Scott Adams is best known for Dilbert, but he’s grown an enormous following for being a persistent advocate for truth and common sense derived from looking at problems the way the establishment would rather you not. The latest example is this.
ICYMI: If Minorities want to See Real Change (they can believe in) Defund Democrats
Emphasis mine
“If I’m going to calculate the, let’s say, the theft from the black community, if you were to measure the theft — let’s say just theft — that this slavery was. In other words, you stole the productive part of their lives, etc., and you used it for yourself. So here’s the number I need: I need how does the average economic situation for the average black person in this country and then, to compare it, I want to compare it to the average life of a black African.”
And you say, “What?”
And the space alien says, “Yeah that’s the comparison. So, you want to compare what would happen to the average black person if they had stayed unmolested in Africa and there had never been a slave trade. Because that’s what you’re comparing to. Because if the people who were brought to America as slaves, and then their descendants, are doing much worse than if they’ve never been brought with slavery, then that’s the amount of reparations. That’s how much they lost is all the money they would have made if they just stay in Africa.
You know what the problem is, right? They would owe money to white people.
Is the mind blown?
Talk of reparations losing relevance, wind, momentum, steam?
No. Scott is a white guy, and a wealthy one. But Andrea Widburg, who wrote the article from which I’m drawing, also shared some content from Keith Richburg, who is descended from slaves, and wrote a book called Out Of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa. One of his ancestors was sold to slavers, and hundreds of years later, Richburg, a Washington Post Bureau Chief, went back to Africa.
And so it was that I came to be born in Detroit and that thirty-five years later, a black man born in white America, I was in Africa, birthplace of my ancestors, standing at the edge of a river not as an African but as an American journalist — a mere spectator — watching the bloated bodies of black Africans cascading over a waterfall. And that’s when I thought about how, if things had been different, I might have been one of them — or might have met some similarly anonymous fate in one of the countless ongoing civil wars or tribal clashes on this brutal continent. And so I thank God my ancestor survived that voyage.
None of this has anything to do with Police reform or addressing abuses by anyone in America, though that debate should include the abuses of Antifa and BLM and Decades of Democrat rule in these urban plantations (if we want to have an honest conversation about justice).
But on the matter of reparations, well, there is no conversation. Even the poorest among us, white or black, have it far better than the majority of those in Africa, and maybe, instead of riots and field trips and handouts, what we nee is field trips—starting with Antifa, BLM, democrat politicians, celebrities, and almost every media talking head.
After that, maybe we get back to the matter of black and born justice or just justice in general, seeing as it’s supposed to be blind.
Here’s Scott Adams.
Updated: Apologies for leaving out a very critical part of the text version of Scott Adams’s quote. An editing error deleted it but I have added it back.
