Leave it to Elon Musk to tweet a message that perfectly encapsulates the truth about reparations for slavery. At a time when the push for reparations is gaining steam nationwide, Musk’s mid-December missive — “It is easy to fool people, but it is almost impossible to convince people that they have been fooled” — has never felt more relevant.
Over the past 50 years, progressives and self-appointed black leaders have fooled many Americans. They’ve fooled them into believing that the economic, health, and educational disparities plaguing our community are the result of racial injustices, white privilege and systemic racism. For this foolish crowd, the reparations movement — which this week gained traction with the formation of a Reparations Commission in my hometown of St. Paul, Minn. — is yet another effort to obscure the real ailments impacting blacks while siphoning off billions of dollars toward themselves and an never-ending class of government dependent families.
More than one-half century ago, legendary New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (above in 1966) spoke of a “crisis” of single-parenthood in black communities—a crisis far more dire today.
Well, you’ll have to contact the wardon on that one.
DNA testing for the children of the ‘womb-ATM’ mommies – with paternity requirements for the fathers – before any welfare allowances….
Meanwhile, change the welfare laws such that no additional monies are authorized just because you have more kids…and authorize birth control (prevention instead of abortion) as part of all insurance plans….
Birth control is already covered by welfare. You just have to be smart enough and responsible enough to use it.