[US_MilitaryRules]

Do your part and vote.

[antidemocommie]

Are all blacks in America descendants of slaves?

[knak]

I'll gladly vote NO! I can't see any results though.

[brat]

BTTT

[TheDon]

I think the millions of descendants of slave owners are entitled to reparations. Slave owners received no compensation for their lost property.

[GeronL]

PC Newspeak: Reparations = "from those who never owned slaves to those who never were slaves"

Talk about destroying the meaning of words.

[GeronL]

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

First off there aren't 35 million, not all blacks are descended from slaves. Many of their families came to the US after the end of slavery, okay??

geesh

[Reagan Man]

Reparations harm people who never owned slaves and rewards people who never where slaves.

[farmfriend]

Poll

80%no
20%yes

[Cinnamon Girl]

Does Halle Berry's mother have to pay Halle Berry's father?

[power2]

My Irish great grandfather was essentially slave laborer in a coal mine. I think all Irish, Italian, German, Jewish, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, etc. immigrants to the US that were working to pay off the "company store" (i.e for nothing except food and housing)are also entitled to reparation. /sarcasm.

You folks whining because your 3rd generation ancestors were mis-treated: get over it, grow up, and learn to make it on your own.

Quit looking for a free ride on the backs of your relatives; they would be ashamed of you.

[bjcintennessee]

I sent an e-mail that asked several basic questions. The first question was what about the 4,000 blacks who, in 1830 owned some 12,600 other blacks?

Another question addressed the whites who faught and died for the union.

And what about the millions of southerners who never owned slaves?

It is unfair to use today's standards to a culture that existed over 150 years ago. To do so would also open the door for whites to sue for damages caused by the 'slave' wages paid by factory owners in the north. The owners of these factories became filthy rich by paying their workers less than a living wage.

Well, anyway, I sent them my opinionsssss.

[Bullish]

They should get a free gubmint' education.

Oh, wait, they already get that.

[BUSHdude2000]

Anybody who isn't familiar with David Horowitz's debate on the slavery reparations issue should visit frontpagemag.com. I have a copy of his book called Uncivil Wars. I highly recommend the book. It is a great way to refute the left when they talk about reparations. This is a farse, but the left is willing and ready to drag this country through the mud on the way to trying to get something for nothing. We have to fight this crap. Get the book, educate yourself and fight this one.

[wardaddy]

Once I get reimbursed for the Great Society, Reconstruction, Amalgamated costs of the societal ills brought on by the sizable underclass of Black Americans....then OK, I'll pay back 10 cents on the dollar ...just in the spirit of tolerance, diversity appreciaion, and my general good naturedness.

Fair enuff???....Halle Berry will have to only pay back 5% of course.

When we're finished there, I want those nasty Romans (Italians in modernspeak) to have to pay bigtime for enslaving my whatever-Goth ancestors. And there's more...my white trash ancestry has suffered the vilest of indignities from this country...especially from the media and Hollywood....remember Deliverance???.....I WANT TO GET PAID...BIGTIME....I'm calling Cochran right now....I'm sick of being opressed. I get double for being white trash ....and Southern..and Christian (when is the last time anybody saw a white trash southern christian portrayed positively by Hollywood???...see what I mean??)...yep....getback will be sweet revenge on those who've held my folks back...I tell ya.

And those nasty Brits....do they have any money??....I think they called my ancestors provincials...bad word...pay up you oppressive Limey colonizers!!!

[Squantos]

Well lets see if the citizens of St Louis give back the city to the mormons they openly put a bounty on and drove out of their homes way back when .........then I say we will have to give serious consideration to the 40 acres and a zebra issue........

< /sarcasm > My vote was no..........Stay Safe !

[StayoutdaBushesWay]

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.

[TheLooseThread]

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.

[Caipirabob]

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!

[RightWinger]

"Show me the money" too . . . for the transgressions to my ancestors.

[Jorge]

Voted!

yes- 16%

no- 84%