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'Millions' of Blacks to Rally in DC for Reparations
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| 6/19/02
| Michael L. Betsch
Posted on 06/19/2002 3:26:43 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: stainlessbanner
Ok - If I'm a shakedown artist, which event do I attend: the Reparations Rally in DC or the NAACP flag boycott in S.C.? If you're new to the biz you might want to get in closer to the ground floor and check out an Atzlan rally in East L.A.
To: Tao Yin
Sorry, my plan is a one shot deal. No more after the payoff. No more favoritism, set a sides, etc.
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posted on
06/19/2002 8:04:06 AM PDT
by
Lockbox
To: rdb3
You can't move "back" to where you've never lived and/or been. Exactly. Just as one can't be compensated for something one has never lived through and/or experienced.
To: Henchman
I want reparations for all the time I worked and paid taxes that went to welfare, a way of life for those who have time to attend nonsensical rallies. BUMP!
The reparations movement makes me ill. What about the affirmative action? welfare? What about the times my dad had a hard time getting a job because a minority needed to fill the slot, not a white man?
To: goldstategop
How about getting a job? :)
To: kattracks
According to Worrill, "The abolishment of slavery was really a constitutional scam and 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."Neither was I. Did they ask me if I wanted to be an American citizen when I was born in a Cleveland hospital? Noooo-oooo! But, at least I realize that if I really don't want to be an American citizen, the answer is for me to move out of the US, not make a foolish attempt to turn it into a justification for handouts.
To: kattracks
This issue is going to be a thorn in the side of all Americans until the matter is somehow settled once and for all. The hustlers who are pursuing reparations have found too rich a gravy train to let it go now.
That having been said, there has to be some way to end it once and for all. I propose that a set value be put for each person, say the equivalent of "40 acres and a mule", or a flat sum of 50k (pick any number, it really doesn't matter).
This amount would be paid in proportion to one's ancestoral slavery heritage. For example, if a reparee (is that a word?) can prove that 100% of his ancestors were slaves, that person would be entitled to the entire amount. If one branch of the family tree can be traced to slavery, then 50% and so on.
That way, someone who's ancestors emigrated from the Belgian Congo during WW2 would be eliglble for nothing. Of course, after receiving your share, you would then have your citizenship revoked and, should you wish to remain in America, would be able to apply for a green card. Line forms to the right.....
Of course, this opens up a whole new can of worms, after all my wife's ancestors burnt a few witches back in New England, and I'm sure that the wikkens (sp?) will be asking for theirs in due course. Just a long as they don't turn me into a newt.
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posted on
06/19/2002 8:46:48 AM PDT
by
par4
To: BornOnTheFourth
A good way to expose these reparations BS artists (if opportunity permits) is to bring up the sacrifices that the North made to end slavery in the Civil War, the trillions of dollars (uselessly) spent in welfare, etc. with them. If they don't want to talk about these things or try to lie about and distort them, then they're up to no good.
To: Tao Yin
What happened to the idea that to accept gratuitous handouts (i.e. reparations, extended welfare, etc.) is a mark of shame?
To: TigersEye
One free one-way ride per person. You've got my vote.
To: kattracks
I have two African friends, one from Uganda, the other from Kenya. Both agree that African-American culture is an insult to Africans and any comparison between the two is disgraceful.
To: kattracks
I wasn't born then, nor did my ancestors own slaves. I'm innocent of any crime.
Why punish those who committed no crime? None of us were here!
Innocent until proven quilty would be a good defence in court.
If by chance they do get reparations, we need to look at all the welfare paid out of our pockets and ask for our refund. They owe us!
If people are going to be paid for helping the country to become prosperous, everyone gets a check!
When can I expect my share? Thanks.
To: rdb3
Last time. You can NOT go "back" to where you have never even been to in the first place. Period. End of story. A physical impossibility no matter who thinks what.rdb - I understand your displeasure at people using this particular phrase. However, I think a lot of it is simply shorthand for "Fine, if these whiners don't like living here in America, then it's fine by me if they GET what they seem to be demanding -- that the admittedly bad and painful past history that brought their ancestors to this country (and thereby gave them an opportunity to be here too) can be, as much as possible, completely undone. Let's buy these 'I'm-an-African-first-and-an-American-second' bed-wetters a plane ticket and let them go and live in whatever country they would have ended up living if their ancestors had never come to America, since that's what they seem to want."
It takes a long time to spell all that out, but I think it's what most people really mean.
Having said that, I'm sure for some white folks, it does express a bit of an us-and-them attitude ("us" being white folks, "them" being black folks). While some of this is simply a bad racial attitude (we all know bad racial attitudes are out there, so we may as well be up front with that), a fair portion of this, IMO, is probably a knee-jerk reaction to some of the us-and-them attitude expressed by liberal whiners like Jackson and Sharpton who are doing their very best to divide the world up into "us" vs. "them."
As far as I'm concerned, the world does to a degree divide into "us" vs. "them." "Us" includes you, me, and most of the folks here at FR. Not to mention folks like the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson.
"Them" includes Clintoon, Hellary, Algore, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and most of the folks at DU...
The difference is in how we think and act.
To: Yardstick
Don't count on it. Some dear family friends of ours floored me when they said they were "owed." After a short conversation that went no-where, I left with the deepest depression that I have ever had. I love my friends and was and am shocked at there racism.
To: Bommer
Only thing that scares me is that if Bush is willing to substadize housing for blacks, then he'll probably pay these jackasses reparations. What an idiotic comment! Subsidized housing for low-income Americans (regardless of color) has been around since long before GWB even entered politics. Your comment is about like saying, "Well golly, if dubya is willing to pay for Medicare, then he'll probably socialize the whole health care system."
To: Lockbox
No, they would just put out their other hand demanding more welfare or freebies. I propose that everyone who shows up be given a new $100 BILL AND LOADED DIRECTLY ONTO A BARGE FOR A FREE RIDE BACK TO AFRICA.
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posted on
06/19/2002 10:56:58 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
To: kattracks
Can see this topic touches a nerve and it is yet another attempt by the true racists to attempt to divide this country and attempt to get freebees. As if the black population, honestly, hasn't met or even surpassed the KKK lynchings with crimes against whites anyway, if we're going to be honest and look at it as a color issue. And all that other garbage. Interesting blacks always try to shy away from the topic of the Civil War and all the whites dying for these radical black racists who try to keep division and hate alive. Where is the acknowledgement that the United States has done more than enough in sacrifice. There are so many reasons why reparations are insincere attempts at "justice", so much hypocrisy when it comes to the fact that slavery is not such an easy topic of discussion-it existed prior to the birth of America(the US is responsible for ninty yrs), when it comes to those who actually owned slaves(what is the amount of the early American population that actually owned slaves?), those blacks who were free prior to the Civil War, succeeding generations of Americans coming to America after the slavery issue, etc. etc. etc.
To: TomGuy
That's the only thing we should pay for: a ONE WAY TICKET out of here !!!
To: B4Ranch
...be given a new $100 BILL AND LOADED DIRECTLY ONTO A BARGE FOR A FREE RIDE BACK TO AFRICA.
Here we go again...
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posted on
06/19/2002 11:39:56 AM PDT
by
rdb3
To: Brownie74
Hey! My relatives came from Ireland after the potato shortage as "indentured servants". Can I have some money, too?
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