Maybe not:
SUZANNE MALVEAUX: When it comes to reparations, would you take it a step further, in terms of apologizing for slavery or offering reparations to various groups?
SEN. BARACK OBAMA: You know, I have said in the past, and I’ll repeat again, that the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed. And I think that strategies that invest in lifting people out of the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, but that have brought applicability and allow us to build coalitions to actually get these things done, that, I think, is the best strategy.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/28/obama_holds_brief_q_a_before
What would those deeds be beyond words? What else could he mean? A memorial? That makes no sense. I can only interpret this as some form of monetary reparations or expansion of affirmative action.
I’m looking forward to reparations I’m due for my ancestors shedding their blood without ever having slaves.
I’m so glad NRO has picked this up.
Right. Lets damage people who never owned slaves and reward people who never were slaves.
Let's not forget to compensate the Gitmo crowd while we're at it. That way we can fund the terrorists ourselves.
Reparations MIGHT be the social issue that would wake up the PC-crippled masses to the insanity going on in this country.
MM
When Obama speaks and we kiss his feet.
Given the fact that he changes position on any subject a couple of times a week, how can anyone possibly take anything he says seriously?
Native Americans should consider the casinos their reparations. Not only that, some tribes were accidentally given reservation land with natural gas or other mineral resources.
One of the saddest "things", IMO, is Affirmative Action. It punished a lot of people who had nothing to do with the ill treatment of any of the groups it favored, and discouraged hard work.
I Hope the Indentured Irish Slaves get a Cut of the reparations Packages..
If the damn bloated Federal govt. tries to push this reparations B.S. down the throats of middle class white America you’ll see the biggest antigovernment backlash in American history.
A tax protest and hopefully a few states try to leave the union.
Obama once again demonstrates his ineptness and lack of discipline when speaking extemporaneously. Be assured that he will back peddle and spin about this stupid comment with non-denial denials. The sonorous, preacher-like style evident in his prepared, teleprompter speeches dissolves into a gaff-riddled, stammering, mess of vague equivocation whenever he goes off script. Obama, in his hubris, does not recognize this flaw and reveals himself by such remarks. He is a radical leftist with messianic delusions. He lusts after total control of the Federal government: the Executive, both houses of Congress, and, with three possible Supreme Court appointments and untold other openings on the Federal bench, the Judiciary. Congress is already “setting the table” for reparations under an Obama presidency by their feckless apology in the House yesterday.