Reparations: The Bigger Picture and Solution to Enhancing the Conservative Movement By Mimi Johnson

In the last decade, we have seen a huge movement involving genealogy and ancestry. Scientists are slowly perfecting ways to identify where we all come from around the globe, catapulted specifically by the Mormon Church and their massive database of gathered DNA.  Whether or not you agree with these at home kits or not, they have done tremendous good in reuniting families and giving a new found life to millions of people. 

Many feel that the Mormons are harvesting DNA from unsuspectingly naïve individuals, for nefarious uses, and others feel that they are working directly with the government in a way to garner any and all information on citizens.  The truth of the matter is that your DNA is everywhere, in public, at home, at work, you can’t escape shedding it wherever you inhabit. Your smart phones and computers pose the ultimate risk in having your identity compromised. 

There is an excellent show on PBS, called “Finding your Roots,” hosted by a Harvard Professor named Louis Gates Jr, nicknamed “Skip,” where he brings on various celebrities, most of which are black Americans with a small white American demographic, to trace their ancestries and to discuss the urban legends associated with their patronage.  It is no secret that black Americans cannot trace their lineage as readily and easily as white Americans, but this program can and has eliminated a lot of biased assumptions in the black community. 

Most black families assume that they have Native American blood to explain different hair texture or having a lighter complexion than others, or that their ancestors were raped by their white slave owners, therefore tainting their bloodline, resulting in a multitude of differences in skin color, hair texture, and facial features within the black race. 

In some instances, their assumptions are absolutely true, but Louis Gates Jr. was able to show most black Americans that not only was there not any Native American in their lineage, but that the vast majority of them were also descendants of free men and women, never having been enslaved. 

This revelation shook their being and there was a look of confusion on their faces as he explained, via documents and pictures, who their ancestors were, their occupations, and from where they originated.  They were so indoctrinated into believing that each person of black skin color was a victim, enslaved, tortured, or mistreated by white Europeans and Americans, that even when shown evidence, most were skeptical. 

Dr. Gates is not attempting to “whitewash” anyone’s struggles, but moreover educate masses with the truth, because, after all, it shall set us free.  Misdirected anger and false narratives are a disease in our current society, and I appreciate a program such as his, that shows the truth about our collective history. 

Many assumed that their great grandmothers and beyond were forced to lay with white men, thus creating mulatto children, but in many cases, they were ahead of their time and in loving, interracial relationships.

I must admit that those revelations surprised me as well, for I had always been taught that white southern men in the 18^th-19^th centuries were predators who viewed black women and men only as property.  Many of his guests sat there in disbelief, and even challenged his findings to ensure it was accurate.  It must be exceedingly difficult to accept a new truth, when you have been fed a specific narrative your entire life - it takes some adjustment. 

Conservatives are not thinking outside of the box when it comes to reparations.  My theory is that once people begin delving into their genealogy, there may not be as many reparations to dispense as the democrats claim.  As Dr. Gates has proven, facts matter. 

Legislation could be written including that any American applying for reparations must prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that in fact they are descendants of slaves.  Once people have assessed their lineage, this starts an entirely new dialogue and gives conservatives solid talking points.

 

I am not suggesting that there would not be many people compensated, but the numbers would be drastically lower than initially reported. I think democrats are analogous to hormonally raged teenagers who think their parents are stupid and uncool, so they must embarrass them, defy them, and prove them wrong at all costs.  The best parenting method is to let them make their own mistakes, suffer the consequences, educate, and move forward. Over time, the mistakes turn into wisdom. Conservatives should take a page out of Trump’s book and ask themselves “ at this point, what do we have to lose?”

Interesting Reparations for Global Warming

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”   - Emma Lazarus

If you thought global warming scaremongering tactics went away with the most recent failed prediction for 2015 when we were supposed to be flooded and underwater, with little polar ice caps left, you would be mistaken.

Writing for the Washington Post, Michael B. Gerrard, a legal scholar at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, proposes that we should take in millions upon millions of refugees that will eventually be displaced by climate change. He said, “We ruined your country. Welcome to ours.” Playing on Emma Lazarus’ famous quote, he adds, “Give us your thirsty, your hot, your flooded masses.” Apparently carbon footprint taxes and wealth redistribution are not enough, we must adopt progressive social engineering of the planet.

If global warming average temperatures increase above 3.6 degrees, islands like Kiribati and the Marshalls and parts of Bangladesh, Pakistan, Egypt, and Vietnam will disappear underwater, flooded by melting glaciers in the Himalayas and the Andes. And if people don’t keep their voluntary and non-binding promises to cut CO2 (at the U.N. Climate summit in Paris in December 2015), “the thermometers could go much higher.” From Sierra Leone to Ethiopia, land will turn into desert. The heat will increase violence, ethnic and political tensions, Gerrard said.

Gerrard’s proposed solution is a pledge “to take on a share of the displaced population equal to how much each nation has historically contributed to emissions of the greenhouse gases that are causing this crisis.” http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-38454957.html

Quoting the World Resources Institute, between 1850 and 2011, the U.S. caused 27 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, a trace gas that all plants need to grow. As a matter of fact, greenhouses provide extra CO2 in their solariums in order to accelerate plant growth.

The European Union causes 25 percent of CO2 emissions, China 11 percent, Russia 8 percent, and Japan 4 percent. It is curious how only industrialized countries are identified as culprits even though nobody bothers to explain how ice melted 15,000 years ago or who or what caused the Mini Ice Age during the Middle Ages when there was little or no industrial pollution.

A very arresting photograph that illustrates this needed massive relocation of humans from poor countries to wealthy countries in the west shows Biblically dressed humans wading through chest-deep water and women carrying heavy loads of possessions on their heads.

Gerrard suggests that the U.S. should then take in 27 million people to absolve themselves from the 27 percent CO2 sin. Taking in just one million per year as we currently do is not enough; it won’t be a popular move but it would be “fair,” he added. We must take responsibility for the gases we expel into the atmosphere and pay for the damage. And if the new arrivals want to “re-create their own communities” within our country, it is only “fair.”

He agrees that these people could adopt desalination practices and other technology-savvy agricultural methods but “they typically take a great deal of money and energy, the very resource we have failed to conserve in the first place.”

The gloom and doom prediction is that “If we don’t want millions of people seeking heaven here – or dying while they try – then the United States and other industrialized countries need to become far more aggressive in cutting their greenhouse gas emissions.”

“Europe is in a furor over who will take in” those who are fleeing civil war in Syria and oppression in Eritrea, said Michael Gerrard.  They risk their lives to reach the shores of European safety and the lure of entitlements.

Might Europeans be leery of these refugees because of the attacks against innocents, like the recent one on a Tunisian beach, when Britons on vacation were mowed down with machine guns by a religionist of peace?

A report released in May 2015 by NASA indicated that “updated data contradict one of the most frequently asserted global warming claims – that global warming is causing the polar ice caps to recede.” http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/20915-nasa-s-own-data-discredits-its-predictions-of-antarctic-doom

According to New American, the report did not clarify whether climate warming may be natural or may be coming in cyclical patterns, or whether global warming is anthropogenic.

It has been reported by many scientists who are now called “global warming deniers” that average temperatures fluctuate, the globe’s climate changes in natural, cyclical patterns, cooling and warming, causing glaciers and polar ice caps to grow and to shrink.

NASA scientists began measuring ice caps by satellite in 1979 during the end of a 30-year cooling period. The “normal baseline” was thus established during this cooling period with very thick ice caps. As James Taylor of Forbes wrote,

“The timing of the 1979 NASA satellite instrument launch could not have been better for global warming alarmists. The late 1970s marked the end of a 30-year cooling trend. As a result, the polar ice caps were quite likely more extensive than they had been since at least the 1920s. Nevertheless, this abnormally extensive 1979 polar ice extent would appear to be the “normal” baseline when comparing post-1979 polar ice extent.” http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/05/19/updated-nasa-data-polar-ice-not-receding-after-all/

Since the Pope inserted himself into the climate change industry, Dr. Klaus Kaiser wrote a letter to the “Academicians of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS)” to clarify their positions, particularly since they have a significant “influence on the development of poorer nations and their people” and in light of the fact that these people “are presently deprived of many of the energy-driven amenities of the developed countries.”

Dr. Kaiser pointed out 12 scientifically incontrovertible facts:

1.      Without CO2 in the atmosphere life on earth, plants, animals, humans could not exist.

2.      For 4.5 billion years atmospheric CO2 on Earth was higher than today.

3.      Photosynthesis converts CO2 to organic matter thus reducing CO2.

4.      Oxygen is produced in the earth’s atmosphere from CO2 via photosynthesis.

5.      Oceans and fresh water are alkaline, not acidic; photosynthesis also increases the alkaline property of neutral or acidic water.

6.      Without human influence, kilometres-thick ice shields covering the northern part of North America and Eurasia 20,000 years ago have melted completely about 5,000 years ago.

7.      For the most part, during the 15,000-year period mentioned, atmospheric CO2 stayed at 250 parts per million.

8.      CO2 is not ‘pollution,’ when “the earth’s plants and ocean algae consume any CO2 stemming from fossil resource use with the same vigour as that emitted from volcanoes and fumaroles.”

9.      Coal, a source of man-made CO2, provides a lot of the energy needs of the planet. India and China build a new coal-fired plant each week. Dr. Kaiser urges countries in Africa to expand their use of fossil fuels.

10.  The word “consensus” has zero meaning in science; look at astronomer Galileo who was exonerated by the Vatican 400 years after the Catholic Church condemned him as a heretic for his view on heliocentricity.

11.  CO2 is a vital trace gas in the atmosphere, not a “pollutant.” http://canadafreepress.com/article/73340

The naked truth is expressed quite clearly in this quote by Warren Moss:

“‘Such impending catastrophic events – flooding, droughts, heat waves, and higher seas – all allegedly caused by emissions of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels,’ have been used by the global-warming theorists working with federal agencies and the UN to impose draconian environmental regulations geared to bring the world’s industrial-based economy to its knees.” http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/20915-nasa-s-own-data-discredits-its-predictions-of-antarctic-doom