To: new cruelty
What an absolute bunch of nonsense!
2 posted on
06/09/2005 5:06:46 AM PDT by
texgal
(end no-fault divorce laws return DUE PROCESS & EQUAL PROTECTION to ALL citizens))
To: new cruelty
Haven't followed Philly politics in awhile (always good for a laugh) but I did not know Goode Jr. was now involved. Looks like the rotten apple did not fall far from the tree. Does he have hundreds of suits and his very own Air Force, like the old man?
4 posted on
06/09/2005 5:12:58 AM PDT by
speedy
To: new cruelty
I heard Ms. Brown on the radio a few days ago. Next stop, reparations.
That's going to help race relations.
5 posted on
06/09/2005 5:19:18 AM PDT by
ditto h
To: new cruelty
I would love to see all the banks and other lending instiutions respond by refusing to do business with city. The city would be shut out of the bond market and have to pay 30% interest on its loans bacuase Harry's Qwick-Cash Payday Loans is the only outfit that will do business with it.
6 posted on
06/09/2005 5:21:50 AM PDT by
apillar
To: new cruelty
Yeah, the white folks of today have a lot to do with slavery that ended almost 150 years ago...
7 posted on
06/09/2005 5:24:23 AM PDT by
DTogo
(U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
To: new cruelty
Tell the city to shove their contracts up their butt!!
8 posted on
06/09/2005 5:26:27 AM PDT by
sandydipper
(Less government is best government!)
To: new cruelty
And an other once great city sinks below the surface, the inmates are running the asylam.
What about the statute of limitations on civil actions?
The business community would be very well served to the the city fathers, "No" and let them scream, then tell them they don not need their business.
We are a Heavy/Highway Contractor in the NY Metro area and have made these business decisions. We have determined which owners, public and private we will not work for.
To: new cruelty
What happens when the bank's records reveal that some of their clients who were slave holders were also black?
11 posted on
06/09/2005 5:32:40 AM PDT by
ladyjane
To: new cruelty
I wonder if the banks' higher than average write-offs on "politically-correct" loans will "count" towards the "reparations" target that Mr. Goode has in mind?
13 posted on
06/09/2005 5:47:02 AM PDT by
pfony1
To: new cruelty
Wilson Goode: Slap me for my mental health! Dat is da feest step in reparations. Next's da demand. Leestly is dat shakedown...
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
15 posted on
06/09/2005 5:49:21 AM PDT by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: new cruelty
legislation requires firms with city contracts to research and disclose whether they garnered any profits in the past from slaveryThe liberty bell isn't the only thing that's cracked in the city of brotherly love.
16 posted on
06/09/2005 6:10:17 AM PDT by
layman
(Card Carrying Infidel)
To: new cruelty
" introduce legislation today requiring banks in which the city deposits money to disclose whether they have ever profited from slavery " They have already done that. It is the Law and Wachovia has admitted to and apologized for said 300 year old blah blah blah. What Wilson Goode Jr. is going to do today is introduce legislation to require financial reparations from them!
Like his Father, he is going to drop another bomb on the city.
To: new cruelty
I'll bet that an intense investigation would show that Goode himself has profited immensely from slavery.
20 posted on
06/09/2005 6:29:24 AM PDT by
Lekker 1
("Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"- Harry M. Warner, Warner Bros., 1927)
To: new cruelty
- As matters now stand there are about as many blacks in Africa as there is food for them to eat. There is no reason to suppose that there would have been any more blacks in Africa today if American importation of slaves hadn't occurred than there now are. That might not be true of the general population of America - it's difficult to imagine that there would not be more Americans alive today if in fact the Civil War had not occurred - but we're talking about Africa.
- If it weren't for slavery, there wouldn't be as many descendants of the African blacks of 250 years ago as in fact there are today - by a number approximately equal to the number of blacks in America today. Because hard as the lives of antebellum American blacks may have been, they did eat American food, and they did have descendants.
- If it weren't for slavery, none of the great-great-grandparents of today's American blacks would have ever met.
- If it weren't for slavery, none of the blacks in America would be alive today. There would be just as many Americans - because the Civil War wouldn't have occurred - but they would be white instead of black.
Slavery happened just about
everywhere in the world. Slavery was abolished in America by a Civil War, and slavery was reduced worldwide through the efforts (motivated by noting but British altruism) of the Royal Navy. But slavery still exists - primarily in Africa. Slavery happened in America, in the rapidly receding past.
Ever hear of something called a "statute of limitations?" If you insist on looking back 150 years, I'm sure I can find an ancestor who had a tough life. In fact, compared to an American secretery today Queen Victoria of Great Britain had a tough life. And the slave masters of the American South were no better off than she was.
American citizenship alone could probably be sold for enough to buy "forty acres and a mule" in Africa today. Any takers?
21 posted on
06/09/2005 6:43:34 AM PDT by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
To: new cruelty
I'd like to see a banking institution open it's records and show a loss from the slave trade. After all, banks don't always make profits - sometimes they lose money, especially if the goods are perishable (please don't read too much into this, but some of the "goods" had to be damaged in transit etc.).
Would the bank then be elegible for tax credits from the city?
23 posted on
06/09/2005 8:22:14 AM PDT by
par4
(If the Dems are filibustering, why is the Senate still passing laws?)
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