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Slavery Reparations
Outdoors Unlimited ISP ^ | Fred Reed

Posted on 11/14/2005 5:54:12 PM PST by Giddyupgo

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1 posted on 11/14/2005 5:54:13 PM PST by Giddyupgo
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To: Giddyupgo
How Many Slaves Do you Own?

None, but my wife owns one. (Excuse me) Yes dear. I'll be right there, dear.

2 posted on 11/14/2005 5:55:32 PM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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To: Giddyupgo

Just 1. She's in the kitchen getting me a beer.


3 posted on 11/14/2005 5:56:13 PM PST by hflynn ( Soros wouldn't make any sense even if he spelled his name backwards)
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To: Giddyupgo

Let's call Welfare payments 'reparations'. I'd say we're even by now...


4 posted on 11/14/2005 5:56:57 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (I'm going to quit procrastinating - starting tomorrow.)
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To: Giddyupgo

I'm a cat owner. I AM the slave.


5 posted on 11/14/2005 5:57:05 PM PST by Hoodlum91 (Happy Birthday Condi! - Scorpios Rule!)
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To: hflynn

Yeah right....I'm sure you deleted those words off your screen right after you typed them....before she got back...


6 posted on 11/14/2005 5:59:03 PM PST by nevergore (“It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.”)
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To: Giddyupgo

History shows that the slave owners were not the poor US. citizen but the rich of Europe who owned the plantations.


7 posted on 11/14/2005 6:01:51 PM PST by zipp_city
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To: Hoodlum91
My wife thinks she's the cat. (Hey, whatever keeps the peace. *WOOF!*)


8 posted on 11/14/2005 6:02:21 PM PST by Viking2002 (Allah FUBAR!)
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To: Giddyupgo

I don't think "tired" is appropriate because it seems there are plenty of people who chase their tails if they even hear the word "racist." We barely have made a dent into liberalism (its dying on its own anyway) we haven't even begun to question its authority because we only chip away at the edges .


9 posted on 11/14/2005 6:02:24 PM PST by junta (It's Jihad stupid! Or why should I tolerate those who hate me?)
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To: Keith in Iowa

Yep, 4.5 TRILLION since the 1960s.


10 posted on 11/14/2005 6:03:08 PM PST by Lancer_N3502A
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To: Giddyupgo

what once was a civil-rights movement has become a shakedown game.


11 posted on 11/14/2005 6:03:57 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Giddyupgo

Fred Reed is always a great read, and one of the few bloggers of whom I read every posting. He is a gifted writer. Though I don't always agree with Fred, I think he is on target with this one. Check out http://www.fredoneverything.net and browse his postings, usually about once every 2 weeks.


12 posted on 11/14/2005 6:04:53 PM PST by DancesWithBolsheviks (Celebrate E Pluribus Unum)
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To: Giddyupgo

If at the time, slaves were considered property.. then when they were freed, the Federal Government was exercising eminent domain, were they not?

Therefore, former slave owners descendants deserve reparations more than former slaves descendants do!

Disclaimer: As Rush would say, I'm "demonstrating absurdity by being absurd."


13 posted on 11/14/2005 6:05:37 PM PST by mwyounce
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To: Keith in Iowa
My family emigrated from Germany just in time to fight in the Civil War(Union side,thank you),we paid the price in blood so I really don't want to hear any of this reparations crap from old Hank.
14 posted on 11/14/2005 6:05:38 PM PST by Farmer Dean (Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
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To: Giddyupgo
Jeeth Christ!


15 posted on 11/14/2005 6:05:54 PM PST by Clemenza (Save My Life I'm Going Down for the Last Time)
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To: Giddyupgo

Anyone that believes in reparations define themselves as slaves, and additionally mistake me and mine as the same.


16 posted on 11/14/2005 6:06:43 PM PST by kcar (The UNsucks.com)
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To: Giddyupgo
How Many Slaves Do You Own???

None. And it's a sure bet that none of my American ancestors did either. My great-grandparents on both sides of my family emigrated to the U.S. with their children in the early 20th century. My father's side was from Ireland and my mother's side was from Sweden.

If there were any slaves in our families, they were voluntary and went by the official title of "husband" and the unofficial title of "honey-do."

17 posted on 11/14/2005 6:06:55 PM PST by Prime Choice (Never excuse treason as "dissent.")
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To: nevergore

ROFL!!!!!!


18 posted on 11/14/2005 6:07:11 PM PST by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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To: Hoodlum91
I'm a cat owner. I AM the slave.

That's the major difference between dogs and cats. A dog thinks you're God because you bring him food and water, and a cat thinks she's God because you bring her food and water.

19 posted on 11/14/2005 6:08:49 PM PST by Prime Choice (Never excuse treason as "dissent.")
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To: Giddyupgo
Now add in the fantastic cost over the years of welfare in all its forms, of large police forces and jails and security systems in department stores.

oh boy...

Toss in the cultural cost of lowering standards in everything for the benefit of blacks. See what I mean?

oh boy, oh boy...

I'd say it partly because it would be the right thing to do, and partly, because I'd like to add you guys to the tax base.

Aye yi yi....

You may not believe it, but I, and most whites, don't like seeing blacks as miserable and screwed up as they are.

great googly-moogly...

Few people still feel responsible for the failings and inadequacies of blacks.

ouch, ouch, ouch...

and the federal equal opportunity apparatus, which means blacks, wants to sue Silicon Valley for not hiring nonexistent black engineers.

oooooo.... that's gonna leave a mark....

For example, if you want blacks to work in Silicon Gulch, the best approach might be to find some really smart black guys, and get them to study digital design, not Black Studies. That's how everybody else does it.

This is certainly true... Well! That was... quite an essay!

20 posted on 11/14/2005 6:09:16 PM PST by wizardoz (Watch your back, Fred.)
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