| Perhaps you have heard the great debate in the | | | | What about all the crime being caused by black |
| news media about the possible reimbursement | | | | Americans in the inner city, I have to pay more in |
| and restitution for all African-Americans who have | | | | taxes for police and prisons and my car was |
| ancestors who were slaves. After some 15 | | | | broken into, I do not see anybody trying to |
| generations this turns out to be quite a large | | | | reimburse me for that. I want my tax dollars |
| number of people, in fact it is over 40 million. If | | | | back. So there is your Black Mirror. And if anyone |
| the United States government were forced to | | | | calls me a racist for pointing out facts; then I call |
| get of let's say $75,000 to over 40 million people | | | | the Black Chamber of Commerce racist for |
| it would actually bankrupt our country, not that | | | | having an all Black Club, excluding whites. This is a |
| Social Security won't do that same thing in the | | | | Black Racist issue, demanding repayment for |
| near future anyway, but nevertheless it would | | | | slavery and those involved need to get a life and |
| bankrupt the nation. | | | | grow up. They are not helping America; they are |
| Additionally, how can one group of people such as | | | | tearing it down. Plato would have laughed at the |
| African Americans demand reimbursement and | | | | insanity of all this. |
| restitution when other nationalities were also | | | | Now then, those were not the exact words of |
| exploited in the early days of America. Consider | | | | the white gentleman as this debate got quite |
| the Irish and the Chinese while building the railroad | | | | heated and went on for about 30 minutes |
| or the time before the Industrial Revolution when | | | | nevertheless that was the gist of the argument |
| people work to the bone; both adults and children | | | | and it is something to philosophically think about. |
| for very little food. Recently in a coffee shop | | | | The black gentleman was completely serious |
| conversation I heard a white gentleman arguing | | | | about wanting his $75,000 reimbursement. He said |
| with a black gentleman over this very issue. The | | | | it was owed to him and he demanded restitution. |
| white gentleman stated: | | | | Perhaps we should all consider this in 2006. |