Posted on 06/04/2008 5:10:52 AM PDT by Renfield
While some question the impact of preaching from the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ on Senator Obama's thinking, the influence of one of Trinity's most recommended authors on Obama is clear.
Three of Randall Robinson's books are available for purchase on Trinity's website. One, entitled "The Debt: What America Owes To Blacks," is particularly important to understanding Obama's notion of reparations.
So who is Randall Robinson?
He's a Harvard-educated lawyer, author, and civil-rights activist born in 1941. Robinson is described by Wikipedia this way:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
How much are the 500,000 union dead (nearly all white) worth?
We will see that victory built on anything less than virtue leads to self-destruction.
We will see that, self-proclaimed victims, once they have collected on spoils of victimhood, become arrogant oppressors themselves -- the very things they claim to have been oppressed by.
We'll see it all.
Obama has to be President. Not because he's fit, but because he's black...enough.
So is MCcain for or against the ‘R’ word?
Two words: White guilt.
Welfare on a grand scale. I refuse to take responsibility for something that happened 200 years ago and for something that African Kings promoted.
And perhaps Hillary will be elected. And she will easily implement all the policies which BHO would have given us -- which will look stunningly like her own policies, but that's beside the point.
We always have a lot of talk abotu arkancide and whatnot. But it suddenly struck me how truly awful for our country it would be if Obama were to die. His death would be infinitely worse than his presidency.
the world really doesn't know what that is, does it?
“We will now see the fruit of affirmative action, where one advances solely on the basis of skin color, not merit.
We will see that victory built on anything less than virtue leads to self-destruction.
We will see that, self-proclaimed victims, once they have collected on spoils of victimhood, become arrogant oppressors themselves — the very things they claim to have been oppressed by.
We’ll see it all.
Obama has to be President. Not because he’s fit, but because he’s black...enough.”
Well said!
What do you get if you're a black/white mix...like... Obama?
Why should I have to pay for something that my ancestors did not participate in? (they were all in Italy at the time)
And my last question: Do you think a huge reparations payout would create more or less racism in America? Gee, I wonder...
Not to brag, but I’ve was posting ideas about this months ago. Nice of know Lee Cary reads stuf here. :~)
“How much are the 500,000 union dead (nearly all white) worth?”
And the billions in social welfare costs the past 6 decades?
The debt was paid with genes, not $$$
Taken to the extreme, this is the beginning of the road that leads to Robert Mugabe and and a new oppressor class.
I dunno. The Germans in WWII were awfully angry about the humiliation they received in WWI.
“Taken to the extreme, this is the beginning of the road that leads to Robert Mugabe and and a new oppressor class.”
To be more precise, this could be the road to a second war of independence for those of us who will refuse to fund or sanction such......
Done by Arabs for the most part.
My great-great grandfather never owned a slave. As a legal German immigrant to the United States in 1848, he’d never been involved in any way with slavery, until 1862. That’s when he began a four year effort to liberate the slaves at great personal risk to himself as a member of the 5th Wisconsin Infantry. Meanwhile, his wife and five children survived on the kindness of his community.
Where are my reparations? Oh, no thanks. I don’t need any. My ancestors married the mothers of their children and stayed together to raise them, teach them solid American values and see them prosper. The government didn’t have to throw billions into a Marshall Plan to make that happen.
Well then, you have to give up that trust fund your plantation owning great-great-great-grandaddy left you. Or your 401K, or whatever.
Repreations will not be paid to blacks at all. It will be money paid to Obama and others.
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