Posted on 05/10/2002 11:40:58 AM PDT by Mom_Grandmother
Self-contempt is more like it. When you refuse to accept yourself as God made you, you can't help but assume everyone else feels the way you do about yourself.
Not to say real racism doesn't exist, but these folks pushing for reparations are out of line. They need to forgive and move on before they waste their lives waiting for a handout while they could be earning an honest living like most people HAVE to.
In my courier job there are no shortage of black men and women. We all make a wage based on our performance reviews. You start at X amount and work up from there. It's that way for everyone.
Curiously, most of my co-workers are just to busy delivering packages to spend time whining for a handout.
Amen Brother...
In regard to "What did they steal...", look at every major city across the country and the shape it is in. If one does not want the label, do something other than trying to stifle the voices that state the truth...Instead of buying a new cadillac, buy a gallon or two of paint, other than neon blue, and a lawn mower, and tell the neighborhood kids to stop discarding trash on the side walks.
IOW, show a little respect for what you do have, and you'll finally see the way to get more without having to demand it.
JMHO...
SR
Thank you! ;-)
Especially if it's moving at a few hundred feet a second.
Dear Dr. Worrill,
I'm a white guy in my 30's. I own my own business, small, but honest. My forefathers are immigrants, and Native Americans. None of my family ever owned slaves. None of them ever asked for a government hand out, and none of my family ever once tried to make everyone else accountable for their welfare. This is the reason why I'm contacting you today.
As a small business owner, coming from a poor, and I mean dirt poor white family, I had to get everything in life myself. Nobody gave me anything that I didn't have to pay for. Can I say the same of you, or your people? The reason why I'm writing to you, is that reparations are in a word theft. Yes, that's right, Theft. Let me tell you about what kinds of theft are going to take place if reparations go through.
1. Millions of Americans who never owned slaves will have to kick in for reparations. Taxation without representation.
2. Millions of Africans who were never once slaves, who came to our country illegally, will probably get money fraudulently. Theft by deception.
3. Corporations who will be defrauded by Black Special Interest Groups seeking Reparations will bleed corporate America dry, and this will be passed down to consumers of all races. Theft by price gouging and Theft by deception.
4. Billions of welfare dollars spent on black families since it's inception will never be paid back to the American People. Government Theft.
5. By demanding reparations, you say to your people that they can't make it on their own, by their own means. You are indenturing them to another kind of slavery, one which they are enslaved to people of their own kind, whose sole aim is to steal, lie and cheat for money. This is what I call Theft of Dignity.
Your people were sold to the Spanish, and the English by tribal warlords from Africa. White people did not hunt black people down, net them and capture them like on TV's Wild Kingdom. I'm sure Marlin Perkins is rolling in his grave with that last remark. Your own people sold your ancestors out, as your people didn't use tools, or use the wheel until White Europeans came to Africa. Your people had nothing to trade but slaves, which is still going on to this very day I might add. If I were you, and the rest of your people, I'd sue Africa. We all know what Africa has to offer right now don't we? Pestielence, Aids, drought, famine, and undeveloped land, with underdeveloped people and culture.
Of course we both know why Africa is the toilet that it is. Despotic black leaders, an unwillingness to take care of themselves, a lack of education or a sense of culture. All of these things have been this way even before white European settlers came to your country. The only reason your people were getting fed in Zimbabwe was because White Europeans settled there, and built farms. Your people for all of your ranting and ravings, are still suffering because they can't or won't become civilized, and educated. They lack intellectual curiosity because stupid people are easily governed. They remain stupid because black leaders demand that they stay that way. They are oppressed, and still suffer the indignities of slavery, because that's what your people have done for centuries, enslave one another.
Now, here's why your people don't deserve reparations, and it's about time someone explained it to you in words you can understand. Your people were allowed to live here. My ancestors weren't. My ancestors were killed by the millions by white settlers and BLACK settlers for what the whites called Manifest Destiny. What did my people get? Reservations, and a pittance. These lands were made smaller and smaller, and soon, there wasn't any buffalo, or crops to feed us. We had to become the things we hated in order to live, we were dependent for a time, but we adapted, and did just fine without the intervention or indecency of demanding money for the attrocities commited against us. All we wanted was what was promised. Your people got what they were promised.
Your people were offered repatriation. Some took advantage of it. Some were rewarded with land, and animals which they sold. Your people have been on the public dole since welfare was created. Not because there was racial intolerance, but because your people know only one thing, and that's how to be dependent. I'm telling you this for your own good, since nobody has ever once taken the time to explain to you that when you come into this life, you're not owed anything. God does not give you a blank check to demand others to take care of you. Your reparations were your parents trying to raise you right. I see they failed you and for that I'm sorry. My parents were both alcoholics and abusive. What did I do? I joined the Army, got an education, and built my life up on my own. Your people could take a lesson from that, as many black men and women do join the military, and go on to do wonderful things with their lives. They are respected people of the community, who are their own people, and Americans. They don't demand anything from this world they aren't willing to work for. Your people had oppurtunities my people didn't. At least your people were allowed to live. Mine were slaughtered wholesale. So shut up about how your people were so mistreated.
The only way I or any other Non-Black American should pay reparations, is if ALL reparations recipients are given a choice. If they take the pay off, they do it under the condition they are immediately repatriated to Africa, forfeiting all assets and citizenship as Americans. They are also prohibited from traveling to America for work, or for visits. Should they decide not to take the check, they go on living the way they have since they were born here. That's the choice your people should be willing to make. Stay here, and get along, or go home, and stay there. Maybe if a whole bunch of your people get together and take the money, and go back to Africa, you might be able to fix the problems that are over there right now! They have slavery, AIDS, a lack of education, mob rule, oppression, rapes and murders commited against themselves, and white Europeans. Perhaps with an influx of Black Americans, they would prosper and become a civilized nation. Now, tell me that your people aren't just looking for a handout, or shut up and leave.
I have friends who are black, and of every other racial persuasion, and you know, they all feel the same way I do. Maybe you should contact some people who are black who built their own lives without someone telling them they can't, and argue with them about Reparations.
Tommy Allison American Tax Payer, and Business Owner who has never prospered on the backs of slave labor.
Broken down, they are saying that the LEFT will never listen to reason, as they never do. ATTACKS is their way of saying reasonable arguments that they disagree with, but "attacks" sounds better, like they are just defending themselves. Thank GOD for David Horowitz and Linda Chavez. I recommend Uncivil Wars by Horowitz as a must read resource for fighting this fight.
I also have a mixed family. I am a black American woman with a Hungarian American husband (OOOOOH, what a mixture), and our offsprings. I don't really think about reparations, only when I read something like this. My mind is consumed with my oldest who is serving in one of the NBC unit of the United States Army, my middle child, who is striving to become disowned by us, and my baby, who will be a senior in highschool next year while I am trying to hold down a job. I don't believe that there will be and I can't sit around and wait for a second coming of manner from heaven.
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