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Reparations: Overlooking African Complicity in the Slave Trade
FrontPage Magazine ^ | By John Perazzo

Posted on 02/17/2009 7:02:14 PM PST by DBCJR

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1 posted on 02/17/2009 7:02:15 PM PST by DBCJR
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Monday, February 02, 2009
OBAMA’S COMMUNIST/MOSLEM COUSIN
For three days in December 2007, Kenya slid into chaos as ballot counters steadily took what appeared to be a presidential election victory for the challenger and delivered it to the incumbent.

As tensions mounted, Kenneth Flottman sat in Nairobi and grew increasingly frustrated. He had in his hands the results of an exit poll, paid for by the United States government, that supported the initial returns favoring the challenger, Raila Odinga.

Mr. Flottman, East Africa director for the International Republican Institute, the pro-democracy group that administered the poll, said he had believed that the results would promptly be made public, as a check against election fraud by either side. But then his supervisors said the poll numbers would be kept secret. (snip)

An examination by The New York Times found that the official explanation for withholding the poll — that it was technically flawed — had been disputed by at least four people involved in the institute’s Kenya operations.

The examination, including interviews and a review of e-mail messages and internal memorandums, raises questions about the intentions and priorities of American observers as Kenyans desperately sought credible information about the vote.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...

Raila Odinga is Obama’s Moslem/Communist cousin and the one who burned Christians alive in their churches. I wondered why the US government would bother with an exit poll.
read/view more

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/10/llke-ayers-another-obama-just-in.html

AND

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-with-communist-cousin-odinga.html

AND these graphic photos of Odinga’s rioting

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/07/obama-family-political-methods-warning.html

Posted by Alan Peters at 11:39 PM


2 posted on 02/17/2009 7:05:06 PM PST by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: DBCJR

....and the slave trade continues in Africa to this day.


3 posted on 02/17/2009 7:05:15 PM PST by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Islander7

See # 2


4 posted on 02/17/2009 7:08:04 PM PST by DBCJR (What would you expect?)
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....and the slave trade continues in Africa to this day.

All true but irrelevant. This is about "economic justice" and correcting the flaws that Obama has miraculously detected in the original Constitution.

In other words it's a "get whitey" thing.

5 posted on 02/17/2009 7:15:31 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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At least Negro slaves had value! They were cared for, valuable property.

The Irish, and the Chinese, however were just worked to death for free.

So who's due more in the reparations field?

6 posted on 02/17/2009 7:22:11 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (Destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology)
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A book, Time on the Cross, compares the benefits & hardships of slavery vs the Northeastern sweatshops that immigrants worked in. Slaves were treated much better.


7 posted on 02/17/2009 7:25:05 PM PST by DBCJR (What would you expect?)
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To: hinckley buzzard

I have just recently heard that the Babylonians and Egyptians were most likely descendants of Noah’s son Ham, who had black or dark skin. These nations would be the first occurrences in recorded history of the institution of slavery.

Irony, eh?


8 posted on 02/17/2009 7:28:29 PM PST by uptoolate (Shhh. If you listen real hard, God is speaking to America.)
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To: DBCJR

My maternal forebears were African slaves. First owned by African blacks, then traded to Arabs, and then sold to a Dutch/Belgian family. The master’s wife got ‘curious’ with one slave and the resulting fruit was discreetly shipped back for adoption by west European immigrants living near Sicily. From where shall I get my reparations? Burundi? Somalia? ING?

I am left to wonder why slavery is not appropriately treated as a disgrace upon the history of all those involved, and not just those nations which moved away from these horrific ‘traditions’ and now enjoy prosperity. If leftist agitation is the proper measure, the sin appears to be contemporary relative success.


9 posted on 02/17/2009 7:32:39 PM PST by M203M4 (Bill Kristol: Piltdown conservative)
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There are thousands of slaves in the U.S. right now. Illegals, young girls, and women from third world countries are being held as slaves as we speak.


10 posted on 02/17/2009 7:37:46 PM PST by brwnsuga (Proud, Black, Sexy Conservative!!! I am no LEMMING!)
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To: DBCJR

And the fact is the losing tribes, instead of normally being killed off by the victors, were SOLD by the winning tribes to be slaves in the new world. Gee would it have been better for their millions of descendants living in America today if they would just have been killed off by the winning tribes, like the normal custom was?


11 posted on 02/17/2009 7:39:22 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: uptoolate

The Jews held slaves as well, as have just about every nation under the sun. To the victor go the spoils.


12 posted on 02/17/2009 7:39:49 PM PST by brwnsuga (Proud, Black, Sexy Conservative!!! I am no LEMMING!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

So, if you think about it, they owe US money!


13 posted on 02/17/2009 7:41:09 PM PST by DBCJR (What would you expect?)
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Illegals, young girls, and women from third world countries are being held as slaves as we speak...”

Did you see the specials on MSNBC over the weekend? (I know, but sometimes they do have decent documentaries) It is amazing that such things can happen in this country and not a peep from the media.


14 posted on 02/17/2009 7:44:15 PM PST by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: M203M4

Truth is, going far enough back, everyone is a descendant of somebody done wrong. Who pays the reparation? I didn’t do it and wouldn’t do it. Why should I pay? Who is going to pay me for whatever was done to whatever ancestor I had that was done wrong?

Fact is reparations is a property law concept they are applying to a civil rights issue. It is the Native Americans who have a reparations claim - and they are cashing in at the smoke shops and casinos.


15 posted on 02/17/2009 7:46:19 PM PST by DBCJR (What would you expect?)
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oh... pleazzze, give me a friggin break...

I’m 1/2 American Choctaw indian and I’m sick of this “you owe me” attitude of the blacks.


16 posted on 02/17/2009 7:47:36 PM PST by nbhunt
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Fact is reparations is a property law concept they are applying to a civil rights issue. It is the Native Americans who have a reparations claim - and they are cashing in at the smoke shops and casinos.


17 posted on 02/17/2009 7:48:53 PM PST by DBCJR (What would you expect?)
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It seems to me we ought to support reprations. Those harmed by Federal government quotas and set asides deserve to be compensated. :)


18 posted on 02/17/2009 7:50:27 PM PST by xdem (Palin 2012)
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Sounds like a class action to me.


19 posted on 02/17/2009 8:06:46 PM PST by DBCJR (What would you expect?)
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None for the Irish, thank you.
We got our slavery payment during and after the Revolution. We got America, the U.S. of A., home of the brave and “we are not giving it back”!!.
The english..I mean Washington have short memorys, the Irish don’t.


20 posted on 02/18/2009 4:32:27 AM PST by triSranch
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