Reparations calculations (Who is behind the Reparations March in D.C. Saturday?)

The Washington Times ^ | August 16th, 2002 | Michelle Malkin

[End The Hypocrisy]

"Russell Simmons, a wealthy hip-hop music executive, is marketing the reparations gospel to black youths under the modernized demand for "40 acres and a Bentley." He's also using the movement to sell his own line of "Phat Classic" sneakers. Similarly, attorney Johnny Cochrane is exploring legal recourse against the U.S. government. Meanwhile, one class-action lawsuit filed in Brooklyn, N.Y., against Fleet Boston Financial, Aetna and CSX puts the reparations tab at $1.5 trillion in unpaid wages of slave labor. Additionally, defense attorney Sam Jordan, one of the march's lead organizers, apparently thinks freeing former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal — the death row inmate found guilty in the violent 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner — would balance the historical books. The gall knows no end."

Those are excerpts...

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As they say, follow the money...

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The news about Johnny Cochrane's motivations actually came from The Washington Post, as revealed in this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/734076/posts

It's easier to win over juries when their opinions have been shaped by the media and public events, after all...

[StopDemocratsDotCom]

[Oldeconomybuyer]

So these racists want $1.5 trillion and the release of a cop killer? Pathetic.

[HELLRAISER II]

These people actually believe we're going to pay them. That's what years of Welfare & us bending over every time they whine has gotten us. If they want my money, they'll have to take it from me.

[3AngelaD]

Not to worry. They don't have to take your money. The government is doing it for them.

[Chairman Fred]

OK, which political party's politicians defended the institution of slavery? Which party's elected officials enacted all the Jim Crow laws after the Reconstruction?

Yeah, that's it! Now you all know whom to sue! OOOPS! It isn't the Republicans! How can this be?? Oh well, back to the drawing board...

[banjo joe]

Every d@mned day.

[End The Hypocrisy]

You don't think that's ALL they want, do you? ;-)

[Saundra Duffy]

I think I should get reparations cuz even though we're White, my family members were slaves. We were dirt poor in Missouri. My Mom pretty much acted like she was a slave; she even used to wear one of those bandanas over her hair. We had to kowtow to the rich White folks. My Mom and Dad never owned any land. My Mom had to leave school after 8th grade to work so they wouldn't starve. My Dad (who never graduated from high school) had menial jobs all his life. All of us had to scratch our way out of poverty by working and going to school. All you Blacks - shut up about this reparations crap. For victory & freedom!!!

[glock rocks]

[End The Hypocrisy]

Well, I've heard claims made that us "white trash" still have it easier because we don't wear our oppressed & lowly status in our skin color, and can therefore still hang with those whites who are wealthy enough to make us well off, too. Or so the excuse goes, anyway...

[HELLRAISER II]

Isn't that the most unpleasant truth of the situation.

[StopDemocratsDotCom]

I think we Cuban-Americans should also get reparations. In 1960 a group of 1,000 Cubans were trained by the CIA and they were promised they would be backed up if they invaded Cuba. They did their share, but President Kennedy lied to them and did not help the invasion when the group of Cubans got into trouble. This has lead to 43 years of suffering for the Cuban people and a lot of stress and anguish for 1.5 million exiles in the US.
I obviusly do not think we should get reparations, i am just trying to make a point. ALL ethnic groups can make the case for "reparations" in some way or another. I think it's ridiculous that Jesse Jackson wants more cash to stash into his female lover's (bleep) so he can make more out-of-weedlock babies.

[Tao Yin]

If I understand this correctly, reparations mean something that repairs.

What exactly do we need to repair? What damages do current generations still have that needs fixing?

We moved blacks from Africa to America, used slaves, and set their descendants free in the most prosperous country on the planet. Current blacks benefited from slavery.

You can say that slavery decimated their cultural identity, but culture can not be purchased and culture can not be given. I do not respect the culture of reparations that says “gimme gimme gimme”. The reparations culture is not about moving forward, it is about taking advantage and dividing the races.

[LadyAustin]

Maybe my family shouldn't be responsible for reparations, since we didn't get here until after 1900. But we're white, so we're responsible for slavery too, right?

[Paul Atreides]

Is it just me, or was Jesse Jr. the bartender on The Love Boat?

[Paul Atreides]

I have news for you; if you're white, you're responsible for EVERYTHING. Everything bad, that is.

[boris]

Who is "Johnny Cochrane"?

--Boris

[ghost of nixon]

How much do we have to pay for every last whiney liberal (black or white) to just shut the hell up about racism! It might be worth it.