I have a problem with Democrats once again trying to win the Black vote with the promise of freebies!

However for those who need a history lesson….slavery was not just a United States phenomenon! Slavery was an institution that was world wide and in some countries still is today. In Africa, Africans were slave owners. In the Middle East, tribes had slave owners and slaves. In fact read your Bible, weren’t the Israelites slaves in Egypt? England acquired most if not all of the slave trade from these two continents. And further more it was Africans who escorted England slave traders into interior Africa and assisted in locating and capturing tribes that couldn’t defend themselves.

Fast forward to pre Civil War and the war it self. If It weren’t for the actions of White Americans, primarily in the North, who wanted slavery to end, where would Blacks be today. If it weren’t for White American soldiers who took up arms and many died for the cause, would slavery have ended when it did? So should those White families who can trace THEIR ancestry back to those who fought and died be given reparations for their loss or should they be exempt from paying, due to the fact their ancestors paid in blood?

And for those who are of mixed ancestry do you pay yourself?

Wasn’t Affirmative Action Executive Orders 10925 & 11246 supposedly issued to aide Blacks in achieving the American Dream? How much money has been poured into school systems on the Federal and State level but to no avail in some cases!

But with ghettos and poor communities still in existence, you see more people of color, than ever before making achievements in every field from education to the sciences to the corporate world. And some of those people came from very poor beginnings.

What we should be discussing is how to bring every American out of poverty by putting money into cities and towns. By restoring viable jobs to areas that suffered from the closing of coal mines, steel factories auto manufacturing plants and the move of major corporations out of the country!

There are as many White and Native Americans who suffer as do Blacks and other people of color! This is one Country and We should be United to help every American Citizen who needs the help, wants the help and uses the help and pays it back to help others!