Posted on 07/09/2006 11:16:25 AM PDT by TomServo
From John Valentine:
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.
This is a can of whup-ass that we shouldn't even think about opening.
Let's *all* raid the US treasury and get our reparations! Crank up the printin' presses, Uncle Sam, I'm a-comin' to town!
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.
Get over it.
Don't try to confuse the man! I wants my check and I wants it now! :)
Ah, so you remember that Movie ?
"My people were in Ireland and were poorer that US slaves at the time".
Just think of how our ancestors were treated by various invaders, and especially the Brits. We, too, are due reparations, but from the British government. Show me the money.
What about African Americans who immigrated in this century and are now citizens? Do they get reparations too? What about Polish Americans who immigrated in this century and are now citizens? Do they pay reparations too? What about families whose ancestors fought and died for the Union Army? Do they pay too?
In all cases, the answer must come down to this: What is the color of your skin?
That's all the "liberals" know.
I think we have paid through the nose already.. we've been throwing money at them in the form of social programs for decades, and it has only made it worse for them. what we need is to help them come out of that victimhood cocoon that's keeping them from realizing their dreams. as long as the race pimps keep them ignorant and play to their color with hatred and payback crap, they will never emerge break the shackles of political slavery.
I guess the fact that I'm descended from abolitionists (and proud of it) just doesn't matter. All that matters is the color of my skin. Racism (pejorative tagging based on the color of one's skin) lives on in the 21st centery. Shocking.
Give them all the money they want...then the Treasury will bill them from these funds for all costs incurred: welfare and medi-cal, since say...hummm 1940s. The U.S. reserve is bound to gain funds and we will hear NO MORE of this absurdity.
A little formula for y'all:
Welfare + AFDC + subsidized mass transit + affirmative action = reparations paid in full.
The fact that some were too stupid to capitalize on these gifts from the taxpayers is their own problem and an object lesson for others (which is ignored by most because they are lazy).
" Katrina Browne, the white Episcopalian filmmaker.... "We all inherit responsibility."
Speak for yourself, you misguided dropped-on-the-head-at-birth delusional apologist.
To repeat what I said on the other thread:
Aw geez, not this sh*t again,,,,,,,,,
No you don't, but you can compensate everyone here of British and French descent for the slavery imposed on them by the Romans.....:-)
The race whores keep working this issue, trying to convince somebody -- anybody -- that it is succeeding. It's like the ERA, a stupid, useless idea that has no popular support, but that won't be permitted the anonymous death it deserves.
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