Posted on 04/03/2014 5:11:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
They ARE nuts.
Reparations? You gotta be kidding.
When I've visited the Caribbean I've always thought that it was a MESS.
I visited Puerto Rico, which was actually very nice in the ‘80s. Even back then, the rest of the Carib was too sad, depressing, dangerous to visit. And ‘way back in the 40s my parents took a Carib cruise. Amazing photo of my young mother walking down the street in Port Au Prince with a look of disbelief/compassion/fear on her face.
They are attempting to "change the narrative." IOW, rewriting the story to skew it any way that suits them. Truth is of no concern.
Give them all directions and tell them to swim back to Africa!
The Jews were slaves of the Egyptians for hundreds of years. I wonder how it would go over if they demanded reparations??
Also worth mentioning is that the only holders of African slaves today are again... Arabs.
And let us not forget the American modern day black plantation owners, the black congressional congress and the NAACP
“This is not the first time economic justice has been demanded of the former colonial powers. In 1999, the African World Reparation and Repatriation Truth Commission unsuccessfully challenged many western nations for a total of over
$770 trillion.
Inspired by this, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda all tried independently to sue their respective colonial oppressors, but lacked the strength and unification that Caricom now provides.”
Shouldn’t worry. It’s just like here The Politicians are corrupt. A small minority of people work fairly hard, the women are mostly Christian Church goers and encourage good behavior. Like here , the men are either engaged in Commerce or their bro’s are complete welfare sucking dirtbags…40/60
Puerto Rico is a Commonwealth and the US pays and has paid large sums to keep them afloat. They might consider those payments reparations - a matter of changing a word.
when early explorers sailed to these islands they found scant populations of warring peoples, who practiced enslavement. American indians owned caribbean slaves before the colonists landed. Are they going to sue the AIs for reparations, too, or just the white folks?
The way I figure it, these grifters owe their ancestors' slavers reparations and a vote of thanks.
Wouldn’t surprise me a bit if postmodern Europe doesn’t have the wherewithal to muster an argument against this silliness and winds up paying reparations. They may even thank their former colonies for the opportunity to atone for their sins and ease their guilt ridden conscience.
Just repatriate them.
The Lincoln solution. Why he was assassinated, in my opinion.
yes, exactly.
reminds me of mel brooks and our cave’s anthem: everyone else can go to hell, except cave 76....
LOL I’d forgotten that.
Haiti is the best example of wwhat blacks and/or New World slaves can do when allowed to run a government.
They mismanaged sooo badly that they degraded Haiti from a lushly productive island to a near Martian landscape where even the top soil is gone - yup, the Haitians are down to subsoil and trying for more degradation of all sorts as I type.
Reparations? We brought them out of Stone Age ‘cultures”.
You can take a man out of the Stone Age, but you can’t take the Stone Age out of the Man.
I will gladly compel any living person who owned slaves to pay reparations to any living former slave or even any child of his who was alive while he was a slave.
“when early explorers sailed to these islands they found scant populations of warring peoples, who practiced enslavement.”
Cannibalism - don’t forget the Cannibalism Columbus described on those islands.
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