Tillman isn't helping debate over slave reparations "I want 40 acres and a Lexus."

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | December 8, 2003 | Laura Washington

[buffyt]

I have black slave ancestors. My grandmother was a Hargrove. My ancestor Rufus Hargrove was a black slave. I could get reparations. (I WOULD NOT!) I just wonder how many white people there are who can prove black slave ancestors, and thus would be "entitled" to reparations. And I am so white I glow in the dark. I WISH I had some pigment!

[camle]

I want 40 acres and a Lexus too, and if it weren't for MY ancestors, she would STILL be picking cotton.

who is more deserving?

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>>>>>>''I want 40 acres and a Lexus. You can keep the mule.''

She'd probably be the first to underpay a crew of illegal aliens to mow the 40 acre lawn and rake up all the leaves next Fall.

[tom paine 2]

Dorothy Tillman also carries a pistol around to the City Council meetings. She is one crazy bird.

[Snuffington]

These kinds of remarks make African Americans look like a bunch of operators trying to hustle our way into making an easy buck out of a national tragedy.

Gee, ya think?

Not all African Americans though. Just those who keep yammering on like this: "Tillman and other reparations activists rightly argue that America was built on the backs of black slaves."

America was built on the backs of generations of hard-working Americans of all backgrounds. Pretending slaves did all the building while the rest of America sat back and watched is simply a more genteel version of Tillman's silly statements.

[Kozak]

''I want 40 acres and a Lexus. You can keep the mule.''

Yeah, she's already a horse's A**...

[Caipirabob]

What about indentured servitude? My ancestors were subjected to such... Do I get a Camry instead of a Lexus? What about the 40 acres? Do we get 1.5 acres in Detroit? Where's my gubmint cheeze? Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!!!...

[CzarNicky]

I want the Italian government to pay me reparations for slavery during Roman times. I'll be waiting by the mailbox for my check.

[Steel Wolf]

Hold on, hold on. At what point are the Romans going to pay me reparations for enslaving my ancestors? Since that happened first, I demand to be paid first.

(Unless there are any Greeks, Persians, Chinese, Arabs, Babylonians, Egyptians, etc who still haven't been paid, then they should get paid before me)

All these Johny-Come- Lately's can stand in line until everyone is served in the manner their ancestors were enslaved.

[Hodar]

The racial wounds of slavery are real.

I dispute that. If it were not for history books, blacks would never have known they were slaves. Discrimination has essentially ended over 50 years ago. Yet, today Blacks are significatly behind economically, educationally and based upon nationally standardized testing, they are not measuring up while in elementary school. So, instead of blaming 'Whitey' for everything that has gone wrong, why not look within?

Granted, Blacks were abused. No one is disputing that, but let's ask another question. Are the blacks in the USA better off today than the ones left behind? What about their countrymen who hunted them, and sold them into slavery? What about the fact that this behavior is still going on today?

Paying everyone who is black money, by stealing the money from people who are white is wrong. For example, a significant number of caucasion (ie. whitey) people immigrated to the USA after the civil war. Also, a great deal of blacks have arrived well after slavery was eliminated. So, unless you can show me a living slave, and a living slave owner; IMHO this is nothing more than a shakedown ploy put forth by those who feel that they are entitled to money and property because they are too lazy or uneducated to earn it like everyone else.

[Ditto]

These kinds of remarks make African Americans look like a bunch of operators trying to hustle our way into making an easy buck out of a national tragedy.

Paging Rev Al.

[metalboy]

Slavery reperations were paid. It`s called welfare.

[CougarGA7]

How is she going to work 40 acres with a Lexus?

[Rebelbase]

My son's high school history book has an a reparations section in the Civil War chapter.

[Destructor]

I demand reparations for the atrocities committed against my people by the Buffalo Soldiers!

[r9etb]

Tillman and other reparations activists rightly argue that America was built on the backs of black slaves.

No it wasn't.

[RightWhale]

The Alaska Natives got 160 acres and a corporation that provides an annuity of more than enough to live on in return for letting the Alaska Pipeline pass through a couple of villages.

[Graybeard58]

Posted here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1036089/posts

[cyborg]

That's why this whole discussion about race is so ridiculous. I mean really. Would I have to pay reparations because I have white ancestry, or would black foreigners be eligible for any?

We'd be paying ourselves by the time this is over.