instead.


As you may or may not know, I already talked about reparations for slavery month back, but as I had a very unremarkable day, and as I am getting so old that I tell the same stories over and over, why not beat a dead horse with the guilt stick?

I know all about guilt. I practice the religion that invented it. Also, the maternal side of my family is Italian, and very much so. My point is that I am familiar with the concept. One thing for which I feel absolutely no guilt, is the oppression of the black community either now or in the past. Let me explain.... Yesterday, I watched Jeremiah Wright on C-Span talk about why he talks the way he does. I did not catch the whole thing, but I did hear him talk about the government. In short, he said that he hates the government because they have never apologized for slavery....

I will now ask you rhetorically if the U.S. government should apologize for slavery, and I will also answer rhetorically with a resounding NO-!-!.!.!-!_. On the surface an apology may seem like a useless token gesture that would do absolutely nothing for the descendants of slaves, and not for that reason but for another do I strongly oppose the idea. My reasoning is simple: Our government is representative... i.e. It represents the people. If our government were to apologize, they would essentially, at least in principle shoulder us all with the guilt of slavery which no one currently should have to bare, and once we are all guilty, then we would all owe something..

Wow, some problems in there, but it doesn't matter because you chose to read it and I am afraid my backspace key will suck my finger in..... My real reason for being angry, is because I just don't like it when a select few outspoken members of a community give their community as a whole a bad name by claiming justice where no wrong has been done and financial compensation when it has not been earned. If you found any of that offensive... Either check through all my posts to find where my reasoning on the subject comes from, or pour yourself a nice glass of lemonade and go out to the field to watch the fieldmice frolic in the midday sun............ I don't know, maybe it is time to stop posting, or at least wait for something more interesting.....


Just remember that in the best of all possible worlds, there is no such thing as a necessary evil..