In the age of equality, DEI and reverse discrimination, the issue of slavery reparations may sound a little over the top. Even though black people across the West now experience a privileged first world existence, there still appears to be a huge chip on the shoulder of some. Prominent black activists who already enjoy more wealth than most native Europeans, continue to call for reparations on behalf of people who were never slaves or have ever experienced slavery. Such grievance activists are regularly rolled out on shows like Good Morning Britain to wind up the masses with their anti-white drivel.
The fact is that no white person alive in the West today has ever kidnapped Africans, put them in chains and transported them around the world to go pick cotton in a field for 18 hours a day. Why should someone pay for injustices meted out by people they never knew?
Secondly, no black person alive in the West today has been put to work as a slave. Even in the United States, which was a relative latecomer in abolishing the trade, you would have to go back several generations before tracing an ancestor who experienced slavery firsthand.
The absurdity of paying someone compensation for something they never experienced was perhaps best summed up by US comedian Rob Schneider. He was addressing the reparation activities in the bastion state of the far left - the socialist Republic of California. The California Reparations Task Force was set up in the wake of the Floyd riots and is the first such organisation of its kind.
If you haven't seen Rob's stand-up, we would urge you to get on YouTube and look him up. Much of his comedy these days sends up his former political base, for like many he has grown into a staunch Republican. Such a turnaround is hard to grasp for the left, despite the fact it's always older world-weary people who make the shift from left to right, hardly ever the reverse. There's a reason for that. It's called getting older and wiser or, more crudely, waking the fuck up.
And yes, there were slaves in California, but slavery was abolished in the territory by the time it joined the United States in 1850. So strictly speaking, Rob is correct!
Last week's woke bench meme generated nine comments and nine shares on Facebook, including a testy exchange with a troll who has since deleted her orginal comment (but not before we screenshot it!)
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