[goldstategop]

Yup. I guess we'll still have to live with state-sanctioned discrimination 'gainst whitey. Like we haven't paid enough for the sins of the past and still have to keep on paying... <sigh

[TLBSHOW]

Rush was right Bush wimped out on this one too.

[FreedomPoster]

I've considered becoming black. What if you just changed your racial categorization on all goobermintal forms and such? How could they prove you weren't 1/128th or some such?

[sweetliberty]

What I want to know is when are they going to go after the descendants of the black slavetraders in Africa for reparations and how are they going to prevent those blacks whose ethnic roots are in Jamaica or Haiti or other non-African countries from benefitting by affirmative action since they were not slaves and when can we resurrect the offer to send these malcontents back to their utopian Africa? That offer was made once after the war and they declined. Maybe things were not so good there after all, hmmm?

[BJungNan]

The great Abraham Lincoln tells it best. He said:

If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope--fervently do we pray--that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether"

(It would seem - according to the court - that the blood spilled on the battlefields of the civil war was not repayment enough for the years of black slavery. About every other race claiming special treatment, well, that I have yet to figure out.)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

What exactly is the legal definition of race? Are we to have Nuremburg laws? Is one-eight Black enough to qualify? Come to think of it, I'm being to get in touch with my African side. Jus' call me Kweezi, gimme some of dat scholarship and a whole lotta odder people's money. You be feelin' sho-nuf smugly self-righteous in no time!