Todd-'o'-Vision
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Is it grandstanding? Is he just trying to make a nationwide name for himself? Is there higher public office in his dreams?
Many of you have heard what is going on in California. Jane Fonda’s ex hubby, California State Senator Tom Hayden, decided that he wanted to stir the pudding a bit on the idea of reparations for slavery. He got a law quietly passed in California that requires insurance companies doing business in that state to look through their records to see if they ever wrote a life insurance policy on a slave. Now, bear in mind. California was not a slave state. Hayden just wanted to see what companies now doing business in California were doing in the Southern states about 160 years ago.
Now .. here comes Oxendine. He, as he puts it, wants to see what “the lay of the land is.” He has done in Georgia by edict just exactly what Jane Fonda’s ex did in California through legislation. He wants insurance companies doing business in Georgia to report on whether or not they ever insured the lives of any slaves.
I tried to think about this matter the entire weekend … and to come up with one rational reason why any insurance commissioner, essentially a law enforcement official, would want to find out if an insurance company wrote a life insurance policy on the life of a slave over 150 years ago. I can only come up with two reasons. One reason would be research for the purpose of writing a historical research paper. I doubt that this is the motivation behind Oxendine’s demands. The logical conclusion would be that Oxendine is setting the groundwork for some nature of punishment for the “guilty” insurance companies. Nothing good can come of Oxendine’s edict. Only division. Only retribution against law abiding companies doing what was perfectly legal 160 years ago.
Look --- nobody’s arguing that slavery was right. It wasn’t then and it isn’t now in the countries of Northern Africa where slavery is still practiced. Fact is …each and every person listening to me right now can trace their ancestry back to someone who was held in bondage. Not all slaves in the United States were black; some were white. Not all slave traders and slave owners were white; some were black. It’s not as simple as white Americans paying money to black Americans for the supposed sins of our ancestors.
There is not one shareholder, owner, employee, customer or agent of one insurance company who had anything to do with writing a policy on the life of a slave who is alive today. If Hayden in California or Oxendine in Georgia succeed in forcing insurance companies to pay millions or billions of dollars fines for the actions of an agent 160 years ago it will simply constitute a tax on today’s employees, shareholders and customers.
AND THERE’S A WHOLE NEW TWIST TO THE REPARATONS IDEA
A new twist that may explain why some politicians are giving the idea new life.
No longer are we talking about government payments to individual descendents of slaves. Maybe some folks have come to the realization that such a plan would simply be too divisive and politically dangerous.
Now the idea is to go after companies who might have participated in any way in the economics of slavery. Right now it’s the insurance companies. That’s just the beginning. Give it a few moments thought. How far can this concept be extended?
Transportation companies who might have transported slaves.
Companies that serviced and insured these transportation companies.
Any corporate descendents of shipbuilders who made ships used in the slave trade.
Firearms manufacturers who made the guns that slave owners used to keep their slaves in line.
Textile companies who made goods out of the cotton picked by slaves.
Manufacturing companies who made the equipment used by slaves.
Any property owner, private or corporate, who now owns real estate that was once maintained or farmed by slaves.
Newspapers who advertised slave auctions.
Hey … time’s running out. We could work on this list for days, but I want to make sure you know the rest of the new twist on reparations.
After these companies have been singled out and bludgeoned into compliance, where does the money go? To the descendents of slaves? Nope. That’s not the way it will work. The current plan is for the plunder to go to various non-profit and civil rights organizations who will then use that money to fund programs for the benefit of those who were so irreparably harmed by slavery. And just what organizations would these be? Why, organizations like Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow-Push coalition!
Can you just imagine how many illegitimate children and mistresses Jackson could support with the hundreds of millions of dollars that could come to his various organizations?
Reparations? How about SHAKEDOWN!
Many of you have heard what is going on in California. Jane Fonda’s ex hubby, California State Senator Tom Hayden, decided that he wanted to stir the pudding a bit on the idea of reparations for slavery. He got a law quietly passed in California that requires insurance companies doing business in that state to look through their records to see if they ever wrote a life insurance policy on a slave. Now, bear in mind. California was not a slave state. Hayden just wanted to see what companies now doing business in California were doing in the Southern states about 160 years ago.
Now .. here comes Oxendine. He, as he puts it, wants to see what “the lay of the land is.” He has done in Georgia by edict just exactly what Jane Fonda’s ex did in California through legislation. He wants insurance companies doing business in Georgia to report on whether or not they ever insured the lives of any slaves.
I tried to think about this matter the entire weekend … and to come up with one rational reason why any insurance commissioner, essentially a law enforcement official, would want to find out if an insurance company wrote a life insurance policy on the life of a slave over 150 years ago. I can only come up with two reasons. One reason would be research for the purpose of writing a historical research paper. I doubt that this is the motivation behind Oxendine’s demands. The logical conclusion would be that Oxendine is setting the groundwork for some nature of punishment for the “guilty” insurance companies. Nothing good can come of Oxendine’s edict. Only division. Only retribution against law abiding companies doing what was perfectly legal 160 years ago.
Look --- nobody’s arguing that slavery was right. It wasn’t then and it isn’t now in the countries of Northern Africa where slavery is still practiced. Fact is …each and every person listening to me right now can trace their ancestry back to someone who was held in bondage. Not all slaves in the United States were black; some were white. Not all slave traders and slave owners were white; some were black. It’s not as simple as white Americans paying money to black Americans for the supposed sins of our ancestors.
There is not one shareholder, owner, employee, customer or agent of one insurance company who had anything to do with writing a policy on the life of a slave who is alive today. If Hayden in California or Oxendine in Georgia succeed in forcing insurance companies to pay millions or billions of dollars fines for the actions of an agent 160 years ago it will simply constitute a tax on today’s employees, shareholders and customers.
AND THERE’S A WHOLE NEW TWIST TO THE REPARATONS IDEA
A new twist that may explain why some politicians are giving the idea new life.
No longer are we talking about government payments to individual descendents of slaves. Maybe some folks have come to the realization that such a plan would simply be too divisive and politically dangerous.
Now the idea is to go after companies who might have participated in any way in the economics of slavery. Right now it’s the insurance companies. That’s just the beginning. Give it a few moments thought. How far can this concept be extended?
Transportation companies who might have transported slaves.
Companies that serviced and insured these transportation companies.
Any corporate descendents of shipbuilders who made ships used in the slave trade.
Firearms manufacturers who made the guns that slave owners used to keep their slaves in line.
Textile companies who made goods out of the cotton picked by slaves.
Manufacturing companies who made the equipment used by slaves.
Any property owner, private or corporate, who now owns real estate that was once maintained or farmed by slaves.
Newspapers who advertised slave auctions.
Hey … time’s running out. We could work on this list for days, but I want to make sure you know the rest of the new twist on reparations.
After these companies have been singled out and bludgeoned into compliance, where does the money go? To the descendents of slaves? Nope. That’s not the way it will work. The current plan is for the plunder to go to various non-profit and civil rights organizations who will then use that money to fund programs for the benefit of those who were so irreparably harmed by slavery. And just what organizations would these be? Why, organizations like Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow-Push coalition!
Can you just imagine how many illegitimate children and mistresses Jackson could support with the hundreds of millions of dollars that could come to his various organizations?
Reparations? How about SHAKEDOWN!
