Posted on 01/14/2017 2:06:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Democratic Minnesota Representative and Democratic National Committee chairman candidate Keith Ellison once called for slavery reparations and a separate country for black Americans in a university newspaper column.
Ellisons writings while a student at the University of Minnesota law school under the name Keith Hakim raised eyebrows when he announced his first congressional run in 2006. The Weekly Standard noted that Ellison refers to Minister Louis Farrakhan, defends Nation of Islam spokesman Khalid Abdul Muhammad, and speaks in the voice of a Nation of Islam advocate Hakim demands reparations for slavery and throws in a demand for an optional separate homeland for American blacks.
After Ellison announced he was seeking the chairman position, The Daily Caller News Foundation went back and dug up the columns in question, including two the Standard missed. In particular, they confirmed Ellisons past support for a separate country for African-Americans:
Blacks would have the option of choosing their own land base or remaining in the United States. Since black people toiled most diligently in the southeastern section of the United States, this land, quite naturally, would be most suitable. That means Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi. Blacks, of course, would not be compelled to move to the black state, and, of course, peaceful whites would not be compelled to move away.
Whites would be relieved of the burdens of the black-faced but white-dominated social programs. Blacks would employ themselves, teach their own children the truth and control their own neighborhoods. Black-white interaction would be voluntary instead of compelled, he continued.
Ellison demanded the land grant in addition to a substantial slavery reparations payment. This is a bargain, he insisted.
Exactly! Does Ellison not know about Liberia? It was bought for him!
Just send their welfare checks there. Cut them in half.
Good idea! Give them each a P.O. Box # in Liberia for all the welfare checks.
Okay. So how does one vote for DNC chair?
I say give them Puerto Rico. Free and clear.
Good idea, but don’t expect any money from the people who work for a living.
Yep. He is the perfect fit for the RAT party.
Seconded.
Bu there is one he can go to already. Liberia.
I hope he wins. I really don’t think the dem party can survive three bad chairs in a row, one worse than the last.
The Africans don’t want them.
Hes got my vote.”
Yep, give ‘em CA ., it is a lost cause.
Excellent idea, then build a wall around it so they can’t get out.
It’s been suggested that Ellison is already the Head of the ISIS Hub in MN.
Somalia is always nice. Zimbabwe is a luxury destination.
Northern Nigeria is the hot spot for the burqa crowd.
I was more thinking about Zimbabwe.
GO KEITH GO!!! Tell it like it is X.
In college, I knew Blacks from Africa. They wanted nothing to do with African-Americans. And they said Afram women were the worst!
He never heard of Liberia.
Settled for blacks and the entire culture was created from scratch by blacks.
It is a paradise as we all know.
But I am OK with taking another shot at it.
Just imagine Ellison’s dream of a separate country run like Chicago. Or, probably more like Somalia.
Choose any country in Africa and git.
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