Bush Speech in Africa Boosts "Reparations Movement"

Newsmax.com ^ | 07-10-03 | Not given

[Theodore R.]

Even Bill Clinton backed off on making a P.C. "apology" after a storm of protest shot down the idea.

As I recall, B.C. did "apologize" for slavery and was equally warm to the idea of "reparations" for descendants of slaves.

Didn't the president run as an opponent of "reparations" to descendants of slaves? Governor Perry did, but Democrat Tony Sanchez merely said that he would "study" the question of reparations were he to have been elected.

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[Joe Hadenuf]

So this is our conservative President from Texas huh. Sheesh!

[grania]

It was stated beautifully on a thread yesterday. Bottom line...some of those of African ancestory want reparations to account for all they've suffered. Fine, if they feel that way...but no reparations without repatriotation to the lands of their ancestors and revoking US citizenship.

[Jumper]

Maybe the repriations folks should have to pay for the priviliges they've come to know or take their money and be forced to return to their origins....

[MJY1288]

NEWSMAX might want to edit the title so they don't look so stupid.

Bush was never in and never gave a speech in Liberia

[Theodore R.]

The error is mine. It should be "Africa," not "Liberia" in the headline. Newsmax.com is not at fault.

[MJY1288]

OOPS, let me restate that,

Hello Theodore R. I think you might have made a mistake in the title. Don't sweat it it happens to all of us :-)

[thoughtomator]

Nobody alive has been a slave in the United States or had a parent who was a slave in the United States. Thus, no one has standing with which to claim reparations. In addition, there is no one alive who 'owned' a slave in the United States. Thus, there is no one who can legally be sued.

[End Times Sentinel]

As I recall, B.C. did "apologize" for slavery and was equally warm to the idea of "reparations" for descendants of slaves.

 

It appears that you are correct.

 

(From Thomas Sowell)

PRESIDENT CLINTON IN AFRICA was like Clinton in the United States --- as phony as a three-dollar bill.
His apology for slavery while in Uganda was a complete farce.

 

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[OldFriend]

NewsMax gives way to hyperbole too often to be taken seriously. Their spin is destroying their credibility....what little they have, that is.

[deport]

Hello Theodore R. I think you might have made a mistake in the title. Don't sweat it it happens to all of us :-)

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Naw...... only to those that feel a need to rewrite the orginal title provide by the author.....

Posted here with additional comments if'n anyone is interested in them.....

Bush's Speech Boosts Reparations Movement ^
			Posted by truthandlife On 07/09/2003 5:59 PM CDT with 45 comments

[bk1000]

'but no reparations without repatriotation to the lands of their ancestors and revoking US citizenship'

Much like many other 'oppressed' groups, they don't want to take the bad with the good. This is the only condition on which I would give my support to such a movement.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I'd say this is a journalist's "spin" on W's trip. There's not a lot of hard news coming out of this visit, so in the world of scribbling profession, this is known as a "second day, PM lead," on yesterday's story.

[Mr. Jeeves]

"If we are recognizing this as one of the greatest crimes in history, there had to be criminals," Fields said.

Very true. But what Jesse, Inc. will never admit is that those criminals were black Africans themselves. And their descendants have no money to pay reparations.

[tbpiper]

Maybe we fabulously-weathy-from-slavery white folks ought to give them the "40 acres and a mule" originally promised. (note: numbers of mules/acres based on numbers of slaves in 1865.)

[twigs]

Unless the president makes taxpayers cough up millions or billions, according to Booker, "Bush is almost making light of the severity of slavery.”

Absolutely not true. Pres. Bush acknowledged the realities of past slavery, but the thrust of the speech was forward, future. The input of Africans on American shores continues to help our country as a whole become a land of justice and freedom for all. He ended with the words: "This untamed fire of justice continues to burn in the affairs of man, and it lights the way before us."

The irony here is that modern reparation-seekers are doing exactly what slave owners did in the past--profit from the toils of working men and women.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I think you're on to something.

[Sender]

I agree, modern reparations seekers are only looking for a free ride on someone else's back, much as slaveholders of old did.

"Whether it's called ‘reparations’ or ‘reconstruction assistance,’ something is needed in order to return peoples to their own history.”

Money taken from workers today cannot "return peoples to their own history". People make their own history. What's done in the distant past is done, and we can only move forward. I would ask the reparations seekers, what do you want to be remembered for? As someone who delayed the progress of black advancement by convincing blacks that they must live on the dole, that somehow a lottery check from uncle Sam will make everything all right? Or as someone who made their own destiny and rose above the injustices of the past to enjoy true equality and the rewards of accomplishment? I think I know what Jesse Jackson and the folks in the article above have chosen.

And that's not even getting into the mega-quagmire question of who pays, and who receives?

[Britton J Wingfield]

"If we are recognizing this as one of the greatest crimes in history, there had to be criminals," Fields said.

Yes, and they are all dead.