Plunder is what the issue of slavery reparations is really all about. The possibility of legal plunder, lawyer plunder by those who get their kicks and dollars by promoting a culture of victimhood. Get over it, folks. The race card has just about played out. It is rapidly becoming irrelevant.
And very tiresome.
Slavery was invented thousands of years before the United States became a country. African blacks sold other blacks 3,000 years ago and they are still selling and killing their brothers today. Arabs and Africans, Israelites, Chinese, Romans, Greeks and Egyptians had slaves. Early American Indians had white and black slaves. 4,000 blacks had black slaves at the time of the Civil War. Blacks fought on both sides of the war. Whites fought on both sides of the war. Only a small percentage of Southern soldiers were slave-owners.
There have always been injustices and there always will be. We are doing a poor enough job of handling contemporary problems without whining about the past.
Most Americans don't feel the need to apologize or remunerate the very fortunate descendants of long ago slaves. After all, the descendants could still be in any African nation taking their chances on rampant Aids, genocide, or one of the many wars between tribes and religions.
According to the Wall Street Journal, even the few African-Americans who have ventured back to Africa to discover their roots have found they aren't particularly welcome. Africans regard them as just more rich and arrogant Americans. They might as well be white.
And beleaguered Africans are justified at thinking of black Americans as just more bigshot Whiteys.
Consider the fact that American cities with black mayors include Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia, Detroit, San Francisco, Columbus, Memphis, Cleveland, New Orleans, Denver, St. Louis, Atlanta, Newark, Birmingham and on and on to smaller cities such as Rochester, New York; Inglewood, California and Pontiac, Michigan.
Only manipulators and the gullible have the nerve to cling to the myth of black victimhood in modern America.
Think about the number of black stars in television, movies and sports in relation to black population representation of 12 or 13 percent.
Where else but in America?
Those on the slavery reparations bandwagon are a shame and embarrassment to the many blacks who earn their own way and are happy to be plain old Americans.
Without any hyphens.
And shame also to the universities, corporations and media so intimidated by the politically correct race card that honest analysis and logical arguments are no longer allowed.