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To: basil

I support the nations of Africa paying reparations to the people they sold into slavery.


12 posted on 07/30/2007 9:06:28 AM PDT by Waverunner ( "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." Voltaire)
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To: Waverunner
I support the nations of Africa paying reparations to the people they sold into slavery.

Especially the Arab ones, who were either slave catchers themselves, or were brokers between the black African tribes who captured other Black Africans and sold them to the Arabs, and the mostly New England ship owners and masters who bought them for transport to the Americas.c

18 posted on 07/30/2007 9:18:19 AM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Waverunner

we’ve been paying reparations and losing freedoms over this redress for 4 decades now

an utter failure and I sure don’t feel better or less safe

and black culture is way way worse off now except for a small minority

reparations aside from the idiocy of it would just further ruin them


25 posted on 07/30/2007 9:24:25 AM PDT by wardaddy (let's celebrate the summer of love (1967) everyone get naked...you go first)
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To: Waverunner

I’m with you! The Africans who supported slavery should pay reparations, but to that I would add Portugese.


50 posted on 07/30/2007 5:59:17 PM PDT by oneamericanvoice (Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
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To: Waverunner
"I support the nations of Africa paying reparations to the people they sold into slavery."

I fully support African-Americans paying their full share of reperations to the descendants of Union War Veterans for the liberation of their ancestors. They've been getting a free ride for entirely too many generations.

61 posted on 08/03/2007 2:57:28 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Waverunner
I think only the descendents of Southern slave owners and overseers should pay reperations. That would let off the hook all Asians Americans and maybe 80 percent of the whites.

OTOH, (cough cough) many if not most blacks have some blood relationship to a Southern slave owners or overseer.

That's right Jesse Jackson -- If you want to start holding children accountable for the sins of their fathers look in the mirror.

70 posted on 08/04/2007 7:32:24 AM PDT by Tribune7 (Michael Moore bought Haliburton)
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