John Conyers Is A Flaming Racist

You may recall John Conyers being in the news recently: he was the moron who left his kids with staffers for days on end, forcing them to babysit on the taxpayer's dime.

He didn't seem to get in much trouble for that. Huh.

Well, he's baaaack...

Conyers, who is poised to become the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in November, providing the Dems win back Congress, wants to hold congressional hearings on the government paying slavery reparations.

As well as constantly calling for the impeachment of President Bush, Conyers explains on his website how his proposed legislation would handle the hand-outs.

"My bill does four things:

* It acknowledges the fundamental injustice and inhumanity of slavery.

* It establishes a commission to study slavery, its subsequent racial and economic discrimination against freed slaves.

* It studies the impact of those forces on today's living African Americans.

* The commission would then make recommendations to Congress on appropriate remedies to redress the harm inflicted on living African Americans."

Conyers says:

"I chose the number of the bill, 40, as a symbol of the forty acres and a mule that the United States initially promised freed slaves. This unfulfilled promise and the serious devastation that slavery had on African-American lives has never been officially recognized by the United States Government . . . "

He goes on:

"Just as we've discussed the Holocaust, and Japanese interment camps, and to some extent the devastation that the colonists inflicted upon the Indians, we must talk about slavery and its continued effects."

So we have to give poor blacks money because even though they've never been slaves, slavery has reached out of the past to keep them down?

What about non-blacks? Is forcing them to pay reparations racist? I think it is!

Not to mention Conyer's poor grasp of history: There was never a governmental promise of "40 acres and a mule." Rather, General William T. Sherman confiscated land from former slaveholders in the South Carolina, Georgia and Florida areas, and divided it into 40 acre plots. No mention of a mule was ever made, but the army had a bunch of old mules and instead of "disposing" of them, gave them to households to get whatever use of them they could.

Sherman's order was later rescinded by President Andrew Jackson, and the land returned to it's original owners. The phrase is instead a colloquialism to represent the failure of Jackson's Reconstruction efforts.

But enough history. This is a highly divisive move that Conyer's is making! It will breed racism and resentment that may not have been there previously...And where will it end? Who else will require reparations? Hispanics? Japaneseeese? Native Americans? How, also, will the hand outs be decided? Do you have to trace your ancestry and prove that you are related to a slave, or is merely being black assumption enough?

Conyers needs to live in the here and now, where the only thing that holds Americans back is their own life choices! This is nothing more than election year pandering, and to the lowest common denominator: The "gimmie" crowd.

Here is the kicker for me...Say I'm an African American whose great-great-great-Grandpa and Grandma were slaves. What price to you put on that suffering? The idea that say, $1,000 is sufficient is an insult, a slap in the face to the character of the people who went through that!