Slavery Reparations Gaining Momentum

AP ^ | July 09, 2006 | ERIN TEXEIRA

[goldstategop]

The Drive By Media's screeds live in a parallel universe. They never allow reality to enter their liberal cocoon. Which is why Erin Teixeira can write such complete Barbara Streisand on the subject of race and reparations. I bet you outside the circles she's acquainted with, she knows nothing about what real Americans think on those issues. Now that's what I call the hallmark of the lazy journalist.

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

[GingisK]

Retributions were paid in full by the soldiers who died and were maimed to get rid of slavery way back in the Civil War. Payment in full has been rendered.

[Anvilhead]

"Let's not tax the average black American with the sins of Jesse and the other race pimps."

Needs to be said again.

[ArrogantBustard]

I would agree that the DNC owes reparations.

Absurd! Please identify the current members of the DNC who own slaves, ever owned slaves, or currently advocate the owership of slaves.

Oh, yes. You can't. There aren't any.

"Group guilt" is wrong even when applied to the enemy.

[SmoothTalker]

I think reparations are well deserved. Anyone who was enslaved should be paid reparations collected from their masters. So if we can find some 160 year old black former slaves, we should make sure their 180 year old former masters pay them what they are due for their labor. That is fine with me.

[SmoothTalker]

I really don't get the line of thinking that says someone should be paid for something that didn't happen to them by someone who didn't do it to them. Heck nobody alive's parents even owned slaves and the vast majority of those alive didn't have great grand parents who owned slaves. Holding people responsable for the sins of 150 years ago is beyond stupid and would set a really dangerous precident. Go back far enough and everyone is from a group that has either done something bad, or had something bad done to them. Most of us have blood from both types in us.

[SmoothTalker]

"The Episcopalians also launched a national, yearslong probe into church slavery links and into whether the church should compensate black members."

Of course they should. Every living black the church has held as a slave should get a tremendous amount of compensation.

[Eagles Talon IV]

Geez, ya think he meant it that way? NAH!!

[Continental Soldier]

What will reparations do for those who receive it? Will it turn them into first class citizens? Will it infuse them with a work ethic? Will it make them civic minded? Will it reduce crime in their neighborhoods and in the country? Will it stimulate initiative toward hard work and prosperity? Will it foster a deeper patriotism and committment to America? If so, count me in; I'm for it!

[Danette]

Notice how this comes out before elections?

It's demorats giving false hope for votes to keep blacks on the plantation....then after they're voted in, the story goes away until the next elections.

[sourcery]

How many people (free or slave) who were alive then are still alive.?

Almost certainly none. I got that point the first time. And I realize that was your point.

However, my point is that even if such slaves were still living, the Federal government would owe them nothing--unlike some of the State governments, who would likely be bankrupted, were they forced to pay what they owed to a large population of living persons whose condition of slavery was institutionalized, enforced and mandated by State laws (and not by Federal laws--as evidencded by the fact that whether or not slavery was practiced differed among the several States.)

[Pravious]

"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?
No you don't, but you can compensate everyone here of British and French descent for the slavery imposed on them by the Romans.....:-)"

On my mother's side I'm Welsh and Scottish - does that mean I can pay myself reparations? -- what a relief! :-)

[popdonnelly]

Time for the MSM to dust off an old idea?

[NCC-1701]

And don't forget that slavery started in Africa. Stronger tribes raided and enslaved weaker tribes. Somewhere along the line, the smell of cash came wafting into their lnad and they started selling their slaves. It got to be a very lucrative and those tribes needed more merchandise until they themselves became slaves. Of course, that was a looooooong time before we got into the game.

If the blacks of today want reperations, let them go after the decendents of those original enslavers. Let Je$$e Skaedown and the good Rev Al go after them. Then come and see us. See how far they get.

[oldcomputerguy]

"Slavery Reparations Gaining Momentum"

Bwhahahahahhahahahahah!!!

[livius]

If the blacks of today want reperations, let them go after the decendents of those original enslavers.

Most of them were Arab Muslim slave raiders who then sold them to Europeans (as they had captured and sold Europeans to Middle Easterners only a century before). I don't think Rev Al has even the faintest chance of getting a dime out of the Arabs.

[OnRightOnLeftCoast]

=== The penalty for slavery has been paid in full by the blood of two hundred and fifty thousand men on battlefields such as Gettysburg, Pea Ridge, Shiloh and others ===

Civil War nearly 500,000

--BATTLE OF ANTIETAM--September 17, 1862--Dead in one day

2,108 (Union)

2,700 (Confederate)

Hey, while we are at it, let's take this to its logical extension, with a sense of fairness. By DNA linkage or documentation, reparations will be funded by the Descendants of:

Tribes selling slaves in Africa.

Arab governments/slave traders in the business over many hundreds of years, including present day.

Black slave owners here.

White slave owners.

Those serving in the Confederate Army.

Any company, newspaper and group aiding Confederate causes.

Any known Democrat since the start of the Civil War.

Any known present and future Democrat since they continue to abide by the Marxist plot of 'Divide and Conquer, and the scheme to keep blacks on the 'Democrat Plantation' for votes.

All Klan and Skinheads.

Any company, group, newspaper that supports the Left.

Illegal aliens.

Exemptions:

Those serving in the Union Army.

Any company, newspaper group supporting the Union cause.

Individuals operating the Underground Railroad.

Known Republicans.

Legal aliens entering the U.S. after the Civil Way.

American Indians.

Now that this absurdity is sorted out, we should be able to clear this up in about, oh say, 300-400 years.

Once eligibility is determined, "victims" will be issued this card for lifetime entitlements (example shown below):

\SARCASM

[OnRightOnLeftCoast]

Left out: Income tax deducted.

Illegal Alien Entitlement Tax assessment.

[Nowhere Man]

I'm part Russian Jew, I demand reparations against the Russians for the two villages that were burned out from under my great grandmother by the cossacks. /sarc>

Seriously, if we start here, where will it end?

[OnRightOnLeftCoast]

Nice concept, but is doomed from the start.

As before, they will be brow-beaten for "acting too white."