If History were a film script, we must recognize that the author has a certain tendency towards subtle irony. THE candidate Harriswhose only real electoral merit consists of not being Donald Trumphas just been accused of having plagiarized a good part of her first book, Criminal Intelligence: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Saferpublished in 2009.
We’re going to go easy on Harris on this.: plagiarism in the strict sense can often be the forget of a few quotes, without taking into account the fact that in the kingdom of publish or die It’s hard to step out into the world with an original idea.
No, Harris’s love of intellectually stealing from others was further underpinned in this campaign by the uninhibited manner in which he appropriated his rival’s ideas, from a small point of view –that tips are not taxed– big moment: let’s build a wall.
But desperation often leads to doubling down, and yesterday he threw himself into the pool during a radio show interview. Charlamagne is God with a proposal that has hovered over North American demagogic politics for decades: reparations.
It is an absolute, ruinous and divisive concept: that white citizens (none of whom owned slaves) collectively pay billions of dollars to African-American citizens (none of whom were slaves) in compensation for slavery.
To give you a slight idea of the absurdity, this could mean that a mason descended from Irish slaves brought by the English to the colonies would have to give a considerable part of his meager assets to an African-American businessman descended from ‘a Nigerian who arrived as an immigrant to the United States two or three generations ago.
“This needs to be studied, there is no doubt about it and I have been very clear on this position”Harris told the host.
Harris plagiarized the idea he had already committed to numerous times. While running for president in 2020, she told MNSBC host and activist Rev. Al Sharpton that she would sign a reparations bill if she became president. “When I am elected president, I will sign this bill,” Harris said.
From then on, as has been the case so far with any politician who has waved the idea like the bullfighter does with the cape in front of the bull, Kamala ignored the question. But, as we said at the start, desperation is a bad advisor, and even would-be immigrants know Harris doesn’t have the numbers to win.who have already assembled a new caravan quickly and on the move bound for the border “before Trump closes it”in his own words.
The black population has always been the electoral bloc most loyal to the Democratic Party, which returns the favor by granting it various taxes and subsidies. But nothing lasts forever in this underworld, and another democratic bloc like the unions is beginning to falter. This is the first campaign in a long time where the Teamsters, the powerful truckers’ union, has not publicly supported the Democratic candidate.
For African Americans, the situation is not so desperate. They will vote en masse for Kamala, even if it blocks their noses. But there are significant defections from within the Democratic establishment, and in an election expected to be so contested, abandoning a significant proportion of these traditional voters could spell electoral ruin for Harris. He therefore decided to resort to the miracle solution, Fierabrás balm, in yellow ointment, promising each of them a thorough control, free of dust and glitter.
Slavery is impossible to fix with a checkbook. Far from being an institution reserved for white Americans – only 5% of whom have ever owned slaves – it has been omnipresent from the beginning of history until yesterday afternoon, among all sedentary peoples, from the Vikings to the Mongols, Arabs as well as Native Americans, including of course the Sub-Saharans themselves. The only thing that would be special about the Americans in this sense is that they fought the bloodiest war in their history to end this scourge.
And if we start with one irony, we can end with another. Kamala Harris is the descendant of an Irish slave plantation owner in Jamaica.according to his own father’s long ancestral summary of his side of the family.
Reparations are a perverse, unacceptable, economically and racially divisive idea.which would in no way resolve the situation of the African-American population in the United States.
