[GaltMeister]

If any reparations are paid beyond what has already been paid through the 'New Deal' and 'Great Society', I would demand that repatriation go along with accepting your reparations check. As an aside, the empty seats coming back could be filled with immigrants who truly desire freedom, and a chance to use their mind and ability achieve something. It would make us a better nation in the long run.

[IronJack]

Reparations are the wedge issue du jour for the socialists. They know it's wrong, they know it's unjustified, but they also know that they can gain momentum with it, and further inflame race hatreds that have shown signs of cooling.

Leave it to the Randall Robinson, Cornel West, Ron Dellums crowd to corrode public unity at a time we need it most. These maggots are as much our enemies as Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. And MORE of a threat to our way of life.

[Lightnin]

"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."

Not to mention...famine, aids epidemic, civil war, government corruption, depotism, genocide, pestilence, poverty, dependence on others, institutional corruption, commercial corruption, small pox epidemics and rampant racism.

In short most of southern Aftica is a stinking cesspool and I'm sure most of our black citizens would really love to become permanent residents of one of those garden spots.

[glock rocks]

[Destructor]

When you apply "Million Mom Math" that equates to just over 100,000 people.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Tiger Woods certainly deserves reparations. He has been enslaved by white oppression in America which can only be repared by a check from the US Treasury. /bs

[Chad Fairbanks]

I wonder if we could get a million people of all colors and walks of life for a 'Millions Against Reparations' march on the same day? Wouldn't THAT be interesting... ;0)

[Yardstick]

Anybody know what the polling data looks like regarding reparations? My guess is that most blacks realize reparations is a crock and would oppose it.

[unixfox]

Love your culture?
Love your language?
Love your religion?
Love your country?

THEN GO HOME !!

[elcaudillo]

For all those disenfranchised AFRICAN Americans who wish reparations $10,000 and a one way ticket to Zululand would be appropriate.

Monies saved in welfare and housing costs would more than compensate for the outlay.

[Henchman]

I want reparations for all the time I worked and paid taxes that went to welfare, a way of life for those who have time to attend nonsensical rallies.

[Lockbox]

What if we actually did pay African people in America reparations?

In a legal sense would that not make them ‘whole’

Therefore African people in America could no longer ask for anything else, their case would be over. No more free lunch.

[biblewonk]

"Boy the way Glenn Miller played
songs that made the hit parade
guys like us we had it made
those were the days"

[Phantom Lord]

"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."

Actually, your ancestors were given the option of becoming citizens or moving to Liberia. They choose citizenship.

[Gaston]

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.

[Shryke]

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!

[RooRoobird14]

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."

LOL, couldn't have put it better myself!!

The poverty pimps leading the reparations movement continue to shoot themselves in the feet. The more they howl about reparations, the less sympathy others have for the problems of blacks. I know I used to care, and frankly don't give a d@mn anymore. Ditto for hubby. We're both plain sick of the whining, blaming, and refusal to take personal responsibility for anything.

[Iscool]

Hey, what's this thing pay??? I remember stories of my great, great grandfather being a slave...I know there were white slaves back then...There must have been.....

[CIB-173RDABN]

Reason number 1 why the REPARATION MOVEMENT is going nowhere:

(14th Amendment) Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Second Reason this is not going anywhere.

One of the reasons that the whole civil rights movement was successful in the 60s was because the majority in this country supported the movement.

I do not beleive that there is wide spread support for this reparations movement, in fact I suspect that there is a growing backlash for all these claims on public monies.

Politicians do things that will get them the vote, if they can do something that will gain a little support from one group, with out losing the support of another, they will do it.

I suspect that reparations will not fall in that category. Any politician that needs a wide range of support will not touch this. The only ones that you will see that support this are those that are in very safe districts, and there are not enough of them to get this passed.

[meowmeow]

I know quite a few "blacks" who are actually 1/2 white. Do they get to pay themselves?