Posted on 10/27/2008 8:40:53 AM PDT by steve0
Incorrect.
This occurred in only a very limited area of the South, primarily the SC islands, took place during the War, was a consequence of the fact that the plantation owners had abandoned the land when the Union troops moved in. Even this land was largely returned to original ownes after the War.
Very little land was confiscated. Even Robert E Lee's family eventually was compensated for Arlington, confiscated and used as a Union cemetery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2amXLa-iZGw
“If you really want to help the black community - stop stimulating the victim mentality.
“Black Africans have been the masters of slavery since God knows when. White people were just new customers.”
Spin it how you will, it isn't socialism.
The real problem with Bozo, to change the subject a bit, isn't so much his share the wealth is how he plans to get it and to share it. Listen to the video from a 2001 interview that is going the rounds today, this morning on Fox and Friends and I am sure others later. Bozo has already tried to spin it. He wants to use courts to change the constitution because it is "flawed", his own words, and the courts should ignore the "shackles" that are imposed on them by the Constitution and just give the government power to take the money from the people. Go to drudge they have a link to the video.
perhaps you might change your mind about voting for McCain/Palin after listening to it.
Nice soundbite, and I’d go along with it, except I’ve never lived in a shack. I might change my mind if I had to. Freedom to live in misery, ill-health, and an early death through exposure, malnutrition and various poxy diseases isn’t much of a freedom.
Anyway, Eva’s point still has some validity. Slaves often lived in better conditions than some so-called “free men”. That, of course, is an inditement against the conditions of the free workers, rather than an apology for slavery, but if that is the case, why not reparations for them too?
“...the gentle social democracies across the Atlantic, where, in return for higher taxes and without any diminution of civil liberty, people buy themselves excellent public education, anxiety-free health care, and decent public transportation.”
We do????
News to me.
Nobody should be paying for the sins of someone else. And nobody should be collecting for the toils of another. This is a BS issue designed to steal, plain and simple.
I don't owe anybody but the bank, and that's something to which I've agreed.
Dave Chappel has a funny skit where after reparations a black who plays craps on the street surpasses Bill Gates as the world’s richest man.
(Also see his skit where the world’s formost white supremicist is a blind black guy who doesnt’ realize he is black.)
We need belly girl. To fight off the nefarious (marxist) Bx0 girl.
> Most of my forefathers weren’t even in the US when this all happened. Why should I have pay?
My forefathers came here as bond slaves out of a British debtor’s prison, as did the ancestors of many whites. Why should I or they have to pay?
You have benefitted from the predominant white culture in terms of opportunities, which are denied to the black man. In short, everything you have today was handed to you through the sweat of the black man’s brow.
This isn't quite true - anybody paying the confiscatory taxes that our governments collectively charge is a slave to the government. And the extent that those wages are taken from the earners and given to non-earners, or paid on the behalf of those non-earners, is a perfect measure of the level of slavery that is occurring.
Roughly 45% of my working hours are potentially hours of slavery.
This issue will probably be the biggest cause for their anger after That One loses.
I am talking about slavery per se, not a slave to the government taxes. Your reply facetious and uncalled for.
My reply was factual based on the true definition of slavery. I was merely correcting your assertion that slavery no longer existed in the US. As long as income is redistributed, the net payers in this society are, in fact, enslaved.
My ancestors were here, Steve. They fought in the Civil War for the Union. Eight hundred thousand Americans died in that conflict. Where are our reparations?
Must have been said by someone who never traveled across Europe and Asia.
“You have benefitted from the predominant white culture in terms of opportunities, which are denied to the black man.”
We know this isn’t true.
Well, maybe tobacco and cotton, but not everything.
Your forgetting about the creative use of tires and gasoline. This guy is Mugabe/Odinga.
Well for sure health care, taxes et al is better in Europe than it is in most of the world, but it’s hardly ideal.
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