Posted on 06/19/2002 3:26:43 AM PDT by kattracks
(CNSNews.com) - Promising that it will be one of the "most historic gatherings of African people in America," organizers of the Millions for Reparations Rally are demanding monetary compensation from the United States government and its citizens. The theme of the rally is: "They owe us!"
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND), and a critic of the rally, said, "If that many people have enough money to go to D.C. to march, then they don't need reparations."
The Aug. 17 event will take place in Washington, D.C. on the 115th birthday of the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey. But Peterson said Garvey was an outspoken advocate of post-slavery self-repair for black people in America and would not support the idea of modern day reparations.
The Durban 400 and National Black United Front (NBUF), the lead organizers of the rally, claim their event is "simply an attempt to repair, to make whole, the descendants of the victims of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade."
At the urging of the Durban 400 and other groups, the United Nations' 2001 World Conference Against Racism declared the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and the pre-Civil War slavery in the United States crimes against humanity.
NBUF National Chairman Dr. Conrad W. Worrill recently urged concerned "African people in America" to review and add to a list of nearly twenty atrocities that, according to Worrill, "they owe us for."
Among the atrocities on the list are the "Raping of African Women," "KKK Night Riders and Lynchings," "Mental Atrocities," the "Crack Epidemic," and "the 13th and 14th Constitutional Amendments."
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."
But David Almasi, spokesman for the black conservative group Project 21, said those seeking reparations forget the benefits of living in America.
"What about the fact that now you're in America, the land of opportunity as opposed to being in Africa with malaria, dictators and things like that," Almasi said.
According to Peterson, "These organizations that are supporting this so-called Millions for Reparations are anti-American organizations anyway. They're communist/socialist organizations."
Peterson added that "so-called civil rights leaders" like Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan have encouraged a culture of dependency among African Americans instead of self-reliance.
Peterson said he especially wants to encourage white Americans to protest those calling for reparations and "not have the fear of being called a racist" for doing so. However, he said, "As long as you give into these people, there is no stopping them. There is no end to their destruction if we don't stand up to them with truth."
The "truth," Peterson said, is that reparations are "a bad idea in that it is divisive, it is racist, and it's another form of using black Americans to gain power and wealth."
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What a can of worms this complaint could turn out to be. Imagine the ramifications if his wish came through. I bet this one comment alone gets 50 replies to this thread when everyone wakes up.
Great point
GRRRRRollin'
Whats stopping them from renouncing their citizenship and moving to Uganda or whatever 'dead-goat tick eating country in Africa? Pay these idiots reperations of $1000 and 1 one way ticket with the signed promise to renounce their citizenship and never contaminate this country with their ilk again!
Only thing that scares me is that if Bush is willing to substadize housing for blacks, then he'll probably pay these jackasses reparations.
Amen. If only the News Jackals would repeat this 24/7 like they do the utterances of other "civil rights leaders...."
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."
so pack up, renounce your citizenship, and move back to Africa. 
"GimmegimmegimmegimmecuzI'mblackgimmegimmegimmeIhateWhiteygimmegimmegimme!"
Disgusting.
"A hyphenated American is not an American at all.
This is just as true of the man who puts 'Native' before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or French before the hyphen.
Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul.
Our allegiance must be purely to the United States.
We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance."
Theodore Roosevelt... 1915
Then Go Back To Africa!!
.....See if life there is better than you have it here.
We don't owe you $hit!
We were never asked if we wanted to be citizens.
I, as a tax paying citizen, have no objection to the government giving you a one-way ticket back to Africa. But a tip before you go, those BLACK people in Africa cannot stand American Negroes.
I'm sure plenty of people will make this same point, but I can't resist remarking that I'll invest the relatively modest 'effort' required to avoid ever actually being out of pocket in this regard until I've had the experience of owning a slave MYSELF.
And I've got plenty of hard physical labor around here that a meat-headed slave could handle.
Then I'll pay. Not before.
And, if the bill is to be a high one, I intend to mistreat my slave accordingly...
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