Posted on 09/18/2002 8:17:05 AM PDT by profmike23
Dear Reader,
On August 17, 2002, a rally was held by Millions For Reparations on the mall in Washington, D.C. The rally called for the payment of reparations to blacks for the crime of slavery from both the government and businesses. The following in italics are verbatim quotes, selected for their importance and significance related to the rally. The rest of the following is our commentary...
Ron Daniels, Institute of the Black World President
It’s about what you do every morning when you look in that mirror and take responsibility for organizing your block and your family.
It’s a shame that he is talking about taking responsibility to become a victim. This sentence alone sounds like a positive message that should be directed to young black men. Take control of your community; take control of your family. Kick the drug dealers out of the neighborhood so that the children you’ve fathered can go to school in a safe environment. Marry the girl you’ve gotten pregnant, stay there through good times and bad times. Solve the cultural pathologies of violence, drugs, illegitimacy/the breakdown of the family, and the rejection of “white values” like a focus on academics, education and success, and solve the problems of the black community. The great irony is that my message invites condemnation from the left and their behavior warrants protection. The left will say I am blaming the victim. I am. I am also blaming the perpetrator.
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Rep. John Conyers, D-MI, Malik Shabazz, Charles Barron, Viola Plummer, Kofi Taharka, Dorothy Lewis Benton, Conrad Worrill, Ron Daniels, Gullah Glover, Don Trotter, "Rev." Herbert Duaghtry, Bob Law, Prince Israel, Pam Afrika, Mark Thompson, Bilal Sunni-Ali, Maxine Flowers, Larry Holmes
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