Posted on 07/09/2006 11:16:25 AM PDT by TomServo
Not now - not ever.
Sure it will.
Look how well it worked for the Katrina victims.
Sophisticated?--Nope
Mainstream?--Nope
Scholars?--Nope
Lawyers?--BINGO!
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Will we get a full accounting of how deeply involved in the slave trade and slave economy the Democrat Party was? No. we won't. This one fact will forever limit the effect and importance of this issue.
My ancestors came from Italy and Germany. We bombed them in World War II, and I'm sure that made my ancestors feel bad. Do I get anything?
Oops... forgot the smiley in that last post :-) :-)!
You're a Sioux? Never mind the money, man, tell them you want the entire country back!!
actually, I'm all for it..all they have to do is produce picture ID (won't happen unless an alcohol purchase is needed) and prove they were alive during the 1860's to collect..
"Look how well it worked for the Katrina victims."
My thoughts exactly.
Apologizing for past behavior is a long cry from writing checks to the millions of black Americans who were never slaves. Even the majority of liberals won't support cash reparations. Reparations is a pipe dream that will never happen and it would be in the best interest of black Americans to not even entertain the thought.
Bah, the housing bubble is deflating, I'm cashing out and want my check! :)
I would agree that the DNC owes reparations. They are, after all, the slavery party, the Jim Crow party, the Klan was their action wing.
But since their former victims have entered the party en masse, and are now an influential part of it, that the question is now moot.
How will they determine which Blacks are actual slave descendants and not descendants of Free Blacks who were wealthy businessmen?
Will they include the now White Offspring that were also descendants of a Slave and her White Master?
If they truly dug into the history of slavery in the early US, many Blacks today might discover that their ancestors were also Slave Owners.
To pay someone simply because they are of a race, "assuming" they have an ancestor that was wronged, when it is somewhat possible it was their ancestor wronging others, goes beyond ridiculous.
This reparations smokescreen is nothing more than someone's attempt at pandering for votes and expanding the ever-growing "entitlement" class.
Excellent!
I do hope the Democratic Party takes this issue and runs with it! Please, please, please lefties - make this issue a centerpiece in ALL of your campaigns.
Yes, the more prominence this gets, the better. We just know how attractive this idea is going to sound to the average American voter ;)
Well come to think of it I have some "black blood" in me. I want my share of reparations. In fact, probably most every American has some black blood. We all should get reparations.
On another note, I can tell you how to guarantee your child gets into the college of his/her choice. Assuming they are at least an average student, when they take the SAT or ACT, list their race as "other." I had my son do this on one of the SAT test administrations. He was innundated with offers from top tier colleges across the country...NYU, Johns Hopkins, Univ. of Southern California, Georgia Tech,etc. They all wanted to meet this deserving "minority student." I'm telling you this is the way to end any preferential treatment for miniorities. We ALL become a minority!!!
A school administrator once told me that they could not question whatever race the student chose to categorize themself. This is THE solution!!! Spread the word.
The proper response would be peals of Homeric laughter. However, in this country, in 2006 A.D., the Euro American appears to be sick. Therefore, all bets are off.
ANY politician, Republican or Democrat, that supports this asinine notion, will NEVER get a vote from me, no matter what the alternative.
Not only that I will move heaven and I will move earth, I will talk to every friend, every relative, every ear I can find, to hurt, harrass and harm the careeer of any such politician.
If I EVER hear that a company I own stock in has wasted company money on such a frivolity, I will sponsor a stockholder's suit.
This truly insane notion should be belittled, mocked, castigated, scorned, and spurned.
It should be buried, stake through the heart, in the dead of night, never to rise again.
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