Slavery Reparations Gaining Momentum

AP ^ | July 09, 2006 | ERIN TEXEIRA

[UB355]

I'm Irish/German where do I sign up for mine ?

[RipSawyer]

"My people were in Ireland and were poorer that US slaves at the time".
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Genealogy indicates that my family name goes back to the Vikings, I am sure I owe reperations to just about everybody, including keithtoo.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Yeah, you know what? You want to see a TAXPAYER REVOLT that makes the Boston Tea Party look like a Sunday school class, try taking MY tax money for reparations. Just try.

[Rte66]

Hey, I'll trade ya this bottle of firewater for your headrights. I'll even throw in 1/16th of my own headrights. Deal?

[art_rocks]

I have met a family who twins will win many bar bets in college. The family's twin are boy and a girl. The mother is a blond woman and the father is a dark skinned black. The daughter is a mix of the two parents with tan skin and light brown hair. The son is a blond, light skinned little boy. I have no doubt he will be questioned on his college applications if he checked black until dad shows up.

I had a nice talk with the mother and father since I had fraternal twin daughters who were in class with the couples older daughter.

[goldstategop]

They will never take a dime of my money. I'll spent it all and starve to death before those race hucksters lay claim to what isn't rightfully theirs. No one in my family ever owned a black slave. Slavery reparations is both immoral and racist and its proponents can stuff it where the sun don't shine.

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

[Rte66]

Chickasaw here - I'll take $100 billion, please Mr Revenooer. Or Oklahoma, just till the oil boom is over, whichever is more.

[The Mayor]

Giving people anything for generations is the root of most of our problems.

[goldstategop]

What keeps this going is White Guilt - that underpins the prevailing white liberal attitude towards race in this country combined with loathing for America. Katrina Browne's views are axiomatic in that respect. Here's where Shelby Steele's new book digs that up. In a sense white liberals and the race hucksters feed off each other. Its a parasistical relationship that's strengthened their mutual power but been disastrous both to the harmony of society's relations as well as to the state of the black community. Advancing a racial grievance is a sure-fire way of ensuring it will never be addressed. Which I think for the Left, is precisely the point. Besides, when they have speakers named after a hurricane, I think there's a measure of feliticious irony involved, to which as usual, liberals are completely oblivious.

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

[MNJohnnie]

And Asso Propaganda claims to be JOURNALISTS! This is pure nonsense propaganda.

[goldstategop]

An apology is cheap. Making true reparations from a change in values is a lifetime effort for most people. The most meaningful form of reparations would be for the black community to start taking responsibility for its own destiny instead of palming it off to the white man by playing the eternal victim. Giving these people more cash won't get them off to a fresh start in life.

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

[Yaelle]

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.

These people would be forced to write large checks to themselves.

[MNJohnnie]

Intresting backgroun info on the author of this article.

http://www.intheagora.com/archives/2006/06/aps_erin_texeir.html

AP's Erin Texeira Strikes Again

One of the top stories yesterday, at least in terms of distribution, is Erin Texeira's Associated Press article titled, "Immigration Debate Stirs Racial Tensions." The story carries an ominous warning that public discussions about immigration policy are causing a rise in racism.

A few of the cases cited are dispicable, even if it's not racially motivated, but based upon a handful of such anecdotal stories Texeira wants us to believe racism is rapidly gaining ground. Yet no where in the article does Texeira offer any objective evidence, such as statistics or studies, that would lead us to believe it's true.

Texeira is a member of the "narrative journalism movement" which seeks to report through stories and narratives. Narrative is acceptable and can be quite powerful, but if we're going to label them "news," such stories must still be supported by objective facts.

Texeira's foundationless reporting might be excusable if she didn't already have a history of it. In a story for the Los Angeles Times Texeira wrote that Filipinos were disproportionately favored for government positions and contracts in Carson, California.

But like the story above on alleged Asian harrassment, Texeira relied on a narrative technique that lacked objective evidence. Instead of concrete quotes and statistics Texeira hides behind words like "critics," "observers," "analysts" and "sources" without mentioning them by name. As one concerned reader wrote, Texeira's article is "shoddy journalism at best and rank racism at worst."

A brief search reveals that a signficant number of her stories are narratives on racial tension. For such a controversial, sensitive topic, one would hope the copy editors demand more substance from reporters. Erin once wrote that she is "of brown skin" and her racial identity is "complicated." But her own racial confusion should not manifest itself in confusing "news articles" that are simply powerful narratives.

[goldstategop]

We never hear liberals offer reparations. As usual every one else should pay. And its not cute!

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

[goldstategop]

I guess little Erin's the self-appointed Media Racism cop. No wonder her article reads like liberal agitprop instead of a straight news story. Racial reparations isn't gaining momentum. Even the Democrats, who can be stupid are not that suicidal (yet) by endorsing what amounts to a massive racial wealth transfer scheme. Its going to become a reality when pigs can fly.

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)

[cowtowney]

LOL. That's the funniest scene. He makes me howl.

[Yaelle]

Not bad at all.

[boop]

This is so offensive. When we are born, it is basically a clean slate for us. Yes, some people are born to smart, rich, handsome parents, and yes, it can be an incredible hardship to be born with handicaps, but it is the beauty of America that we all have the opportunity to make something of ourselves. It is the epitome of injustice to force someone to pay for wrong doing by their ancestors. There is no reason for this debate. The consensus is: slavery is bad. That's why it was outlawed 140 years ago. If we really want to have this debate, let's subtract the cost of black-committed crime from the reparations price tag. My grandpa was robbed at gunpoint by a black perp in 1973. I've got a much more legitimate claim for some kind of reparations than someone who is simply born black.

[cowtowney]

"They will never take a dime of my money."

I believe Nancy Pelosi will take and distribute yours. You'll get a thank you note. It's in the mail.

[goldstategop]

Liberals all inherit responsibility for thinking the worst of their country. Now if only they would fess up, we'd get somewhere. Even from a woman coincidentally named after one of this decade's most destructive hurricanes.

(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)