Posted on 08/17/2002 5:45:49 PM PDT by Retired Chemist
Barron, a self-proclaimed "elected revolutionary," said if the government did not act swiftly he personally would storm the Treasury Department ( news - web sites) and take the money for reparations.
Black activist Louis Farrakhan told the crowd, "America owes the black people a lot for what they've endured."
"We need land for political independence, we need millions of acres," Farrakhan added. "We need payment for 310 years of slavery, of destruction of our minds and the robbery of our culture." {/B>
The United States, torn apart by the Civil War, abolished slavery in 1865. Some people argue that even 137 years after abolition, blacks still suffer from the vestiges of slavery.
U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a Democrat from Michigan, urged blacks to press their elected representatives in Congress to deal with the issue of slavery reparations.
"We want reparations -- not next century, not 10 years from now, but now," Conyers said. "These wrongs can only be corrected in the House of Representatives, only Congress can do what we want now. All congressmen ought to be here today."
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Then how do you explain the fact that this story got top billiing on the cable news networks, including Fox, yesterday and full coverage on C-SPAN? They love this garbage.
He's a real piece of work isn't he? Time to stop mollycoddling morons, regardless of race, and spank them soundly and sent them to their rooms till they grow up....like that's ever likely to happen.
In the first place, we are the only country in the world that I know of that indiscriminantly allows all sorts of people to invade our borders, so chances are that few nations would take them. And in the second place, even assuming there were nations that would take them, they would have to sacrifice their whining rights and most of this riff raff would never go for that.
In the beginning, the reparations movement only wanted money. But they've been watching the Palestinians, and so now they also want land. Based on what, I wonder?
Pretty soon they'll put on some masks and headbands, strap their bodies with bombs, and explode themselves in crowded public places.
Won't be long now....!
May I suggest a big ole piece of ocean out west of California."
With a leaky ship to cross it in.
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