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.
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..
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.
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 ;)
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.
Couldn't welfare be considered slavery reparations?
Why am I not suprised?
The democrats should pay, because Jim Crow laws were passed solely by democrats both north and south.
After the credits for all the social spending the last 40 years, they will owe the country.
It will never happen but I hope the democratics runs with this idea :)
When my church decides to give money I have donated to reparations they have received the last friggin dime I will ever give them. They better find a new way to keep the doors open.
My government already gives reparations. Isnt that why we are rebuilding Chocolate City/ Why we have affirmative action jobs? Why we lower standards to hire blacks?