Slavery Reparations Gaining Momentum

Federal News Radio ^ | 7/9 | ERIN TEXEIRA

[JingoJim]

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

[proudofthesouth]

Have y'all ever noticed how the black leaders and white liberals in our country never, ever talk about stopping the foreign aid or use other means to stop slavery in Africa and other parts of the world?

Hmmmmm, perhaps its because they know that there is a snowball chance in hell of getting money out of it.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I see no evidence of slavery reparations gaining momentum. I suppose it is all in the company you keep?

[lastchance]

Charles Ogletree, a Harvard law professor and a leading reparations activist.

Ok Charles open up YOUR checkbook and leave mine the hell alone.

[Peelod]

I think I'll start a thread on DU for reparations to be included in the Dem platform in 2008.

[Thumper1960]

Yawn.

The "Gimme, gimme, gimme more" crowd never stops. Blacks really shouldn't 'go there'. Taken to its extreme, they'd best head back to Africa and seek reparations from those fellow Black Africans who defeated and subdued their ancestors and sold them to the evil "White devils" for trinkets and loincloths. Seeking money and special privileges for pain and suffering they never experienced illustrates just how lazy, ungrateful and ignorant the 'Gimme' crowd really is.

[Thumper1960]

Africans look at Black Americans as a pooch looks at his doodie.....just leg kick some dirt on it to bury it.

[The Great RJ]

I want to get paid for the three years my great grandfather was away from his farm and family fighting to end slavery.

[Zeroisanumber]

Perhaps a formal apology from Congress would be in order, but I'm not for paying any sort of remission for slavery. For one, everyone who directly suffered is dead. For two, my family fought for the Union, and we paid in blood whatever we might owe.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Actually, slave traders came in African, Arab, and European varieties. Also, Nigeria and Angola have oil. And other, smaller West African countries.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

A guess (only a guess), Mr. Jim was trolling.

[jakerobins]

Great next we will be giving California and Arizona back to the mexican government.

[goldstategop]

A bunch of oddball kooks are still a bunch of oddball kooks. The entire reparations issue is based on the idea you need some one else's validation to make you happy. I don't see where there's a writ for that in the Constitution. We owe it ourselves to be happy but if we spend our lives expecting someone else to make it better, we might as well wait for Godot. That in a nutshell is exactly where the reparations lobby is leading... to a dead end.

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

[rbg81]

I see no evidence of slavery reparations gaining momentum. I suppose it is all in the company you keep?

That's cause its "quiet" don't ya know. It isn't gaining momentum. First, there's no extra $$. Second, anyone who supported it from a white district would be drummed out of office.

[Mila]

"The slaves were sold into slavery by black, African chieftains. Many American blacks probably wouldn't be alive today if their ancestors hadn't been sold (due to disease and war in their native countries)."

This remind me of something I read several years back. It by no means condones the tragedy of slavery, but it fits with what you are saying.

It might have been the late eighties or the early nineties. Mohammed Ali was on a trip to Africa. What he saw there was grim enough to prompt him to remark, "Thank goodness my relatives got on that boat." I remember thinking at the time that, from the aspect of one who was a descendant of slaves, he had made a truly honest comment.
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[jmaroneps37]

"Slavery Reparations Gaining Momentum"
This is the funniest headlines all day. Whoever believes this, believes that Blacks are entitled to a federal income tax deduction for being Black. These Morons never cease amaze!

[mewzilla]

They should hit up the Dems...

The Racist History of the Democratic Party

[jimfree]

This remind me of something I read several years back. It by no means condones the tragedy of slavery, but it fits with what you are saying.

The book Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa by Keith B. Richburg deals with this.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I wonder if my English/Welsh/Scots genes should compensate my Irish genes for the years of repression by the British Empire against Ireland. Oh, wait a minute, my Welsh and Scots genes were also repressed by the English centuries earlier. Oh, wait, all the above were repressed by those Vikings and Danes and before that the Romans (except that the Anglo-Saxons did not arrive until after the Romans lost control).

Taken to its logical limit, everyone could seek reparations from someone. What we need to do is stop looking at race and look toward the future. What my great, great-grandfathers did with their slaves means little in the 21th Century where the USA offers the potential for individual advancement far beyond any country on earth.

[RJS1950]

I guess that I would support reparations if we took the money from the places where the slaves were bought, and paid them to the nations where the slaves were shipped.

The african tribes that captured slaves, controlled the trade still exist in west africa. They are the ones running the museums commemorating the trade that made their ancestors powerful and wealthy.

BUT!!!Do not forget that the other place to go for reparations is the democrat party of the United States. They are the party of slavery, Jim Crow and the party that voted in a majority against the Civil Rights Act of 65. Some of my ancestors already paid the price by fighting for the union to free the slaves and reunite the states. My other ancestors came later from Switzerland and Germany and played no part in slavery. The only extant entity still around that bears any responsibility for slavery in this country is the democRAT party.

Go whine to demented Howard Dean for your reparations, and please DO hold your breath while waiting.

[rvoitier]

Guess $7 Trillion in Wealth Transfer just doesn't go as far as it used to. And with nothing to show for it.