Reperations. Why do people wanna be Hos for a check?

I was listening to the radio this morning when a brother started talking about getting reperations. I work and this was the only time I had to respond to that. Reperations make no sense but if Nancy Pelosi somehow gets traction to make that happen, I'll be first in line to bid for the contract to design the database the goverment will need to track the geneology and bloodlines. The guy who does that will make billions!

I'm a black man. I didn't go to college on an affirative action quota. I went to college because I was in the top 12% of my graduating class and I blew the doors off the SAT. At 18, I had a choice of 5 colleges because they looked at my records and said "We want this kid here!" I work for an international corporation not because I'm black. The man who interviewed and offered me my job never met me before my phone interview. He looked at my resume and skill set and said, "I want that guy running the servers in my department." 15 minutes after I hung up the phone. I'm starting my own company soon. Video game sales and an online magazine. I don't need anyone to hand anything to me. Well, maybe a business loan but I plan to pay that back. I had the best excuse in the world if I wanted to limp around and say poor me. My dad was a drunk who left when I was 2. My mom worked 12-16 hr days to raise 4 kids. My oldest brother was an OG Crip back in 1975, way before the term OG came to be. I excelled in school because that's what my mother expected of us all. All four of us went to college, even my OG brother, who's now an army vet and a doctor in Nevada. It would have been very easy for us to have said, "That's the back man's plight" and piss our lives away. But we didn't. I made it through college, my last two years, working full time and studying full time. I learned from my mother that opportunity doesn't know my address so if I want something I have to make my opportunities happen.

I think that wasting my life while waiting for a paycheck on my ancestor's past labor does them a cruel disservice. What slave wouldn't have killed to have the freedoms this man is pissing away today, waiting to get paid for work he didn't do? When my great grandfather shot a klansman and left Louisiana over a century ago, do I think he'd look at my life, where I am able to raise a family in a house I own and work anywhere I want to for more money in a year than he might have seen in a lifetime and say, "Boy, I hope he gets paid for the work we did on the plantation." To answer, no. He'd probably be just as excited that we all excelled. Slavery was horrible. It's a stain on the history that will never go away. But I don't need governemnt money like some cheap ass Ho. My history is worth more to me than whatever the US Mint can churn out in a day and it should be to them too.