But I'm sure the statement makes those who use it feel better. It never ceases to amaze me that the race issue on FR incorporates the language of the enemy. Those conservatives who criticize black people for listening to race hustlers often take what those race hustlers say as truth and apply it to every other black person. You've just done it. You are making their argument for them by saying what they think they are. We know better, however. If my cousin starts to call himself an "African in America," he'd get lauged out the house. I'd tell him, "You're an African in America, huh? Boy, you know damn well you're from Cleveland just like me!"
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.
Also, I would not wish a 3rd world existence on anyone. Having visited 'the real' Latin America - interior Mexico and Honduras - I had my eyes opened by what true poverty really is. No running water, stick single room huts with no furniture, only a few huts in the village with meager electricity.... In suburban America, we consider poverty as 'no cable TV'. The true definition is something else.
You're right. You are absolutely, positively, irrefutably, 100%, undeniably ......RIGHT!
But so are they. It's not fair that they are being held here against their will due to the sins of some peoples grandfathers. So as a one time and potential future taxpayer I give my full endorsement for the Federal Treasury to buy a one-way ticket on any conveyance of choice to the African nation of choice with help in obtaining citizenship there and renouncing citizenship here including related costs. No re-entry for life. And just to be completely fair and non-racist about it I think the offer should be extended to everyone residing in the U.S., citizen on non-citizen, of any race, color, creed, religion, ethnic or cultural background, hair color, style, length (or lack of) and disregarding any other possible distinction between one human being and another. One free one-way ride per person.
We'll call it "Project Enterprise; Sending disenchanted people where no American black has been before."
There is a cadre of young, talented and articulate black lawyers who have announced that this issue is their life's work. They have a well thought out plan of action and a do-able argument. The argument is this....
US Corporations whose roots can be clearly traced to some corporate entity that profited from slavery owe some degree of their financial wealth to the descendants of those slaves. Insurance companies that earned revenue through premiums paid by slave owners for policies covering their "property" are the first target. If they find a sympathetic judge they could win. Judgement amounts could be in the hundreds of millions or higher. The effect would be to bancrupt the targeted corporate entity. The first round effect would be to drive the stock price through the floor. People out of work, pensions lost, 401k value lost, sky-high legal bills, civil discord would be the long term results.
I have heard the lawyers on the radio in NY. They very clearly put Sharpton and Jackson outside their camp, describing them as money hungry opportunists. These young, dedicated people are zealots, educated zealots. t is there efforts that need watching, not some feel-good rabble rousing video at eleven circus.