Alan Keyes on Reparations (AK contextualizes his comments)

The Illinois Leader ^ | 8-17-2004 | Chicago Bureau

[Tribune7]

Sure. That's why I'm going for Specter.

[nunya bidness]

Are you sure there aren't some bad chemicals in those oysters you eat out of the Bay? LOL. Where is my tax holiday? My ancesters (well the ones on my mother's side; the ones on my dad's side were part of the problem, but hey, our gene pool is a mess), had to inconvenience themselves to help stamp out slavery with hot lead from around 1861 to 1865.

The chemicals put hair on your eyeballs. As for your tax-break: get in line.

[EveningStar]

It is too late to spin the ball, after it hits out of bounds...

keyes just nailed his chances to the coffin of race baiting

LTNT, Bob. As usual, you are too kind. Keyes revealed himself as a psycho eight years ago when he tried to crash that debate to which he was not invited.

[cyborg]

If he said get rid of income taxes for everyone, well he'd be a SHOE-IN.

[B Knotts]

How 'bout a comp'd room?

[Robert_Paulson2]

I am wondering if the unabashed support for the man is based on religion only.... because tax relief targetted by race doesn't fit any brand of conservatism I ever heard of...

and it seems as most of his ardent supporters are R.C.

[Don Joe]

Reparations are against our principles, but by a compromise there, can we make up much more than we lose on this front on other fronts?

Brilliant maneuver!

We'll cut them off at... our throats!

Yes, that's the ticket! We'll compromise our way to success!

For every demand the left issues, we'll only give them half of what they demand! No, strike that -- we'll only give them a quarter of what they demand!

Why, in no time at all, we'll have them eating right out of our... wallets!

We know this is a winning strategy, because it's gotten us where we are today!

[laugh|cry|vomit|all]

[swheats]

"I'm gonna give wads of cash to Kobe Bryant simply because he's black."

Did he say that or is this becoming FUBAR? Do you know if Kobe Bryant's ancesters were from free men or bond slaves? How about Oprah or Shaq? I don't know their lineage.

This really is getting pretty ugly. Assuming that because you have dark skin that you are entitled to tax relief because all darkies are from slaves.

[nunya bidness]

Uh, the rest of your post is fluff.

Always a pleasure talking to you sink.

Let me know how that 60 vote stranglehold works out.

[cyborg]

What's with the Catholic bashing? You've done a poll to find this out no doubt. Either cough up the evidence or stop catholic bashing.

[sinkspur]

Does the proposal, not the passage, but the proposal itself, overall advance our agenda?

No.

Reparations are against our principles, but by a compromise there, can we make up much more than we lose on this front on other fronts?

To quote Alan Keyes "I don't compromise on my principles."

If the price of getting your own freedom from tax slavery is to give it to another group first, you really wouldn't take that deal?

No. I won't take it. Somebody's got to pay taxes, and if this turkey flies, it'll end up being you and me, the fair-skinned ones.

Maybe, just maybe, it is worth thinking about how to advance it in such a way that it severely damages the D party use of it without horrendously violating our principles. I think that is what Keyes is up to.

I don't want to think about reparations. I want to put a bullet through it's head, and bury it on the ash heap of history.

I really can't believe you'd even consider giving a single inch on something so blatantly racist and anti-conservative as reparations in any form!

[Yaelle]

What about the problem that lots of people are of mixed race in this country, and not all of them look "African?" How is a person going to prove he or she has slave ancestors? That's a lot of expensive DNA testing.

[FITZ]

Uh, yeah, because nothing about reparations can ever be a conservative principle.

Tax breaks and tax reliefs are conservative principles. Why aren't we upset about the blind getting some kind of tax break, or those over 65? Or what about families with many children? Is it fair that a couple who was infertile but wanted kids has to pay more taxes because they couldn't have them?

[Tribune7]

Cy,

Don't let an off-the-cuff comment & some twisting by a media that hates conservatives put you on the defensive. If Keyes were elected, he'd be one of our better senators by far.

[Yaelle]

does one qualify if your ancestors were slaves in another country?

If so, then very few of us would NOT qualify.

[rdf]

I'm fine, thanks.

I'm thinking this over. AK may be wrong on this. My wife thinks so! But, it is original and makes we want to reflect. I'm in no hurry.

I believe the internet tempts us all to shoot from the hip.

Best to you,

cheers,

Richard F.

[sinkspur]

Assuming that because you have dark skin that you are entitled to tax relief because all darkies are from slaves.

That is what it would boil down to. Surely you know that.

[B Knotts]

Alan has triangulated the reparations issue in to the income tax issue brilliantly. He's gotten explosive national attention by this plan and he's deflated the hand-out conditions of the traditional reparations plan.

Exactly! I don't know why that is so hard for some to understand.

[EveningStar]

The more I hear Keyes talk, the more I wish he never ran in the first place. Why is that? LOL

Because you are sane and Keyes and his followers are not.

[Robert_Paulson2]

any question about support or voting based on religious affiliation is bashing? get real.

take a jump... oh I see you have already...
the alan keyes tax breaks for blacks bandwagon...

roflmao....