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Slavery Reparations: A Dead Issue, and Well-Deserved
Pajamas Media ^ | May 11 | Clayton Cramer

Posted on 05/11/2010 11:55:17 AM PDT by AJKauf

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To: incredulous joe
Reparations is a lot of liberal nonsense.

NOT! I think that because his Luo family was involved in the Arab slave trade,(not all that long ago, as British records from the turn of the 20th century would show) all the proceeds from Soetoro and Ayers' book "Dreams of My Father" should be seized and paid to the descendants of slaves.

The Luo of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Somalia were the Arab slave traders' facilitators in the East African Slave Trade. Probably still are in the Sudan!

The Muslims of the Barbary Coast also seized many Europeans as slaves, as many as 2 million ... and well into the 19th century! They even raided seaside towns in France, Italy, and Yugoslavia to kidnap them! Englishmen, Scots, Irish slaves were grabbed at sea, or as they traded in Spanish ports. They were sold into the Turkish Empire. I therefore also demand reparations.

Get right on that Barack! (my check, that is.)

21 posted on 05/11/2010 12:12:46 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Obama. He'll bring back States' Rights. In the meantime, this ain't gonna be pretty.)
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To: ozzymandus
I will gladly pay reparations to every living slave I have ever owned.

I think that is better definition.

22 posted on 05/11/2010 12:13:46 PM PDT by sniper63 (Bang,Bang, Maxwell's Silver hammer........)
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To: LibertarianLiz
Link to the article to which you are referring
23 posted on 05/11/2010 12:19:08 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: AJKauf
There are a few black Americans whose ancestors were never held as slaves in this country. (One of them has a rather important job now — something involving government housing and ’round the clock protection.) Does President Obama deserve a reparations check?...

Truth be told, his ancestors probably sold other africans into slavery.

24 posted on 05/11/2010 12:24:03 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: AJKauf

We have been paying reparations via mortgage “loan” for decades....


25 posted on 05/11/2010 12:25:38 PM PDT by Bean Counter (We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office -- Aesop)
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To: AJKauf
There are quite a few black Americans whose ancestors were never held as slaves in this country.

There. Fixed it.

26 posted on 05/11/2010 12:26:29 PM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the People's Republic of Boulder)
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To: AJKauf

EXCUSE ME :
There are a few BIRACIAL Americans whose ancestors were never held as slaves in this country. (One of them has a rather important job now — something involving government housing and ’round the clock protection.) Does President Obama deserve a reparations check


27 posted on 05/11/2010 12:29:16 PM PDT by hecht (NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM)
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To: RonF

Partus law. If she was a maternal grandmother you can get a check!


28 posted on 05/11/2010 12:30:21 PM PDT by hecht (NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM)
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To: AJKauf

My grandmother spent a year in a NAZI work camp.

She was in the French Resistance when the French still had a pair.

She was essentially a slave to the NAZI war machine and was never compensated for her drudgery by the German government after the war as required by law.

She never complained,never really told anyone besides family of her ordeal nor ever sought compensation for the lost year of her life.


29 posted on 05/11/2010 12:34:06 PM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: AJKauf

It isnt called reparations, It’s called Affirmative action jobs. Its called National Health care,It’s called Negro College Fund, It’s called ACORN and many other things, but it IS reparations.


30 posted on 05/11/2010 12:51:15 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: AJKauf

... a rather important job now — something involving government housing for his Aunt

and ’round the clock protection of gays, lesbians, Muslims, Black panthers ....


31 posted on 05/11/2010 12:54:06 PM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: AJKauf

Are they asking Islam for reparations?

In America there is a large base of reparations seekers which relate to islam. I really can not understand why they would after watching the three following vids
which show the face of islam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IstZSgniH8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zM_MzkLKPY
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd-kDTFXgEo&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Their relationship to islam? I think is simple ~ that a muslim cannot enslave a fellow muslim.... so its a get out of jail free card.


32 posted on 05/11/2010 1:10:52 PM PDT by himno hero
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To: AJKauf

**Does President Obama deserve a reparations check?...**

NO, but I’ll gladly contribute to a ONE WAY BOAT Ticket back to KENYA.


33 posted on 05/11/2010 1:15:23 PM PDT by gwilhelm56 (The one thing we learn from history is .. People REFUSE to Learn from History!!)
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To: ozzymandus

“I will gladly pay reparations to every slave I have ever owned.”

And I’ll include every slave I’ve ever met.


34 posted on 05/11/2010 1:31:32 PM PDT by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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To: AJKauf

I think we should provide 1st class airline tickets to any descendant of a slave who wants to leave the US to any country that will take them, providing they give up their citizenship.


35 posted on 05/11/2010 1:49:39 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (Obamunists want to tear down our shining city upon a hill and open a community center in "da hood".)
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To: AJKauf

If the US blacks were still living in Africa instead of good jobs with the govt or Coke they would be hiding from the crazy mugabe types who want to hack their arms off. My advice to blacks in America is give thanks for deliverance.


36 posted on 07/27/2013 5:17:50 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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