By Matt Rooney

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Suddenly we’re debating reparations. Welcome to 2019, Save Jerseyans.

In case you missed it, Senator Gropacus himself (f/k/a Cory Booker) is trying to out-woke the other 2020 Democrat hopefuls by introducing a bill to formally study the idea in the United States Senate.

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Want my two cents?

Fine.

The Democrat Party once fought started a war to PROTECT slavery.

If Gropacus and his fellow Dems want to mandate reparations, a multi-trillion dollar endeavor of dubious moral and practical quality, then the Democrats are also welcome to self-impose this obligation on themselves!

Today’s Democrats (and Democrats alone), as the inheritors of a party of bigotry and sedition and slavery and Jim Crow, should pay reparations to:

(1) All direct descendants of slaves, and

(2) All direct descendants of Union soldiers, too, most of whom voted Republican, fought for this nation, were white Americans AND black Americans, and in many cases gave their own lives (it might’ve been around 360,000 Union dead, but a debate is still raging) to set other men free.