[Chi-townChief]

"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, a member of the New York City Council, told the crowd.

Charles Barron sounds like a real bright-boy!

[Crazymonarch]

50 percent of my income goes to either federal,state or local government taxes 30 percent goes to the bank...maybe I can join them with my white slaver placard.

[Dales]

These guys point out how there once was a wrong committed, a vile, horrible wrong. And they, who were not the wronged, want to collect a lot of money taken from people like me, who did not commit the wrong.

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.

[07055]

The turnout was smaller than the tens of thousands of demonstrators forecast by organizers of the "Millions for Reparations" movement.

Let's see...they say "millions" on their website.

The organizers predict "tens of thousands."

This article says "thousands."

AP says "hundreds."

Watching the rally on TV, I thought they had "dozens."

[Texas_Jarhead]

"Kobina Abew, an American citizen from Ghana dressed in a colorful African gown, said, "It's going to be very effective. It's going to bring a solution to this problem, I believe."

Someone enlighten me here. Would this person be eligible to receive reparations?

[SpringheelJack]

We need payment for 310 years of slavery,

1619-1865 = 246 years.

Ebonimatics, anyone?

[F16Fighter]

Quite frankly, if this absurdly divisive movement gathers enough steam to coerce and encourage the U.S. government into ANY reparations, America will no doubt be facing not only instability but chaos across the board....

The ACLU, Socialists, and One-Worlders no doubt will be thrilled.

[goldstategop]

I see AP bumped up the numbers. They're lyin' through their teeth. There weren't more than a few hundred in attendance there. As for Charles Barron's pledge, it'll be a cold day in hell before he breaks into Fort Knox. It ain't as easy as it looks. At least we know the reparations proponents have gone at one remove from a shakedown to outright theft. For those who don't know, that's called seizing the moral high ground! ;-)

[germanicus]

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, a member of the New York City Council, told the crowd

Mr. Barron had better watch who he slaps. He may find his mental health splattered all over some sidewalk (by someone defending themselves, of course).

[mict42]

"You can't understand this, it's a white thing!There's right, there's wrong, and then there's an evolutionary thing called Common Sense. It's genetic.

[TomServo]

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

It's just across the "pond", asshole. Knock yourself out.

[Chad Fairbanks]

A few thousand? Looks like those of us watching missed a few...

[jgrubbs]

I can hear the chants:

"Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Give Us Money So We Aint Po!"

[gunnedah]

I will be glad when they do this,maybe then some people will realize it is not benficial to be a coward.

[Mudboy Slim]

"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, a member of the New York City Council, told the crowd."

Sure would like the li'l peckerhead to try, just fer my mental health!! When's the next protest?!

Quite Sincerely...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"The turnout was smaller than the tens of thousands of demonstrators forecast by organizers of the "Millions for Reparations" movement. But those who traveled to Washington said they believed the rally would make a difference."

BWAHAHAHAHAHA...MUD

[Dixielander]

""Apologize White America."

That placard holder must be really stupid to think that America owes him or any black anything. If he had a measurable IQ, he'd be on his knees thanking God that he enjoys the privilege of living in America.

As for the rest of the demonstrators, I ask "Isn't extortion a crime?"

[marvlus]

I say this. For every African-American that wants reparations, the conditions are as follows:

1) Take $100,000
2) Be stripped of U.S. Citizenship
3) Be exported back to Africa
4) Never attempt to come back to the U.S.

[Defend the Second]

600,000 Americans died during the Civil War, which, no matter why it was fought, ended slavery in the US. That seems like a significant enough "payment" to me. These people can go to hell.

[ivanhoe116]

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

No sense wasting your breath on people with this mentality.

[BJungNan]

"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, a member of the New York City Council, told the crowd.

This aint no black thing. This is a money thing and that slap happy black man wants his. It aint the slapping of a white face that will make him happy, it is the slapping of them dollars on the counter and the slappin of his thigh that will put a smile on his face. That black man wants him a shinney new car and youze all ta buy it fah him.