[TomServo]

"Giving people money will not solve the problems that we have."

Not now - not ever.

[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.

[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.)

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[popdonnelly]

Time for the MSM to dust off an old idea?

[oldcomputerguy]

"Slavery Reparations Gaining Momentum"

Bwhahahahahhahahahahah!!!

[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?

[ArcadeQuarters]

Reparations have already been paid in the form of affirmative action and "civil rights" laws. Blacks can improve their situation only by leaving the liberal plantation.

[Budge]

I'm all for giving money as repatriations...provided the person was alive prior to the Civil War and can prove they were indeed slaves.

Otherwise, forget it.

[OnRightOnLeftCoast]

Reparations?

[quadrant]

Of all the useless groups in this country, the Episcopal Church is at the top of the list.
A commission in North Carolina recommends compensation. No doubt the group was stacked with cranks from Chapel Hill and Duke.

[RightWingAtheist]

All I can think of is that Family Guy episode where Peter discovers that one of his ancestors was a slave, sues everyone for reparations, and then blows the money on converting the living room into a replica of Pee-Wee's Playhouse.