Former ACLU Executive Committee member Michael Meyers says that all this talk about reparations for slavery is “sheer racial rhetoric” and “buffoonery.” He also criticized Sharpton for asking every candidate if they were willing to study the issue, and of course, they all said they would. Pander. Pander. Pander. Meyers, who is a liberal and Black, thinks that even discussing reparations is a horrible idea.
Meyers said:
At that house of so-called justice, you have either a horror picture show showing or you have a farce. Either way it is not to be taken seriously. I can’t understand how serious presidential contenders can give legitimacy to a racial blowhard and I think it is outrageous and silly on the part of the presidential candidates.
Anybody who thinks that white Americans are going to take the blame or going to feel guilty or give their land and their property away in some sort of reparations pot because they feel responsibility for the sins of their forebears. They are not.
“I cannot take Al Sharpton seriously,” he continued. “The whole racial movement is anti-intellectual. It is unintelligent. I can’t take buffoonery seriously …”
Ingraham and Meyers later discussed how such a policy would be implemented, where the money would come from, and how it would eventually go to the “hustlers” instead of those who need it.
“The guy that came here from Serbia six months ago is going to have to write a check for a Somali refugee that came here 20 years ago,” Ingraham noted.
“That’s why I say it is unintelligent,” responded Meyers. “Nobody is giving up their house. Nobody is giving up their land. Nobody is giving away acres. The 40 acres are gone. Not even a building is going into the reparations pot. So what are they talking about? These people they are chasing thoughts.”
“It is a campaign issue,” said Ingraham. “This is all a power grab. It’s a total distraction.”