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To net it out....

I remain adamant - that any black who feels they're entitled to 40 acres and a mule today --- when NONE of them were ever a slave and none of the slave holders are alive today....and after all America has done to compensate for past "wrongs" -- then that person is one I'll elect to ignore...since they are obviously insatiably greedy, dependent on taxpayers or devoid of self worth or pride.

I'd be interested in hearing how one would even DEFINE an eligible black...
Must one be 100% black -- with NO polluting white, Indian or other racial mixture?
How does one prove - they are directly descended from slaves, and didn't enter the country after the end of salvery?
How does one prove they were not descended from black slave takers or slave holders? There were many.

It's a totally insane concept -- and blacks would do well to drop it.

If ANYONE has been working hard lately to worsen the racial atmosphere - it has been the lunatic black leadership as provided by Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Conyers, the NAACP, Nation of Islam, Black Panthers, etc, etc.....

I've reached the point where I'm turning a deaf ear to their constant bitching and blaming whitey for all their problems.....

I'm no longer a compassionate listener to their bitching.
If you wish to give credence or sympathy to their bitching - have at it.. Just please don't ask me to pony up any more "white guilt" money to blacks.

I have no guilt...I feel no guilt..
My family didn't get here until 1930 - and none of us ever took, sold or held slaves... In fact we were near slaves ourselves for a couple of decades.

Semper Fi

I don't know what your period of military service is/was; but I'll tell you what angers me about people like Conyers bringing up slave reparations.

I enlisted in March '75. I served four years of active duty in the USMC. So I was one of the last to enlist under the Vietnam Veterans benefits package.

The contractual promise made to me regarding college benefits was for payments of about $450 a month, for 12 months a year, for a maximum of five years, for periods that I attended college full time.

I only received one year of such payments. After that, my benefits were cut every semester. By my fourth year of attending college full time, I received less than 10 cents on the dollar promised. The government got away with this because there were very few of us under this benefits package at that time, and we were hated by a majority of the population.

In fact, while in my fifth year in college, I actually received a "Thanks for donating your benefits to help balance the Budget" letter. As if I had asked to do that.

So, like a lot of people cheated by the federal govt., I'd also like to receive my reparations. And I'm not a fourth generation descendant. I'm the person that was screwed. But I doubt that Conyers, or anyone else, is going to raise that issue.

I'm just saying that former slaves in 1870 are hardly the only folks that were ever shorted by our federal govt.