My ancestors are also post-slavery arrivals to America. I don’t find the descendants of slave-owners to be guilty of anything either.
Pfleger’s point of course is that we whites have “benefitted” from our ancestors transgressions. As virtually every other poster here has pointed out: what benefits? Which whites? So frikkin’ what?
Here’s the most galling part to me: whatever past disadvantages African Americans have sufferred from at the hands of virulent white racism, THEY SUFFER FROM NO WHITE-INDUCED OR WHITE ENFORCED DISADVANTAGES AT THIS TIME WHATSOEVER. None. Zip. ANY remaining pathologies suffered by SOME who happen to be African American are due to their own faults, AND the ruinous policies of people who think like Pfleger, but have even more power. The percentage of blacks who are middle class and prosperous even by American standards is higher than ever.WE OWE THEM NOTHING AS A RACE. There is no need for any more affirmative action to “correct imabalances.” THAT job has been accomplished, thank you very much.
If African Americans still choose to feel aggrieved in large numbers and keep insisting on being categorized by race and racial consciousness (and therefore exhibit their own brand of racist behavior), despite the enormous, dramatic economic and social gains they have made in the last 3 decades, and if they insist on cheering on Pfleger, Wright, as well as the charlatan buffoon who replaced Wright and introduced Pfleger in the video, Al Sharpton, Jessuh Jaksun, Louis Farrakhan, ad nauseam, then I have a suggestion for them:
Shut the hell up, or WE — the rest of us Americans — will demand our trillion or so dollars back that we shelled out in social programs of which African Americans were disproportionate beneficiaries. Who needs “reparations” from whom?
