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'Millions' of Blacks to Rally in DC for Reparations
CNSNEWS.com ^
| 6/19/02
| Michael L. Betsch
Posted on 06/19/2002 3:26:43 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: varon; kattracks; TxBec
Reparations...............
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To: TxBec
I think similar thoughts every once in a while.
I wake up, I have clean water, available food, I can worship Whom ever I want and as a bonus no one is shooting at me.
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posted on
06/19/2002 6:07:18 AM PDT
by
Jn316
To: iconoclast
What the he!! happened to Black Pride?
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To: Chad Fairbanks
![](http://images.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/01/19/jackson/story.jpg)
JESSE JACKSON and his mistress Karin Stanford (circled)
pose with Clinton and other Rainbow Coalition staffers on
December 3, 1998 -- five months before Jesse's love child
was born.
To: Phantom Lord
The "go back" argument is flawed on its face! I could care less what they think. The point is that the "go back" argument presents a physical impossibility in that one can not "go back" where they have never been to in the first place. It presupposes that the person(s) who are to "go back" has been, so, if the person(s) have not been, how can you "go back?"
But I'm sure the statement makes those who use it feel better. It never ceases to amaze me that the race issue on FR incorporates the language of the enemy. Those conservatives who criticize black people for listening to race hustlers often take what those race hustlers say as truth and apply it to every other black person. You've just done it. You are making their argument for them by saying what they think they are. We know better, however. If my cousin starts to call himself an "African in America," he'd get lauged out the house. I'd tell him, "You're an African in America, huh? Boy, you know damn well you're from Cleveland just like me!"
Last time. You can NOT go "back" to where you have never even been to in the first place. Period. End of story. A physical impossibility no matter who thinks what.
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posted on
06/19/2002 6:13:26 AM PDT
by
rdb3
To: rdb3
I agree! ;)
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To: rdb3
The "go back" argument doesnt' make sense if one sits and thinks about it for ANY amount of time...
To: rdb3
Oops! "Laughed" out, not lauged. Whatever that means.
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posted on
06/19/2002 6:18:05 AM PDT
by
rdb3
To: notyourregularhandle
Exactly. But watch. It will be said over and over again. It must make those who say it feel better somehow.
90
posted on
06/19/2002 6:20:24 AM PDT
by
rdb3
To: dennisw
100,000 tops!Dreamer, LOL. You know the media will use the infamous "MMM" math and estimate the crowd at over a million even they meet in a phone booth.
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posted on
06/19/2002 6:22:54 AM PDT
by
zip
To: rdb3
Well spoken.
Also, I would not wish a 3rd world existence on anyone. Having visited 'the real' Latin America - interior Mexico and Honduras - I had my eyes opened by what true poverty really is. No running water, stick single room huts with no furniture, only a few huts in the village with meager electricity.... In suburban America, we consider poverty as 'no cable TV'. The true definition is something else.
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posted on
06/19/2002 6:24:54 AM PDT
by
wbill
To: WhiskeyPapa
The theme of the rally is: "They owe us!" This is a joke, right?NO!! That is the scary part. There are thousands of people demanding money because "someone of color, sometime, someway was a slave". Therefore, all people must pay them because they have some pain and psychological problems from the fact that MAYBE someone in their family (generations ago) was a slave.
See what I mean by "scary". They believe we owe them.
As I have said many times, I truly believe that every living American slave owner should pay every living slave.
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posted on
06/19/2002 6:32:38 AM PDT
by
zip
To: rdb3
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." It's crap like this that make people racist.
To: SouthernFreebird
You won't get an argument out of me on that. I totally agree.
95
posted on
06/19/2002 6:34:43 AM PDT
by
rdb3
To: kattracks
My gggrandfather on my mother's side was a full-blooded Choctaw Indian who according to the 1860 census owned 40 slaves. After the civil war he took one of those slaves to be his wife. While she had become an instant citizen, he was not, and full citizenship was not given to the Choctaws until 1924. Looking at me today you could not distinguish me from any other cracker living in South Carolina even though I do have my Choctaw CDIB card.
Do I deserve reparations for my gggrandmother being a slave to my gggrandfather? NO. I personally NEVER suffered anything. I am not in need of repair.
Do I deserve any of the millions of dollars the Choctaw now make from gambling casinos? NO. I personally NEVER lived as a Choctaw so do not deserve what they have accomplished.
I am happy enough in my life to profit from my own accomplishments and will never profit from someone else's pain.
My ancestors would be ashamed of me if I lived my life any other way.
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posted on
06/19/2002 6:35:07 AM PDT
by
Gaston
To: rdb3
You are, of course, right. How about if anyone does not feel comfortable here they are free to choose another country to grace with their presence.
Rather then "Go back" it would be "Pick a better country and move there."
a.cricket
Can whitey really be blamed for a culture of non-achievement?
Why can't people look at successful people and figure out why they are successful?
I guess it's much easier to blame the successful person for your non-achievement than to look at your own culture's failings.
98
posted on
06/19/2002 6:35:46 AM PDT
by
MrB
To: SouthernFreebird
Oh, I almost forgot one thing. I won't allow the actions of others to define who I am or what I think. And I believe that no one should, either. One only becomes "racist" because one wants to.
But again, provocative statements stoke the flames. If you give in, they've won. They control you if they can control your emotions. I believe that you are better than that.
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posted on
06/19/2002 6:38:26 AM PDT
by
rdb3
To: kattracks
Actually, I am all for reparations. But instead of tax dollars, let's total up how much African Americans have benfited from Affirmative Action and deduct the settlement from that. And end to the whining and an end to Affirmative Action all in one shot!
100
posted on
06/19/2002 6:39:23 AM PDT
by
Shryke
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