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Most of my forefathers weren't even in the US when this all happened. Why should I have pay?
1 posted on 10/27/2008 8:40:54 AM PDT by steve0
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People who never had slaves paying people who were never slaves....another bad welfare idea.


2 posted on 10/27/2008 8:41:54 AM PDT by DonaldC
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Exactly. My grandparents came from Italy in 1910. There is no way I am paying.


3 posted on 10/27/2008 8:42:07 AM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
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Reparations, err Economic Justice, got us into this financial crisis we are in today!


5 posted on 10/27/2008 8:43:09 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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My ancestors didn’t own slaves for two reasons: Religion and Economics. They believed that slavery was a sin and they could not afford slaves anyway.


6 posted on 10/27/2008 8:43:59 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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7 posted on 10/27/2008 8:45:03 AM PDT by Thunder90
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“...Community Reinvestment funds that would be controlled by the black community...”

Already got that. Community Reinvestment Act and Fannie Mae! Hey Barak, you can stick your reparations!


8 posted on 10/27/2008 8:45:39 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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This could get interesting! Obama is not ‘African-American’ black in the sense that most people think of it (ie, descendents of slaves). His father is Kenyan and so his paternal ancestors were not slaves in this country. And Obama is half white. So not only would he not get any reparations, he’d have to pay into it?


9 posted on 10/27/2008 8:46:09 AM PDT by ktscarlett66 (Face it girls....I'm older and I have more insurance....)
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My grandfather's grandfather was a POW at Andersonville and did not survive the experience. As a consequence his widow became the first in a multi-generational skid into extreme poverty. Don't the wealthy descendants of the liberated blacks like Oprah and Obama owe me something?
10 posted on 10/27/2008 8:46:10 AM PDT by Natural Law
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“Most of my forefathers weren’t even in the US when this all happened. Why should I have pay?”

What are you crazy? Using logic when considering the actions of liberals?

Here, it’s simple, this is the liberal mindset:

White people = bad.
Black people = downtrodden, good.

If you’re white, you should pay. Your forefathers may not have owned slaves, but if you’re white, your people did something bad, sometime, and you should pay.

Welcome to Obamaland.


12 posted on 10/27/2008 8:46:50 AM PDT by brownsfan (Algore makes P.T. Barnum look like a piker.)
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Everything to do with Obamna is about race, it’s all he ever has cared about. People are so blind to this.


13 posted on 10/27/2008 8:47:40 AM PDT by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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The CRA that led to the current meltdown WAS reparations.


15 posted on 10/27/2008 8:49:53 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Guns don't kill people, criminals and the governments that create them do.)
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It really is too bad that Obama and the libs are setting us back 60 years with regards to race relations. Who are the real racists here? This is horrible.


16 posted on 10/27/2008 8:51:33 AM PDT by MountainLoop
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Another take:

“Hey, here’s an idea: Instead of giving reparations, let’s just pressure banks to lend money to minorities for houses they can’t afford, and who are unqualified as borrowers!”


18 posted on 10/27/2008 8:51:54 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Guns don't kill people, criminals and the governments that create them do.)
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PUT THIS IN AN TV AD TODAY AND HE WILL LOSE. I’ve said for MONTHS that somebody has to ask this guy about reparations. It’s a no win issue for him.


21 posted on 10/27/2008 8:53:09 AM PDT by Hildy
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Isn't this just a brainstorming question for students? Hasn't Obama stated for years that he opposes reparations?
22 posted on 10/27/2008 8:54:01 AM PDT by Shade2
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All the descendants of the blacks who were forceably brought here are living wayyy better than Obama’s 1/2 brother in Kenya. Why doesn't he start cleaning his own mess?
25 posted on 10/27/2008 8:55:42 AM PDT by Aria ("An America that could elect Sarah Palin might still save itself." Vin Suprynowicz)
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Working whites have provided trillions in “reparations” over the past decades. Another politically incorrect thought...as bad as slavery was, todays descendents live in the US. Would they prefer having lived for the past 150 years in Zimbabwe? Kenya? Is everything better there...everybody equal and well treated? Lots to eat, with those evil rich people paying the tab? Perhaps the descendents of the slave owners are owed reparations for having brought blacks to the US in the first place! It’s an interesting thought. But of course, far too politically incorrect to be stated, never mind honestly considered.


30 posted on 10/27/2008 9:02:13 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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Most of my ancestors were either “poor white trash” or Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw (but not eligible for handouts because they were “half-breeds”).

Where’s my free stuff?


31 posted on 10/27/2008 9:02:32 AM PDT by Victoria_R
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Most of my forefathers weren't even in the US when this all happened.

Many of mine were. They fought for the Union. This is the thanks we get. Had they known about this ingratitude they probably would have wished the Confederacy well, tutted about the "particular institution" and gone on with their lives.

The Civil War was a disaster for the North (worse for the South), the heirs of the chief benificaries are completely indifferent.

33 posted on 10/27/2008 9:02:43 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for necro-Americans.)
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The PDF you linked to covers as much of the grievance territory currently being mapped while the cartographers of retribution busily send out newly trained scouts, torches blazing.

This could well be called a Short Course on “Getting-Evenism.”


36 posted on 10/27/2008 9:05:47 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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