http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/gift.html Proclamation of Amnesty and Pardon Granted to All Persons of European Descent Whereas, Europeans kept my forebears in bondage some three centuries toiling without pay, Whereas, Europeans ignored the human rights pledges of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, Whereas, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments meant little more than empty words, Therefore, Americans of European ancestry are guilty of great crimes against my ancestors and their progeny. But, in the recognition Europeans themselves have been victims of various and sundry human rights violations to wit: the Norman Conquest, the Irish Potato Famine, Decline of the Hapsburg Dynasty, Napoleonic and Czarist adventurism, and gratuitous insults and speculations about the intelligence of Europeans of Polish descent, I, Walter E. Williams, do declare full and general amnesty and pardon to all persons of European ancestry, for both their own grievances, and those of their forebears, against my people. Therefore, from this day forward Americans of European ancestry can stand straight and proud knowing they are without guilt and thus obliged not to act like damn fools in their relationships with Americans of African ancestry. Walter E. Williams, Gracious and Generous Grantor
So basically the injustices White Europeans experienced were from other White Europeans, as in White-on-White crime?
You would think talk of slave reperations was like a daily thing with the timing of this post. It's not exactly a headline dominator, are you constantly thinking about this giddy? Not to mention he ignores that it was only 40 years ago that full civil rights were "legally" granted and of course changing the law didn't change the attitude of people.
How would Mexican and Asian immigrants react to having to pay African-Americans slave reparations? What a joke.
Well, this tongue-in-cheek article is written in regards to the dreaded White Guilt, not reparations.
It's either: 1. That I'm obsessed and spent months looking for something like this OR 2. I just now stumbled across it! I'll go with 2...
