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Gimme gimme!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Gimme, gimme => racism.

Gimme, gimme because I’m black. Because I want it.

[cloudmountain]

From the Internet:
ARI S. MERRETAZON, M.S.CED, He is a decorated-Bronze Star- honorably discharged Vietnam War Veteran, Headquarters Recon, 3rd Brigade, 4th and 25th Infantry Divisions, U.S. Army, and is the founding Executive Director of Pointman Soldiers Heart Ministry(PSHM),a tax-exempt Veterans Service organization, serving Vulnerable U.S. Armed Forces Veterans in Philadelphia and other cities in the the Northeast Region of the United States.

He's still a pimp, IMHO. Thank you Vito Corleone for your insight.

[TexasFreeper2009]

so... does Obama’s white half have to pay ? or does his black half get the handout ?

lol

[Farmer Dean]

So is he going to write a check to all the white poeple who had ancestors killed fighting for the Union?I didn’t think so...

[edcoil]

Where on planet earth are blacks successful? That way we can what they have lost in the USA.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

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Wouldn’t take me anything close to 250-450 words to reply to this. 3 or 4 words would do it.

[txrefugee]

Or, there’s deportation.....

[rovenstinez]

In the AUTO Biography of Frederick Douglass, he said he couldn´t REST, until HE PAID HIS MASTER, and got his letter of his manumission. Maybe they need to pay the rest of us for their manumission, someone paid good money for a slave, that they LOST, someone needs to give reparations to slave owners...that´s the way I see it....

[ArrogantBustard]

Whitey is tired of your racist bullcrap, Ari ... and Whitey is armed.

[palmer]

Demand that funding for education exceeds funding for prisons.

2007 numbers: $74 billion on corrections, $800 billion on education.

[skeeter]

Go ahead & demand. This might just be the final straw for the welfare state.

[Smokin' Joe]

I think every living person who ever owned another person, should pay any living former slave back pay.

Otherwise, this crap will have no end.

Oh wait, slavery ended here over 150 years ago. I seriously doubt any of either group still survive.

For the people who think others owe them for something that might have happened to an ancestor several generations back, there are no guarantees. I'd love to be able to extract payment from the crooked attorneys who stole half of my great-grandfather's estate. It isn't going to happen. Make the most of what you have, work hard, and make it better. Quit looking for a handout, because it isn't there--and it isn't going to be.

[jboot]

So they demand a kleptocracy where whitey pays their way.

How is that different from what we have now?

[sickoflibs]

RE “Our protests for the injustice of the murder of Trayvon Martin, and the release of his killer, must be strategically and logically linked to reparations. As the demand for reparations goes forward, here are some starting proposals to…repair the damage done to descendants of Africans enslaved in America. We need to:
Demand the repeal of all “stand your ground laws.” Demand a war on the import of weapons in urban communities with bounties and rewards. Demand divestment from financial institutions with a history of financing chattel slavery with investments, loans, and accepting deposits of enslavers. Demand that funding for education exceeds funding for prisons. Demand free, quality healthcare and insurance.
Unless and until we make these demands and proposals measurable and available for all African descendants enslaved in America…we will continue to engage in and promote generational insanity. “

Sounds like Obama.

We need this guy out there front and center.

[Sicon]

Reparations is a word to describe what can be done to help victims of chattel enslavement overcome the horrific generational damage that they suffered and the means to give them back their dignity

Yeah, because nothing says "dignity" like getting handouts, being unemployed and unemployable, and doing it with an attitude of entitlement and resentment towards the very people who are being FORCED to give it to you.

[Jim Noble]

Since 1965 we have paid more than $7 trillion.

I’m OK with paying more (in a lump sum) as long as it’s the end of it.

Please share your ideas about what “the end of it” would consist of.

1) no more preferences (for example)

[FrdmLvr]

They’ll never give up on their enslavement.

[RoosterRedux]

Actually, the "reparations" already paid are what is responsible for most of the social ills of the ghetto community in America.

The only solution to said "ills" is to cut off all payments and let them pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

[LOC1]

Over 200 of my ancestors fought in the Civil War, for the North. 17% of them were killed or died from injuries in the war, including some at Andersonville.

We have given already. Enough.

[Truth2012]

Reparations for White people. A black man is the one who introduced slavery to America.

There were free black men here.

And some of them owned white slaves.

No more black history money, without telling the whole history of slavery.

A black man is the first American slave holder. AND a black man held the highest number of slaves.

And a black man is the one who stole them from Africa.

I want my reparations that they have ruined my the country my ancestors fought and died to for. THEY have stolen my inheritance and I am getting sick of sharing what is left, with them.

How about boats back to Africa for free, instead. (If they can live the American dream, then they can stay)

My family- line has been here since the very beginning- and I am not paying a darn thing. I am not even giving them lip service anymore.