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Posted on 06/19/2002 3:26:43 AM PDT by kattracks
(CNSNews.com) - Promising that it will be one of the "most historic gatherings of African people in America," organizers of the Millions for Reparations Rally are demanding monetary compensation from the United States government and its citizens. The theme of the rally is: "They owe us!"
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND), and a critic of the rally, said, "If that many people have enough money to go to D.C. to march, then they don't need reparations."
The Aug. 17 event will take place in Washington, D.C. on the 115th birthday of the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey. But Peterson said Garvey was an outspoken advocate of post-slavery self-repair for black people in America and would not support the idea of modern day reparations.
The Durban 400 and National Black United Front (NBUF), the lead organizers of the rally, claim their event is "simply an attempt to repair, to make whole, the descendants of the victims of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade."
At the urging of the Durban 400 and other groups, the United Nations' 2001 World Conference Against Racism declared the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and the pre-Civil War slavery in the United States crimes against humanity.
NBUF National Chairman Dr. Conrad W. Worrill recently urged concerned "African people in America" to review and add to a list of nearly twenty atrocities that, according to Worrill, "they owe us for."
Among the atrocities on the list are the "Raping of African Women," "KKK Night Riders and Lynchings," "Mental Atrocities," the "Crack Epidemic," and "the 13th and 14th Constitutional Amendments."
According to Worrill, "The abolishment of slavery was really a constitutional scam and the 14th Amendment that allegedly made African people citizens of America was imposed on us. We were never asked if we wanted to be citizens."
But David Almasi, spokesman for the black conservative group Project 21, said those seeking reparations forget the benefits of living in America.
"What about the fact that now you're in America, the land of opportunity as opposed to being in Africa with malaria, dictators and things like that," Almasi said.
According to Peterson, "These organizations that are supporting this so-called Millions for Reparations are anti-American organizations anyway. They're communist/socialist organizations."
Peterson added that "so-called civil rights leaders" like Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan have encouraged a culture of dependency among African Americans instead of self-reliance.
Peterson said he especially wants to encourage white Americans to protest those calling for reparations and "not have the fear of being called a racist" for doing so. However, he said, "As long as you give into these people, there is no stopping them. There is no end to their destruction if we don't stand up to them with truth."
The "truth," Peterson said, is that reparations are "a bad idea in that it is divisive, it is racist, and it's another form of using black Americans to gain power and wealth."
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It's an instant race riot in the making if any whites show up. Even if they don't, it's almost certain that this type of crowd will generate at least a few dozen robberies, rapes, and/or fist-fights, similar to the Peurto Rican parades in NYC.
True, but then neither does the reparations argument. Answering their poor arguments with similarly odd logic that results in a situation that the reparations crowd dislikes seems like fair game for the debate. Now, it's not exactly 'taking the high road' the we ought to be using, but it does communicate the stupidity of the reparations argument, and the passion of those who oppose it.
Abraham is the nicest, hardest-working, polite and humble person I've met in a long time. After only one year year he's learned English, is about to get his GED, and has found an employer who will reimburse him for college tuition. During Abraham's last visit to our home, he mentioned that he and his roomates (other "lost boys" from the Sudan) have encountered outright hostility from several American blacks they've encountered here. He asked us why American blacks have been so mean to them--he really doesn't understand.
I knew what I should have said but held my tongue: "This doesn't apply to all American blacks, but here's what's happening: Many American blacks don't like you because you're hard-working, you don't whine, and you don't blame everyone who isn't black for your problems. In other words, your work ethic and success proves that the NAACP poverty pimps are full of sh*t with their reparations/racism whine-a-thon."
The worthlessness of American NAACP-style blacks goes way beyond color - and Africans know it.
Yep, look how well LBJ's socialistic dream did! We still have the most beautiful slums in the world! But hell since it was around before 'W', then lets let all liberal things stand. More abortion and gun control right? Just because it was before Bush, doen't make it good or right. Thanks to Medicare, medical care is more expensive! See gang bangers don't seem to care about insurance when they get shot and admitted to Trama Centers. Guess who pays? But golly, you seem sharp, so you tell me. If Karl Rove takes a poll and finds out that 90% of minorities would vote for Bush and Republicans, you doubt for 1 second he wouldn't sugggest doing it?
Only thing that scares me is that if Bush is willing to substadize housing for blacks, then he'll probably pay these jackasses reparations
Bush is buying votes! He is locking up the Hispanic vote, but he still doesn't have the Black vote. So he's announcing tax-payer substidized grants and loans for 5.5 million blacks and other minorities (read buying Democrat votes at taxpayer expense. There a Million Man Slavery Reparation March in August. Lets see if Bush doesn't suck up at our expense for a few votes!
Sure, step in line behind me. My descendants were bagpipe players from Scotland.
Amen.
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