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?
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.
Untrue. The Arabs of the north have enslaved the Africans of the south.
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."
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!
Same here:
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.
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.
yes- 16%
no- 84%
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