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1 posted on 06/09/2005 5:03:45 AM PDT by new cruelty
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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))
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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
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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
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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
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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.)
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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!)
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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.


10 posted on 06/09/2005 5:30:21 AM PDT by Rumplemeyer
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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
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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
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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)
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legislation requires firms with city contracts to research and disclose whether they garnered any profits in the past from slavery

The 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)
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" 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.

18 posted on 06/09/2005 6:15:17 AM PDT by Falcon4.0
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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)
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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.)
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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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