Slavery Reparations Rally in DC (Live on CSPAN

Millions for Reparations ^ | Aug 17, 2002 | Viola Plummer

[jern]

Tune to CSPAN now for THE RALLY!

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we already have reparations. it's called welfare.

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those aren't bodyguards. they're his illegitimate children who just HAPPEN to be on the payroll.

[river rat]

Believe me, I understand.

What really pisses me off about allowing assholes like this to demonstrate on the Mall - is that they are just a short walk from that cold black wall of stone.

Cut into the stone wall, are the names of Marines, many of whom happened to be black. Proud to be Americans and willing to answer the call of their government to go in harm's way. Blacks that I considered every bit as much my brother as the ones that contained my parents blood.

The trash we saw on the mall today --- was not just the litter on the ground. There was trash everywhere... Demonstrations such as this demeans hallowed ground...they should be held at the D.C. Dump.

Damn them all.
Semper Fi

[GVnana]

Sorry I'm not watching. I like my Saturday afternoons. Anyone get a headcount?

Sorry to throw a blanket over the party but I think this issue is going to get bigger before it gets lost.

[maica]

If socialists could think, they wouldn't be demanding the state do so much of it for them

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Excuse the silly question, please. This line is so good I would like to borrow it. Did you compose it today, or is it a line that has been around, and I just haven't come across it before?

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"We are a nation within a nation," Louid Farrakhan

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LOL Make that LOUIS.

[PJ-Comix]

This whole Reparations issue is tearing the Left apart. Check out this DUMMY DISCUSSION FORUM going on right now about this very rally.

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Can we petition to get the flag removed because its racist? Oh, that only applies to Whitey's flags.

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"But most of all, it will ultimately hurt Blacks. It is tragic, and symptomatic of the pathologies that are TRULY responsible for the black condition."

You are so right.

[TheSpottedOwl]

One of the rare times I wish I had cable tv. I read through this entire thread...waiting for Maxine Waters to make her appearance on stage. Ah well.

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ROFL

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"...Blame Whitey Blame Whitey Blame Whitey Blame Whitey "

God I love you Trueblackman! Perhaps we should call this the Blame Whitey Festival. LOL

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"feel the love."

ROFLMAO! You are hysterical! LOL

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ROFL...brilliant! LOL

[mercy]

Did you know there was once a popular FReeper named classgreeneyedblonde who got banned and has been since proven to have been a middle aged guy with other screen names on other websites?

[HighWheeler]

This would make an excellent piece of literature for distribution.

[Lockbox]

My wife raised the following point, which I cannot address, regarding the ‘R’ word – Reparations.

She states from reading the local copy of the New York Times, other wise know as the Houston Chronicle, that the local Reparations article states But those in favor envision reparations money being used to fund education, improve health care, create cultural facilities and buy and expand businesses.

Her point, the ‘money’ will go to the Black Leaders to spend and not a check to each Black in America. I said if this happened the Blacks in America are going to be very mad, everyone I have heard today said they want a check.

So if she is right and the Black leaders get the funding, the average Black will get nothing, and thus nothing will be solved. Whites will say we paid, Blacks will say they never got the money and the Black leaders will be rich.

Does anyone else have this outlook on the potential Reparations funding?

[Dog Gone]

Does anyone else have this outlook on the potential Reparations funding?

Nope, because reparations won't happen, period. It's a stupid concept, and it would create a massive upheaval in society. I don't even think the black leaders expect it will ever happen. It's merely a concept that appeals to some blacks and those leaders can use the concept to further their own political power over those gullible blacks.

[pupdog]

(This is a repeat of what's posted on another thread so maybe the moderators can/should remove the other one.)

I just came back from this march. I'll be posting a long article about it once I get myself gathered, but some quick notes for everyone's digestion.

1. Crowd size: The media estimates that I saw were much lower than we me and Nixi (wife) got. We're admittedly not good a crowd estimations, but all together, 5 to 10 thousand is what we came up with. We even got a chance to get demographics, as they had various regions respond to attendance calls: NY, NJ, PA and Houston had the biggest turnouts if the crowd responses were indicative.
2. Hate fest: This wasn't a universal attitude: there were a few people there who were actually very nice. Nevertheless, there was a lot of venom floating about, and one person had a "Kill Whitey" T-shirt that she tried to keep Nixi from photographing (and failed :-) ).
3. Counter-Protestors: Almost none. There was only one open set of protestors (guys from Inn Glory). How effective they were was hard to say. one person was loud and belligerent enough that he arguably made himself look worse; but that's a subjective analysis that I'll save for later. But if there was anyone else there also opposed to it, they were as incognito as we were.
4. Biggest speakers: Louis Farrakhan (sp?) and John Conyers were the biggest names to show up for this. Farrak did a good job (to be fair) of riling the crowd up, and was probably the most effective speaker of the event. He was also the one who provided the most specifics of what they were asking for, specifying the "deamnd" for "millions of acres". Conyers was more down to earth, but at the same time that he was trying to make his case that he just wanted Congress to consider it, he also couldn't help but spend about two minutes insluting Bush's intelligence (saying, for example, that they'd have to rewrite HR40 in smaller words for him). He did say, however, that one Republican house member was interested in discussing the issue with him. None of the rest of the speakers were that noteworthy, or said anything that really stands out.

All in all, there wasn't that much unexpected. I also wouldn't assume that the lower-than-a-million turnout means that this was a bust. I really think the 10,000 figure is more accurate (I'll post very large pictures so you can judge for yourself), and that's really not a small deal. I think it's a more important sign that this march even happened.

Oh, and there was one last consequence of the march: the We Won't Pay web site got a rush of new people pledging it. Thanks for the free advertising, guys. :-)

Will post more details soon.