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To: NathanBookman

Okay, let's do reparations.

Then I'll send you the damn bill that my ancestors ran up, including life and limb, in securing their freedom.

I take it that they're not gonna sue Nigeria, where most of the slaves came from? I take it that they're not suing England, who was the government at the time when the slave trade was started, and who governed 2/3 of the slavery years in the USA?


2 posted on 07/06/2005 7:49:44 PM PDT by TWohlford
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To: TWohlford
Then I'll send you the damn bill that my ancestors ran up, including life and limb, in securing their freedom.

I'm with you there. My great grandfather never laid eyes on his own child before he died in the civil war. I'm sure that it's worth a portion of any settlement paid out due to reparations..

5 posted on 07/06/2005 8:02:12 PM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: TWohlford

It's about money. It's free money. It's "I don't have to work for it and the court will give it to me" money.


6 posted on 07/06/2005 8:04:22 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: TWohlford
I'm Irish on one side of my family, and British on the other. So, do I just write Myself a check and call it even?

CC

14 posted on 07/13/2005 3:13:44 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (this tagline meets or exceeds all standards as established by the underwriters labratories)
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