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Blacks Rally for Slave Reparations
Associated Press/NY Times ^
| 8/17/2002
| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted on 08/17/2002 2:30:18 PM PDT by 07055
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Did any of you catch this rally on C-Span?
"Hundreds of Blacks" is being generous.
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posted on
08/17/2002 2:30:18 PM PDT
by
07055
To: 07055
Hundreds? HUNDREDS!?!?!?
PLEASE tell me that they stuck the word "Million" in the name of this "march" somewhere!!!!
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posted on
08/17/2002 2:33:34 PM PDT
by
Illbay
To: 07055
"Hundreds of Blacks" is being generous.
Maybe they meant "in spirit"
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posted on
08/17/2002 2:34:48 PM PDT
by
deport
To: Illbay
Millions for Reparations, August 17, 2002, is a grassroots led and organized rally. http://www.millionsforreparations.com/index.html
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posted on
08/17/2002 2:36:13 PM PDT
by
07055
To: 07055
I know of some land they can have - it is just east of Atlantic City - about 5 miles out. It is covered by water, but Oh well!
To: 07055
Yes. I am guilty. My Swiss ancestors had a secret cotton plantation up in the Alps. The black slaves were forced to yodel as they picked cotton. I have a small fortune of Swiss bank account notes hidden under my mattress. I only look poor. It's just to hide from the slave raparationists. I'll pay up. The guilt is unbearable. I'll pay every last penny... in 'That Ain't Hay' money. Freegards....
To: LiteKeeper
Where do I apply for my compensation check re: my great-great-uncle Barnaby who died at Antietam fighting to free the slaves?
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posted on
08/17/2002 2:39:38 PM PDT
by
daler
To: Illbay
Reparations for Blacks? That means I'll stop paying taxes for sure if the congresscrittersand sinators vote for this abomination. If they do (and it will be the last election for those voting in favor), then there will be reparations for Indians, for Irish, for Germans, for Japanese, for Mexicans etc.. It will never end!
This country is fast becoming fragmented by illegals and people like these DC protestors that have been on the gubmint teat for generations.
To: 07055
If a pharmaceutical company created a drug that turned the pigment of your skin black, could you then get reparations. They won't be able to use genetics since all humans are virtually identical genetically. Out 40,000 genes only 6 make up the code for skin color. Should not all slaves be reperated? Especially those who are currently alive? Are we not buying $3 cotton shirts at Target because of slave labor in China?
No one at the rally has placed a dollar amount on it. Would they have to have a national referendum? If so would they win?
Maybe we could give them federal land instead of money, the feds own 95% of American land. That way it wouldn't come out of taxpayer money. Or how about they don't pay income tax at all for ever? I am for no income tax.
It is sad to watch this in all honesty. I was brought up by my parents to believe that there were no differences between people except their beliefs. I think most of the racism is on their side these days. Considering white woman are the fans of Oprah, it's white golfers that love Tiger, white men who pay thousands for basketball tickets to watch their black Gods. It's white folks who fill that stadium when two black guys fight. Where is all the racism we are getting accused of? It ain't me and it ain't my friends either. I think the shoe is on the other foot! Martin Luther King said he prayed for a day when all were color blind, this is going in the opposite direction. If you're black you get a check.
To: Illbay
They did, they were wearing "Millions for Reparations" T-shirts.
I saw a few minutes of the show on C-SPAN, quite a spectacle. Nausea set in at time 00:01.
I am not by any means a racist, but I have no respect for this crowd - they are looters, pure and simple. There have been decades of special funding, scholarships, weighted hiring, promotions and contract opportunities in the name of 'affirmative action' which amount to deliberate discrimination on their behalf. Enough is enough.
I know this group gets a little bit of interest from .gov and competing political factions so hear me now:
I WAS NEVER A SLAVE OWNER,
THEY WERE NEVER SLAVES,
I WILL NEVER PAY REPARATIONS.
Any attempt to make me pay directly via taxation or indirectly via corporate tort law I will consider as theft, and I will act accordingly.
To: 07055; Orual; dighton; general_re
NO SNEAKERS NO PEACE.
None of that K-Mart crap either.
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posted on
08/17/2002 3:16:08 PM PDT
by
aculeus
To: daler
Amen...and not to mention the numbers of northern poor folks and immigrants drafted into the Union who gave up eyes and limbs to free those slaves... and never a word of gratitude from them or their relatives
To: 07055
Blacks Rally for Slave Reparations ***** *****
Did any of you catch this rally on C-Span?
"Hundreds of Blacks" is being generous.
I'm hardly surprised that not many of them would want a repetition of slavery....
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posted on
08/17/2002 3:30:05 PM PDT
by
archy
To: 07055
Some of my ancestors did own slaves...but other ancestors were forced to abandon their homes and walk to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. If Blacks get reparations, then American Indians should also get reparations. And if that happens, will I just pay myself? I'm SO confused!
To: daler
Where do I apply for my compensation check re: my great-great-uncle Barnaby who died at Antietam fighting to free the slaves? Check? No, son, no checks here; cash on the barrelhead! That's the good news for ya!
Now, about the bad news....
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posted on
08/17/2002 3:35:58 PM PDT
by
archy
To: 07055
To: 07055
``We cannot settle for some little jive token.It seems to me that every Dim administration has been full of little jive tokens.
We need millions of acres of land that black people can build.''
The Million Acre March. And just how do you build land? From what I have seen, these perpetual whiners can barely take care of a tiny front lawn. How are they going to manager millions of acres?
To: 07055
When are decent black folks going to disavow this embarrassing rabble of black racists? They should thank their lucky stars (as Muhammad Ali did) that their forebears were brought to America. Had they stayed in the dark continent, they would long ago have died of disease, or been eaten by some wild animal or neighbor.
To: 07055
I was amused by the numerous invocations of the name of Frederick Douglass.
Douglass would be ashamed that his name was attached to this travesty.
To: 07055
``It seems that America owes black people a lot for what we have endured,'' Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan told the crowd......while dressed in his thousand dollar Armani suit.
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