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KCAL POLL Are the 35 million descendants of African slaves entitled to reparations?
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Posted on 03/26/2002 9:13:11 PM PST by US_MilitaryRules

KCAL POLL

Are the 35 million descendants of African slaves entitled to reparations?


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To: US_MilitaryRules
Thanks, I did my part and voted. I also voiced my opinion. This insanity needs to stop and the media needs to stop bringing it to the forefront. It's an idiotic idea and I will have no part of it, except when the big corporations give in and the costs are passed on to us, the consumer.
41 posted on 03/26/2002 11:29:49 PM PST by StayoutdaBushesWay
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To: US_MilitaryRules
I agree with the concept. Descendents should be help financially accountable.

So, I would like blacks to reimburse me for the pain and suffering that my Yankee family went thru while fighting for blacks to be freed from slavery.

$10,000? $100,000 $1,000,000 How can you put a price on freedom?

Lets just say everyone who is black chips in around $5,000. Seems fair.

42 posted on 03/26/2002 11:50:43 PM PST by TheLooseThread
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To: Orion
Unbelievable. And you are probably right. The Stupid Party will never relinquish their reputation for stepping on their own tallywackers.
43 posted on 03/27/2002 12:35:04 AM PST by 43for8
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To: TheLooseThread
I want money too - GIMME, GIMME, GIMME...
44 posted on 03/27/2002 12:39:57 AM PST by Colosis
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To: antidemocommie
Not any more then all whites are decendents of KKK members. F em.
45 posted on 03/27/2002 12:46:30 AM PST by Joe Boucher
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To: 4ourprogeny
In Sudan master and slave are of the same skin pigmentation.

Untrue. The Arabs of the north have enslaved the Africans of the south.

46 posted on 03/27/2002 1:00:35 AM PST by happygrl
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To: farmfriend
It is 79-21 at 5:15AM, there is also a email "opinion" link above the poll, and they got a rare one from me this morning! Blackbird.
47 posted on 03/27/2002 1:16:01 AM PST by BlackbirdSST
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To: happygrl
The cost of slavery to this nation was paid for in blood.

Excerpts from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address:

"On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war...One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war;

The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to him? Fondly do we hope--fervently do we pray--that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn by the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations."

48 posted on 03/27/2002 1:21:47 AM PST by happygrl
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To: US_MilitaryRules
Well darnit, if they're gettin' reparations, I darn well want part-o-de-pie.

As a Christian I want reparations for the Crucifiction of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Yeah, I know it was part of God's plan and all, but that's not the point. I was deprived because *fill-in-the-blank* and this has impacted my economical situation because *fill-in-the-blank*.

Now, who do I dig up and where do I start digging? I figure this is worth at least a "fahn" new lex-sus. Any Romans out there speak up ...and bring your wallet!

49 posted on 03/27/2002 1:36:23 AM PST by Caipirabob
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To: Cinnamon Girl
"Does Halle Berry's mother have to pay Halle Berry's father?"...............excellent!
50 posted on 03/27/2002 1:41:48 AM PST by Rustynailww
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To: BlackbirdSST
there is also a email "opinion" link above the poll,

Same here:

Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 5:43 AM
Subject: reparations

Dreadful devisive idea.
My grandfather fought for the Confederates- but hated slavery. I have read his own words to that effect.
My wife's people were in Germany until 1920- what do they owe? To whom?
JR

51 posted on 03/27/2002 1:47:14 AM PST by backhoe
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To: US_MilitaryRules
"Show me the money" too . . . for the transgressions to my ancestors.
52 posted on 03/27/2002 1:56:31 AM PST by RightWinger
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To: happygrl
Untrue. The Arabs of the north have enslaved the Africans of the south.

46 posted on 3/27/02 5:00 AM Eastern by happygrl

Read much? The ARAB MUSLIMS are enslaving ARAB CHRISTIANS. In Southern Africa, warring tribes still enslave each other.
In Southern Africa, they are slaughtering white people daily. Put a price on that.
In Africa, it was warring or rival tribes who SOLD each other to brokers, who were mostly Arabs, to BE sold elsewhere.
Arab countries with Christian minorities either kill them or keep them in enclaves, oppressed and terrified.
We change our own history and future through the use of laws. There was a time when children of all colors and ethnicities were worked at slave wages and worse. It doesn't happen any more in the USA, and neither does enslavement of your fellow man. In the USA, all that enslaves anyone is the state of one's mind.

53 posted on 03/27/2002 2:31:43 AM PST by Nix 2
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To: Nix 2
No, do you KNOW much ? I assure you, I know what I am talking about, having lived in that part of the world, both in North Africa and in Southern Africa. In the Sudan, the northerners are ARAB MUSLIMS and the southerners are AFRICAN (black) CHRISTIANS.

I thought I was being civil in my corrective post to you, but I see that you are one of those posters who enjoys being antagonistic, rather than informative.

54 posted on 03/27/2002 3:42:05 AM PST by happygrl
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To: Nix 2; 4ourprogeny
Whoops ! I see that Nix 2 was only picking up on 4ourprogeny's post. But my comment to you Nix 2 still stands. Don't start off your post with an insult where none was called for.
55 posted on 03/27/2002 3:50:25 AM PST by happygrl
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To: US_MilitaryRules
Voted!

yes- 16%

no- 84%

56 posted on 03/27/2002 10:12:51 AM PST by Jorge
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To: AnnaZ
Ah, come on, take it in the spirit it was given in. Do you really think slave reparations to slaves are just?
57 posted on 03/27/2002 2:59:44 PM PST by TheDon
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