DOA.
There are a lot of reasons why reparations simply won't work anyway. Personally, when I first heard about the idea, I was actually open to it, but once you start thinking about it you realize the idea is simply without merit -- for many reasons.
That may be why it's largely the province of people who are seriously wacko:
Mr. Barron, however, was particularly vitriolic in his remarks, admitting, "I'm so mad I'm gonna slap somebody in a second. I might just walk up to the nearest white man and say, 'You don't understand, this is a black thing!' and slap him just for my mental health. I'm not angry, I'm mad. Black power!"
Now just imagine if a white person at a public rally proposed walking up to the nearest black person and slapping him "for my mental health."
What a sick individual. Come to think of it, he's not only seriously wacko, he's self-confessed seriously wacko.
Religious leaders of all denominations took part, such as veteran Brooklyn activist Reverend Herbert Daughtry of the House of the Lord Church, Prince Israel of the Nation of Israel who indicted DC as "the citadel of white supremacy" and Minister Ishmael Muhammad of the Nation of Islam.
Nation of Islam, eh? Sounds like good company. MOVE's foul-mouthed Pam Afrika's blistering, expletive-laced attack on Pennsylvania politicians over Mumia Abu-Jamal and other Philadelphia-based concerns seemed ill-timed even if thoroughly entertaining. "Back the F*ck off!" she warned her governor, summarizing that "We're gonna close this motherf*cker down."
Just the kind of wholesome people you'd love to be associated with.
I couldn't believe the official web site actually prominently features as its flagship motto, "They Owe Us."
Of course, I guess I shouldn't be surprised to find so many nutcases in an organization whose basic premise seems to be that every single last problem they have to deal with is the fault of somebody else.
Who says? It looked like about 100 (or less) on C-SPAN.