My visit to the reparations rally

8/18/2002 | Me

[BUSHdude2000]

Thanks for the first hand report. It was hilarious to watch on tv, check out the thread we had going with over 1,400 posts at last check.

[Vidalia]

Thank you very much, Alan Colmes, now we know what you did on this Saturday.

Don't you have some pigs to feed???

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

The fact that reparations resonate with so many folk is an illustration that something is deeply wrong with the state of race relations in America, and all the right-wing sneering on earth won't make the problems go away.

What's deeply wrong with race relations is that so amany people are trying to convince my black friends that I want, at best, to keep them from succeeding economically and, at worst, to see them lynched.

[hole_n_one]

FR's Reparations Rally thread

[D-fendr]

I think fair reparations would be to offer them a choice:

1) Send them back to the descendants of the people who captured and sold their ancestors, or…

2) They get to stay in America.

Their choice.

[Crusader21stCentury]

Reparations will let loose the dogs of war. It is a bad idea and will erase any progress we have made in this country.

[My Favorite Headache]

Very well written. They however with their pathetic display they showed today pushed back the image of black people 500 years. They acted like idiots...because they are idiots. Everyone is bitter about something in their life...deal with it and move on.

Maybe the Christians were right? Accept Christ and move on...

[Texas_Jarhead]

"Despite her TV pit bull demeanor, I kinda like her"
Do you consider her a racist? Do you agree with her references to the US flag as 'that racist flag'? Just curious.

[doglot]

I watched an hour or so on C-Span replay. The most memorable thing was rapping "I want a house on the hill and a 2002 Cadillac Coupe DeVille."

[doglot]

Oh! And trash stewn about.

[BCrago66]

I just went onto anti-thug.com, and saw images of black "thugs" from music videos interwoven with what looked like jewish music executives.

So the message is one of non-responsibility - the jews made us do it - typical of thugs.

It also just pisses me off. Jews give to the NAACP, marched down south in all the civil rights protests, lent their legal talent to civil rights organizations, etc., - and are still the #1 demon is black racist conspiracy thoeries.

[zarf]

The Civil War was enough dude. Although I would agree with reparations if that included the elimination of all race based social programs and new society related programs....and only if the trillions previously spent in past years were subtracted from the reparations payout equation and a permanent end to affirmative action.

Also reparations must be paid to all relatives of Civil War vets who gave their lives or were wounded in the War......as it was slavery that was the cause of the war, the federal government is liable for nurturing the ill that caused the war itself.

[swheats]

Thanks for the on-scene reporting.

But I talked to a fair number of people here and it's clear to me that there's something going on here. There are a lot of black people in a state of psychological trauma that just hasn't gone away,

ap photo by steve mitchell

psychological trauma inducer.

[kstewskis]

There are a lot of black people in a state of psychological trauma that just hasn't gone away, no matter how many civil rights laws have been passed.

It's not innate psychological trauma. They weren't born with it. They have been weaned and spoon fed poisonous, filthy hate by the likes of Farrakann, Jackson, Flap-jaw Maxine Waters, et al, since birth. Those black extreme racists are the ones who have traumatized their own people.

And I'll be damned if one of them ever accuse me of treating them unfairly or unjustly, and owe them money. And still, it won't be enough. My ancestors weren't even slave owners. I only judge them by the color of their content (aka attitude), not their skin.

[hole_n_one]

The fact that reparations resonate with so many folk is an illustration that something is deeply wrong with the state of race relations in America, and all the right-wing sneering on earth won't make the problems go away.

If it "resonates with so many folk" why was the turn out so miserable?

DC alone has a black population well over 100,000 yet the vast majority who live close by didn't seem too motivated or inspired to show up.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

I love the foolishness of this "reparations" arguement.

1. WE pay the blacks for slavery.
So logically....
2. The English pay the Irish back.
3. The Italians pay the Greeks back (Roman Empire).
4. The English pay the Indians back too.
5. The Chinese pay the Mongoloians back.
6. The Mongolians pay the Arabs back.
7. The Iranians pay the Israelis back (Persian Empire).
8. The Isrealis pay the Lebanese back...this list is endless.

But one major question has me pissed off to no end:

JUST WHY THE HELL AREN'T THESE PEOPLE DEMANDING PAYMENT FROM THE SAUDIS WHO ARE CURRENTLY PURCHASING ENSLAVED BLACK PEOPLE FROM THE SUDAN!!!!!??????

God I can not stand these lying hypocrites.

[kstewskis]

bump!

[Travis McGee]

Exactly. Great observation.

[oyez]

But when I asked several people whether a reparation payment would settle the matter, they said that it would be just the beginning;

I have suspected that all along. This only proves it. Time to but an end to this nutty idea.

Lots of anti-Semitism here.

Crazy. With out Jewish support in the sixties they would be still be marching on Selma. That's right p*ssoff the Jews and see how much media support you get.