{"id":3830,"date":"2019-03-10T19:10:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T01:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2019-03-10T19:10:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T01:10:34","slug":"reparations-the-holy-grail-of-identity-politics-part-iii-bookworm-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3830","title":{"rendered":"Reparations: The Holy Grail of Identity Politics (Part III) &#8211; Bookworm Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we are to look to history for the wrong, let us look to history for the culprits as well.\u00a0 As Deroy Murdock writes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/02\/slavery-reparations-democratic-party-politics\/\">National Review<\/a> today, slavery and its associated ills are identifiable with a particular group \u2014 Democrats:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . .\u00a0 As Black History Month draws to a close, it is vital to remember that slavery spread agony across the South under the watchful eyes of Democrats, such as President Andrew Jackson, from the party\u2019s 1828 launch. It was not until 1860\u2019s election of Republican Abraham Lincoln that the final, decisive push toward abolition began. The GOP-led Union Army crushed the Democrat-led Confederacy in 1865. That\u2019s when Lincoln\u2019s Emancipation Proclamation came into full force, as Republicans freed the slaves.<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans\u2019 Radical Reconstruction empowered newly liberated blacks. Overriding the presidential vetoes of Democrat Andrew Johnson, congressional Republicans pressured southern states to ratify the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing blacks equal protection under law. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After detailing the many sins of Democrats as regards blacks, Murdock concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . .\u00a0if Democrats want reparations to atone for their nearly 200 years of anti-black sins, they should finance them. From Barbra Streisand to George Clooney to Tom Steyer to George Soros, the\u00a0Democratic 1 percenters\u00a0should shove their billions into a huge pile and then show us the money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookwormroom.com\/2019\/03\/01\/reparations-the-holy-grail-of-identity-politics-part-iii\/\">Reparations: The Holy Grail of Identity Politics (Part III) &#8211; Bookworm Room<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we are to look to history for the wrong, let us look to history for the culprits as well.\u00a0 As Deroy Murdock writes in the National Review today, slavery and its associated ills are identifiable with a particular group \u2014 Democrats: . . .\u00a0 As Black History Month draws to a close, it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3830\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reparations: The Holy Grail of Identity Politics (Part III) &#8211; Bookworm Room<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,25,3,125,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution","category-economics","category-education","category-evil","category-democrats","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}