Slave Reparations

[Jackalope]

    The Demoncrats are stirring the pot as a House bill advances for slave reparations: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-panel-votes-advance-bill-slavery-reparations-n1264140   Personally, I've never owned slaves, and none of my ancestors have owned slaves.  I don't know any slaves either.  So why should my tax dollars go to people who have never been slaves?  This could certainly be the spark of a major tax revolt, which will have unintended consequences.

[JohnyMac]

The Second Coming of the Tea Party.

[grizz]

I remember hearing (maybe on Rush's show?) that the first slaves in this country were white people owned by black people, indentured servitude.

Also mentioned that Irish and Italian were slaves in this Country before the blacks

Where's my money???

Speaking of "my money", why are illegals in NY getting $14,000 each???

[JohnyMac]

NYers are flocking across the state line in the southern Tier (Binghamton NY area) to Penn. because Cuomo just announced that property taxes are going up along with fuel taxes.

Just heard also, that now NJ is going to give illegals $$$$. 

To be honest, I have friends that have jobs that they can telecommute from but continue to live in unfriendly states like, NY, NJ, CT, and RI. 

[Felix]

"To be honest, I have friends that have jobs that they can telecommute from but continue to live in unfriendly states like, NY, NJ, CT, and RI. "  JM
 
Matt Bracken addresses the issue of where to live as "location, location, location".  If I understand him, this means the best move means relocating to territories populated by like-minded folk.  Like minded in love of God, freedom and individual preparedness.
Easier said than done.  And yes, I understand most good things aren't always "easy".
So. Here I be.  Near a "progressive" city of +/- 70,320, median age 25.9...  a huge, nearby cohort of "on-time, next-day, I-phone texting" devotees of normalcy bias.   God forbid the day they wake up with screens blank and the supermarket shelves stripped bare.
 
When roots are down, down deep.
And one no longer has the stamina and years required to "pioneer" a replacement life... the location, location, location thingie might amount to living "behind enemy lines". 
 While Bracken and Kurt Schlichter write of divided territories, "behind enemy lines" is where some of us will still be found.
 Bobbing along in our own little lifeboats, ready to repel boarders if possible, saving those who need saving where possible, always working at something.

[JohnyMac]

And being part of the auxiliary Felix. 

[Nemo]

Dark note in Virginia history.

Nemo

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-african-slave-ship-arrives-jamestown-colony

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
First enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown, setting the stage for slavery in North America
1619 August 20

On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of Virginia and are then bought by English colonists. The arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World marks a beginning of two and a half centuries of slavery in North America.

Founded at Jamestown in 1607, the Virginia Colony was home to about 700 people by 1619. The first enslaved Africans to arrive there disembarked at Point Comfort, in what is today known as Hampton Roads. Most of their names, as well as the exact number who remained at Point Comfort, have been lost to history, but much is known about their journey.

They were originally kidnapped by Portuguese colonial forces, who sent captured members of the native Kongo and Ndongo kingdoms on a forced march to the port of Luanda, the capital of modern-day Angola. From there, they were ordered on the ship San Juan Bautista, which set sail for Veracruz in the colony of New Spain. As was quite common, about 150 of the 350 captives aboard the ship died during the crossing. Then, as it approached its destination, the ship was attacked by two privateer ships, the White Lion and the Treasurer. Crews from the two ships stole up to 60 of the Bautista’s slaves. It was the White Lion which docked at Virginia Colony's Point Comfort and traded some of the prisoners for food on August 20, 1619.

continued

[Nemo]

Unless you decide to follow The 1619 Project.

Nemo


https://time.com/5653369/august-1619-jamestown-history/

The First Africans in Virginia Landed in 1619. It Was a Turning Point for Slavery in American History—But Not the Beginning