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50,000 NEW YORKERS DIED FIGHTING SLAVERY — IS THAT NOT REPARATIONS?
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June 8, 2023 6:34pm
Updated
June 8, 2023 6:39pm
A protest calling for reparations payments for black New Yorkers in Manhattan on
August 15, 2020. Rashid Umar Abbasi
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Regarding reparations for slavery, New York state gave at the office.
Or, more precisely, on the battlefields of the most lethal war in American
history — fought fundamentally, and successfully, to end slavery.
So it’s just bizarre that seven-plus generations after the Empire State itself
abolished slavery — in 1827! — New Yorkers who never owned slaves are to be
asked to pony up to “compensate” New Yorkers who never were slaves.
That last bit is by now a cliché, of course — but this says more about the
reparations movement’s growing ubiquity than it does about its moral or
intellectual integrity.
Now New York is to get a full ration of reparations bushwa: Albany intends to
establish a commission to “study” the matter — though if California’s recent
experience is a fair measure, the only real question will be the size of the
proposed payout.
Oh, for sure, proponents say it isn’t about the cash.
“Reparations is not just a paycheck,” says Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages of
Long Island. “It’s much more. It’s atoning.” (Wink, wink.)
Ah, yes. Well sorry, Ms. Solages — New York atoned in advance.
Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages said that reparations is about “atonement” and
“not just a paycheck.”Michaelle C. Solages/Twitter
The Empire State was energetically abolitionist long before Fort Sumter.
And, because all war first and foremost is about logistics, it was Wall Street
that made possible the morally redemptive conflict that followed.
Then there is this: New York sent more men to that war than did any other state
— 465,000-plus, exceeding 20% of its male population. And, astonishingly, fully
50% of its men younger than 30 went to the colors.
Some 11%, or roughly 50,000 soldiers, never came home — again, more than any
other state. (By contrast, 3.5% of Americans under arms in World War II
perished.)
Plus this: New York’s famed Irish Brigade, the 69th Volunteer Infantry, was
drawn largely from New York City’s Irish immigrants.
It effectively was destroyed in combat three times, reconstituted twice and
finally disbanded after being shattered yet again in the spring of 1864.
Members of New York’s Irish Brigade that fought in the Civil War.Photo by
Matthew Brady/Buyenlarge/Getty Images
So does the Irish Brigade’s sanguinary history give contemporary Irish-American
New Yorkers a pro-rata claim to reparations of their own?
Don’t be ridiculous. All of this happened more than 150 years ago — long enough,
blood sacrifices aside, to stamp all bills paid.
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This isn’t to suggest African Americans don’t have a claim on America’s
conscience.
Clearly they do, and for myriad reasons. But New York and the nation have been
struggling with that debt for decades — with largely unacknowledged, yet quite
relevant, success.
Enough success, that is, to show that the reparations argument revolves around
cynicism, grievance-mongering and political manipulation.
Certainly the claim fails to acknowledge that African-Americans now comprise one
of the nation’s most potent political blocs.
Nowhere is this more true than in New York.
Seven of the state’s nine most prominent, powerful office-holders are black:
Attorney General Letitia James; Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado; Court of Appeal chief
judge Rowan Wilson; Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie; Senate Majority Leader Andrea
Stewart-Cousins; New York Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Council Speaker
Adrianne Adams.
Nobody reasonably claims that New York’s black community is without its problems
– but if those folks can’t fix ‘em, or at least make a respectable start, then
who can?
But will they? Judging from the current debate on, say, public education and
safe streets, probably not.
But will they then pay a price for failure? Also doubtful.
Stirring up rancor with a bogus reparations commission is a much smoother road
to reelection than confronting, say, the teachers’ union or woke DAs.
And this, in the end, probably is the point.
So hunker down, New York. Here comes the rancor.
bob@bobmcmanus.nyc
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