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Keyes has plans for reparations
Chicago Tribune ^ | 8/17/04 | Allison Benedikt and David Mendell

Posted on 08/17/2004 5:58:48 AM PDT by Aquinasfan

One day after their first meeting, U.S. Senate hopefuls Barack Obama and Alan Keyes were back on the campaign trail again Monday.

Speaking at a news conference at the Hotel InterContinental in Chicago, Republican Keyes added to his now familiar talking points his stance on slavery reparations.

Prompted by a reporter's question, Keyes gave a brief tutorial on Roman history and said that in regard to reparations for slavery, the U.S. should do what the Romans did: "When a city had been devastated [in the Roman empire], for a certain length of time--a generation or two--they exempted the damaged city from taxation."

Keyes proposed that for a generation or two, African-Americans of slave heritage should be exempted from federal taxes--federal because slavery "was an egregious failure on the part of the federal establishment." In calling for the tax relief, Keyes appeared to be reaching out to capture the black vote, something that may prove difficult to do, particularly after his unwelcome reception at the Bud Billiken Day Parade Saturday...

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: apologistsforkeyes; atotalnutcase; flipflopalan; keyes; panderalan; pullsracecardagain; reparations; solomonsplitlibbaby; taxwhitesonly
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To: Trueblackman

In my area, we have a group of people who choose to live in tents because they "don't want to pay rent" (direct quote from one of them from a public meeting I attended). They live off of food donations brought to the camp by well-meaning neighbors to feed "the homeless". A nearby city recently gave them a site that was purchased for park land that was valued at $400,000; the city is developing the site with showers and other costly perks for this group of people.

Inside, you will meet people from out-of-state who gravitate here because of the weather, and because our local politicians allow this sort of thing. You will find felons, hiding from warrants. You will find people sitting in their tents, smoking meth. You will find sex offenders, domestic abusers, and drunks.

And we are paying for it with taxpayer dollars.

Not only must I pay hefty property tax - I must also pay for this sort of "But I don't WANT to work!" population to come into my neighbhorhood and make it unsafe.

Like what you witnessed, it's a travesty - and we have liberals to thank.


541 posted on 08/17/2004 10:43:49 AM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Some of my best friends are white, middle-class males.)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Oh but remember this was suppose to have ended under the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, but Democrats with the help of liberal Republicans have been chipping away at it. Hillary promised a crowd of black pastors in New York in 2000 that if Gore was elected the first thing she would do as a Senator was put forth a bill to end the 1996 Act which has remained very unpoplar with far leftwing Democrats.


542 posted on 08/17/2004 10:43:57 AM PDT by Trueblackman (Terrorism and Liberalism never sleep and neither do I)
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To: cyborg

I agree with you, if you agree it was about states' rights.....LOL.


543 posted on 08/17/2004 10:45:57 AM PDT by Howlin (Kerry being called a war hero is "a colloquialism.")
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Apparently.


544 posted on 08/17/2004 10:46:03 AM PDT by TigersEye (Are your parents Pro-Choice? I guess you got lucky!)
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To: Happy2BMe
But wait:

You want to tell me that what they suffered can actually be repaired with money? You're going to do the same thing those slaveholders did, put a money price on something that can't possibly be quanitified in that way.

March 27, 2002

545 posted on 08/17/2004 10:47:39 AM PDT by Howlin (Kerry being called a war hero is "a colloquialism.")
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To: Trueblackman

It's frustrating as all get out - the gaming and scamming of the system just ticks me off.

We made it without handouts - I just don't understand why others can't or won't.


546 posted on 08/17/2004 10:49:23 AM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Real Men Like Bush)
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To: ppaul
What about the same sort of relief from taxation for descendants of immigrants who were displaced from their homelands because of Communist tyranny

They'd have to apply to the former Communist gov'ts.

Do you reject reparations in principle? How do you feel about reparations for the Jews?

547 posted on 08/17/2004 10:49:29 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Blood of Tyrants; mhking

Er.. I still don't see any statistics that support your assertion that: "The majority of blacks pay no income taxes anyway."

but i digress...


548 posted on 08/17/2004 10:49:39 AM PDT by Smogger
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
"No aspect of our system of taxation should be based on skin color, or on something that happened to an individual's ancestors."

I note that what happened extended into the time period I live in. It was long dead anscestors that were screwed it was the living. It was live folks of a particular skin color that were singled out and excluded. What's on the table isn't really reparations, it's a corrective measure and with it comes an education on personal responsibility.

What's on the table is part of a liberation plan from the rat power hold. Keyes analogy was that the ancient Roman's waived tax levies on disaster areas. IMO that's exactly what these rat entrenched areas are.

The choice is between Keyes getting the seat, or the commie. It's clear to me the commie will cost a hell of a lot more and spread the devastation.

550 posted on 08/17/2004 10:51:03 AM PDT by spunkets
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To: Chad Fairbanks

The Democrat Party turned the underclass into a political class in the 1970-80's which kept them in power for the longest time and Democrats need more of them to return to power.


551 posted on 08/17/2004 10:51:42 AM PDT by Trueblackman (Terrorism and Liberalism never sleep and neither do I)
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To: GetZarqawiNow

You pretty much nailed the devotees of Dr. Alan "Rev. Jim Jones" Keyes dead on...


552 posted on 08/17/2004 10:51:54 AM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Real Men Like Bush)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Well, technically there is no need to. When they were enslaved, they were not citizens, and therefore had no rights guaranteed by the government.

OOOOOOOOOK. So anyone who happens to land on our soil can be exploited for whatever purposes we wish?

They were held in bondage here because of an immoral government policy.

553 posted on 08/17/2004 10:52:00 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Howlin
...watching the contortions on this thread.

Worthy of Olympic Gold Metals!

554 posted on 08/17/2004 10:52:19 AM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: Howlin

Medals.........that is.


555 posted on 08/17/2004 10:52:57 AM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: Howlin
Do I think that it's wrong in principle for the government to compensate slaves and their descendants because of a government policy that kept them in bondage?

Well, get it from Alan Keyes' funds; the rest of us aren't going to pay this blackmail so Alan Keyes can get elected.

So you think reparations are wrong in principle? Can I get a straightforward answer?

556 posted on 08/17/2004 10:53:39 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Howlin
Legislating slave reparations will do anything but "repair" our society. We know exactly what such a travesty would do . .
557 posted on 08/17/2004 10:54:00 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (JOHN KERRY is as much like the WORKING MAN as WHOOPIE GOLDBERG is to GEORGE W. BUSH! - Vote BUSH!)
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To: GetZarqawiNow

How about removing our ability to select our own senators?


558 posted on 08/17/2004 10:54:07 AM PDT by Howlin (Kerry being called a war hero is "a colloquialism.")
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To: Happy2BMe

Yes, we do. One has to wonder why we're being asked to suspend reality.


559 posted on 08/17/2004 10:54:57 AM PDT by Howlin (Kerry being called a war hero is "a colloquialism.")
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To: Aquinasfan

I would have responded faster but I fell out of my chair...and couldn't get up...lol

Um, those generations are dead Alan.


560 posted on 08/17/2004 10:55:08 AM PDT by ApesForEvolution (DemocRATS are communists and want to destroy America only to replace it with the USSA)
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