[Founding Father]

Gee whiz, fancy smancy politically correct IVY League Brown University was founded by a slave trader. Who'd a thunk it!

[Bernard]

Dorothy Tillman is a Chicago Alderman. According to Mike Royko, the slogan of the Chicago City Council is "Ubi Mea", Latin for "Where's Mine?" As soon as BOA greases a few palms, this will all go away.

On reparations, I propose we provide clear title and full possession of the US National Debt. It currently has a value of $7 Trillion.

[sandydipper]

Why would they be looking? Who gives a rats butt what the black leaders think or do - tell 'em to eat cake!!

[Milhous]

Ten Reasons Why Reparations Are a Bad Idea - and Racist, Too

1. Who Owes the Debt?
   Are reparations going to be assessed against the descendants of Africans and Arabs for their role in slavery? There were also three thousand black slave owners in the antebellum United States. Are reparations to be paid by their descendants too?
   
2. African-Americans Have Also Benefited from Slavery
   American blacks on average enjoy per capita incomes in the range of twenty to fifty times that of blacks living in any of the African nations from which they were kidnapped. What about this benefit of slavery? Are the reparations proponents going to make black descendants of slaves pay themselves for benefiting from the fruits of their ancestors' servitude?
   
3. What About the Descendants of Union Soldiers Who Gave Their Lives to Free the Slaves?
   What about the descendants of the 350,000 Union soldiers who died in the war that freed the slaves? They gave their lives. What possible morality would ask them to pay (through their descendants) again?
4. Most American Whites Have No Connection to Slavery
   The two great waves of American immigration occurred after 1880 and after 1960.
   
5. The Cases of Jewish and Japanese Reparations Are Not Comparable and Therefore Do Not Provide Precedents
   The Jews and Japanese who received reparations were individuals who actually suffered the hurt.
   
6. What about Successful Blanks?
   What Is Their Economic Grievance?
   How are blue-collar whites and ethnics expected to understand their reparations payments to African-American doctors, lawyers, executives, and military officers, let alone multimillionaire entertainers and athletes who are descendants of slaves?
   
7. Reparations Will Increase Victim Mentalities, Negative Attitudes, and Alienation within the African-American Community
   To focus the social passions of African-Americans on what some Americans may have done to their ancestors fifty or a hundred and fifty years ago is to burden this community with a crippling sense of victimhood.
   
8. What about the Reparations that Have Already Been Paid?
   Since the passage of the Civil Rights Acts and the advent of the Great Society in 1965, trillions of dollars in net transfer payments have been made to African-Americans in the form of welfare benefits and racial preferences (in contracts, job placements, and education admissions) - all under the rationale of redressing historic racial grievances. These funds have been paid by taxpayers who are mainly white. And while it is true that most welfare recipients are also white, the proportion of the African-American community which is on welfare is far greater, and since welfare reform, has become absolutely greater.
   
9. What about the Debt Blacks Owe to America?
   What about the debt blacks owe to America - to white Americans - for liberating them from slavery? Slavery existed in all societies, and for thousands of years before a white person set foot in Africa or the Atlantic slave trade began.
   
10. Blacks Are Virtually the Oldest Americans.
    Why Not Embrace Their American Destiny?
    "Many blacks - most perhaps," [Randall Robinson] claims in his discussion of Castro, "don't like America." But apparently they should like Cuba's gulag. This unthinking anti-Americanism is the crux of the problem the reparations movement poses for African-Americans, and for all Americans. Behind the reparations idea is an irrational fear and hatred of America. It is about holding America responsible for every negative facet of black existence, as though America were God, and God had failed. Above all, it is about denying the gift America has given to all of its citizens, including its black citizens, through the inspired genius of its founding.

[Unicorn]

Who cares!!!!!!!!!

[Ohioan]

It sounds to me as though the State of Illinois needs to tighten up the suffrage requirements. This whole inquiry is looney tunes.

[Smokin' Joe]

And after 150 years, just who is supposed to get what money? There are no live owners or slaves. Most well to do slaveholding families lost everything they had, either during the war or 'reconstruction', including whatever they had invested in slaves.

[fuzzthatwuz]

If history serves correctly, The San Fracisco Bank of Italy started by Gianini in the early 1900's developed into The Bank of America. Seems like these people are using the Jessie Jackson approach.

[auboy]

Two words for Dorothy Tillman… fraud and extortion. Maybe she can have her daughter "research" their meaning.