Reparations Is A Total Scam!

by Al Benson Jr.

According to Wikipedia, Rep. Cori Bush from Missouri is a Black Lives Matter activist. She is also a willing participant in the ongoing “reparations” scam. In pending legislation Rep. Bush called on Congress to adopt measures “aimed at righting historic wrongs, including urging the federal government to issue federal reparations to black Americans…a minimum of $14 trillion would be needed ‘to eliminate the racial wealth gap that currently exists between black and white Americans’ the resolution argues! This bill, HR 414, is ridiculous and needs to be voted down resoundingly! Where does this woman think this $14 trillion is coming from, the Tooth Fairy? Or does she think the government can just print it and pass it out? If she does, does she have any idea of what such an act will do to the inflation level in this country? And the rank inflation won’t only hit white folks!

The “reparations scam” is just that–a scam. In an article on http://www.townhall.com for 5/11/23, writer Bob Barr, a former member of Congress, observed: “Neither history nor common sense mean anything to those demanding ‘racial reparations,’…” Barr then went on to list all the civil rights legislation, from the second 13th Amendment up to and including the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Barr duly noted: “In much the same way that junk science has provided the justification for New York Governor Kathy Hochul to ban the use of natural gas in new construction, ‘junk history’ is at the center of the racial reparations movement…At a recent public forum where Californians could comment on the proposed handouts (reparations) a ‘Rev. Tony Peirce’ boisterously demanded that the only fair dollar figure to be apportioned to him and his fellow black citizens was $200 million apiece…this episode encapsulates the junk history on which reparations advocates appear to justify their cause–that the anecdotal ’40 acres and a mule of 1865 is today worth a cool $200 million. It is doubtful Rev. Peirce or many of the others clamoring for massive monetary reparations for past–and in fact, continuing–wrongs understand or much care about the actual historic context or meaning of the ‘forty acres and a mule’ narrative.” To these people “history” is just another meaningless word. They want the cash, baby, and they want it now!

According to http://www.californiapolicycenter.org for 1/5/23 “California is considering paying ‘reparations’ to black Californians who are directly descended from enslaved people, which may surprise most Californians. After all, slavery was never legal in the Golden State.” But that fact makes no difference whatever. Governor Newsome feels he has a golden opportunity to garner black votes whether he decides to run for president (if the Democratic establishment lets him) or just run for governor again.

The article noted, quite accurately, that “To understand how slavery is applicable to California one must sift through the reports 500 pages of convoluted logic common to the victim industry in America…” The “report” goes into how slavery continues to “physically and mentally harm African Americans today.” And the article observes, again, accurately, that “The task force is not recommending reparations for slavery, but rather for discrimination.” The entire reparations scam is an exercise in political bovine fertilizer! In California it amounts to a giant vote-buying scam, as well as a major split in race relations, which may also be an alternate reason for it. And who will pay for all these black folks in California getting $200 million apiece–will it be white folks, Hispanic folks, and Oriental folks? That’ll go over real big with them!

An article on http://www.nypost.com for 4/30/22 duly observed that: “Ten years ago, the idea of ‘reparations’ sat on the political fringe in America. The question of whether or not compensation should have been paid to former slaves had died out. Not least because by the start of the 21st century no one in America had actually suffered from slavery…But there’s a tendency in our own age which does not allow wounds to mend or heal. Indeed, there is a movement that locates long-healed wounds in order to rip them open again. And then complain about the hurt caused to themselves.” And of course, the idea of scamming big bucks from people who never had anything to do with slavery really appeals to them. They want to be able to laugh at us poor suckers all the way to the bank. We want that cash, baby, anyway we can get it–honest, dishonest, makes no difference!

Every race of people in the world has either practiced slavery and been enslaved to some extent. Do they all deserve reparations? If not, why not? Why is it only blacks that deserve it? Every other race has put the issues of slavery and discrimination behind them, but not blacks (and all blacks don’t fit into this category) but many blacks seem to thrive on it. It’s like they have a never-ending grievance with the rest of the world and want to be paid to forget it (if ever they will).

The leftists among us, (to which our public schools are adding a growing number) are using this issue to divide the races one from the other, so we wont ever sit down together and talk to one another about how all of us are being taken to the cleaners. Reparations is a big part of the leftist agenda to cause racial division and we need to expose it for the racial scam that it is.

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The Union Leagues Created Racial Animosity

by Al Benson Jr.

The Union League, both during and after the War of Northern Aggression is one of those groups you will seldom see mentioned in the ‘history” books. In all my growing up time I never saw the merest mention of them in any history book I came across. Public school history books ignored them. Oh you read about the Ku Klux Klan and how bad they were, but nary a word about the Union League. Proof that the winners get to write the “history” books!

The Union League is not mentioned because most of its actions had a negative impact on the country–so negative that to include them in any real history book would cause many to question the pristine purity of Yankee intent. And again, I don’t impute the term “Yankee” to all Northern folks. Anyway the intent of the Union League was so negative that they were just not mentioned, just dropped from the historical narrative. In fact, if you had not had the Union League with its radical intent, you might not have even had the Ku Klux Klan. at least not in the form it took.

The Abbeville Institute, http://www.abbevilleinstitute.org had this to say, in part, about the Union League: “The Union League is one of the most cryptic of civil war and reconstruction topics even though it was a wellspring of tyranny…According to historian Christopher Phillips the leagues ‘demanded undiluted loyalty to the wartime policies of Abraham Lincoln.’ Western Loyal Leaguers (a kissin’ cousin to the Union League) believed there was no such thing as loyal opposition. Voters either supported Lincoln or they were traitors. ‘Western Loyal Leaguers fought dissent with much more than words. In central Illinois one woman claimed the Republicans ‘were forming vigilance committees to identify every man and woman not loyal to Lincoln’…In 1865, Leaguers tarred and feathered seven Ohio women including one who was a widow of a recently deceased Union soldier…”

The article continued “At the end of the war, league chapters were opened in the South to serve as rallying points for whites that had opposed the Confederacy…The new goal of the Southern leagues…was to make sure the blacks registered to vote and voted Republican…The Union League recruited members with a cult of secrecy and exaggerated promises…” Just like politicians today, promise them all manner of goodies during Southern “reconstruction” and then not deliver on any of it.

Often League members couldn’t read or write and so just voted the way they were told to. Members were indoctrinated, and basically brainwashed, into believing that their interests “were perpetually at war with the Southern whites that were falsely accused of wanting to put blacks back into slavery…” In this way the Union League fostered racial animosity. The lasting harm of this horrible lie is that it has existed and persisted right down to our day. Only now it is being perpetrated by socialist Democrats. How many times have you heard, from some well-paid black demagogue “Vote Republican and they’ll put you back in chains.” It’s all bovine fertilizer, but unfortunately it fools many blacks who have not bothered to do any homework because its so much easier to just pull the Democrat lever down in the voting booth!

According to https://heritagepost.org the Union League in the South was formed to establish the black man’s party and “so bend the negroes by secret organization to the Republican party, so they could be detached and taken entirely from under the control of the white people of the South. The Union League is the right arm of the Republican Party…the League taught in practice that the white men of the South were enemies of the negroes , and it excited the latter to deeds of disorder and interference in every way with the whites…”

In other words, the League fostered racial animosity that continues down to our day, and is even promoted by some in Congress. Do you begin to see why the activities of the Union League are continually omitted from our “history” books? One more bit of our history “down the memory hole” as it were. If you want a little more about the Union League check out a book by John Chodes called Washington’s KKK: The Union League. I believe it was published by Shotwell Publishing, Columbia, South Carolina and can be found at Amazon.com

Normal Americans Not Safe Under Biden’s Regime

by Al Benson Jr.

It is becoming more and more apparent that normal Americans are the real target of the Biden Regime. When Trump said “They’re really after you. I’m just in the way.” He was probably more accurate than he realized at the time. So innocent Americans are not really safe under Biden’s beneficent rule, especially if they happen to be white Americans because then they are all automatically “white supremacists.” Wonder if that makes Biden a white supremacist too.” I know, we are not supposed to mention that. I suppose next, Biden will tell us he’s really black.

It seems as if, in any altercation that arises between a minority and a white person, if you listen to the prostitute press, the white person is automatically the guilty party–no exceptions!

There was an item on the news last evening that displayed this. Maybe some of you all saw it. It took place in (where else) New York City, the new home for illegal immigrants and the displacement of homeless veterans. A pregnant white health worker rented a city bicycle to get home after her work shift. She had a receipt showing she’d rented it. Some black dude decided she shouldn’t have it and took it away from her. The video on tv was rather compelling.

I don’t have to tell you how the excuse for a news media portrayed this. This white woman’s need to have this bike to get home on was portrayed as “white supremacy” against the poor defenseless black thug that tried to take it away from her. I don’t know how it eventually turned out, whether she got to ride the bike she rented home or not. Thing is, more and more, leftist politicians and lying media are making it impossible for Americans to live normal lives.

New York City is the socialist paradise where homeless American vets are being kicked out of hotels to make room for illegal immigrants who will likely be entitled to all manner of freebies. So, normal Americans, this is what China Joe wants for you. You are to be replaced by illegal immigrants who, if Biden can just let enough of them into the country, will outvote you in the next election by voting Democrat and that illegal vote will be enough to keep the Democrats in perpetual power and they can drag this country down to the third world level–fit only to become another cog in the wheel of one world government. That’s the plan. Biden has only contempt for real Americans but he loves those illegal immigrants almost as much as he loves Communist China

Paul Craig Roberts has an interesting article on http://www.lewrockwell.com this morning. Mr. Roberts observed: “Biden Regime is spending billions of dollars to defend Ukraine’s borders but won’t spend one penny to defend America’s borders. The Democrats want the Hispanic and black immigrants, who they want to give the vote to, because the immigrant invaders water down the white majority population and destroy the ethnic basis of the U.S. Instead of a unified nation, there is a tower of Babel.”

Mr. Roberts has it figured out. White Americans, especially God-fearing and patriotic ones, are to become the despised “white extremist” minority, constantly outvoted by the unknowing minions of that group that wants America submerged into a one world government and despises our founding principles and heritage. Right now their point man is China Joe. Before him it was Obama, and before him it was the Bush’s. Anyone remember the senior Bush ranting about the “New World Order”? And what part does the Council on Foreign Relations play in this political scam? Go back and read some of my recent articles to find that out.

Socialist Hypocrisy?

by Al Benson Jr.

In the past several months several “blue” cities in the North rushed in to receive the designation of “sanctuary cities” for illegal aliens. They wore this badge proudly–as long as it didn’t cost them anything but a little rhetoric.

Now that Texas, which is being inundated with illegal aliens, has started putting them on buses and sending them to these sanctuary cities, the tune has suddenly changed. Now these sanctuary cities are being rudely awakened to the real world fact that what they asked for ain’t what they really wanted! It’s only what they thought they wanted back when it wouldn’t cost them anything.

When reality kicks in and the illegals start arriving by the busload, in increasing numbers, they begin to find out what the Southern border states are having to put up with. Now they are deciding they’re not having anymore of that! The illegal alien welcome mat is being removed in places like Chicago and New York City.

You’ll have to pardon me if I don’t feel all that sorry for these liberal/socialist cities. They got what they asked for, in part because they never thought it would really happen. Or, at best, they felt maybe a handful of illegals might show up that they could feel good about pampering. But when busloads of them came, it didn’t take long before it was “Katy bar the door.” What they wanted was to look noble in front of the socialist world. When reality started catching up with them, the liberal/socialist “nobility” started wearing off real quick!

Invaded!

by Al Benson Jr.

This country is about to be invaded! I saw one news item on television that said there were 150,000 illegals in northern Mexico awaiting the expulsion of Title 42 so they can, basically, invade this country. I don’t know if that figure is totally accurate or not. However, the Border Patrol said it had apprehended 10,000 on each of the last two days somaybe it isn’t all that far out of line.

The news said that Biden has directed officials to release illegal aliens without trying to track them. Biden admits when Title 42 ends the border will be chaotic. Thats an understatement! It will be an invasion–one that Biden dreams about. Thousands upon thousands of untracked illegal aliens. Biden drools with anticipation!

He has done and will do nothing to stop this. Now, if he can only get a bill through Congress that will permit these illegals to vote here sans citizenship, he can use them to overthrow the country via the voting booth–a mostly bloodless revolution. This will affect the whole country. Every city will be a border city with illegals coming out of the woodwork!

You have to consider the possibility that the job the Deep State gave him was to tear down the country as we know it and replace it with the abomination we know as socialism–while he laughs all the way to the bank so he can cash those fat Chinese checcccks!

With The Border Crisis Looming–What About Mexico’s Political Past?

by Al Benson Jr.

The resolution that has kept our Southern border from being completely inundated with illegal aliens is about to expire. And the illegals will swarm across our border like a swarm of locusts and the Biden regime, for all its big talk about the border not being open, along with all the other lies they have told, will look the other way and do nothing about it, all the while continuing to tell us they have the situation under control. Anyone believing them has to believe in the tooth fairy as well.

Much if Mexico’s recent past has been a testimony to leftist perseverance, contrary to what some “news” sources have told us. The Mexican Communist Party was founded in 1917 as the Socialist Worker’s Party. It changed its name to the Mexican Communist Party in 1919. It was outlawed in 1925, but managed to regain its legal status in 1935. In 1924 Mexico was the first country in the Western Hemisphere to establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. The New York Times informed us (however much you can believe them) that the U.S. government confused Mexican nationalism with communism. Don’t kid yourself!

During the Cold War, in Mexico, the International Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) claimed it was a “nationalist and progressive” alternative to communism. Again, don’t kid yourselves. A N Y Times article told us “Frieda Kahlo, when she died in 1954, received the first official homage ever accorded to an artist in Mexico’s Palace of Fine Arts. Her coffin was covered with a banner of the hammer and sickle. This was emblematic of a resurgence of Communism in Mexico, not steming from parties and unions–but from artistic, academic, and literary circles, where Marxism had begun to gain renewed vigor…” But, then, these intellectual types always seem to be among those who see something positive in communism,–as long as they don’t have to live under its iron fist.

When the Cuban Revolution began, Mexico’s PRI party didn’t condemn Fidel Castro and it abstained from an Organization of American States(OAS) vote to expel Cuba. There was definitely compromise ere. The expedition led by Castro in 1956 had set sail from Mexico, and Mexicomthen defended Cuba via diplomatic measures…Then, in the 1970s and 80s, all varieties of Marxism had become “a common language” in public universities in Mexico. Almost sounds like our colleges and universities in this country. They were definitely leaning far left at that time–and today they are so far left some people are falling off the edge!

Lopez Obrador would become the populist caudillo of the Mexican left. He ran for president in 2006 and came within a fraction of a percent of winning, so naturally, he accused the government of election fraud. The New York Times claimed the Mexican Revolution had “absorbed and transformed (and sidelined) the Russian revolution.” Actually what happened is that the Russian Revolution had taken on a more Mexican flavor that previously.

Blair Coan, in his book, The Red Web written in 1925, noted that “Mexico is today, was yesterday, and will be tomorrow, the most fertile incubator of Bolshevik revolution on the American continent.” And while many changes have occurred since he wrote his book, I think has basic premise is right on the money. Check out an interesting article on http://www.theyucatantimes.com for May 18, 2020.

There Are Westerns And Then There Are Westerns

by Al Benson Jr.

I’ve noted for several years that Western movies seem to be dying out. You see one here and there, but in the main, no. This is not a new trend and I won’t go into all the reasons for it here, of which there seem to be several. I grew up in the 1950s watching Westerns both on tv and in the movies. When I got old enough, I traveled over much of the West. I was seldom disappointed–in the scenery, the people, or much of anything about the West.

Unfortunately, the world is changing. In recent years moviemakers have come to be concerned not only with domestic audiences but with the foreign market as well. Communist China has become a major consumer of American movies–and the Chinese don’t like American westerns. The free and independent attitude of the American West is something the Chinese can’t identify with, from the Communist government on down. Ordinary Chinese can’t identify with it, because for hundreds of years now, and maybe never, they have not experienced freedom and independence of thought. And their government is not about to let them see too much of that kind of thing on the silver screen! Communist regimes favor films that make communism look superior. Though with the current trends in Hollyweird, Communist regimes might learn to appreciate our movies because they tend to make our country look so negative.

It has been also observed that, as our country has grown more “diverse” and politically correct that Westerns with heroes with clean-cut images have become less popular. Nowadays if you want Western movies you better make sure your leading characters are anti-heroes with mixed motives. Can’t have people yearning for “truth, justice, and the American way.” So we’ve graduated from John Wayne to Clint Eastwood. And as much as I have enjoyed Eastwood’s movies over the years, most of the characters he has portrayed are far from pure as the driven snow! One Western movie he did, The Unforgiven, featured Gene Hackman as a psycopathic sheriff who got his kicks out of beating up on people. I never saw that picture again and don’t figure I’ve missed too much. Contrast that with what John Wayne said about a republic as a form of government in The Alamo and the difference is like night from day.

Then, there are Westerns and there are Westerns! Many over the years looked like they were filmed on a Hollywood back lot somewhere, or even worse, in some cases like they were filmed mostly in some studio building with a few outside shots taken of the hero on a horse to make it look outdoorsy. I’ve been to the locations of some of the Westerns Ive seen over the years, and believe me, indoor filming for Westerns doesn’t cut the mustard! If you have seen the country out there, you can spot fake, indoor “scenery” in less than a New York minute.

I suppose, were they to start making more Westerns they would have to conform to today’s twisted standards. The “heroes” would all have to be non-white, preferably trans-sexuals and the heroines would all have to be lesbians in order to reflect our “diversity” a diversity where no straight whites need apply for any roles. The traditional Western seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird and anything that reflects positively on either the South or the West is simply beyond the pale–to be avoided on pain of intellectual death!

Equity Rules So Whites Don’t Deserve Or Need Help

by Al Benson Jr.

It was ten days after the toxic chemical train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio before Mayor Pete, Biden’s excuse for a transportation secretary, even bothered to make mention of it. After all, Mayor Pete had much more important things to deal with than the lives of those folks in East Palestine. It seems that Mayor Pete’s main concern at this point is that too many white guys have jobs where they have to wear hardhats and not enough minorities have those jobs. After all, if you don’t have “equity” you don’t have nothin. So Mayor Pete’s big concern right now is making sure less white guys and more minorities get those good jobs.

So the folks in East Palestine, Ohio, outside of any help they can get from their state, will probably mostly have to fend for themselves. It seems the federal government may have just written them off. After all, East Palestine is around 70% white and lots of them voted for Trump in the 2020 election charade–so they just don’t deserve all that much help from the current equity-prone regime.

Had this happened in a black, Democratic city the feds would have been all over it–like maggots on rotten meat. That it happened in a white area makes it barely worth their notice or mention. Anyone who thinks the Biden regime deals fairly with everyone is out of their mind or totally deluded!

East Palestine, Ohio residents want answers from the feds and from the railroad about all this. Folks, don’t hold your breath waiting! If you ain’t equity-prone you are beneath their contempt! Anyway, why are not the climate change cultists beating their breasts over this toxic derailment–and about all the dead whales washing up on the beach in New Jersey? Where is their sense of moral indignation about all of this? They have yet to say a word that I’ve heard about any of this.

These climate change types are as phony as a Bill Clinton three dollar bill. They parrot what they are told to say and simply ignore that doesn’t fit their leftwing agenda. They are political prostitutes for profit and nothing more!

I would have had this and one other article up sooner except that the wifi here want down on Sunday morning and never came back up until this morning (Wednesday). All we got here was a little rain and that was enough to shut it down for almost three days. I remarked to someone that it must be a pretty frail system if all it takes is a little rain to knock it out. She agreed. I guess that’s just life among the equity-prone!

Cancelling Out Our History And Heritage

by Al Benson Jr.

In an article written by Paul Craig Roberts and published on 2/5, Mr. Roberts stated, in part, “Museums are custodians of a culture’s history and art, as the United States was settled by white ethnicities from Great Britain, Ireland, and Europe, the history and art in museums reflects the culture of white people. The problem is that half a century of nonwhite immigration has racially diversified and multiculturalized the United States into a tower of Babel, and the Eurocentric tradition did not take into account ‘racial equity.’ In short, the collections are white and white is racist.”

He also observed: “New requirements for law schools amount to institutionalizing dogma and requiring instruction, such as Critical Race Theory, on subjects that are unrelated to any distinctive legal skill. So you will go to law school to learn how to be an anti-racist. This suggests that the future of law will turn on sentiment and emotion…In the repositories of our culture whiteness is under attack. In the legal profession whiteness is under attack. In the medical profession whiteness is under attack. Where is whiteness not under attack? Notice also that it is whites who are attacking whiteness. The cancellation of a civilization is well underway.”

The African continent is a great example of this. It happened there before here, but we don’t seem to have learned from it. Whites built thriving economies in places like Rhodesia and South Africa. These countries not only supported themselves, they even exported food to other places.

Now that black rule has taken over in these places, with even the white farmers being terrorized and replaced, these countries have been turned into hellholes that can’t even feed themselves anymore. White farmers have been replaced by black “farmers” who don’t bother farming and so people go hungry. And remember, it’s all the white man’s fault! Black farmers who won’t grow food are always the white man’s fault and don’t you dare forget that! Everything wrong in the world is the white man’s fault.

Another question comes to mind after reading Mr. Roberts’ article, which I was only able to quote in part. He noted that some whites were also attacking whiteness. The question arises, to me, and others, might it not be informative to check on the ethnicity of those whites who are helping to tear down their own civilization? Lots of folks might find the answer to that question quite enlightening.

I have yet one more suggestion. If white folks are all so evil and racist, why not let those who so roundly criticize them learn to do without all the terribly evil things whites have invented–things like automobiles, airplanes, telephones, indoor plumbing, electricity, air conditioning–you know, all that “evil” stuff that makes people’s lives more livable and comfortable. I’m sure those who hate the white races so much would be much more content if they just gave up all this “evil” stuff, don’t you think? But, as the man says, “Don’t hold your breath waiting for that.” These people want to enjoy all the modern conveniences with having assumed almost no responsibility for having created them. It’s great to criticize what you never created, but then try doing without it!

You Peons Have Got To Do Better (So we elites can be even more comfortable)

by Al Benson Jr.

Well, the World Economic Forum is in full swing now. All the elites have arrived in Davos in their private jets to discuss climate change and other “relevant” issues as they try to explain to us peasants how we should live so they can be more comfortable. Some of these folks have been informing us for awhile that we should begin to think about eating grasshoppers and roaches to obtain our nourishment. They think that’s good enough for us ordinary mortals while they continue to dine on caviar and filet mignon. You won’t catch Klaus Schwab dining on grasshoppers!

They are busy telling us we must make “greater sacrifices” to save the planet. What about them sacrificing a little? Perish that thought! That’s not part of the game plan. Don’t you know that “ours is to sacrifice” so they can live even better! The elites want even better lives so we should be willing to sacrifice so they can have that worthy goal. Isn’t that noble? Or as Sean Hannity said on Fox News last evening, “Do better peasants!”

Needless to say, the World Economic Forum is all in for the Green New Deal. They think it’s just great In fact, the Green New Deal is like a giant watermelon–green on the outside but RED on the inside. The Davos Conference is for world elites who claim they are not elites–yet they gather for these conferences so they can tell the rest of us how to live! These climate alarmists have made one failed prediction after another for years, yet they continue down the same garden path, hoping this time they will get it right. Al Gore has just warned us about the new problem of “boiling oceans,” How often has Al Gore been wrong in the last three decades?

And just maybe some of the WEF people have been messing in other areas they have no business messing in. According to The Gateway Pundit site “European Union official Vera Jourova claimed, during a World Economic Forum panel that the US would ‘soon’ have ‘illegal hate speech laws.’ Now how does she know that? Have these elites found some dupe US congressperson to introduce a bill to that effect? Sheila Jackson Lee, who we noted in yesterday’s article comes to mind here. And the question comes to mind here, seeing that this has been mentioned at the WEF conference–is it possible that the origin of this bill lies somewhere outside of the US originally?