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[JustTheTruth]

Feature #1: ARGUMENT FOR SLAVE REPARATIONS

by Gail D. Rivers

Critics of slave reparations as well as those sections of the population ignorant on the subject wonder why so many African-Americans are still talking about reparations? The slaves were freed 140 years ago—why don’t we just get over it?

First of all, without diluting our gratitude to the people of all races who fought for the freedom of the slaves and the rights of their descendants, we must state that the simple fact of eventually being freed from nearly two-and-a-half centuries of bondage just wasn’t enough. Consider it on a small scale: who goes home after eight hours at the office and figures that it doesn’t really matter if he gets paid…the fact that he was allowed to punch out at all is reward enough? Of course that’s a ridiculous comparison, because everyone knows that slavery was no eight-hour day in an air-conditioned office.

Slavery was back-breaking work, torture, rape, forced submission, and fear…that continued for 246 years. In his proposed legislation on the subject of reparations, Representative John Conyers of Michigan describes some of the iniquities bestowed upon slaves in these words: “…the deprivation of their freedom, exploitation of their labor, and destruction of their culture, language, religion, and families.” Would just being freed be enough for you? ... continued...

Feature #2: Slave Reparations Team's Strategy

Shout out your support for Reparations for American-Americans!

ORDER REPARATION T-SHIRTS AND OTHER APPAREL

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You really have to go to their web site to see the links and understand the level of their idiocy...

http://african-american-reparation.com/

[JustTheTruth]

Reparations? What a joke!

[Alouette]

Here is my suggestion for reparations:

Calculate the average yearly income of Blacks living in the U.S.

Calculate the average yearly income of Blacks living in Africa.

Tax U.S. Blacks 10% of the difference.

[SeaDragon]

why don’t we just get over it?

Please.....................

First of all, it wasn't a war to free the slaves....

Second, yes, get over it......

[otterpond]

Slavery was back-breaking work, torture, rape, forced submission, and fear

Generalizations. Not every slave was treated like this. Most weren't. That doesn't mean depriving any man or woman of freedom can be condoned. But this hysterical overstatement needs to be addressed.

OMT. The slaves were given room and board in return for their labor. Many lived as well or better than poor freemen. Let's make sure that get's deducted from any reparation discussions at the current rate of inflation. Let's also deduct Monrovia for the same reason.

[The_Expatriate]

Representative John Conyers of Michigan describes some of the iniquities bestowed upon slaves in these words: "…the deprivation of their freedom, exploitation of their labor, and destruction of their culture, language, religion, and families."

A fair description of what Conyers and the rest of Washington have in mind for all of us.

[TomGuy]

Gail D. Rivers and the other reparationists like to forget this part of American history:

FR post: DIXIE'S CENSORED SUBJECT BLACK SLAVEOWNERS

[Hugin]

Most people everywhere were slaves until white people invented freedom. My own ancestors were serfs in Germany. Where's my pile of Deutschmarks from the Fatherland?

[glockmeister40]

If you have ancestors who fought for the north during the civil war - DEMAND REPARATIONS.

If you are a taxpayer who paid part of the TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN WELFARE to blacks (and anybody else who got it) - DEMAND REPARATIONS.

[tsomer]

I'm for reparations on the contingency that they renounce their US citizenship and return to the motherland. Let's throw in a complimentary one way ticket to help them along.

[meyer]

Where's my pile of Deutschmarks from the Fatherland?

I think you'll have to settle for Euros.

[Verginius Rufus]

Actually, very few slaves ever lived to be 246 years old.

[BuckeyeOhio]

I may be wrong but it seems like I remember from my history lesson that after the Civil War the Government or some private citizens got money together and ships, and sent any of the former slaves that wanted to leave back to Africa and I think they settled and made a country named Liberia.

If this is true, then I say we already did reparations.

[Billy_bob_bob]

How about reparations for the people who came over here as indentured servants? They got worked to death, and they were promised acreage that they and their children never got. What about them?

[RobbyS]

By and large slaves were treated no worst than white "servants" were. The average life span of an indentured servant who came to Virginia in the 17th Century was seven years. The rapid natural increase of slaves in 18th Century Virginia--in contrast to what happens in the sugar islands of the West Indies--shows their standard of living was problem not much lower than that of poor whites, who also increased repidly in numbers.

[SolitaryMan]

My post-Cival War history is also a little sketchy, but didn't the a Democrat President and Democrat Congress stop any talk of reparations and didn't southern democrats impose all the Jim Crow laws and run the KKK? Seems they should be sueing the DNC?

[TheDon]

The descendants of slave owners have a better claim for reparations than the descendants of slaves.

[otterpond]

Exactly right. But this is pretty inconvenient information that probably won't be allowed to enter the argument.

BTW, I am suspicious of where these suits are being filed. These cases could have been filed anywhere in the country in a federal court. Why Brooklyn?

I have done a little research on this, but haven't really had the time to come up with a good answer.

[RobbyS]

The 13th Amendment represents the only wholesale confiscation of the wealth of upper class Americans. They lost not only their slaves but their investments in Confederate bonds. Not to speak of the loss of large numbers of fathers and sons. The virtual distruction of a whole class of Americans. "Gone with the Wind" represents the truth.

[Procyon]

When are these reparationists going to sue the people who sold them into slavery?

[RobbyS]

Why Brooklyn? They must know which judges are sympathetic.