Judge Dismisses Slave Reparation Case (Chicago)

The Guardian (UK) ^ | 1-26-2004 | Mike Robinson

[BipolarBob]

I wanna sue somebody for all these lawsuits that take up court time, but that would only perpetuate the problem.



Oh yeah, I was offended somehow too, I think.

[trebb]

I'm keeping a close watch for these lawsuits - if one actually gets through, it's my turn. My Dad's parents came from Poland and entered through Ellis Island where the last name was changed to a short easy version when they were processed. I feel like I was arbitrarily robbed of my cultural history and identity, and kids even made fun of my name in Kindergarden.

I have suffered more than words can explain. I think $100 - $200 million would about set things right. And, if I get the award, I will set up a trust fund for people who suffer for having funny names. </sarcasm

[goldstategop]

And I don't think they can change it sufficiently to have the reparations issue go to trial on the merits. For something that happened over 150 years ago? We deserve better than to beat the dead horse of slavery for the benefit of racial con artists and demagogues.

[longtermmemmory]

They have two time hurdles, the STATUDGE of limitations AND the doctrine of laches.

This is just yet another ponzi scheme. Black lawyers saw the tobacco settlment and figured they could get their hands to administer yet another slush fund "for public good"

[longtermmemmory]

(s)homosexuals want to sue for reparations for not being allowed to marry, they want to set up a trust fund for for their children. (/s)

[sr4402]

As for the timing, he said the plaintiffs had failed to show how the wrongs cited in the lawsuit fall within the statute of limitations.

This is the key phrase. Don't come back here unless you can prove it falls within the statute of limititations.

So when the plaintiffs say they will file an appeal, it probably means they want to get around the statute. They don't care that those individuals who may have been wronged are dead, nor the people who supposedly wronged them are dead too.

Let's say they win. Whose the next target? Can I sue the goverment of Egypt if I am Jewish for the persecution under Pharoh?

[longtermmemmory]

wait! 75! page! opinion! Now that is very unusual. Usually it is one page, two at most.

[DMZFrank]

I have always been mystified by racial grievance mongers who pontificate on the glorious Nirvana that their lives would be had they only been left in Mother Africa, notwithstanding the general quality of life there. Since most American blacks have some measure of Caucasian genealogical ancestry, and since slavery was the transmission belt that enabled the mixing of their black and white ancestor's gene pools,(whether by rape,semi voluntary or voluntary associations) than what they are really saying is that they and their decendents would rather not exist.

I acknowledge the kidnapping and suffering of my African ancestors, and the resultant decades of slavery, oppresion, and discrimination that amounted to a monstrous crime for them. But the result was me and my family living in a nation that provides the most liberty and opportunity for any African descended people on earth. I am profoundly grateful to be here. I welcome the opportunity for any clarifcation of the historical record, and should that clarification reveal more evidence of the often bestial nature of the American institution of slavery, than we should unflinchingly face and acknowledge it. The historical record should be properly contextualized, and honestly examined without any attempt to inflate the crime beyond the actual truth of the injustice. The endless racial navel gazing, racial identity posturing, and puffed up grievance mongering should be rejected for the PC irrelevance that it is.

The race industry merchants and class action lawyers would divide us into warring ethnic enclaves with mortar pits in the streets sniping at each other ala the Balkans. This is nothing more than a cultural Marxist wealth redistribution scheme.