Posted on 07/03/2008 5:20:26 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Segments of Americans are gearing up to oppose Senator Barack Obama because they fear he will be more considerate of the debt America owes to Blacks.
Anti-Obama whites, in particular, are concerned he’ll get into the White House and put Blacks on track for “a reparations gravy train.”
CNN debate moderator Anderson Cooper put Black Reparations on track to be a part of the presidential dialogue during the South Carolina Primaries.
The African-American vote in South Carolina was very important, and that made the reparations question relevant in the Democratic Debate. At that event former Senator John Edwards said “ I'm not for reparations…but I think there are other things we can do to create some equality that doesn't exist in this country today” he said, going on to talk about inequities African Americans experienced paying mortgages in Charleston, S.C., where the debate was held.
When Cooper asked Sen. Barack Obama about reparations he sidestepped a yes or no answer instead preferring to redefine reparations to make it part of a broader conversation about economic justice. “I think the reparations we need right here in South Carolina is investment, for example, in schools.” Obama said.
To corner Obama and nail all the candidates down, Cooper asked for a show of hands and questioned: “Is anyone on the stage for reparations for slavery for African-Americans?” The only “yes” came from Congressman Dennis Kucinich who said: “The Bible says we shall be and must be repairers of the breach. And a breach has occurred. We have to acknowledge that. It's a breach that has resulted in inequality in opportunities for education, for health care, for housing, for employment.”
From then on, reparations have been an issue in the campaign. America owes Blacks $700 billion to $1.9 trillion for unpaid labor that built the country’s infrastructure, including the U.S. Capitol. While Obama dodges the issue, his “old church, Trinity United Church of Christ, lists “The Debt: What America Owes To Blacks, by Randall Robinson (Penguin Putman Inc., 2000) as recommended reading”. In The Debt, Robinson argues that America still owes an enormous debt to Africans and African Americans for the incalculable damage that backs have suffered and continue to suffer as a result of two hundred and fifty years of slavery and segregation.
Barack’s birthright brothers many whites; but Wautella Graham of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) breaks the question of slavery into four categories of involvement: victims, collaborators, perpetrators and beneficiaries and makes the point that, “Even immigrants and people whose ancestral line contains no slaveholders should pay reparations, since every American benefits from slavery.”
Slavery victimizes free blacks to this day. All American people are responsible for the debt America owes.”
Let’s see, the British brought African slavery to the North American continent, so...thta’s the first place that reparations should begin.
When I talk to friends and family about Obama, I do not hear crap like the above from them. As a matter of fact, this is the first time I have even heard such a claim. Not once have I heard this from anybody I talk with. They say he is inexperienced, but nothing about a reparation gravy train.
Very few whites are descended from slave owners or Confederate soldiers. Now a whole lot of blacks, OTOH, . . .
Here we go! Gee, as a Native American (part) how much will I owe?? I’m certain I oppressed someone!!
“reparations” were made from 1861-1865 with the lives of those who “paid” the ultimate price for the freedom of slaves...
next case...
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The companies I worked for have “profited”. I had to provide my own housing and clothing and food. I need reparations.
Slavery victimizes free blacks to this day. All American people are responsible for the debt America owes.”
I am delighted to see that the people stuck on RESERVATIONS will have an opportunity to pay reparations.
Puking.
You have to have a sub-standard IQ to think like that.
Agree, start with the Brits.
But I am of Welsh heritage and my ancestors (along with the Irish) suffered in the coals mines of eastern Pennsylvania. Do I get reparations?
Nobody from the civil war is alive and my ancestors arrived on shore after the civil war. So why do I have to pay reparations?
Sure, let’s give each black gang banger, murderer, rapist and welfare deadbeat reparations. Do successful black actors, athletes, lawyers, doctors, etc. also get reparations?
This is insane.
We have paid and paid and paid. Now it is time for people no matter what their circumstances to quit being victims and get educated and start working as hard as they can to make a life for themselves in the free enterprise system.
AND:
"I am delighted to see that the people stuck on RESERVATIONS will have an opportunity to pay reparations. Puking. "
Wow. One minute apart.
And before I go to work here; it’s not what “America owes Blacks” it’s what “Blacks owe America!”
I think JFK said it best.
Have a good one!
I remember reading something way back in 1969 that over 60% of the U.S. population was biracial or multiracial.
This reparations talk is nonsense. We don’t punish people now for something that happened nearly 160 years ago.
Been giving crack heads and welfare hos my money since I was fifteen and began work. They owe me, I think.
What about FICA and the Great Welfare State LBJ tried to create?
Let’s say reparations happens (it already has, to the tune of 41 trillion in wealth transfer over the last 40 years).
The economy, of course, will suffer big time.
However, there will be those few entrepeneurs out there that see the way to get their own wealth out of this.
Within 5, maybe 10 years at the outside, the poor people that received their reparations (after massive skimming from agencies like Jackson and Sharpton) will end up right where they are now, and some “white folks” will end up with all the wealth, all over again, simply because of their value systems and commitment to self denial in the pursuit of wealth building.
Now, depending on the amount of pain involved, some of us might be willing to pay “reparations” with the stipulation that ALL preferences for minorities be removed. NO “black only” institutions or programs allowed, just as there are no “white only” institutions or programs allowed today.
Number 1. Slavery was legal until it was not.
Number 2. See number 1.
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