Black Demonstrators Demand Slavery Reparations

AP via Yahoo! News ^ | Sat Aug 17, 5:18 PM ET | Mark Wilkinson

[templar]

I just hope they realize that what they are really pushing for is a civil war. Because if reparations ever becomes anything more than a leftist carnival act, and actually becomes law, that is precisely what those pushing it will get.

I doubt it.

You underestimate the power of the media to make white people ashamed of their inner feelings. And their power to make those whom they have made ashamed hate those who they have not.

[gitmo]

I hate to answer my own question, but I found the Clinton apology for slavery. He apologized while in Uganda. Here is a link to a Thomas Sowell article about the apology: Reason vs Racism.

Good. That To Do is checked off.

[jjhunsecker]

I for one say lets pay the reparations and get it over with.
Because once those checks are written and the African- American population have their pieces of gold and I am sure a Congressional Apology, thats it the guilt of white america will have been satisfied and neither group owes the other anything else. Of course this means no more social welfare programs, affirmative action, etc. that can be foisted upon the Whites to make them feel guilty about slavery and it's aftermath. It will be just like a law suit, money paid, guilt admitted and we move on.

[SpringheelJack]

No offence intended to anyone who realistically applies math to this situation BUT! - - - -

The United States of America DID NOT EXIST until 1776. If you want to complain about who did what to whom before that - - - talk to the British, The French and the Spanish. But do not attempt to blame my native country or me

I know that, I was just being generous. Slavery did, after all, exist in what is now this country for 246 years. Either way, Farrakhan's 310 is way off the mark, by whatever standard you use. And hell, my ancestors didn't even arrive in this country until 1890. Forget about me; my own ancestors are as much liable for what the U.S. government did in the 1850s as Abraham Lincoln is for what the English Crown did 100 years before he was born. This whole business is just insane, it's like a real bad late-night comedy.

[nobdysfool]

Black Demonstrators Demand Slavery Reparations

Yeah, and people in Hell want ice water, too...

[templar]

"We need land for political independence, we need millions of acres," Farrakhan added.

Louis, you already have it. It's called Zimbabwe. Please go there.

[groanup]

"Demonstrators said blacks deserved "long overdue" reparations, noting compensation won by Jews in the aftermath of the Holocaust and Japanese-Americans for their internment by the United States in camps during World War II."

The Jews and the Japanese-Americans of which they speak were the actual benefactors of "mistreatment", not their ancestors.

[T. Jefferson]

"I want to go up to the closest white person and say, 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing,' and then slap him, just for my mental health," Charles Barron, told the crowd."

Dream on Charles, and went I smash yo face like a pumpkin that'll be for your physical health, it's a white thang. We've paid $6 Trillion in welfare reparations and now every major city is a predatory crack jungle. Time for a reparations refund.

[Torie]

Barron, a self-proclaimed "elected revolutionary," said if the government did not act swiftly he personally would storm the Treasury Department

One can only hope. Too bad it is just empty macho rhetoric.

[swheats]

I think one of the last speakers said it well, having to correct the idea that many believed they were coming to DC for the purpose of reparations. The other objectives were to free cop-killers.

A blatant misuse of trust. I can only hope the average citizen will realize that "those who led the way" will have first dibs on any monies received.

[rickmichaels]

Why sue? Just kick his sorry ass.

[Texas Eagle]

"2 or 3 thousand........this thing is dead....."

Don't be so sure. There are at least two lawsuits against private companies already working their way through the courts. If one of these cases winds up with 12 stupid jurors (what are the odds?), and awards a trillion dollars to the plaintiff.....

[nobdysfool]

What they really want is the indefinable thing called "RESPECT". They think they are "owed" preferential respect, just because they're black. Now, they are willing to trade that respect for money. In the end, they will have neither, and that's their own fault, not white peoples' or the government's fault.

When those who did not earn compensation take it from those who did not cause the problem to be compensated, there is neither respect earned, nor given. In fact, contempt will be the result if they do receive their ill-gotten gain. I for one will not have any respect and a lot of contempt for any black that gets any "reparations" money forceably taken from me by the government. My ancestors did not ever own slaves. My father's family didn't come here until 1867, and my mother's family was Amish and Mennonite. No slaves held in either case.

I don't owe any person of color one red cent for reparations or any such thing. I have not harmed them in any way, and making me pay reparations will be doing me harm. My skin color is not sufficient cause to rob me, and that's what they'd be doing, pure and simple. This is Racism at its most blatant.

[USNBandit]

Wouldn't that be a hate crime?

[DugwayDuke]

07055 is correct, your proposal solves nothing and for this reason. The reparations claim rests upon the logic that those that have owe something to those who have less. Give the current crop a bunch of money and they will lose it. Then there dependents will be back to claim they are owed money too. You see, the decendents will claim there fathers and mothers lost the money because of slavery (they didn't know how to manage the money) and therefore, we owe them more money. As long as there is a disparity in wealth, those without will claim that those that have got theirs unfairly. That is the bottom line here.

[baseballfanjm]

These demonstrators think the exact same way as the KKK. They should really step back and take a look at what they say. It mirrors what white racists say, from the "Black Power" and "Start the Revolution" signs to the fact that their view on race is set back a hundred years. They are really racists themselves.

[agrace]

You're close. I turned on C Span as they were wrapping up this thing, in time to see some sort of jam improv going on which included a woman singing "I want my money...gimme my money..now." Repeatedly. It was unreal, to say the least.

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

I can guarantee you, great divisiveness will become a reality within our country.

Yes, and think of the ramifications......

Blacks will demand "Reparations II" to compensate for a century of post-slavery SEGREGATION (1865-1965)

Indians will demand reparations for losing their land.

Chinese will demand reparations for being underpaid (virtual slaves) in the 19th Century.

Irish will demand reparations for exploitation during the Potato Famine.

Women will demand reparations for being denied the vote before 1920. (Anyone who had a grandmother, great grandmother, etc. in this country before 1920 will qualify.)

And on and on and on..........

[DugwayDuke]

"Does anyone know where the DNC is on this? As this is one of their largest voting blocks seems they would be out in front of this. Is this what Al was talking about when he said he would fight for us?"

The DNC doesn't want to take a public position knowing that it will fracture their base. If you remember the 2000 Primary Debate in Harlem, this was a major issue. Bradley supported reparations and Al said there was a lot of good arguments in favor of reparations but he needed to think about it (which was code for either a, vote for me and I'll get done when I'm in office but I can't support it now, or b, vote for me and I'll dump you after I'm elected.)