Many African Americans will say Skip Gates does not speak for them. He’s different. He likes white people unlike folks like Michael Dyson and his posse.
Does this mean I don’t get any reparations for my great-great grandfather risking his life for four years on Civil War battlefields to liberate the slaves, of whom he had never owned a single one? Dang, there goes my beer money.
I will gladly pay reparations to every slave I have ever owned.
Obamacare is reparations.
Community Reinvestment Act/TARP/Fannie-Freddie are reparations.
Cap-and-tax is reparations.
The reparations “movement” comes from a creepy sect of African-Americans with an unhealthy obsession with “whites.”
Reparations is a lot of liberal nonsense.
The freedom of black slaves was paid for, IN FULL, with the blood of the Union soldiers who fought and died to bring freedom to the slaves.
The mere thought that anything else is owed is highly offensive!
I have an African great-great grandmother and a great-great-great grandmother. Do I get a check?
Just how will they determine who gets a check? What’s “black”?
“Slavery Reparations: A Dead Issue, and Well-Deserved”
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Ummmm. Not so dead. Not dead at all.
What about the ONGOING trillions of dollars of largely race-based, “redistribution” that has been going on since the 1960’s?
Interesting question since he has no black roots on this continent. But the questioned triggered a recollection of an article in 07 or 08 that had no followup that I saw. The article had to do with the writer's research into Obama’s family history in Africa and that he comes out of a tribe of slavers - those who enslaved other Africans and sold them, mostly to Arabs. I have no idea if the story was valid, but it would be quite an eye-opener for the true Afro-Americans who love him so much, if true.
Reparations were paid in blood and lives on a thousand battlefields, from Fort Sumter to Palmito Ranch. One million one hundred thousand casulties. 1861-1865.
What he is doing now to this country is him doing reparations his way.
Truth be told, his ancestors probably sold other africans into slavery.
We have been paying reparations via mortgage “loan” for decades....
There. Fixed it.
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
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.
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.
... a rather important job now — something involving government housing for his Aunt
and ’round the clock protection of gays, lesbians, Muslims, Black panthers ....
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.