REPARATIONS RHETORIC
- By Curtis Anthony Hervey
- Published 12/19/2009
Curtis Anthony Hervey
My 18,000 word thesis earned me a Masters of Biblical Studies degree (a wholistic plan to empower low-income black America). I'm here to network for publication and to seek out like-minded African Americans (curtis.hervey@yahoo.com). As a Distinguished Graduate of OCS, I seek to apply battle-tested military principles to solving black pathology by issuing a national warning order. I'm an iconoclast, my doctrine is Washingtonian (as in Booker T.) and my role is that of Socratic Gadfly.
The rhetoric of reparations is a waste of time and energy; blacks possess the fiscal resources they need to effect equality ($700 billion annually according to Target Market News). They just lack the vision.
Also, the Supreme Court has already ruled on the issue of reparations back in 1857 (Dred Scott V. Sanford). When Dred Scott sued for his freedom, the Supreme Court ruled that slaves have no rights before the law inAmerica . Consequently, a suit for reparations doesn’t have a legal leg to stand on since slaves weren’t US citizens had had no rights to demand in court. Case closed.
Also, the Supreme Court has already ruled on the issue of reparations back in 1857 (Dred Scott V. Sanford). When Dred Scott sued for his freedom, the Supreme Court ruled that slaves have no rights before the law in
