Posted on 07/12/2005 5:05:11 AM PDT by lowbridge
The NAACP will target private companies as part of its economic agenda, seeking reparations from corporations with historical ties to slavery and boycotting companies that refuse to participate in its annual business diversity report card.
"Absolutely, we will be pursuing reparations from companies that have historical ties to slavery and engaging all parties to come to the table," Dennis C. Hayes, interim president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said yesterday at the group's 96th annual convention here.
"Many of the problems we have now including poverty, disparities in health care and incarcerations can be directly tied to slavery."
The group's strategy will include a lobbying effort to encourage cities to enact laws requiring businesses to complete an extensive slavery study and submit it to the city before they can get a city contract.
Such laws exist in Philadelphia and Chicago, which can refuse to grant contracts because of a company's slavery ties although neither city has done this. Detroit and New Orleans are considering similar bills.
"We need legislation with teeth," Adjoa Aiyetoro, professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's school of law, said during a session on reparations.
She said two banks trying to do business with Chicago have recently apologized for their role in slavery and promised to make amends by offering scholarships to blacks and money for other education projects that benefit blacks.
J.P. Morgan Chase Bank recently completed an examination of its history and found that two financial institutions it absorbed years ago -- Citizens Bank and Canal Bank in Louisiana -- had owned more than 1,250 black people until the Civil War, procured as collateral on defaulted loans.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Extortion, pure and simple. Maybe it's time for non-black victims of black crime to ask the NAACP for money. If this kind of reinbursement is the wave of the future it ought to be the wave for everybody.
We have RICO laws for a reason. I would love to see Mr. Jackson and co face charges for shaking down companies.
reparations ping
NAACP - National Association for the Alienation of Colored People
Double-barrelled ping - bc/jd.
Maybe we need a boycott of black businesses. I already boycott the local drug dealers.
NAACP Releases Business Diversity Report
This lawsuit may have lost, but reparations will win (Slavery reparations barf alert)
Massive Non-Compliance with Chicago Slavery Disclosure Law Revealed, and a Trail of Lies Exposed
Thank you!
S-T-U-P-I-D!!!! Stop the madness!
Sort of amazing isn't it. I dont recall extortionists announcing publicly their plans to shake down ever.
Jesse never fails to astound me with his in your face activities. When you think about it, he has been given an incredible pass to run around and pick pockets.
I would imagine a boycott by the NAACP would be a welcome bit of free PR. Did they not boycott some state only to see their business increase?
Nothing but race baiting poverty pimps low class low lifes.
"Many of the problems we have now including poverty, disparities in health care and incarcerations can be directly tied to slavery."
140 years after slavery has been banned and it's still their main problem?!?!?!?!
Is the NAACP seeking "reparations" from the descendents of those passive slaves who, by not rebelling and by not demanding their own freedom, permitted slavery to continue to exist in the South?
Is the NAACP seeking "reparations" from the Democratic Party, which actively opposed all legislative efforts to end slavery before the Civil war?
No?
It's all about the MONEY, isn't it?
It's amazing how these people think the law doesn't apply to them, and the rest of society just goes along...
I guess they're right.
If there is a more disgusting or heinous display of extortion than this, I can't imagine what it is.
And the nerve to ask for legislation that would further this nonsense is beyond belief - but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
Political correctness, the willingness to accept undeserved guilt, the lack of a pair of spheres and an aversion to fighting the good fight when it is not expedient are the hallmarks of a country in decline. That is blue-state America.
Can, and will, red-state America stand up again? The world waits and wonders, and November 2006 beckons.
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Let's all thank Wachovia for supplying the amunition to get these greedy SOB's started.I sincerly hope that Wachovia goes under.
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