[ElkGroveDan]

Nothing left for me to say here. Clearly, Davis has lost his marbles.

[antaresequity]

"I'm sorry there was slavery . . . but where does it end?" said Parkhurst, a registered independent voter. "I mean, except for murder, isn't there supposed to be a statute of limitations on crime? This is 150 years, or more."

Typical liberal...assumes slavery was illegal...it wasn't...until after the civil war and if they want to try an find those who practiced slavery beyond the war...go right ahead...they are barking up a fruitless tree...

By the way...what is the legal basis for repirations? Slavery was not illegal, so no crime. Are they suggesting a massive civil action?

[rockfish59]

like i said before, why don't the guilty, white lib/commies rally all the rappers with their big money and call it 'RAPERATIONS'?
i'm sure they can also pimp their ho's for some extra franklin's too!

[Hugin]

Brown and Jackson have suggested reparations should not go to individuals but to "a major Marshall Plan-type program" to finance community groups and nonprofits that help black neighborhoods.

Right. Raise everybody's insurance rates and give it to the extortionist grifters like Jesse Jackson. Wouldn't want any reparations to actually get anyone out of poverty.

[SunStar]

"(Davis) was appearing with Jesse Jackson, and he's fallen into taking a position out of the mainstream because he didn't want to offend him. It sounds like a remarkably undisciplined campaign trail mistake by the professional politician in this race."

Translation: The "political newcomer" Bill Simon will be elected Governor in November.

[nina0113]

Go Gray! Say it loud & say it proud!

While Bill Simon thanks God on his knees for this gift.

[Ohioan]

When Gov. Gray Davis suggested that he supports reparations to minorities for slave-era business practices, he took a risky position that could prove unpopular with many voters as he seeks re-election.

That is how the San Francisco Chronicle describes the idea that one generation owes those, who were socially in an undesirable position in another time, reparations: a risky position?!

The idea that one class of persons owes another anything in the present because of historic relations, in an other time span between the ancestors of the one group and the other, is not a risky position. It is pure Communist lunacy. It starts with the premise that those who have achieved owe those who have not, purely because we are all human. The presupposition is some sort of universal common collective duty. It is a purer distillation of Communist theory than anything the actual Marxists or Bolsheviks ever tried to implement. It is redolent of some of the worst excesses of Chairman Mao, after he went partially insane.

I used to think that the references to California's Governor as "Red Davis," were hyperbole. But no more! The man would be truly dangerous if he were not apparently on the way out. I admit that it is not this Ohioans call, but "California Governor Simon" sounds better by the moment.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[mercy]

ROFLMAO!!!!

This guy is Governor Moon Beam II. He's a dead duck. (politically speaking of course)

[Chi-townChief]

It amazes how these guys will troll for votes. Davis reminds me of our Illinois governor George Ryan's anti-death penalty and pro-Castro pimping that he mistakenly thought would get him back in the game.

[Bob J]

Davis hands Simon the club with which hwe will be bludgeoned over the head with until election day. Davis may have just lost he election by appearing with jackson, who I'm sure insisted that Davis comment on reparations to get the photo op. If Davis supports this statement, he will lose about 50% of the dem vote, including all the hispanics and asians (they know that no matter what Davis says about including them, they will on the floor at Jacksons reparations fiesta waiting for crumbs to fall from the table) and if he backs away, will have Jesse Hijack-son and the Rainbow Extort-a matic calling for his head.

This was an incredibly dumb move for a seasoned non-african politician.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

It looks like Davis has driven out anyone in his organization who might talk sense to him. Either he doesn't listen to anyone around him who tells him that reparations are crazy, or there is no one around who tells him that. Remember that the Jim Jones death cult was based in Demoncrat SF Bay, that is why a congressman from that area was in Jonestown. It seems that the Davis campaign has become a Kool Aid drinking political suicide cult.

[Jimmy Valentine]

huge campaign funds or not, this tells me Davis is in big trouble with his poll numbers and knows it. He's trying to pander to every body that may have a vote.

Look for him to endorse the people from Mecha next.

Regards

[Enterprise]

Well, if he is having a fit of consciousness, I suggest a good beginning would be to advocate a movement to start giving money back to the hard working people that he and other leftist garbage eating RATS have stolen via a criminal extortion they euphemastically label as "taxes."

[Sloth]

Good friggin' grief. Reparations? Davis has been drinking lighter fluid or something. I think the man is seriously unstable.

[connectthedots]

How about a song called " In Desperation" done to the tune of "Infatuation"?

[MarineDad]

Californians Call for Stupidity Reparations from their foremost offender and gifted governor.

[M Kehoe]

Mr. Simon is a lucky man. Red Davis continues to self-immolate.

5.56mm

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"African American people have been systematically and consistently wronged in this nation and exploited economically," Brown said. "We were forced to do labor without pay and built this nation. It's time for this nation to pay up."

The slavery issue sounds good until you realize the price that was paid to end in America a practice which started in antiquity and exists in Africa today. According to Sowell, the price in blood ammounted to one death for every 6 slaves emancipated--and the price in treasure compares with the value of the labor of the slaves. Cold comfort, undoubtedly, for those enslaved--but there is no residual slavery "equity" claim which I, 3 generations after the fact, can respect.

The more respectable but far less dramatic case would be for post-emancipation abuses. But if you factor in the half of the Great "Society" (great government, in liberals' conceit) program paid in the name of the black half of the 'poor,' even that bill is--on the input side, "paid in full."

Brown and Jackson have suggested reparations should not go to individuals but to "a major Marshall Plan-type program" to finance community groups and nonprofits that help black neighborhoods.

I emphasized the input side of the ledger precisely because the scheme for the enjoyment of this boodle does not compare favorably with the disaster Johnson called the "Great Society" program. And that is the way "reparations" should be dismissed--it is merely a call for Great Society II--"we didn't learn a thing."

[pepsionice]

To add a bit of wood to this fire...is Davis aware that there were literally tens of thousands of English, French, and German people forced to come to the colony in the 1600 and 1700's as indentured servents? What reparations are you handing to these peoples? Oh, you cannot track who exactly they were....so you can't pay them reparations....hmmm....isn't that quiet the same problem with descendents of black slaves? There are actually slaves who were freed within one generation after arriving in the colonies....and this dates back to the 1640's. So we can establish that some blacks were freed men from 1640 until 1865. I find it amusing that the idiots who push reparations have no background in history...they all seem to have watched Roots and Uncle Toms Cabin, and little else. They probably have not read anything relating to US history in their entire life.

[redrock]

"If we are elevated, our elevation will have been accomplished through our own instrumentality... No people who has solely depended upon aid from others ever stood forth in the attitude of freedom."
- Frederick Douglass

Sometimes......people forget that we are each responsible for our own lives.

redrock

[Walkin Man]

Connerly said that if Democrats support reparations to African Americans, they open the door to reparations for those who profit from illegal immigration today -- a move that could cost the state billions.

Oh yeah! If this BS "reparations" scam comes to pass, the trial lawyers will have the poor illegal Mexicans up next with their hands out for a massive amount of cash from California farms and businesses, if there are any left!