'Millions' of Blacks to Rally in DC for Reparations

(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."

To tell the truth, we only have the word of the lying liberal media and the democrat party for those figures about black citizens' voting habits. I really doubt their word on anything. Vote fraud is such long established practice in democrat precincts in cities that the solid turnout hasn't been questioned. With the advent of the new electronic "touchscreen" voting machines, vote fraud will become so legitimized and impossible to prove that maybe democrat precincts and their "110% turnouts" will become the unquestionable norm even after the precincts become the homes of different ethnic group.

I do know that most black friends and relatives of mine vote democrat than republican, but they're also mostly conservative Christians, too. I don't even worry about it anymore since the two parties are in the process of merging before our eyes.

Twodees, did you read my post? The info on Republicans during the Civil War came from a rather liberal university Civil War history timeline. Conde Rice talks proudly of her grandfather becoming a Republican in the Jim Crow south because the Democrats wouldn't let him register.

Communists exploited poor youths in Africa in the 50s and 60s to disrupt order in villages, get rid of "Godly" influnces. They supplied them with Molotav cocktails and told them that the evil White missionaries/men were responsible for their misery and that it was their right to destroy their property, steal what they could for their own. MLK used lesser but similar tactics straight out of the agitprop handbook, in Selma, and they knew by then to put children and cripples out front for the TV cameras while members of their organization taunted the police to provoke them into reacting. The same powermongers are exploiting the inner cities the same way today.

The heads of the Communist Party are adamant in their determination to subvert whites, Negroes, organizations, and even churches to obtain a revolution in America. The Negro was one of the first objectives of the Communists; and they wrote:

Comrades Browder, Edwards, and Ford have spoken about the necessity of making a turn in our Negro work, how to connect ourselves with the organized masses, in the United States. There are, of the Negro population, 10 million in churches. The problem of how to penetrate these organizations is of the utmost political importance. Party Organizer, p. 16
March 1935, by the Central Committee Communist Party
The Coming American Revolution

I don't doubt that there's enough blame to go around...we are all sinners, but no, I don't trust the current textbook version of black history. Christians fought hardest to eradicate slavery...in England and then in America, and they didn't do it for approval from the public, a legacy or politics. The Republican Party was formed to protest against those who wanted to spread slavery Westward with expansion. Some will call it all politics. I don't buy it. You make an unpopular stand. You fight. Those with the long history of organized gang-violence are not on the right.

Yes I looked at the source of your quote. Yes, it's from a liberal university. Is that supposed to make it believeable? Why? Those people are liars and we all know it. They're the same ones claiming that the labor laws were passed because rich republicans were denying workers a living wage. So, this time they're telling the truth? Ahaha, sure. Everything is not democrat vs republican. The biggest champions of the radical republicans who ran reconstruction are the marxist professors who now control academia.

Condi Rice's story rings true how, exactly? Was her grandfather kept from registering as a democrat and forced to register as a republican? Malarkey. How does that jibe with the version which claims that Southern democrats lynched black people who tried to register? Republicans have invented this glossed over version of history which paints the republican party as the eternal champion of conservative ideals. That's nonsense. The republican party was formed, not to stop the spread of slavery, but to institute the Whig agenda of "internal improvements" protective tariffs and a national bank. The republicans were the socialist revolutionaries of the American 1860s. The democrats were the conservatives then.

If you want to talk about a long history of gang violence, you'd better look at the 600,000 dead from the first republican revolution. While you're at it, look at the radical republican's attempt to eradicate the indian tribes at the same time the South was under military occupation. Now that was some violence that makes the gang violence of the 20th century look like hugs and kisses. They switched their focus completely to the indians once the South threw off their military rule in a deal for a presidential election. The republicans have taken the history of that time and polished it to make it look as though occupying part of the country with troops and slaughtering indian men women and children were great, uplifting deeds.

Both parties are equally guilty for what has happened before. There's nobody else to blame because the democrats and republicans have been the only two parties allowed access to the electoral system for over a hundred years.

All this time the two parties have jerked the electorate back and forth with the blame game. It's time now to stop listening to both. Both are to blame. Neither is willing to allow a return to our Constitution. That's the only issue conservaties should care about, not whose ox gored who 135 years ago. All I see from the republicans now is that they want to replace the democrats as the party with a lock on black and hispanic voters. What nonsense.

Your party is as unlikely to have any answers as is the democrat party. Conservative black Americans should look before leaping out of the frying pan into the fire. Leaving the democrats for the republicans is just sticking to the same crooked gang which pulls the strings for both parties. That gang doesn't have a political party. It uses both equally.

Your reference to the abolitionist faction of the early republican party ignores that they were the first people to introduce terrorism to American politics. Those maniacs funded and supported John Brown, who murdered people who didn't own slaves, including a free black man as a means of trying to start a slave uprising to get slaves to slaughter all white Southerners. Black Americans proved then that they weren't savages, though the abolitionists assumed that they were. Deifying Brown and the abolitionist leaders is ridiculous. Those people were insane zealots no different from the MMM gungrabbers of today, trying to destroy the Constitution under the guise of solving a social ill.

Telling carefully selected pieces of the truth isn't going to get it.

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They will be lucky if 45 people show. Call Jesse Jackson and maybe 25.