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Repartions: The Fact of the Matter!
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Posted on 02/15/2004 9:24:38 AM PST by X-Servative
The answer to whether reparations should be offered to descendants of slaves in America is quite simple…No! Put simply, if their ancestors had not been slaves, then those clamoring for reparations would never have been born! They want money for being given the gift of life.
Sounds very cut and dry to me!
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To: X-Servative; Admin Moderator
not much thought put into this vanity
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:26:10 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: X-Servative
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:27:02 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: X-Servative
"
Comments!"
The Daytona 500 starts fairly soon.
Look for most of the drivers to be making continual left hand turns.
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:28:31 AM PST
by
G.Mason
( The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected -- Will Rogers)
To: cyborg
It's a short common sense answer!
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:28:40 AM PST
by
X-Servative
(Surviving in CA...)
To: X-Servative
Personally, the idea of getting paid for the slaves my ancestors had confiscated from them has some appeal, on the basest greediest level, but I like to think I'm a bigger person than that.
As for giving reparations to the decedents of slaves, it doesn't make any sense on a moral or logical level, but I've loaded my stock portfolio up on shares of Nike and Seagram's, so I'm kind of torn.
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:30:14 AM PST
by
End Times Sentinel
(Memories by default...if I can't remember them, surely they were memorable!)
To: X-Servative
Actually, it is even easier than that.
Reparations are intended to compensate for something lost.
Those brought here as slaves lost quite a bit, but we cannot compensate them anymore. We can and are looking to compensate their decendants.
These decendants must be compared to those who decended from non-slaves.
Therefore, when we compare the standard of living between those decended from non-slaves (still in Africa) to those decended from slaves (here in the US), we can see that those who decended from slaves enjoy a much higher standard of living than who decended from non-slaves in the same countries.
Therefore, reparations are unecessary.
To: X-Servative
I wonder why they serve eggnog at Christmas time and New Years but not for Easter. I mean, eggs, Easter--you'd think they'd go together.
And why don't they make dishwashers that actually have a place for reasonably-sized cereal bowls?
(It just seems to be an Andy Rooney kind of morning, doesn't it? I hate that.)
To: X-Servative
I believe in being terse, but in real life discussion that may not necessarily apply. If you've ever been in a debate with someone about reparations, wow... those can go on and on.
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:31:53 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: Triple Word Score
Maybe you need another cup of coffee like I do.
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:33:05 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: cyborg
Coffee...coffee...they grind that stuff out of bark or something, don't they? But if it cures repartions, then perhaps I should consider it.
To: Triple Word Score
heh... I actually know a black American who moved to Africa to grow organic coffee.
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:43:26 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: Erik Latranyi
If there is any justification for reparations then the only logic would be to repatiate those seeking justice back to Africa.
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posted on
02/15/2004 10:13:00 AM PST
by
lobo59
To: cyborg
There's something about what you said that has me waiting for a punchline.
To: Triple Word Score
LOL... no joke actually. Village run coffee farm and the coffee sells in wholistic grocery stores.
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posted on
02/15/2004 10:58:24 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: X-Servative
well, you want to shut up somebody talking about reparations? note to them that (esp if they are black) slaves were not brought over then, then likely blacks would still be in Africa. which place would they rather be in in these days?
To: Triple Word Score
ROFLMAO!
To: cyborg
I agree. I was going to start a long, drawn out explanation of why not, but then I decided that the author of this vanity didn't bother to so why should I?
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posted on
02/15/2004 11:44:51 AM PST
by
aodell
To: aodell
*LOL* it's never going to happen anyway... back to watching MTV now
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posted on
02/15/2004 2:49:04 PM PST
by
cyborg
To: aodell
See, this thread brought out the Andy Rooney in most of us. I'm GLAD he's out. I wanted him out.
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