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.”
no,no,no
start with their own FAMILIES in Africa who sold them to the white men
All the slave ships were is only a second part in this, the slave traders the third, the buyers the fourth
go for the FIRST party in all this, the very people of Africa who sold them in the first place.
How about this, $100,000 to every black who will accept it along with a one way ticket to any African country and a permanent denunciation of their US citizenship and they can NEVER return.
How many hundreds of thousands died during the Civil War? Our country tore itself apart to atone for an evil practice brought here from Europe. I’d say we’re well in the black.
Do a DNA test on those wanting reparations to see where in Africa their ancestors came from. Then send them back there. Problem solved.
With his 20 years of warming a pew in Rev Wright’s hate-whitey church, I believe that he would, but not in his first term where it would destroy his re-election chances.
And for any reparations for Jim Crow, please apply to the DNC.
same here.
my mother is 3/4 indian.
i never got a cent from being indian or even native american, as some call themselves.
i would have appreciated in-state tuition after i was accepted to a ph.d program.
There is no money. We are already in debt so far the only way out is total economic collapse.
I forgot about them specifically. Thanks for the reminder
Rather than take the time to make a logical and consistent argument against reparations (which won’t be listened to by those arguing for them anyway), I simply say, “NO”.
They can all kiss my lilly white ass, Im not paying them a cent. They should be forced to pay me for putting up with their stupid shit. Reparations...yeah you bet.
Exactly
NO!
““Even immigrants and people whose ancestral line contains no slaveholders should pay reparations, since every American benefits from slavery.”
So blacks benefit from slavery?
”Slavery victimizes free blacks to this day.”
Rice, Powell, Thomas???
Pure BS - simply an attempt to steal money.
Now that I would go for, but they wouldn't.
If the Government forces us to pay reparations, then I predict there will be a violent backlash from White America. It will be time to overthrow the Government. Before long, you will see things like are happening in Zimbabwe right now: squatters claiming property that is supposedly theirs due to the sins of the ancestors of the current owners.
Reparations are reverse slavery. I will NOT be a slave.
Also, once could argue that we have been paying reparations for decades in the form of various social programs.
Yes, but how much would you have to deduct for room and board?
I’m sorry, that was very very tasteless, but so is forcing immigrants who came here in the late 1800’s and further on to pay for something they had absolutely nothing to do with. Heck, my family has been here since the early 1600’s up in Maryland and Virginia, but *I* still had nothing to do with slavery.
Let’s see, reparations for slavery, minus the billions wasted in the war on poverty and after-school programs, etc., leaves a hefty balance due the American taxpayer. Hmm, how will I spend my refund???
Native Americans had slaves as well. When a warring tribe won a battle, the women and children were taken in as slaves.
How does that reperation work? They were slaves to the same race, different tribe. And it flip flopped too. Back and forth.
America does not owe any debt to blacks.
It’s an ignorant thought.
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