[H8DEMS]

Day-by-day, African people in America are becoming more familiar with the concept of reparations...

See definition of PROPAGANDA

[Semper Paratus]

On behalf of my oppressed Irish ancestors who were forced off their land by Cromwell,
I'll settle for 5 acres from Prince Charlie's estate.

[alisasny]

Marcus Garvey wasn,t even American If I recall. After he served time in jail for fraud he was deported back to Jamaica as well.

[mhking]

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[SerpentDove]

>>10. Denied Our 40 Acres and a Mule- We didn’t get it!<<

HA! This is so cliche' that it's kind of a self-parody.

BTW- I set free every slave I ever owned, a long time ago. And I'll be glad to back-pay every slave I ever did own.

[Brad C.]

So just what dollar value will it take to wipe the slate clean?

Just as a thought, if these people don't want to return to Africa, maybe we should go. Africa is a vast country, with lots of resources that could readily be tapped for even more wealth to people who are willing to work.

[billbears]

revisionist reparations bump

[xJones]

The joke is that blacks won't be receiving checks in the mail box. The money would be going to organizations headed by the likes of Jesse Jackson. What a scam, and one to really increase racial divisions. Who, BTW, are supposed to cough up money for this? Hispanics, Asians, White emigrants after 1865? There are no living slaves left, nor any slave owners. This is a sick joke, designed to line the pockets of racist black "leaders".

[Don Myers]

"Day-by-day, African people in America are becoming more familiar with the concept of reparations and what it means to our continued struggle in America for self-determination, liberation, independence, and freedom. Therefore, we must be clear that reparations means repair for the damages inflicted on a people or a nation. "

The goal is an all-black America. Looking down the list of grievances, whites are responsible for everything that happens in the world. Heck, we even killed Malcolm X. Will there be a Civil War in this nation, a race war?

[abishai]

Actually, reparations MAY be a great idea. If the "African American" community was given reparations for years of servitude and oppression, then everything for them should be considered settled. There would then be no need for Rainbow/PUSH, NAACP, and all organizations of that ilk. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Kwiese Mfume could all step down, their jobs finished. Racial quotas, welfare, affirmative action, all other minority programs designed to help African Americans would be abolished. All those who have descendents stolen from Africa would be repatriated back to their homelands. The playing field would be equal for all and no one would ever whine or complain about oppression or racism again! I would even shell out a few bucks for that.

[missycocopuffs]

...the 14th Amendment that allegedly made African people citizens of America was imposed on us. We were never asked if we wanted to be citizens.

Dear Mr. Worrill,

You and your brethren, by living in the United States as citizens, are making a choice daily to "be" citizens of this country.

[patriot_wes]

let's see, Aug 17....... 2 weeks till the next welfare check is due, don't have to go to work in the morning,.
....might as well go do some screaming in D.C.

How many honkys died in the civil war to free those people anyway?

[Constitutions Grandchild]

Oh...h...h, boy, I mean, brother!

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[The Iceman Cometh]

1. The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery - The United Nations World Conference Against Racism declared that the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery were Crimes Against Humanity. Crimes against humanity have no statute of limitations.

Can someone please point out which of the African countries will also be participating in reparations? Without the friendly tribes of Africa, there would not have been any slaves to purchase.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Reason number 1 why the REPARATION MOVEMENT is going nowhere:

(14th Amendment) Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. Source

[TomGuy]

Da gits raparrations and dis heer white boy'z buyin' some black shoepolish, shinin' dis white body into a nice tan, and gittin' dezs hans in dat dar han out line, he is...

[finnman69]

YEAHHHHHHH BOOOYYYYYYYYYYYY!

[kcvl]

Farmer-Paellmann not afraid of huge corporations

By James Cox, USA TODAY

Deadria Farmer-Paellmann has spent five years digging for evidence that ties Corporate America to pre-Civil War slavery. She confronted Aetna in 2000.

NEW YORK — Her husband, who's German and white, didn't believe her. So they played a game.

They'd go to a store and each make a purchase with a credit card. Inevitably, she had to produce a picture ID and give her address; he was rung up, no questions asked.

"Sometimes I tell (sales clerks), 'Hey, slavery's over. Black people have money now,' " says Deadria Farmer-Paellmann.

Slavery is anything but over for Farmer-Paellmann, 36, a researcher and mother of one. For five years, she has spent hours online and in archives hunting evidence that ties Corporate America to pre-Civil War slavery.

Farmer-Paellmann says she has identified about 60 companies that profited from slavery. She says she has taken her findings to nine — banks, insurers and a textile maker — and one estate. So far, none has made a public apology or agreed to her suggestion to put together a reparations plan.

If corporations with slaves in their past ever do pay reparations, Farmer-Paellmann can take much credit, says Charles Ogletree, the Harvard law professor heading a group looking to file reparations lawsuits.

Farmer-Paellmann says slavery lives on, its legacy seen in everything from housing discrimination to racial profiling to police brutality. The quest for compensation and an apology "torments a lot of African-Americans. And it's not because of the money. Our ancestors were kidnapped, whipped, tortured, forced to breed."

Farmer-Paellmann is negotiating with law firms and may file lawsuits separate from those brought by Ogletree's team. She hopes to pick a firm that could represent her as a plaintiff, bring her on to help with research or both.

[unixfox]

Love your culture?
Love your language?
Love your religion?
Love your country?

THEN GO HOME !!

[Paul Atreides]

If they spent as much time getting an education, or looking for a job, as they put into organzing and participating in these pity parties, they would be much better off.