Posted on 12/08/2003 10:34:00 AM PST by Chi-townChief
It's OK, we whashed it, and it's all white now.
Just damn.
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The very first phrase of this piece is ludicrously wrong and it goes downhil from there.
Notice the author doesn't state that 'In other words, TILLMAN BELIEVES Brown is a lackey for whitey.'
These are author LAURA WASHINGTON'S words. Its a not-so-valed tip-off that she believes everything Tillman is saying, just not her means for getting it.
And if not for other ancestors, it could be worse still. She could be on the wrong end of a machete blade in some godforsaken unending tribal conflict.
Yes. In fact you bear a heavier responsibility than most, because ... because ... Oh, you just do, that's all!!
Consider, as Laz did, that our government owns one third of all land in America. That land is not on the Market. That land isn't helping our economy.
So turning over 40 acres of government land as "reparations" or welfare or land grants or whatever...would soon inject a fair amount of wealth back into our system (after all, some of that land *would* be sold back on the Market).
In the meantime, such reparations would turn Democratic Blacks decisively against our enviro-radicals who want our government to buy up all private land. The Enviro-nuts don't want *any* land to be privately owned, and they want to fight any sale of public government land to the private Market.
Yet how could such PC radicals be against 40 acres of "reparations?"
Now admittedly, this is a pretty cynical way of thinking, but you've got to admit, the enviro-radicals would play their part in fighting such reparations (and that would have larger political consequences).
Sometimes, such as in judo and politics, you can score an advantage by using your own opponents moves against them.
Moving government land back into the private market would do that very thing, were we ever to become so cold-hearted and cynical.
Republicans freed slaves. It isn't out of the question that they could next free our land.
Any more ideas like that I come up with, I'm sending to you. You publicize well. :o)
Sez you!!!
''She should have kept her mouth shut and said, 'I'm not going to speak against my people,'"
Last time I checked, we were all human. This skin-colour based race thing is silly.
If this "slave reparations" crowd had any guts, they'd show up on individual door-steps demanding their fair share, instead of shilling for the government to do the dirty work for them. Of course, they might find that most Americans don't react favourably to shakedown artists, confidence men, and armed robbers.
While we're at it, let's not forget those who came to America before 1860, who rejected slavery and fought the Civil War to abolish it. There were 646,392 casulaties on the Union side alone, including 140,414 battle deaths. They made the ultimate sacrifice so slaves could go free at a time when slavery was still practiced worldwide, as it still is in Sudan and elsewhere today -- not that certain Democrat leaders ever talk about solving today's problem.
Thus reparations is an absurd idea that started with law suits over slave labor during WWII, and has led to other absurdities as illustrated by the following recent story:
LESSONS OF 'THE SIMPLE LIFE'
New York Post ^ | December 5, 2003 | MARK GOLDBLATT
Posted on 12/05/2003 8:33:42 AM EST by OESY
FOX'S new reality series, "The Simple Life," premiered Tuesday. The show follows the misadventures of socialites Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie as they "rough it" for a month on an Arkansas farm - plucking chickens, killing bugs and (gasp!) sharing a single bathroom with their hosts, the Leding Family. The show is intended to highlight, in a less than subtle way, the rural decency of the Ledings by contrasting them with the absurdly pampered big city blonds.
But the show also highlights another absurdity. Nicole Ritchie is the daughter of singer Lionel Ritchie - so, even though she grew up in a world of Gucci bags and Manolo Blahnik spike heels, designer perfumes and stretch limos, she counts as African-American for the purposes of affirmative action.
So if she and Justin Leding, the hardworking teenage son of the farm family, ever compete for admission to college, Nicole will be granted special consideration because of the otherwise insurmountable hardships visited upon her ancestors.
Who said America is no longer the land of opportunity?
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