Pictures from Reparations March (1.33M total download)

Me | 8/18/2002 | Me

[pupdog]

Posted mainly to prove crowd size, which I honestly estimate as higher than what the news said, possibly as high as 10,000 (5-7K more likely). And also to showcase certain items. There might be one picture forthcoming of the woman wearing the "Kill Whitey" shirt. I'll post it if I can.

There are extremely large pictures of all of these, but I'm not quite ready to post them yet, and will add them to the web site when I can, along with actually writing a longer post-mortem. I just wanted to get this out for now.

We Won't Pay

[mhking]

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[Paul Atreides]

I find it hilarious that they think they can extort reparations from W, with VOTES!! Like they would vote for him anyway. Notice they also include an insult towards W, in the extortion.

[mhking]

This photo confirms part of what I suspected about yesterday -- that for many, it was nothing more than an opportunity to make money by fleecing other suckers unsuspecting attendees...

[Fraulein]

What's up with the sign that says:

For reparations for Africans worldwide

[Tennessee_Bob]

Apologize White America???

I'd be happy to apologize, once someone tells me what I did that I need to apologize for.

[Sungirl]

And I want to win the lotto.

[ivanhoe116]

What's up with the sign that says: For reparations for Africans worldwide

Get hip man, this is not about America.

[NEWwoman]

Question: Didn't Lincoln give each ex-slave 40 acres of land?

Wasn't that reparations made directly to people who actually were slaves?

If this beef is legitimate, I'd say reparation has already been made in a most timely.

[goldstategop]

I'm sure if President Bush handed over his wallet, the good folks holding up that banner would corrall blacks into voting for him in November 2004. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[Pern]

I am honestly ashamed of of myself, I as a white man (kinda) have caused all these people their woe's. Here let me take out my checkbook and make a payment. (Yeah, sure)

Freaking freeloaders. Doesn't anyone want to actually WORK for a better life? Oh, no! Work? Heaven forbid!!

[APBaer]

"Black African Americans who are the best friends you have ever had."

Now I know I'm in deep sheeeet.

[IronJack]

From these pictures, I'd judge 2,000 tops. But it is difficult to do from ground pictures. You'll never hear them admit it, but this has to be disappointing to the master baiters who put on this side show.

[billbears]

I saw this yesterday live and had to keep turning away because it angered me so much. Didn't get to see Calypso 'Spaceship' Louie but I did see the head of the New Black Panthers and then Prince Israel. Now answer this for me. Farrakhan blames Jews for about everything he can't blame whites for, yet a black man who claimed he was the leader of the Israel nation(?) is standing up stage giving a prayer in Hebrew? What's wrong with this picture? Does Farrakhan blame those Jews as well? Or just those with a different skin tone? I think he could be a little clearer in his speeches as to 'which' Jewish people he is racist towards

Besides that, the 150 million supposed dead and 100 million dying on the ships over to the North American continent. I remember reading somewhere the impossibility of those numbers based on the number of ships. Anybody have a link to that?

The other issue is the demand for international reparations and how they are going after those that profited from the slave trade internationally. Does that mean they're going to sue the nations of Africa and the descendants of those Africans that sold rival tribes into slavery? I mean the men on the slave ships didn't go into the deepest darkest parts of Africa to get these men and women. They were being sold on the shores by their enemies!!

[xJones]

G.W. Bush if you want our vote in 2004.

You have to admire those loonies in a strange kind of way. They think that Bush taxing every other American to pay off blacks for sins that the rest of living Americans never committed would win him the election in 2004? Oh yeah. And I notice how small the turn-out was for the rally. Nobody's that dumb except for the would-be hucksters.

[xJones]

Does that mean they're going to sue the nations of Africa and the descendants of those Africans that sold rival tribes into slavery?

Of course not. This is all about hucksters going after money and they aren't going to get a penny out of Africa, everybody knows that. Think deep pockets and idiot American liberals. It won't work though, and yesterday's turnout should tell the organizers that the joke is up. They need to find another rip-off con artist game and Jesse Jackson is the master of that.

[lawdude]

Aren't reparations measured in grains of lead? Welcome to 'em.

[palmer]

Partly. There was an agency to sell or lease land to former slaves, but the 40 acres and a mule was more rhetoric than reality.

[kaylar]

Yes, it would be very wise of GWB to throw away the white, asian, hispanic, and 'other' vote (more or less 88% of the population) for the sake of the black vote (12% of the population). Very logical.< /sarcasm>

[goldstategop]

I believe it was called The Freedman's Bureau, an agency set up by the Republican Congress after the Civil War to help freed slaves adapt to freedom. The reparations proponents won't mention this for to them there is nothing good to celebrate about America. As far as they're concerned blacks have been and are still the victims of the white man's rapacity.