Posted on 11/13/2005 9:20:52 PM PST by Coleus
I think we should pay reparations to the Serbs for bombing the hell out of them and letting the muzzies take over. I think we ought to pay reparations to the Jordanians for letting one of the suicide bombers that hit the hotels out of Guantanamo because of the Dick Turbans and all the other liberal-leninists of the world's screeching. I think we should pay reparations to Israel for encouraging the palis. That's who *I* think we should pay reparations to.
Yes sir!
So, individuals don't pay reparations. Governments do. So, if you don't pay taxes you pay nothing. This knucklehead doesn't even understand that governments do not have money except that which it extracts from citizens.
I say they've already got everything they're gonna get, AND gut every welfare social program in the country.
The chief identifying characteristic of the modern Western left is white-hating genocidal racism. The chief political program of modern Western leftism is white-hating genocidal racism. These are the facts that establishment conservatism just won't face.
"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."
Oh man, that's beautiful! People don't pay tax dollars, governments do! Actually, if reparations WERE taken out of every white person's personal bank account I'd support them. It'd be a good education for them.
The purveyors of $600 Louis Vuitton purses will be relieved to hear this.
I'll say.
Not a chance. Now had they settled in New Jersey OTOH...
;)
Sorry NJ Freepers -- but it was SOOOO there ;)
LOL! But we've got the carpetbagger and schuuuuuumer....I should get reparations!
I have always been mystified by racial grievance mongers who pontificate on the glorious Nirvana that their lives would be had they only been left in Mother Africa, notwithstanding the general quality of life there. Since most American blacks have some measure of Caucasian genealogical ancestry, and since slavery was the transmission belt that enabled the mixing of their black and white ancestor's gene pools,(whether by rape,semi voluntary or voluntary associations) than what they are really saying is that they and their decendents would rather not exist.
I acknowledge the kidnapping and suffering of my African ancestors, and the resultant decades of slavery, oppresion, and discrimination that amounted to a monstrous crime for them. But the result was me and my family living in a nation that provides the most liberty and opportunity for any African descended people on earth. I am profoundly grateful to be here. I welcome the opportunity for any clarifcation of the historical record, and should that clarification reveal more evidence of the often bestial nature of the American institution of slavery, than we should unflinchingly face and acknowledge it. The historical record should be properly contextualized, and honestly examined without any attempt to inflate the crime beyond the actual truth of the injustice. The endless racial navel gazing, racial identity posturing, and puffed up grievance mongering should be rejected for the PC irrelevance that it is.
The main reason that I am not entitled to slavery reperations is because I was NOT ENSLAVED. I grew up in an era in which I remember all of the visible (literally) signs of Jim Crow when I visited relatives in the south in the early 60's. I experienced numerous physical racial attacks as my newly acquired Souh side Chicago neighborhood underwent racial intergration. I experienced some minor racial discrimination at other times and places. The United States today is NO LONGER THE NATION THAT ONCE OFFICIALLY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST IT'S CITIZENS, unless you wish to consider "Racial Preferences" for preferred minorities, Which is racism in the guise of cultural Marxism. None of that changes the fact that I am blessed to be a citizen of the greatest nation in the history of mankind, with a higher standard of living, opportunity and liberty than any other. I am proud to have enlisted and fought for this country as a soldier during the Vietnam era, despite all those who told me that no black man should do so on behalf of such a racist and oppressive nation.
Sometimes it seems as though the race industry merchants and class action lawyers would divide us into warring ethnic enclaves with mortar pits in the streets sniping at each other ala the Balkans, all of them seeking racial spoils with government help. This is nothing more than a cultural Marxist wealth redistribution scheme.
If I was ever to agree to a reparations scheme, this is the one that makes sense. Check out the Rev. Wayne Perryman's suit against the DEMOCRATIC PARTY!!!! http://www.reparationscentral.com/lawsuits4.html
But it wouldn't work like that.
Lampreys are interesting creatures. "It is snake-like and it has a protuberant sucker-like strong mouth and teeth which can penetrate the tough skin and scales of any big fish. This parasite bores a hole in the side of the host fish and lives on its blood and body fluids, and the host fish usually dies."
There's a lot we can learn from the Lamprey.
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