[AmericaUnited]

The plaintiffs of each and every reparations lawsuit should be slapped with a "frivolous lawsuit" fine.

That would be a good and fitting way to quickly keep these gold-digging lottery players from getting out of hand.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Money gained from the suits would go into a fund to improve health, housing, education and general welfare for the African-American community.

REDISTRIBUTE the WEALTH anb it still wont be enough they will still want us not to exist it will be a isriel/palestine conflict all over again ecept with different players

[Judith Anne]

More self-aggrandizing attorneys. This is insane. Maybe we should bring back slavery, so that there is something to complain about. That would make as much sense as reparations.

I'll sign up to be a slave. But I'm not worth much--I'm getting old and I'm sassy, you'd have to beat me to death to get much work out of me, anyway.

[knarf]

"Farmer Paellmann, who said she went to law school specifically to build a case that would win slavery reparations, recalls her grandfather telling her the story of his grandmother's escape from slavery."

"This is money that they should not be able to keep. By keeping it, it just continues the cycle of unjust enrichment," she said."

Some equally motivated barrister should be on this like white on rice.

A black woman goes to law school for the specific purpose of getting money from someone she doesn't know, or has ever worked for, and justifies her pre-meditated malice with a concept of 'unjust enrichment'.

Whom is being unjustly enriched here?

This is truly insane that we have allowed our country to have been degraded to such a low degree, that this kind of $h!t is even thought of, let alone coming into a court.

[RightOnline]

They'll be bounced out of court so fast the courtrooms will resemble racquetball courts more than courts of law.

[CasearianDaoist]

Hey my Great-granddad fought at Shiloh. I DEMAND A REBATE!!

[prognostigaator]

I bought a slave once. But my wife divorced me.

[Jethro Tull]

They'll get the money.

It's just a matter of when...

[wretchard]

The arabs colonized Spain for 800 years. The muslim Tatars extracted tribute from Russians for nearly 250 years. The muslims invaded India and occupied large parts of it for 800 years. Americans of Spanish, Russian and Indian extraction should sue the Nation of Islam for reparations. In fact, anyone with a historical grievance should sue the griever.

The whole point of the exercise should be to create such a web of lawsuits that the whole thing becomes absurd.

[primeval patriot]

Money gained from the suits would go into a fund to improve health, housing, education and general welfare for the African-American community.

But I thought we already spent a trillion dollars on the Great Society. That wasn't enough?

[leadpenny]

. . . demanding corporate America pay an estimated $1.4 trillion . . .

jj has got to be licking his crooked upper lip and hoping for a big cut on this one.

[DugwayDuke]

"Money gained from the suits would go into a fund to improve health, housing, education and general welfare for the African-American community."

As I've stated countless times, individual African-American's won't see a nichel of this money even if successful. The money will go to people like Jackson and Sharpton to spend, wisely no doubt, on the behalf of African Americans.

[Caipirabob]

She has the look of a Lotto winner.

[RightWinger]

"They earned money through the exploitation of my ancestors," said one of the plaintiffs

That's right, you idiot, your ancestors, not you!
You have actually benefited from the slavery of your ancestors, you deserve nothing.

[Kerberos]

"Farmer-Paellmann said she has documents showing the role of at least 60 companies in the slave trade."

That's notice for. "There will be more of these actions coming."

[Caipirabob]

The only real solution to this mess is the unspeakable.

...but now, the unspeakable is not only becomming feasible, but preferable.

When people become so much a threat to the quality of your life and the potential for you to live in peace and freedom, you are compelled to defend that which you have strived so hard to build and protect. People need to resist the drive for wealth redistribution via litigation. It is one of the major roads to tyranny.

[peteram]

This is a classic example of ENTITLEMENT mentality. Well, she and the rest are entitled to NOTHING - SQUAT! For crying out loud! She was able to earn a LAW DEGREE! No slave 100 years ago would have ever had that opportunity. Why doesn't she put it to better use?

OK, so you want 1.4 Trillion spread out for the enrichment of your race? Fine. Let's give it to them, then yank out every social and government funded/tax-supported program out there. Jeez, they really want a free ride. What a bunch of lazy asses.

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[Flyer]

I suppose that the African-Africans that sold people into slavery have no culpabilty in this.

. . . or they don't have $1.4 trillion.

[RightOnline]

"The other suits were filed by Andre Carrington, a city transit worker, and Mary Lacey Madison, a 91-year-old activist."

This is my personal favorite.

[flash forward a year.....] "Ms. Madison, congratulations on your court victory. Here's your reparations check of $10,000. The rest of the billions will go to the Jackson Uplift My Account Society."

Ms. Madison replies [insert shriveled old crone voice here] "Why.........thank you, sonny. Victory is sw.......swe.....................aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh whump!!!!"

[Kerberos]

"African-Americans filed three landmark class-action lawsuits yesterday,"

Landmark lawsuits in that they are the most stupid lawsuits ever filed.