I'm sure the world will be much better off. (/sarcasm)
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?
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!
" 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.
News Service 213/99
AI INDEX: AFR 28/01/99
12 November 1999
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!...oh stop it!!!..yer killin' me! Hohohobwahhahaha!...stop!..please!
What a fargin' maroon.
FMCDH
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."
I'll be hog-tied if I can figure out an answer to that little question.
Oh how right he was..Trillions of dollars in welfare transfer payments is not 'reparations'. 30 years of unconstitutional quotas which discriminate against more qualified whites in jobs and educational oppurtunities is not 'reparations'.
The truth is that whites have less rights in America than blacks. There are many places in America where whites can't go unless they are heavily armed. There are places in our own country where we can't walk down the streets without the almost certainty of becoming a victim of a horrible violent crime.
And how about those crime statistics. Black on white crime is far far far more likely than white on black crime. Vicious, violent black on white murders and rapes occur far more often than a white on black crime.
This is the true legasy of the so called civil rights era. How many whites have been the victim of black murder in the last thirty years? Oh it's not politically correct to even talk about the issue.
Yes of course I am a racist, even though I always praise Alan Keyes, Walter Williams and Clarence Thomas for being wonderful human beings.. Of course, it goes without saying that all three oppose reparations. But I don't play the 'politically correct' game that there is more than a handful of people like Keyes and Williams. There are a few others who post at free republic. However, the overwhelming majority of blacks in america hate whitey. That is why a white hater and America hater like Jessie Jackson received 95 percent of the black vote when he ran for the Presidency.
Actually, there should be more discussion of who exactly would benefit.. Of course, it will be lawyers, primarily black lawyers, and upper middle class Blacks who run the various foundations that will spend the money. It will bypass the govt/welfare beauracracy, and spread the wealth and power to those Blacks who don't see the welfare govt redistribution money. People like the Jesse Jacksons and Sharpton and Johnnie Cochran and so on.
It's a hustle by rich Black folk.
He does not discount for the billions of dollars blacks have ALREADY received from the government.
He makes a false argument about the Japanese-Americans imprisoned during World War II. The GOVERNMENT did that, by Executive Order of President Roosevelt. (I wrote a book about that.) The GOVERNMENT of the US held no slaves.
He seeks to soak the American government. Does he not know that the slaves were brought to the coast to be sold BY OTHER BLACKS? It was the usual practice in Africa, imposed on the losers in any warfare. Taking slaves still happens in The Sudan. Has this man read his history?
This is both a wrong issue, and a dead issue. This man and his "thinking" are pathetically irrelevant. IMHO.
Congressman Billybob
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