Posted on 04/19/2002 5:11:21 PM PDT by Sungirl
Question.....
I heard someone the other day say that some slaves that were freed WERE given 40 acres and a mule. IF that is TRUE..... My question......if reperations are supposingly owed ....Are they going to go back and research to see what slaves were ALREADY paid and trace them to todays ancestors?? We wouldn't want to pay someone who's family was already paid ....right?
So no one ever got to keep any land?
So... reparations for the descendents of poor southern whites, anyone?
An excerpt :
The statistics commonly offered to substantiate this charge dwell on present-day disparities in black vs. white achievement. For instance, we're told that the continuing breakdown of black families is the direct legacy of slavery, since enslaved families were routinely split up and sold. In fact, slave families were almost always kept together, and in 1870, only five years after slavery was abolished, 80 percent of black children lived in two-parent homes. The black illegitimacy rate hovered around 20 percent for decades; by 1950, it had dropped to 9 percent. In 1965, however, the federal government began offering poor mothers government checks if they could prove there was no working male at home. The result? By 1975, the black illegitimacy rate had skyrocketed to 70 percent.
Historical statistics on educational performance also cast doubt on slavery as a handicap. In 1940, American blacks enjoyed an 80 percent literacy rate -- better than some European countries. In 1985, after decades of busing, which destroyed black community schools, the Educational Testing Service evaluated the literacy skills of young adults age 21-25. Only 40 percent of the blacks demonstrated prose literacy.
And let's keep an eye on the blacks who got $30 million US taxpayer dollars "by mistake". Let's see if the IRS really goes after and gets that money, by prosecution or threat thereof, and fires the 12 black Atlanta-based IRS agents that abetted the fraud. And there's the situation with the black owned farms antidiscrimination claims, where three times as many blacks as there are farms within the US claimed to be farmers and victims of discrimination. Some of whom collected those fradulant claims.
I'd say those folks "got their reparations."
Will people in the future feel the same way about abortion?
SOR
WHAT was the going rate on those forty acres and mules at that time?
Since my genetic code has existed on this continent for OVER 100 years;
that land and those mules were STOLEN from ME.
I have been BRUTALLY oppressed.
I have already hired an attorney.
Mark my words, there's going to be hell to pay for this!
Define "reparations" as you use it.
AFAIK, nothing has been paid out in the form of "reparations" as people have defined it of late. If Jesse Jackson has his way, he, and other so-called "civil rights leaders" will be the only ones to get paid - just like now, considering Jesse continues his campaign of extortion.
And let's not forget that he is now starting to show his compatriots how to extort money, too.
While I can trace multiple ancestors to slavery, I can also directly trace my American Indian ancestry back more than 500 years, and indirectly back literally thousands of years.
I am a direct descendant of Chief Tuskaloosa, which means that I could technically go beyond "reparations" and claim all of Alabama, Mississipi, and much of Georgia, Louisiana and northern Florida.
Y'know: "All o' ya! Outta the pool! This is ALL mine!"
I'll concede the point.
There is simply NO WAY for justice to ever be achieved on earth until that first (now long-dead) homo sapien who was discriminated against (for whatever reason) is avenged.
It doesn't matter what any given INDIVIDUAL achieves or creates in the world, nor that individuals character. b
All that matters is what the current MORAL CONCILIATOR has to say concerning the state of wealth distribution.
I have worked my a** off since I was 15 years old.
I worked myself through college.
I have WORKED for EVERYTHING I now have (however pathetically meager).
I Will NOT pander to your Marxist Parasitism.
I, personally, OWE YOU NOTHING, MOT&*% FU*%^!.
YOU are now telling me that I OWE YOU something because of the happenstance of my (or your) race - over which I (you) have NO CONTROL.
F*&^ Y%&*!!
I OWE YOU NOTHING. EAT S^&* and Die.
Clearly you have NO CONCEPT WHATEVER of what it means to be an AMERCICAN.
LEARN, OR GET THE HELL OUT.
I don't feel anyone owes me a damned thing, save a bit of respect. I don't owe anyone else a thing, save maybe a bit of hospitality when you come visit.
Yes, the ancestry that I pointed out in the earlier message is true. I can trace multiple ancestors to slavery, not only that, I can trace to specific plantations. Nothing beyond that point, however. I can also trace my AmerIndian heritage back more than 500 years. And yes, I am directly descended from the Chieftain that ruled the tribal nation encompasing most of what is now the Southeastern US.
And if I used the logic that the poverty pimps use, then I could very easily look at some prime real estate somewhere here in the Southeast and go try to make a case. After all, there is something similar going on in northern Indiana and Illinois with the Miami Indian tribal claim of more than 5 million acres of land. (All they want is to open a land-based casino in exchange for not exercising their land claim, but that's another story)
Needless to say - while I was looking for a reaction, that wasn't the one I had in mind...
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