[Victoria Delsoul]

Keyes delivered his blistering defense at a luncheon of the City Club of Chicago, scolding fellow conservatives who challenged his proposal and evoking the struggle of his African-American parents, saying they had talent and "hearts and spirit and strength and faith."

That's pretty much an insult to those parents, and grandparents who struggled in life and made sacrifices so their children and grandchildren could have a better future. Keyes racial pandering is a shameful attempt to further divide blacks and whites, and perpetuate the "minority" syndrome of being less in stature as opposed to numbers. Poverty among modern-day blacks isn't the result of slavery, but the lack of education, job skills and training, and, for some, their unwillingness to do better.

Does Keyes advocate reparations to other minorities such as the white working poor whose struggle to survive is just the same as those of poor blacks? Should we also pay reparations whether through cash or tax-breaks to other so-called minority groups whose ancestors have suffered hardships? Should we give the land back to the Indians and California back to Mexico?

The truth is, the majority of blacks are middle class and economically successful. This is something Keyes should remind his audience instead of perpetuating the reparation myth as the solution to social evils, and fingering all whites as culpable for slavery.

[Alberta's Child]

Outstanding post, Victoria. Thanks for the ping.

[BunnySlippers]

Good post.

[Robert_Paulson2]

This missile fired by alan was intended for Republican Leadership. He is giving notice to us of his intent to split and radicalize along racial lines, the party, and this election... and by extension the NEXT election AFTER he loses this one.

The prize he REALLY wants... to sit in Reagan's Chair.

I think he may have met his Waterloo... by engaging in his now famous, illinois temper tantrum, called 'race based wealth redistrubution" system of his. It's just a play on words... you don't have to click it.

[Sabertooth]

Does Keyes advocate reparations to other minorities such as the white working poor whose struggle to survive is just the same as those of poor blacks? Should we also pay reparations whether through cash or tax-breaks to other so-called minority groups whose ancestors have suffered hardships? Should we give the land back to the Indians and California back to Mexico?

We Californians appreciate that you didn't give Dr. Keyes the Aztecs as an option.

With his slave-descendents tax break reparation proposal, Alan Keyes has positioned himself on the far side of Pat Buchanan on the field of relevancy.

Too bad. I voted for Keyes in the '96 primary. The bright side is that we don't ever have to take him seriously again. The dark side is that, like Buchanan, Keyes will nail it once in a while, but pointlessly, because they are frothy and fringey, like Nader and Kucinich, and even when they are serious, no one will take them seriously.