Staple Singers' anthem a call for civil rights and reparations

WBEZ-FM ^ | August 24, 2013 | Alison Cuddy

[2ndDivisionVet]

What was all that money we spent on welfare and other assistance?

[Mastador1]

Sorry, first generation here, I don’t owe anyone squat. If they want reparations for slavery let them go to the source, African tribes and the muslims, or maybe they want to go the route of some freed slaves and become slave owners themselves.

[doc1019]

Never enough.

[Secret Agent Man]

600,000 dead white folks got you free.

you pissed away a trillion plus dollars the last fifty years

gravy train over.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

The work described sounds a lot like what my German and Scots Irish ancestors did.

[Rodney Dangerfield]

“You didn’t build that...”

[doc1019]

There are few ‘groups’ of people in the world that were not slaves of some other group at some point in history. They all got over it and moved on ... not so the blacks in the US.

I blame this on the US Government. Because of liberal white guilt, we have given our poor black brothers everything and required nothing ... our mistake.

[MasterGunner01]

When will blacks be paid? Six hundred thousand Americans paid for black freedom over 1861-1865. As for reparations — for what? My mother’s parents immigrated from Sweden and never owned a slave. On my dad’s side, two uncles fought for the Union (they paid their dues).

None of the people who owned slaves are alive today. None of those who were slaves are alive today. America doesn’t owe black parasites squat. Get over it.

[A_Former_Democrat]

In my lifetime, you’ve hardly done squat

[beelzepug]

My mother came over fron England in the 1920s. I guess that means the Italians owe my family some reparations since the Romans enslaved all their conquered people, right?

Enough is enough and too much is plenty. Time to wipe that slate clean.

[dfwgator]

My ancestors are from Poland, I could make millions off of Russians and Germans if I sued them.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Yes.......Obama’s Muslim forebears in Kenya, Africa were the slave mechants that chained & sold African natives into Middle Eastern, European & American slavery. Your original slaves masters were Africans that looked just like Obama!!!

[JSteff]

My fathers parents emigrated from Germany to escape living under a Nazi government. Mothers parents preceded my fathers by 2 generations. So I am 1st gen American. And so misses pointer sister, no one ever grew food or cooked for me but family. German family.... so shove it.

[Impy]

We worked this country From shore to shore Our women cooked all your food We worked this country From shore to shore Our women cooked all your food And washed all your clothes We picked cotton and laid the railroad steel Worked our hands down to the bone at your lumber mill

Um no, dead people worked for other dead people. You had jack to do with it, I had jack to do with it, I don't have a damn lumber mill. I'm not giving you jack unless you send your granddaughters to come here and cook my food and wash my clothes.

[Windflier]

My great great grandfather was born in 1850. He was black, but he was never a slave. Neither was anyone in my family after 1865.

Yet some black people want the federal government to steal the earned wealth from whites, and give it to me and my family members for something none of us ever endured.

So-called black ‘leaders’ would do well to tell the children to go out and earn their own, because they’re never going to collect reparations from people who’ve done nothing to harm them.

[GeronL]

well said

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

My father remembers horrible signs in the neighborhood, like: No Irish or Dogs Allowed. Where do I go for my reparations?

[GeronL]

my dad picked cotton as a child! We must be owed a lot.

[onyx]

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[onyx]

God bless and keep you and everyone you love, my dear, treasured pal.