The Reparations pipe dream and The Taxcut reality for Blacks Americans

project21 ^ | 10June 2003 | trueblackman

[Trueblackman]

Your thoughs please on this latest soon to be forwarded piece.

[CyberSpartacus]

It's an excellent product, but check your grammer. It's something enemies can use to ignore your ideas.

[c-five]

Reparations for tax slaves?

[Trueblackman]

Yes I need to hire a fulltime proof reader.

[Congressman Billybob]

Always a pleasure to hear from you. my friend.

Yep, you've got an accurate analysis of the situation. Your speaking style is fire-breathing. But it looks like you understand the "cool medium" of television, and tone things down just a notch when you go on news shows.

Keep up the good work.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, now up on UPI and FR, and due to be in the Asheville Citizen-Times on Sunday, "Surviving in the Smokies."

[Fzob]

Outside of a needeing to be proofread, it's an excellent analysis.

Keep up the great work

[10mm]

It's an excellent product, but check your grammer.

:^)

[Fzob]

Outside of a needeing to be proofread, it's an excellent analysis.

Talk about needing proofreading. Geez

Bump

[gcruse]

Crave ball? That may be deep or a typo, but I love it!

[Hodar]

My thoughts ... ok.

This is a proposed penalty upon people who have never owned slaves, to be paid to people who have never been slaves.

[Susannah]

Good job! Conyers, however, is not the only representative that is supporting reparations. The Black Caucus was on a local public service tv channel and there were more than two democratic representatives explaining the reparations issue and telling their activists to go out and register more voters and tell them which candidates to vote for.

[section9]

Well said, Kevin.

'Tis a shame that the only response to black conservatives to people like you, Shelby Steele, or Condi Rice is to call you "tokens" or "House Negroes".

One of great myths that is peddled by black columnists is that the black community has a vibrant, diverse political culture. Nothing could be further from the truth. The "mainstream" black political culture is the closest thing to Stalinism that I have seen in American politics outside of the activist wing of the Democratic Party. Black liberals accept no deviationism from the Company Line. Thus, while it remains politically easy to call people such as your self a "race traitor", the black community is harmed as a whole because innovative thinking that challenges the status quo is rejected out of hand.

Most distressing. Yet, everytime I read your posts or listen to Walter Williams, for instance, I understand that there is hope.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Recovering_Democrat]

The whole idea of black reparations is to entertain us in black community. You see this is meant keep all of us beholden to the old guard of black leaders and since slavery is a common bind to which nearly every black person can trace an ancestor to, these leaders can claim they are still fighting for our black liberation.

Absolutely on target.

[Trueblackman]

Reparations is a landmine that neither party is going to step on and The Congressional Black Caucus only seeks to use the issue to increase their numbers and peddle their socialist politics.

[Search4Truth]

Black Man BUMP

[wideminded]

The one thing I don't understand about reparations this: A very large number of "black" people have some white ancestry. Likewise a large number of other citizens have some black ancestors. So how black do you have to be to get reparations? Will there be a need for a huge new geneological industry to quantify the number of former slaves in everyone's family tree? What about the many people whose geneological data are missing? What about people who are part African but not descended from slaves? If I am descended from both slaves and slave-owners, does that mean I pay myself?

[farmfriend]

This never got a conservative ping.

[Trueblackman]

You have to understand there is no purpose in this, other than keeping blacks beholden to the selected leaders. They know there will never be reparations.

[Trueblackman]

BUMP

[dsutah]

Wonderful! I haven't seen anyone put it quite that way; but it's true! I couldn't imagine why more black people don't see the taxcuts as a form of reparation. Many of us whites, and the people of other groups will benefit from it as well. And they shall, if they use it wisely to prosper in the future!