White opposition to reparations is predictable, unjustified (Give me a Break Alert)

St Paul Pioneer (de)Press ^ | 6/23/02 | KWAME J.C. MCDONALD

[neutrino]

I have an idea. Since whitey is the author of all that is bad in the world, why not just put all whites on reservations (sorta like the Sioux, Navajo, and other tribes). The blacks can run civilization, and whites can make crafts and do folk dances.

I'm sure the world will be much better off. (/sarcasm)

[Bogey78O]

I like that he cites as proof examples of reparations totally in a different class

[Paul Atreides]

I'm of Scottish ancestry. Do I get any reparations from the English?

BTW, since the Egyptians enslaved the Jews, shouldn't these reparations whiners turn around and give any settlement to them?

What about blacks who enslaved other blacks?

[Khepera]

Bimp!

[Eternal_Bear]

This is the typical whining liberal guilt excrement being thrown out by the Reparationists. It is so absurd and idiotic that it deserves nothing but a loud retort "get a real job you race hustling pimp!"

[per loin]

Blacks who think they would be better off if their ancestors had not been brought here should take a tour of West/Central Africa.

[Puppage]

Absolutely. And, as ugly an idea as slavery is/was, it was at the time,legal. Do we now go back through the centuries and identify things that WERE legal, but now are not and pay off all the people hurt, or effected by whatever it was that's now illegal? Where would it stop? Gimmee, gimmee, gimmee.

[vikingchick]

The blacks can run civilization, and whites can make crafts and do folk dances.

Where do I sign up??? I'd like a casino too, if that's possible. :)

[TheDon]

[chachacha]

Look! Lets stop all the double talk. It's been so long since any one was a slave. Lets talk honestly and stay away from the PC.

I realy don't care about the slave issue. I don't care who was one. I don't care how you became one. I don't care how long you were one. I don't care how you got here and neither do I care if you leave here.

I do care if you think I owe you something. I do care since I've been paying for you for years. I do care since you are an American and insist on using Afro. I do care your tearing down the Confederate flag. I do care you are continually asking for reverse descrimination against all the other races. I do care you will not learn to talk, walk, and dress descent. I do care you shave your head. I do care you do all this stuff. The real reason I care is, you do this only because you are a racist and hate the white folks. Now that is honest and not PC.

I do not care if you return to your beloved Homeland. In fact I will reparate one (oneway ticket) for you to do so.

GET OVER IT!

[Capt. Tom]

Yet, it is also true that their white skin gives them advantage over the nation's darker-skinned citizens, as both seek the benefits of the richest, most powerful nation on earth.

It's not the white skin. It's the white brain. - Tom

[tet68]

Hmmmmm.No mention of the whites who died to set them free either. No debt owed there I guess.

White brain, isn't that a band or some kind of shampoo?

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

This idiot had his 'black awakening' on a trip to Ghana.

" The experience that solidified my charge toward freedom was my trip to Ghana, West Africa, in 1968. When I left, I was Jim, wearing Ivy League clothes. When I came back, I was Kwame, clothed in African apparel. "

Presumably he didn't wish to remain and become a journalist in Ghana.

"The imprisonment of journalists in connection with libel or contempt of court reflects a pattern of intimidation which poses a threat to the independent media in Ghana,"Amnesty International said.

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[nothingnew]

White privilege simply assures two similarly situated people — one white, one black — that the white person will be given preferential treatment.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!...oh stop it!!!..yer killin' me! Hohohobwahhahaha!...stop!..please!

What a fargin' maroon.

FMCDH

[Jagdgewehr]

Let us not deceive ourselves. Nothing the government or the people of America now possess, or are even willing to share, will come close to making up for the enormity of the moral, psychological, physical, cultural, economic and spiritual degradation that has been foisted on its black citizens.

Overstated, to say the least.

Once a value is placed on the true economic contribution of slavery (mostly in 18th and 19th century agriculture production), factor out psychological, spiritual, and physical degradation (those that suffered are long dead), you don't come up with nearly as much as "Kwame" envisions.

What is more, America has struggled with the "moral" and "cultural" issue for so long that it has gone beyond the reasonable in recent attempts to repair any lasting harm.

To this point it must be added, who pays for the reparations? The huge percentage of "white" Americans whose forefathers immigrated to America well after the slavery issue was resolved (as in my case), as well as the vast number of Americans who had nothing to do with the practice of slavery.

I say, what reparations are finally calculated, the current precentage of the population who has no historical connection to the practice of slavery should be deducted from the final amount. After all they're talking about our money/assets.

Alas, many black people want to remain in "slavery." The slavery of the culture of victimhood.

The time for getting off the pitty-potty is overdue. It is time for black Americans to take advantage of what this country offers in liberty and opportunity and stop waiting for some official monetary "apology."

[Kermit]

I think you'll find a lot of black people, who would be opposed to the idea: "Let's tax black people, because they are black". D'oh!

[Valin]

As I've said before this reparations nonsense sounds like something thought up by some aryan-nations idiots to foster a race war.

From Walter E Williams web site:

Proclamation of Amnesty and Pardon Granted to All Persons of European Descent

Whereas, Europeans kept my forebears in bondage some three centuries toiling without pay,

Whereas, Europeans ignored the human rights pledges of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution,

Whereas, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments meant little more than empty words,

Therefore, Americans of European ancestry are guilty of great crimes against my ancestors and their progeny.

But, in the recognition Europeans themselves have been victims of various and sundry human rights violations to wit: the Norman Conquest, the Irish Potato Famine, Decline of the Hapsburg Dynasty, Napoleonic and Czarist adventurism, and gratuitous insults and speculations about the intelligence of Europeans of Polish descent,

I, Walter E. Williams, do declare full and general amnesty and pardon to all persons of European ancestry, for both their own grievances, and those of their forebears, against my people.

Therefore, from this day forward Americans of European ancestry can stand straight and proud knowing they are without guilt and thus obliged not to act like damn fools in their relationships with Americans of African ancestry.