Get out your reparations calculator

TownHall.com ^ | 8/15/02 | Michelle Malkin

[goodieD]

as opposed to the wonderful life they would have had if they were left in Africa.

[GaryMontana]

Ok, that is fine.
I want reperations from the blacks. My relatives fought in the Union Army to free them.

[Selara]

Excellent piece on the utter foolishness of reparations.

[Selara]

Ok, that is fine. I want reperations from the blacks. My relatives fought in the Union Army to free them.

Me too! You just KNOW that trial lawyers are at the bottom of this. If somehow they could ever pull it off, the lawyers will be walking away with most of the money.

[Kaslin]

Thousands of aggrieved activists are headed to Washington, D.C., later this week for the "Millions for Reparations" march. The theme is: "They Owe Us."

I came to the States in 1966. so why would I owe anything to them?

[Selara]

I came to the States in 1966. so why would I owe anything to them?

Don't you know??? They think everyone owes them something.

[goodieD]

Exactly! As further evidence that the left is keeping them dumb and happy, they apparently haven't been taught that their own people sold them into slavery to the Europeans, LONG before America ever got into the slavery biz... they can go ask Africa and Europe for reparations FIRST and see how far they get.

[He Rides A White Horse]

Get out your reparations calculator

Okay, sure....

Let's see......I multiply the amount of slaves I ever owned by $1,000,000 dollars.......

How about that. I owe nothing.

[He Rides A White Horse]

The theme is: "They Owe Us."

Come and get it, Mugabe wannabe.

[GaryMontana]

Exactly

[socal_parrot]

My Dutch ancestors were ridiculed in Western Michigan as "Hollanders" for decades. I still have nightmares. I'll settle for 4 acres and a Suburban.

[evolved_rage]

ping

[MetalHeadConservative35]

Come and get it, Mugabe wannabe

amen ....black reparations is dumb...why? because for the longest time some in the black comunity have basically felt that if your white then automatically your ancestors owned slaves i think we should just tell them to screw off and NOT pay reparations...i wont...and i think if some of us also did the same then there bullcrap little cause wont get far

[brat]

Let the prayer for a heat wave commence. LOL

[Kaslin]

Yeah, I know, but like the Russkies say "Tough chitsky"

[Political Junkie Too]

One class action lawsuit filed in Brooklyn, N.Y., against Fleet Boston Financial, Aetna and CSX puts the reparations tab at $1.5 trillion in unpaid wages of slave labor.

The argument here was that these companies are still profiting from slavery because the companies flourished on the backs of slaves. Based on that reasoning, the Jews should be given reparations from Egypt because they built all the pyramids when they were enslaved for centuries. Egypt is still profiting from tourism because of the pyramids.

How far back do we want to go?

The problem with reparations is that introduces something to the United States that never existed here before: the Blood Feud. In the older continents, factional/tribal fighting has been going on for centuries because of ethnic hatred that goes back farther than anyone can remember. In the United States, the sins of the father were never passed onto the sons. Reparations is attempting to do just that. In fact, there doesn't have to even be linear descendancy -- you just have to look like someone who owned slaves or was a slave.

The truth is, African-Americans better wake up and start partnering with White-Americans before they are marginalized completely. Asians, Hispanics, Indians, and Muslims are taking over this country, and the black-white distraction is blinding us to this fact. If blacks and whites settled their differences and joined together to reclaim this country instead of letting petty politicians drive wedges between us, we can (re)build the workings of this country and restore internal peace and prosperity.

-PJ

okay, I'm done ranting now.

[Rudder]

If I were black, I would be utterly ashamed to have those who clamor for reparations claim to represent my interests. Those who admantly call for reparations run the risk of having all blacks painted with the same brush of scorn by the rest of Americans. The idea is so preposterous and self-seeking that the louder it gets the more damage it will do to the status of blacks within the society.

To poorly paraphrase Ann Coulter, 'The only racists left in this country are a few white supremacists and reparationsists.'

Reparationists are the Black equivalent of the KKK.

[Selara]

Reparationists are the Black equivalent of the KKK.

It would only spark and fuel violence, such as this country has never seen, I think. The whole thrust of the historical civil rights movement was to see human beings of ANY color as INDIVIDUALS, with the same rights under the US Constitution. This would undo the progress all of that work.

[sheik yerbouty]

OK. How about free first class tickets to Liberia?