Legalized Theft

18th century Scottish Judge and Historian, Alexander Fraser Tytler, once said, “A democracy… can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.” We are approaching that point in our political system in the United States.

The State of California has commissioned a committee to determine how much reparation money is owed to descendants of African slaves. They believe that reparations are owed to black Americans because there is a disparity between the wealth in white America and black America. Obviously, this is a ploy by California politicians to completely lock down the black vote for the Democrat Party in California. This is no different than Joe Biden, prior to the 2022 midterm elections, signing an executive order that forgave student loan debt of tens of millions of voters. The reparations commission came back with a price tag of $350,000 per person, and only those Californians who are actually descendants of black Americans from the 19th century will be eligible. Not to be outdone, the city of San Francisco assembled its own reparations committee which proposed $5 million award and total debt forgiveness to each black resident of the city.

Max Fennell, a reparations activist said, “It’s a debt that’s owed, we worked for free. We’re not asking, we’re telling you.” Max Fennell was never a slave. He never worked for free. So, when he says, “we worked for free,” he was using his skin color to align himself with a group of people who actually worked for free so he could appropriate the fruits their labor. That’s called stolen valor. And didn’t the slave owners also appropriate the fruits of the same group of people’s labor that Max Fennell and millions of black people are also trying to appropriate? The issues that most black people struggle with on a daily basis is not legacy of slavery or oppression from systemic racism.