Posted on 06/19/2002 12:32:04 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
(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."
E-mail a news tip to Michael L. Betsch
That is just to funny!
The truth? You can't handle the truth!
Perhaps they should go after the descendents of the muslim tribesmen who captured them and sold them into slavery in the first place.
Deep. Obviously Mr. Douglass was familiar with the 1st Commandment.
A special income tax bracket of, say.. 10%?
Total exemption from things like Federal Fuel taxes.. SS Taxes.
Maybe not that exact proposal, but you get the idea..
Give them reperations and drive FEDGOV broke in the process.
Prominent names of black conservatives will no doubt pop up all over the place, both on this thread, and in your head, including Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, and many others.
T. Sowell is, IMHO, one of the most gifted conservative authors ever. He can shred opponents arguments, and he must be ambi-dextrous, turning out new work with both hands!
Williams is an outspoken Libertarian, but ya gotta love him, he makes sense - especially about anything to do with economics.
You are far from alone, FRiend!
Thing is, most still vote Demo-Rat. I witnessed it during my years in military, most all black men were Extremely Conservative. Great family men, church every Sunday, etc. etc., but always voted Democrat. How did this happen? As Condi Rice said in her convention speech, her father switched to the Republican party because the Demos wouldn't even let blacks vote. The Jim Crow South was almost exclusively Demo-Rat. How did the tables turn, that Repubs are viewed as the Racist Party? Some kind of brainwashing went on.
The non-black population of the US VASTLY outnumbers blacks, and since any political party would be voted out of office if they even suggested they would think about it, this will never happen.
OK, you heard it here first...
EITHER GWB OR THE NEXT GOP PRESIDENT WILL PROPOSE OR SIGN SOME FORM OF SLAVERY REPARATIONS!!!
This will be for the purposes of moving the GOP portion of the black vote from 5% to 5.0000001% The Dems will still get the other 97% of the black vote.
Think it won't happen? Given GWB's last seventeen months in office, what would make you think it won't happen? This chuckle-head already wants to give amnesty to ILLEGAL Central American immigrants, as a form of vote pandering that surely pi$$es off his white base.
Bushbots, bring it on!!!
What golden words! The word "America" comes first!
The very concept is absurd. If anything, the people that were kidnapped from their home land deserve a fair shake. But those folks are no longer around. Not to mention the issue of warring tribes selling others to the slave traders.
I'm Irish. Can I sue Ireland for gross negligence because they allowed the potato famine to happen - and why I was ultimately born in the USA?
I do not claim - announce myself - to be Irish-American.
I am an American. I would suggest to those folks that insist on identifying themselves as "where ever hyphenAmerican" to get a one way ticket back to "where ever". You ain't in Kansas anymore, Dorthy. If that makes you unhappy - start the journey back.
IMHO, if this reparation biz were to pass you will see the start of a race war. I have many American-African friends - not a single one thinks this is a good idea and want nothing to do with it.
Jesse "Shake down" Jackson - Maxine Waters - Louis Farrakhan. Is that a crew or what? Real leaders, there.
I love JC Watts (contribution) and am a huge fan of Allen Keyes. Funny about Mr. Keyes, seems that most folks don't know what to think of him. He is one smart puppy!
LVM
Sadly, this is a pretty tall order.
This whole reparations issue would never have gotten this far along in the debate had it not been for the help and encouragement of white liberals with misplaced guilt in their hearts.
I hope this doesn't come across as being too naive,but don't "many" of those 80% of people there,have jobs to attend?
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