Posted on 11/13/2005 9:20:52 PM PST by Coleus
All things being equal, my ancestors never owned slaves, and shed blood during the Civil War to free the slaves....so don't plan on coming after me or mine.
Don't plan on reparations proponents excecizing any judgement. This isn't about right and wrong. This is about blame and victimhood.
I know, and I'm disgusted with the victim mentality so prevalent in so many people.
Of the free blacks that were removed from Africa for slavery in the new world, only 6% of them ended up in the United States. These 6% were the lucky ones.
Every people has been slaves at one time or another.
The Greeks enslaved and were enslaved.
The Jews enslaved and were enslaved
The Romans the same.
Only the current crop made it an essential part of their identity.
>>"Reparations is not about money being taken out of every white person's personal bank account and handed over to blacks, as the spreaders of misinformation can make it seem," Lamb said. "Individuals do not pay reparations. Reparations are what a government pays a people it has wronged ... with tax dollars."
LOL.
Wish they'd spend their time in more creative ways than living in the past....the victims and those who did the crimes are long dead.
Enough of this nonsense. Blacks were better off coming here as slaves. Does that make it right? Of course not. In Africa they would eat each other.
Where in h*ll does she think those tax dollars come from???
Before she goes after my hard-earned money, she ought to get the Episcopal church to sell all its assets!
What about over 600,000 deaths in the Civil War?
This has nothing to do with slavery. This is about dividing and weakening America in order to advance socialistic world government. Do not make the mistake of excusing these people as well-intended, if naive do-gooders. They are evil liars who mean us all ill.
I suppose I should sue the Irish Govt. for causing some of my ancestors to die during the famine, and for forcing others to come to New York City, where many, many lived in filth and horrible conditions.....course, the tales of woe and victimhood weren't obsessed upon in my family, so I only know about the immigrant plight from history books.
I believe slavery was very wrong. But I also believe they are about 120 years too late. The people that needed to pay for the crimes of enslaving their fellow man have been in their graves for longer then anyone has been alive. And to make the innocent pay for a crime they did not commit, is to me, a crime in it's self.
That was payment in full. The debt is zero. It is time to close the account. I think the number 600,000 is a bit low. What were the civilian deaths?
How about a free one way ticket to the African Country of their choice.
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