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Slavery Reparations Gaining Momentum
Federal News Radio ^ | 7/9 | ERIN TEXEIRA

Posted on 07/09/2006 6:03:15 PM PDT by JingoJim

Advocates who say black Americans should be compensated for slavery and its Jim Crow aftermath are quietly chalking up victories and gaining momentum.

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To: JingoJim

Figure out the average annual income of a black person in the USA vs. same for one in Africa. I want my share of the difference from every black American if in fact my ancestors are responsible for bringing them here.


21 posted on 07/09/2006 6:23:56 PM PDT by tickmeister (tickmeister)
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To: JingoJim

The slaves are dead and the people/corporations that used them are dead ....it was a bygone era ..... we are not beholding to them .... why should this generation pay for that generation???? And then too, who gets taxpayer's money??


22 posted on 07/09/2006 6:24:32 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("The Americans on Flight 93 did more to counter terrorism than the Democrats have done in 4 years")
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To: tickmeister

I once asked a black coworker who is in favor of this what her reasons were. She couldn't give me an answer. She simply saw this as free money. (BTW, she didn't know when her ancestors came to this country.)


23 posted on 07/09/2006 6:25:56 PM PDT by proudofthesouth (Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
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To: IronJack

Never gonna happen.

Thomas Sowell brilliantly explains why this is a dumb, illogical idea.


24 posted on 07/09/2006 6:27:15 PM PDT by rlmorel (John Murtha: Out of touch, Out of His Mind. Lets make him Out of Congress! DIANA IREY FOR CONGRESS!)
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To: MPJackal

Yeah, my parents came from Hungary in the 1950s. My family had nothing to do with slavery, so why should I have to pay.

Then again, maybe my family should be paid reparations by the Russian communists who tortured my grandfather to death and oppressed the Hungarian people for over 50 years, forcing my parents to flee Hungary with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

Nothing pisses me off more than people who think that I am somehow "privileged" because I'm white.


25 posted on 07/09/2006 6:28:17 PM PDT by massfreeper
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To: IronJack

Please mail my reparations check to:

55 W. 125th Street
Harlem, NY 10027

Sincerely,
Slick Willie Clinton, Esq.


26 posted on 07/09/2006 6:30:22 PM PDT by adm5
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To: JingoJim

Arab slave traders sold their ancestors into slavery, so they should get all the middle eastern oil money.


27 posted on 07/09/2006 6:30:57 PM PDT by tkathy (The "can do" party can fix anything. The "do-nothing" party always makes things worse.)
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To: LeoWindhorse
compensate for those that demand reparations with a 1st class one way ticket to Africa

Tight or loose pack?

28 posted on 07/09/2006 6:34:58 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: proudofthesouth

Reparations for slavery would lead to the armed insurection of every white man that has a set of balls and a weapon. I have both.


29 posted on 07/09/2006 6:36:32 PM PDT by USMA '71
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To: LeoWindhorse
we shall know no peace until the lawyers hands are pried off of American society's throat
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Which could easily be done if we put them on a salary scale for services rendered instead of allowing a per cent age of the spoils recovered.
30 posted on 07/09/2006 6:36:55 PM PDT by photodawg
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To: JingoJim

"This matter is growing in significance rather than declining," said Charles Ogletree, a Harvard law professor and a leading reparations activist. "It has more vigor and vitality in the 21st century than it's had in the history of the reparations movement."




He means it's going from none to slim and slim ain't around.


31 posted on 07/09/2006 6:39:29 PM PDT by Blackirish (Merry Fitzmas !!)
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To: JingoJim

Some of my ancestors were murdered, raped and enslaved when the moors from North Africa sacked Sicily, can I get some reparations from them?


32 posted on 07/09/2006 6:40:18 PM PDT by infidel29 ("Growing old is inevitable ... growing UP is optional.")
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To: JingoJim

I'm all for reparations - as long as they're figured net of the entire cost of the Union war effort in current dollars, including a reasonable figure for the Union dead. My rough math suggests that black Americans are probably net debtors on the cost of freeing them.


33 posted on 07/09/2006 6:42:15 PM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: JingoJim

Only in a pig's dream.


34 posted on 07/09/2006 6:43:52 PM PDT by GarySpFc (Jesus on Immigration, John 10:1)
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To: tkathy

Actually, most of the slave traders were the local tribal "kings" and chiefs in the Western African areas from which the bulk of the slaves came. Perhaps African Americans should look to them, or their descendents, for compensation. Oh, I forgot, they're all broke except the Nigerians have some oil.


35 posted on 07/09/2006 6:44:16 PM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: JingoJim

Mid-term elections are coming up. Time to roil the base.


36 posted on 07/09/2006 6:45:23 PM PDT by kabar
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To: JingoJim
Slavery Reparations Gaining Momentum

Well, if they don't hurry up the last living person to have been a slave in the United States will have died...

Oh, wait a minute... That was 1865?

37 posted on 07/09/2006 6:47:47 PM PDT by gridlock (The 'Pubbies will pick up two (2) seats in the Senate and four (4) seats in the House in 2006)
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To: JingoJim

I am all for reparations as long as my family gets reparation for the those who died to give them the freedoms they currently enjoy.

I am from the North.

Some of my family died in the Civl War just so they could complain a hundred years later.


38 posted on 07/09/2006 6:49:14 PM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (I alone, am the chosen one. Because I alone, did the choosing.)
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To: JingoJim

I would personally pay reparations, to any real, authentic, 175 year old slave that presents himself...


39 posted on 07/09/2006 6:50:08 PM PDT by RadioCirca1970
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To: PeteB570
Then again I'd bet most of those slaves would have been from England, Ireland, or mainland Europe.

A fair bet since the word 'slave' comes from the word "Slav" or those of Slovak or Slovenian heritage.

I don't have a link handy, but Thomas Sowell has written a book about the history of slavery in and outside of America. I'm sure the word is translated differently from other older cultures, but the specific word slave comes from the Slavish people according to Sowell. He was talking about it on one of the occaisions when Walter Williams subbed for Rush and had Sowell as a guest.

40 posted on 07/09/2006 6:50:40 PM PDT by infidel29 ("Growing old is inevitable ... growing UP is optional.")
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