Posted on 07/30/2008 12:52:42 AM PDT by GOP_Raider
Hey, isn’t that Brian Kilmeade of Fox and Friends???
Obama answered that just the other day.
“I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it’s Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.”
His “deeds” will be reparations.
This story is linked on Drudge http://starbulletin.com/2008/07/28/news/story05.html
This explains everything. Passed by a voice vote? Oh, I see. Suppose these scum buckets don't want to be on record voting on such a valuable piece of legislation when there is so little else to do like maybe passing a budget, formulating an energy policy, or winning a war.
How many times do these Congressional Clowns need to beat this dead-horse issue? Unless of course there is an ulterior motive. The Thieves in Washington are not above suspicion that they might be trying to stir-up some more business here for themselves, like administering a reparations payout.
lawyers are lining up now folks for the reparations lawsuits. give these poor down trodden more to spend on crack and other drugs. then they will be broke again and looking for another handout from the dem’s.
I didn't know there were any still among the living/sarc
Booker T Washington was a great man. I believe he is spinning in his grave, not only over the state of much of black America, but over the idiot white liberals that supply the eternal crutch that Booker so despised, even back then. Here was a man that WAS a slave in his boyhood, then tasted freedom, and knew nothing could ever stand in the way of success as long as one put forth an honest effort. It's a crying shame that so many of his fears have come true, and I believe he would spit in the faces of the modern race baiting morons, both black and white, including Obama and his ilk.
Booker T. Washington quotes:
"I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.-
My experience is that people who call themselves "The Intellectuals" understand theories, but they do not understand things. I have long been convinced that, if these men could have gone into the South and taken up and become interested in some practical work which would have brought them in touch with people and things, the whole world would have looked very different to them. Bad as conditions might have seemed at first, when they saw that actual progress was being made, they would have taken a more hopeful view of the situation." -1911
"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do do not want to lose their jobs." -1911
"My whole life has largely been one of surprises. I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of this kind if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day of his life — that is, tries to make each day reach as nearly as possible the high-water mark of pure, unselfish, useful living."-1901
"No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is long left without proper reward. 1901
"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top."-1901
"Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work."-1901
"I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak." -1901
"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Looked at from this standpoint, I almost reached the conclusion that often the Negro boy's birth and connection with an unpopular race is an advantage, so far as real life is concerned. With few exceptions, the Negro youth must work harder and must perform his tasks even better than a white youth in order to secure recognition. But out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one misses whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of birth and race." -1901
"I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery. I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race. No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government. Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution. Then, when we rid ourselves of prejudice, or racial feeling, and look facts in the face, we must acknowledge that, notwithstanding the cruelty and moral wrong of slavery, the ten million Negroes inhabiting this country, who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of American slavery, are in a stronger and more hopeful condition, materially, intellectually, morally, and religiously, than is true of an equal number of black people in any other portion of the globe. This is so to such an extend that Negroes in this country, who themselves or whose forefathers went through the school of slavery, are constantly returning to Africa as missionaries to enlighten those who remained in the fatherland. This I say, not to justify slavery — on the other hand, I condemn it as an institution, as we all know that in America it was established for selfish and financial reasons, and not from a missionary motive — but to call attention to a fact, and to show how Providence so often uses men and institutions to accomplish a purpose." -1901
Too many more quotes from him to list, but I truly admire this man, his spirit, his logic, and sense of dignity and purpose. Up from slavery, he didn't complain, but dealt with life's obstacles and overcame them to become a wonderful American that cared deeply about the TRUE welfare of his race as well as having a deep appreciation for the greatness of America despite being a SLAVE as a boy. The man was a 20th century prophet for black America, and unfortuantely, his wisdom has been discarded by most black Americans in favor of agitators that get rich by telling blacks that they don't have a chance without daddy government holding their hand every step of the way, and his fears of "race problem solvers" keeping the "patient" in a diseased state so as to get rich off the patient's suffering has come true in ways that I don't think even he would have imagined 100 years ago. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, and Barack Obama aren't fit to be a hair on Booker's ass. He would be called an "uncle Tom" by them, as if anything any of them ever uttered could ever hope to compare to this man.
I've yet to find a quote by Booker T. demanding "reparations" for the injustices done to him, yet people like Obama think that blacks who never felt the crack of the whip deserve to benefit from the suffering felt by others before them, simply because they share the same skin color. Simply unbelievable and galling. Obama is a divider, not a uniter.
Nope. Hint, little blue pill.
Here is my email to Pelosi:
Dear Madam Speaker,
How dare you? You are an employee of the people of the United States of
America and, this may come as a news flash to you, America is NOT your own
private fiefdom. The “apology” you passed today was NOT done either on
my
behalf or in my name. I am outraged that people who live on the public dole
such as our elected representatives in Washington have so little to occupy
their time that this became a major priority.
I’m not sure how to break this to you, Madam Speaker, but there are far
more pressing issues that the American people have overwhelmingly expressed
an interest in government action. Shall I list a few of them in the event
that your copy of the Washington Post has landed on the roof or in the
neighbor’s yard the past several months? Here are just some of the items we
would like you to devote some of your wasted time and energy on since we are
footing the bill for you: 1) National sovereignty, 2) illegal immigration,
3) the border wall, 4) developing domestic oil production (DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW!), 5)
the mortgage and credit meltdown, 6) making the Bush tax cuts permanent.
The stunt you pulled today to pander to a particular ethnic group in the
United States in order to try to secure the re-election of an incumbent was
unethical and reprehensible. Many ethnic groups have immigrated to the
United States and faced tough times on their way to assimilating and
becoming American citizens. Only one group remains rooted in the past and
not all of their ancesters were held in slavery. This will also, no doubt,
come as a news flash to you - not all slave owners were white, and not all
white people whose ancesters lived in America at that time were slave
owners. You would do well to study the history of the United States and the
Constitution of the United States of America.
Madam Speaker, when you were elected to represent your district in the
House of Representatives, you took an oath of office. Do you remember that
oath? In it, you swore to protect and defend the Constitution of the United
States of America. Your actions as Speaker of the House of Representatives
both today and since becoming Speaker have violated and besmirched that oath
of office. If passing nonbinding fluff is the most important thing that the
Congress has to do rather than address the important business of the people
of this nation (as listed above), GO HOME!!! Adjourn, go home and get real
jobs. Your performance today is the reason that this Democrat-led Congress
has the lowest approval rating of any Congress in recent memory and it’s
getting lower.
The sitting House of Representatives is an embarrassment to the United
States and the people who have put their faith in you performing your
obligated duties to this nation. If you cannot or will not do your job, we,
the people of the United States of America, are capable of securing a
representative who can and will.
Next step: Reparations.
Instead of BLAMING AMERICA FIRST,Barrack Hussein and Michelle OBAMA should thank USA to be born US’s citizens instead of...KENIA’s
Not in my name! I had nothing to do with slavery and Jim Crow. I did not benefit from those things.
Liberals are mentally unbalanced.
It is perfectly appropriate for Democrats to apologize for Jim Crow laws and slavery, as they were the perpetrators of same. fortunately, I’m not a Democrat, and have never even seen a slave, so no apology from me is necessary or desired.
I wonder if Steve Cohen running for relection against a black woman (Nikki Tinker) here in Memphis has anything to do with this appology
Okay thanks, dirtstiff. I’m gonna have to let it all sink in before I chime in on this one again but only because it’s one of many....Too many!
“Liberals are mentally unbalanced.”
Only if you believe in their ‘sincerity”.
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