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My ancestors were held as serfs by European nobility in the Middle Ages. Where are my reparations?
1 posted on 08/28/2007 4:20:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Take over their areas and let them know what slavery is really all about.

I am SO tired of this sh*t.


58 posted on 08/28/2007 5:04:33 PM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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Very many white people died to FREE the slaves..
Whose decendants still live in the United States..
NO good deed goes UNpunished..
60 posted on 08/28/2007 5:05:23 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I want reparations for all the welfare money that I paid in.


62 posted on 08/28/2007 5:16:39 PM PDT by freekitty (May the eagles long fly over our beautiful and free American sky.)
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European and American countries that enslaved African people

WRONG - They were sold into slavery by their fellow Africans. The practice continues today!
66 posted on 08/28/2007 5:26:38 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mine were emancipated in 1863 too. By the Czar.

Where’s mine?


67 posted on 08/28/2007 5:28:01 PM PDT by Kozak
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I recently had my DNA checked, see here. Yup, Says I came from Africa. I want my free money, now!!
69 posted on 08/28/2007 5:39:13 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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My ancestors migrated here because of religious persecution. Where’s my reparations?


71 posted on 08/28/2007 5:43:09 PM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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Appropriate reparations, a one-way ticket to the African country of your choice.


73 posted on 08/28/2007 5:48:20 PM PDT by reg45
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, I do think the Democrat Party should pay reparations, since they were at the forefront of preserving slavery, implementing Jim Crow and opposing desegregation. Not to mention that the entire membership of the KKK was made up of Democrats.


74 posted on 08/28/2007 5:49:29 PM PDT by Maceman
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I tell you what, blacks sure like free money.


75 posted on 08/28/2007 5:50:00 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Our first responsibility is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
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What’s this we’ve got now? Who’s sending billions of dollars in “aid” to whom?


78 posted on 08/28/2007 5:55:07 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Gravity! It's not just a good idea, it's the law!)
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Clemenza to the "diaspora": (Fart, in your direction).
81 posted on 08/28/2007 6:11:54 PM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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European and American countries that enslaved African people and scattered them in the African Diaspora should pay reparations for their slave crimes.

Scientists tell us that humankind started in the African Garden of Eden. I am of Scandinavian decent, my ancestors would not have willingly left the life giving Garden of Eden for the frozen North. That leaves only one possibility, my ancestors were forcefully driven from the African Garden of Eden putting their lives in peril.

Putting my ancestors and their whole line of descendants at risk and forcing us into the frozen North lands means that I am owed big money reparations compounded monthly since the beginning of human life on Earth.

Just to show the kind of guy I am, I'm perfectly willing to donate 1% of my reparations toward reparations for the descendants of slaves.

86 posted on 08/28/2007 6:26:36 PM PDT by RJL
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Somebody needs to charge thes jokers for Atlantic passage.

Idiots, if not for the captivity of their ancestors, they wouldn't be alive today. Some other person would be alive and living in Africa somewhere, but it would not be them.

87 posted on 08/28/2007 6:32:26 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Search for Folding Project - Join FR Team 36120)
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If these people want reparations, they should first sue the descendants of the Muslim slave traders who had being raiding Africa and kidnapping and selling their unfortunate victims for hundreds of years before the beginning of the American slave trade.

Next, they should sue the descendants of the African tribal leaders who conspired with the Muslim criminals in these crimes to sell the victims to the British and other undesirables who brought the abomination of slavery to the Americas.

Don't come after me. The only plantations my ancestors were involved with were the potato plantations in Ireland.

I wonder how many people know that the Koran today still has Suras that deal with how an Islamic slave owner must deal with his slaves? Even the right of the slave to a portion of the owner's inheritance is spelled out in detail.

And since the Koran is alleged to be the word of Allah, it can never be amended or updated by humans. So don't look for a New Testament of the Islamic Faith.

Just remember, Islam is a religion of peace!

89 posted on 08/28/2007 6:50:04 PM PDT by StopGlobalWhining (Only 3 1/2-5% of atmospheric CO2 is the result of human activities. 95-96.5% is from natural sources)
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I agree. US blacks should get reparations from the people who enslaved them, the descendants of the Blacks who sold them to the slave traders.

The Whites (and just a few blacks) in the US already paid their repartions in the purchase price. The Whites who didn’t enslave have also paid their reparations in the casualties of the US War of the Rebellion.


91 posted on 08/28/2007 7:10:08 PM PDT by donmeaker (You may not be interested in War but War is interested in you.)
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I guess the $45 Billion dollars Bush gifted the African nations to fight aids doesn’t count huh...

That’s okay, our leaders are such soft touches, they’ll multiply that by 100, appoligize profusely and promise to give more.

Thank god for conservatives like these...


93 posted on 08/28/2007 7:31:33 PM PDT by DoughtyOne ((Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking its heritage.))
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"With song and the beating of drums, the African people in the Diaspora of the Caribbean Islands, set a stage for the critical discussions on what the European and American slave masters should do for their crimes of transporting millions of Africans across the Atlantic in the infamous Transatlantic slave trade which ended 200 years ago."

Think they'll be able to drum up some fancy juju that'll get 'em connected with the dead?

94 posted on 08/28/2007 7:37:46 PM PDT by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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Let me make it clear right up front: I am NOT a racist. I campaigned for and gave money to Alan Keyes. I considered him the most principled, intelligent and articulate man in the race. And if he ever runs again, I would probably support him again.

I also consider Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams two of the finest economists and minds extant today. In case you don’t know them, both are black.

Keyes, Sowell and Williams ALL oppose calls for reparations.

The modern descendants of slaves brought here in chains in admittedly miserable, soul-gutting conditions now calling for reparations need to remember something:

They should not only be glad to be in America, they should be glad to be ANYWHERE !

Had their ancestors NOT been brought OUT of Africa – many by Muslim slave raiders —the blood of those ancestors would have run into the earth over there several centuries ago, victims of the OTHER black tribes that captured them in one of the interminable tribal conflicts STILL ravaging that sad continent and these modern day would-be “plaintiffs” would not even exist.

And I would remind you that slavery is STILL practiced in parts of Africa (mainly by muslims) and Asia today.

95% of the African slaves who were transported across the Atlantic went to South and Central America, mainly to Portuguese, Spanish and French possessions, and that less than 5% of the slaves who crossed the Atlantic went to the United States, it was remarkable that the vast majority of academic research, films, books and articles concerning the slave trade concentrated only on the American involvement, as though slavery was a uniquely American aberration.

And should the great-great-great grandchildren of SLAVE OWNING BLACKS also be subject to PAYING these reparations? If so, how do we find THEM?

And I have traced MY family back to the SLAVS. For those who don’t know, that word means “slave.” Do I qualify for reparations? From whom??

The official US Census of 1830 lists 3,775 free blacks who owned 12,740 black slaves. Furthermore, the story outlines the history of slavery here, and the first slave owner, the Father of American slavery, was Mr Anthony Johnson, of Northampton, Virginia. His slave was John Casor, the first slave for life. Both were black Africans. The story is very readable, and outlines cases of free black women owning their husbands, free black parents selling their children into slavery to white owners, and absentee free black slave owners, who leased their slaves to plantation owners.
-”Selling Poor Steven”, American Heritage Magazine, Feb/Mar 1993 (Vol. 441) p 90

Of course, a full telling of Black History would not be complete without a telling of the origin of slavery in the Virginia colony:
Virginia, Guide to The Old Dominion, WPA Writers’ Program, Oxford University Press, NY, 1940, p. 378

And the holier-than-thou Northern liberals are strangely silent on recent archeological evidence from NEW YORK CITY clearly tracing the financing of the slave trade to NORTHERN BUSINESSMEN!!

Robert Hitt Neill tells of attending a Tennessee Mountain Writer’s Conference years ago with several other authors. Among them was Alex Hailey, celebrated author of “Roots.” Watching a TV news show, a group of them watched a demonstration in a Southern state against the “Rebel” flag incorporated into that state’s flag. The very next report covered a famine in Africa. Graphic images showed dead bodies, starving children with distended tummies and runny noses and dying people covered with flies, too weak to brush them away.

Mr. Hailey intoned in a low, serious voice, “Every time an American black sees a story like that, they should find a Confederate flag and kiss it.” He then pointed to the TV screen and continued, “Because these would be me and my descendants, except for American slavery. I thank God that my family and I are here instead of there.”

Next problem!


96 posted on 08/28/2007 7:56:40 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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African diaspora wants reparations for slavery

Don't hold yer breath!!

(As soon as we get paid back for billions paid out in Welfare; THEN we'll talk reparations!)

105 posted on 08/29/2007 5:57:05 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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