When a new Democratic administration gets installed into the white house you will inevitably here about the issue of reparations. Not only would it be a direct payment to supporters, it also fits in pretty well with the whole socialism narrative. You take from the producers and give to people that didn’t directly earn the money.
But that last I checked, slavery isn’t legal in the US. It hasn’t been for over a hundred and fifty years. That time scale also pretty much guarantees that there aren’t any former slaves, or actual slave owners alive today. So the theft of someone’s labor to give to someone else is just that, theft. It wouldn’t really address the issue of slavery here.
What if we looked overseas though? There is a country (if it can still be called that) in North Africa, that used to be stable. It was ruled by a strong man that wasn’t necessarily a nice guy but he established a state, with laws and an economy. Libya, was by all accounts, a moderately safe place to be.
Leave it to our elites to find fault though. There were rumors that Muammar Gaddafi was giving Viagra to his troops so they could rape women at will. This later turned out to be false, but it was good enough at the time to have him removed from power and throw the entire country into chaos. You see, the United States had grown tired of what had been dubbed “Nation Building” so the entire plan dreamed up by Hillary Clinton was to have the bad man removed, and then rainbows and light would burst forth in an Arab Spring. That didn’t happen as the power vacuum that was created got filled by the Muslim Brotherhood. Their methods were horrible enough to see them thrown out by their own people, and the chaos still reigns today.
As part of the chaos, a new market for slave labor was created. Actual people being forced into servitude in the modern world.
By the time his Libyan captors branded his face, Sunday Iabarot had already run away twice and had been sold three times. The gnarled scar that covers most of the left side of his face appears to show a crude number 3. His jailer carved it into his cheek with a fire-heated knife, cutting and cauterizing at the same time.
Iabarot left Nigeria in February 2016 with a plan to head northward and buy passage on a smuggler’s boat destined for Europe, where he had heard from friends on Facebook that jobs were plentiful. The journey of more than 2,500 miles would take him across the trackless desert plains of Niger and through the lawless tribal lands of southern Libya before depositing him at the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. He never made it. Instead, he was captured the moment he arrived in Libya, then sold to armed men who kept a stable of African migrants they exploited for labor and ransom.
So, maybe we should look to actual slaves and slave masters that we know exist and try rectify that injustice. We should also look to where we assign blame and hold those responsible to account. If Hillary Clinton hadn’t intervened in a country that was functioning without her, we wouldn’t have modern day slave trading. I think she has a fairly good sized nest egg to help with reparations too. The Clinton Foundation could actually be used for something other than a slush fund for her family for once.