Regards, Ivan
"Well, let me say this to you. It's interesting that they would take that out of my speech. I think everybody knew there that was what we call improvision - oratorial improvision and black hyperbole. And y'all wouldn't understand that 'cause you're uptight and you're gonna take it where it was not intended.
Everybody at the rally laughed. White stage hands and camera people laughed. When I came off the stage, I shook hands with whites who were there and they congratulated me on a great speech. No one has taken that serious but you."
He didn't mention whether the $6 trillion spent on the War on Poverty since 1965 would be considered a down payment.Not to mention the the payment in BLOOD - hundreds of thousands of lives lost, on the Union as well as the Confederate side, during the War Between the States.
Earl Hillard.
Cynthia McKinney.
Charles Barron?
Clean the kooks out of the government.
Bring it on. Start by burning down your own neighborhoods, like you usually do, you stupid bastards.
The questions are endless...
Oh, please, please.
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I guess I'm one of the few white devils who agree that reparations are in order. A comparison should be taken to examine the opportunities available to them here in the land of oppression and disenfranchisement versus the squalor, lawlessness, and utter hopelessness that exists throughout their ancenstors land of milk and honey. Then they should PAY US reparations in gratitude of our forefathers' delivering them from their "motherland". Of course, I've never seen any evidence that any of my ancestors were involved in slavery, but I still want the cash - I guess it's a white thing for my mental health.......
"The ancestors of all of us came across that same ocean in some ship. We must learn not only to live together, but learn to see one another as people rather than as stereotypes."
ALEX HALEY
Thank you, Alex. Guess this covers my Ellis Island ancestor connection as well.
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Nowadays, black racism is tolerated if not supported outright, so comments like this one go unremarked in the mainstream media.
So it goes.
Barbara Stanley: Reparations -- No Matter
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: August 21, 2002
Author: Barbara Stanley
Recently, the United Nations ok´d the idea of reparations for slavery in America´s history and a rally was held to trumpet that cause in DC. No matter that the United States Constitution protects those not proven guilty of a crime from paying penance; no matter many of today´s citizens are children of the waves of immigration that occurred in the early part of this century and never owned slaves; no matter slavery was begun in Africa by blacks selling blacks to Arabs. No, no matter that this notion, on its face, is illegal, unjust or ineffective to race relations today. And, no matter that America was the country which brought about the beginning of the end of slavery.
I guess, to be specific, since black Africans sold the first black African slaves, any reparations granted, though illegal, would be paid back by the very folks who lay claim to receive. Huh? Slavery, then, is a completely African black/Arab issue. Why am I in this mix? I never owned a slave; never would enslave another of any race, color or creed; am already taxed to the max by an oppressive confiscatory system and am somewhere between a serf, who gives two thirds of his labors and a slave who gives one-hundred percent as I pay a combined state and federal tax of 52¢ out of every dollar earned, myself............."