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John Conyers: U.S. Owes Slavery Reparations
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| 5/9/06
Posted on 05/09/2006 10:02:08 PM PDT by peggybac
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To: peggybac
"Just as we've discussed the Holocaust, and Japanese interment camps, and to some extent the devastation that the colonists inflicted upon the Indians, we must talk about slavery and its continued effects." I've studied slavery. My conclusion is: There is a greater chance that Conyers' ancestors, back in Africa, owned Jesse Jackass' ancestors than did any of mine. Ergo, STFU.
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To: trubluolyguy
One of the books of the Tamuli. I think it was _Domes_Of_Fire_.
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posted on
05/10/2006 12:15:52 AM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Peach
I was forced to go to public school -- I deserve reparations!
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posted on
05/10/2006 12:20:21 AM PDT
by
NilesJo
To: Tiberius109
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posted on
05/10/2006 12:26:54 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
("Hold your manhood cheap while any speaks who fought with us upon St. Crispin's day!")
To: peggybac
What I find ironic is that Conyers own Democratic Party was responsible for keeping slavery in place from the Party's inception until slavery ended. And the Republicans had to fight the Democrats tooth and nail to end it. So it appears to me that the reparations should be paid by the Democratic Party.
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posted on
05/10/2006 12:27:49 AM PDT
by
RussP
To: peggybac
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posted on
05/10/2006 12:28:06 AM PDT
by
SR 50
(Larry)
To: peggybac
I keep wondering why reparations are such a big deal to blacks? No black alive today was ever a slave to start with. I look at the minorities in the United States today.
Japanese, Chinese, and asians in general come here, work hard, and make something of themselves.
Mexicans and central/south americans, for the most part, work hard and support their families.
Europeans work hard and assimilate.
Blacks, those that are born here, are whiny. They cry about racism against their ancestors 160 years ago and how it affects them now. They are born in a country that is the land of opportunity, the greatest nation on the face of the earth, and all they can do is look to the past, sit down on their asses and cry their eyes out.
That is the problem. While everyone else looks to the future, blacks in the United States look to Africa and the past. Until they overcome this, they will be nothing more than they are now.
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posted on
05/10/2006 12:36:32 AM PDT
by
MissouriConservative
(People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid - Kierkegaard)
To: MissouriConservative
Black kids who actually do their homework are taunted for "going white" -- and we wonder why they have problems?
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posted on
05/10/2006 12:41:45 AM PDT
by
RussP
To: peggybac
It establishes a commission to study slavery,But but but, I thought we already spend billions on this. It's called public education.
To: peggybac
Every single Democrat congressional candidate should be required to go on record on the reparations issue.
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posted on
05/10/2006 12:45:14 AM PDT
by
denydenydeny
("Osama... made the mistake of confusing media conventional wisdom with reality" (Mark Steyn))
To: peggybac
"I chose the number of the bill, 40, as a symbol of the forty acres and a mule that the United States initially promised freed slaves.Yeah right. I think you named it after "North Dallas 40". Can't believe that each freed slave was promised a democrat (donkey). To bad that plan fell thru, we'd be much better off now.
To: sourcery; Torie
Whatever responsibility there might be to pay "reparations" would rightfully belong to those Southern States where slavery was legal. The US Federal government had nothing to do with it--and Constitutionally, had not the power to act, one way or the other.
Slavery was legal in The United States of America for approximately 88 years.
Slavery was legal in The Confederate States of America for approximately 4 years.
Any bets that Rep Conyers-D would want to tax only the states in "the Old Confederacy" or everyone in the United States?
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posted on
05/10/2006 1:25:58 AM PDT
by
TYVets
(God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
To: peggybac
Geeeeeezh.......for the sake of the devil will John Rasist Conyers please give me a physical break.
We don't owe blacks for a damn thing.
Can somebody please give me my reparations cause I was sacked with being born in California.
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posted on
05/10/2006 1:31:11 AM PDT
by
OKIEDOC
(There's nothing like hearing someone say thank you for your help.)
To: cibco
Mine were 1900 ought 10 at the earliest. They were condemned for Lutifisk. Lutefisk is a magical food. It is both fish and foul.
Very, very foul...
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posted on
05/10/2006 1:32:22 AM PDT
by
Triggerhippie
(Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)
To: OKIEDOC
R A C I S T S RACISTS Racists racists you will write this 100 times or until you learn to spell.
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posted on
05/10/2006 1:33:02 AM PDT
by
OKIEDOC
(There's nothing like hearing someone say thank you for your help.)
To: TYVets
Conyers and his ignorant racists ilk seem to forget that 600,000 men lost their lives so they could someday squelch reparations for the federal government.
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posted on
05/10/2006 1:35:20 AM PDT
by
OKIEDOC
(There's nothing like hearing someone say thank you for your help.)
To: peggybac
they should demand reparations from the Arabs ,who after all
were the original slavers that did all the trading and bringing them out to the coasts. Without the moslem hand in it there would have been no slave trade.
To: peggybac
The Republican party was founded to fight slavery. The democrat party is the party who kept slavery alive.
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posted on
05/10/2006 2:53:35 AM PDT
by
tkathy
(The "can do" party can fix anything. The "do-nothing" party always makes things worse.)
To: peggybac
Conyers is a stupid lackey. I don't owe anyone anything.
I didn' have no stinking slave.
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posted on
05/10/2006 4:01:02 AM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(an enemy of islam)
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