Balls.
Would they really rather their ancestors had been left in Africa?
Pshaw.
There are no moral debts.
If there were, on most accounts there would be none owed by
the whole of today’s white population to the whole of today’s black (or other)
population of America, anyway.
Consider whites who arrived from elsewhere yesterday.
Consider the descendants of whites who arrived from
elsewhere at any time since the collapse of Jim Crow.
Consider the descendants of whites who arrived at any time
after the civil war.
Do whites with a dozen generations of exploited proletarians
for ancestors owe something?
Whites who, even today, are among the neglected and
abandoned of this country?
The white guys I see carrying signs at the intersections at
which I stop on the drive home at night,
signs saying “Homeless. Please help”?
To the whole thing I say, Pshaw.
Might there be anything owed by American blacks to whites?
Might there be anything owed by today’s African blacks to
today’s American blacks?
Nonsense, too, of course.
But you tell me why people who spout his kind of nonsense
are treated by the media at least with respect, but people who urge the
opposite nonsense are branded – by Coates and his allies! – racists and driven
from the public square.
Why did the Atlantic gladly provide the space?
Never mind.
We all know the answers.
Did I actually read his argument?
Certainly not.
I am old, and I have read too many for that hateful claim already.
Life is too short.
All moral beliefs, codes, and judgments are, like all religions, bunk.
It does not follow that no religions are more dangerous or hamful than others.
Likewise moral codes, ideologies, political philosophies, and judgments are not all on a par.
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