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Posted on 06/19/2002 9:19:09 AM PDT by yoe
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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Then why is he still here?
I am truely speechless. My jaw can't hang any lower than it did when I first read this. Worrill... You don't like it here, put your ass on a plane and go back to Africa.
And I'm going to march on D.C. to demand my "reparations" for decades of denied opportunities just because I'm white.
Had I been black, hispanic, or even just female (!!!), I would have automatically qualified for a Federally guaranteed Small Business loan to start my new company.
We would have been able to afford a big sales team right up front, flashy promotional materials, it boggles the mind! Instead, I had to work my rocks off to make it on my own. Heck, being white has cost me MILLIONS!!!
Now where do I get in line for this retarded gravy train? This crap makes me ill.
Fine. Here's airfare to Zambia, a grass skirt, a bone for your nose and a spear. Enjoy.
Oh, and welcome to FR. Hell of a post for your very first day.
It is wrong for the CIA to import illegal drugs. In the '70's, when the U.S. Government asked Ross Perot to go into Vietnam and get our MIA's back, Perot eventually uncovered that the Gummint was shipping back tons of heroin in body bags (supposedly holding the remains of U.S. Soldiers) from the Golden Triangle. The CIA should be disbanded, and those involved should go to jail.
It is also, however, wrong to use illegal substances. Those who do so, in so doing, set themselves up as bowling pins whose only role in life is to be knocked down. Suck it up, Tonto.
Rule # 1: Do Not Be A Bowling Pin
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