Slavery Reparations Gaining Momentum

AP ^ | July 09, 2006 | ERIN TEXEIRA

[sourcery]

I think the government should offer reparations

Which government? The culpability in this matter of the State of South Carolina (for example) and that of the US Federal government are quite different.

[sgtbono2002]

Every year or so they bring up this same BS. It gets tiring and it isnt going anywhere. Dont we have enough trouble with hispanics invading us without blacks constantly trying to get another freebie?

Most blakcs in this country are doing damned well now and the ones that arent doint well are siting on their duffs.

[sgtbono2002]

Every year or so they bring up this same BS. It gets tiring and it isnt going anywhere. Dont we have enough trouble with hispanics invading us without blacks constantly trying to get another freebie?

Most blacks in this country are doing damned well now and the ones that arent doing well are sitting on their duffs.

[GOP Jedi]

I would support reparations as part of a package deal that includes a Constitutional amendment that makes all laws and organizations dedicated to promoting African Americans and equal opportunity unconstitutional. After all, if America pays them back for past ills, they, by definition, have no further cause for complaint.

Short of that, they'll just get right back on the "you owe us" bus. (And by "they" I mean the idiots pimping this idea, not all American blacks.)

[CindyDawg]

I read somewhere that tribes raided tribes and sold to slave ships. Are they going to go after the blacks in Africa too?

[ma bell]

I thought this is unbelievable, blacks are looking for more handouts. What more do they want, non-blacks to report to work for them and do their job?

Get over it, move on and quit whining and revising history to satisfy your own doings and misfortunes.

The Jesse Jacksons of the world will be feasting on this finding. By the way, OAS going back to nearly 100 years to "sue the USA" for crimes against humanity?

They better be careful what they wish for, they don't have a leg to stand on if they expect to call the kettle black

[TET1968]

I think decendents of slaves should be compensated by pimps and dope dealers.

[Wil H]

I read somewhere that tribes raided tribes and sold to slave ships. Are they going to go after the blacks in Africa too?.. Where slavery is STILL practiced...

No that would be too logical.

[AZLiberty]

How many of the growing Latino population will want to help with reparations for the blacks who may or not be descendants of slaves? How many of the Africans who sold blacks into slavery will pay?

[Dallas59]

This is a joke?

[darthxenu]

I think the government should offer reparations Which government?

The culpability in this matter of the State of South Carolina (for example) and that of the US Federal government are quite different.

I doesn't matter if it's a state government or the Federal government. I said reparations should be paid to all living people who were slaves in 1863. How many people (free or slave) who were alive then are still alive.?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Moot? Hardly. I think you found the solution. Simply have every black American registered as a Dem write himself a check. Problem solved.

[EBH]

Will we get a full accounting of how deeply involved the blacks were in the capture and sale of their African tribal brothers? No.

Will I, whose family wasn't part of America until the late 20th century have to pay reparations? Not if I can help it.

[Military family member]

I have Native American ancestors, African-American ancestors, French Ancestors, British Ancestors, German Ancestors, Catholic Ancestors, protestant ancestors and even some Jewish ancestors, and more.

I'll make my own reparations. I've taken all the money out of my wallet and distributed it among my various pockets.

My soul is now at rest.

[Bean Counter]

Ain't

gonna

happen

period

[Renegade]

According to an article posted last week , everybody is related to everybody . So we are all black,yellow,red etc. and we ALL should get a piece of the rep pie .

[Hardastarboard]

My ancestors on two sides were enslaved by the Romans. In fact, Thomas Sowell says that the Romans thought the Britons of the era too stupid to make into slaves. I'm doubly insulted. I want reparations from the Italians, with 1,800 years interest.

That and my 4th grade teacher was an Italian B!tch (no connection there, for those of you of Italian heritage). I still struggle with long division and issues of self-esteem because of her. I'm sure she's dead by now (I had nothing to do with it, although in retrospect it wasn't a bad idea), so I want reparations from her children and grand-children.

[Go Army.com]

"Also in June, a North Carolina commission urged the state government to repay the descendants of victims of a violent 1898 campaign by white supremacists to strip blacks of power in Wilmington, N.C. As many as 60 blacks died, and thousands were driven from the city."

OK, in North Carolina since 1898, how many whites have been killed, raped or burglarized by blacks?

[Osage Orange]

I'm Indian..and live on a Rez.

Where's my $$$$$!?!?

Hehehe.......

[yoe]

It was Muslim Slave Traders that began the whole slave movement. If these less than black Negros think they have a case, let them seek reparations from the Arab world - not America.

Black Americans have their history so skewed it beggars description. It was MUSLIMS folks, the Black Man’s religion, that glorious religion of hate that Louis Farrakhan’s House of Islam represents that mostly created and profited by Slavery from the beginning and still profit by it today.