That would totally defeat the Left’s purpose.

However, if reparations were necessary, I would think the best way to fund them would be through federal land sales, or oil, gas, and mineral rights rather than directly through taxes. Ultimately, it would all come out of the US treasury, but at least individual taxpayers might not feel the sting and not be made to feel individually responsible for slavery.

I really enjoy your blog. Thanks for all you do!

“Barack Obama’s father’s ancestors were almost certainly slave OWNERS, as well as SLAVERS – those who capture and make slaves out of people captured. He wasn’t descended from any US slaves.”

In spite of the widely spread idea that the Luo tribe of East Africa — Obama’s tribe — were slave owners, there is no historical evidence of this. The notion got to accepted as true because the Kenyan Obamas are Muslims and Islamic entities are mostly responsible for the millennium-long ravaging of the continent to this very day.

But the Obamas are coverts (from BHO’s grandfather) and around 90% of the Luo tribe are Christians. Before colonialism, most of the tribe followed tribal spiritual practices with Islam not being one of them.

It is, true, of course, that BHO is not descended from American slaves — unless one subscribes to the notion that Frank Marshall Davis is his true bio father. But that’s a whole other can of worms.

Spotted Owl and Marbled Murelett policies decimated the timber industries in the NW starting in the early 80s IIRC. But Portland, although weird, wasn’t full on anarchy until say 2016 or so IMO. See the show “Portlandia” as a satire of the vibe? Its not a very big city, but the left can make even a small place their own little inferno.

Worked at the Hanford site with a GeoProbe subcontractor from Portland in 2009 who from his tats and his talk was a Neo-Nazi, so yes those bozos (killer clowns) were out there.

M Williams, om:

According to Totten’s article Portland had a history of political violence:
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Portland was a grim and gritty place in the 1970s and the early 1980s, weighed down by hard luck and decay. The local resource extraction industries, timber in particular, were in decline. Drug dealers and prostitutes set up shop on the street corners. Eruptions of far-Right and far-Left violence garnered the city nicknames like “Skinhead City” and “Little Beirut.”

–Michael Totten, “Leaving Portland”
https://quillette.com/2021/03/14/leaving-portland/
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This helps explain Portland’s current unhappy state. I’ve been wondering this past year, “Why Portland?” Why not Oakland or Memphis or Chicago?

I’ve had a few friends move from San Francisco to Portland and it seemed they had found a nice, less expensive place to live.

The for the article about Portland OR.

Thanks M Williams!