Bank of America insists it can't find slave profits in its past

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | April 30,2005 | FRAN SPIELMAN

[PJammers]

VR,

I never disputed the fact that black solders died. I know they did. Let's look at your numbers. If 10 percent of the Union forces were black at 179,000 then there were approximately 1.79 million union troops. If 40,000 black soldiers died then it might be possible that (by the numbers) 400,000 white troops died. Not to mention wounded and disfigured.

What I wanted to point out is that the overwhelming amount of deaths were white. As far a reparations go it is my humble opinion that this debt has been paid.

v/r

[Gondring]

Sick.

[Redgirl]

Forgot to add that Yankees didn't know what a pretty woman looked like until they went South. Ask anyone.

[Gunrunner2]

Check for us, please.

A vast majority were White and the debt (if there ever was one) has been paid for a long, long time.

[Gunrunner2]

That is true even today (*ducking and running* you know how those Yankee women can be!)

[Liberty Valance]

I've really got to keep my eye out for a good set of encyclopedias from 1963. The rewriting of history continues unabated.

[expatguy]

Bank of America insists it can't find slave profits in its past

Well, someone is just going to have to look a little harder now aren't they??!!

[beagle9]

Approximately 350,000 Federal deaths (both battle deaths and disease). Of that, over 310,000 where of European ancestry. Many, as my g-g-uncle did, volunteered and left a family fatherless and destitute. The debt has been paid many times over in blood. His tombstone reads “ ----- gave his life that the black man may be free” How many of those brave young men that gave their lives and their future families are every even acknowledged by the so called black leaders of today. What a croc.

[Thommas]

Sadly, the people who survived the hardships of ship internment and became slaves in the Americas, gave birth to progeny that lived longer and better than their African cousins. The peers of the American slave population, back in Africa, were either slaughtered when unable to be sold or ended up as African/Arab slaves; an existence that was nasty, brutish and short.

The children of those left back in Africa, if they survived at all, have begotten a generation of oppressed, poverty stricken and malnourished third world victims of tribal warfare. One could make a more sound argument that the progeny of American slaves owe a big acclamation of thanks to the forces that brought their ancestors to these shores. In short, they "owe" someone for their good fortune.

[television is just wrong]

maybe there wasn't any?????

[muawiyah]

Hey, whole big bunches of us have all sorts of American ancestors who were both victimized and victims. Just to make sure I'm covered I took my wallet from the right pocket and put it in the left.

All the rest of what some folks have planned is just pure BS.

[muawiyah]

Well, fact is most all of the Union Army was raised in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. They'd been having a dramatic economic depression there for nearly a decade.

They volunteered to shoot Rebels, not get hurt!

[muawiyah]

Who said "raped"? Customs were different in that day and men much more restrained. After all, there was no cure for any of the better known STDs.

New Yorkers probably threw all care to the wind, but folks from the American Midwest had farms to take care of and injury to their reproductive capacity brought about by an indiscrete daliance meant economic disaster!

It is an error to project current beliefs and standards back on earlier generations who had different problems.

[muawiyah]

You really don't know how to read do you? I'd suggest you click back to the post to which I responded.

[muawiyah]

Well, that could be ~ they'd been out there in the swamps and woods for quite some time, and their Northern ladies (unlike their Southern cousins) were ploughing the fields themselves.

[sharktrager]

Bank of America is headquartered in North Carolina.

[kcar]

Reparations is a very important issue, so vital I think Democrats should make this the cornerstone of their thrust to retake the White House. And why is it still called the "White" House?

[sharktrager]

I hope you just forgot your sarcasm tag.

[Gondring]

Not only do I know how to read...I know how to read both the lines and between them.

Yours are sick, through and through, intentionally or as evidence of ignorance. Take your pick--I'll not insult you by assuming.

[TexConfederate1861]

Well, You are WRONG. And I might add that many of the Union Soldiers who did the fighting, would disagree.
People like Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of the 20th Maine, Or Ulysses Simpson Grant, or George Meade, just to name a few.