[Little Ray]

Keyes is better than Obama, but with that "Reparations" garbage (whatever his intentions) he ain't gonna make it. I supported him over GWB for President and I wouldn't vote for him after hearing that.
Keyes had a tough race to start, and stalled at the starting line.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Hear, hear.

[Gelato]

It's just a tax break. Sheesh.

Ronald Reagan signed a bill that awarded $20,000 in tax dollar reparations to 80,000 Japanese Americans (or their closest living descendants) for spending a couple of years in WWII internment camps.

I guess if Reagan was resurrected today, you wouldn't support him, either?

There are proposals to use tax dollars in reparations for descendants of slaves--slaves who suffered more loss than we could imagine, spending generations living as "property" that could be used, abused, and destroyed at their masters' whim.

There are also threats of lawsuits. Currently, there's a woman and her two brothers suing for $1.4 trillion dollars because their father was a slave. They remember seeing his whip scars before he died. Other suits have sprung up for billions. Many of these suits could prove successful.

As an alternative to this, Keyes has proposed a "tax break" for descendants of slaves. More than a tax break, it exempts them from the "slave tax"--the income tax--before completely abolishing the tax for the rest of us. This would provide an incentive for many to get off of the Great Society and New Deal programs, and into the workforce or self-employment.

Eventually, it would add steam to the movement to abolish the income tax for everyone--which Alan Keyes has said is his ultimate goal.

I think his idea is a good compromise, better than anyone else's solution--including Reagan's.

[Gelato]

There's another idea by a black conservative for an alternative "reparations" plan. It's better than reparations in the form of socialistic programs, government payments, and lawsuits.

Walter Williams said granting federal land to descendants of slaves could be a solution.

Said Williams:

There's one condition where I might fall prey to the reparations temptation. The federal government owns up to 90 percent of the land in western states such as Alaska, Nevada, New Mexico and California. Turning that land over to blacks, and hence into private hands, might not be a bad idea.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21029

That's another idea that would be feasible and fair. Both Williams' and Keyes' suggestions are better and more conservative than reparations in payments such as Reagan signed on to.

You still consider Walter Williams and Ronald Reagan good conservatives, don't you?