The Millions For Reparations Rally: A Grand Success (delusional alert)

The Black World Today ^ | 8/25/2002 | Conrad W. Worrill

[pupdog]

My high estimate of 10,000 people was higher than anyone else's. Some media talked about the "hundreds" that showed up for this.

Really, is there even any need for comment? Is it not clear from this that Mr. Worrill would have called it a "grand success" if only he and his roommate showed up for this?

There's another article on the site from someone who is a little more lucid in looking at this, and who basically says, "Uh guys, this isn't working." Tis a shame that not everyone can do such a good job as this in discarding their filters.

[Militiaman7]

Did you ever post the Kill Whitey Tshirt picture?

[pupdog]

Did you ever post the Kill Whitey Tshirt picture?

I'm still waiting for it to come back from the photo developers (took the wrong roll in, doh!) Don't worry: if it comes out, I'll definitely be posting that pic here. If it exists I should have it here by the weekend at the latest.

[Militiaman7]

Thanks

[What Is Ain't]

If this article is representative of the tone and accuracy of this 'zine I propose a name change to: "The Black World Yesterday."

[Pylot]

I am delighted that the notion of reparations is finally getting the light of day.

You see, I have documented proof that some of my ancestors actually died to secure the freedom of these oppressed blacks and I have long wondered to whom I should send a bill for the services of my ancestors.

I feel it is my honor bound duty to see that justice is done.

And 40 acres and a mule ain't gonna cut it.

[upchuck]

The Honorable Louis Farrakhan

Uh-huh.

[BIGZ]

Someone should teach these people history. The slave trade was was originally from Arica East by the Muslim nations not from Africa West as seems to be the perception at the rally. I would go after the Muslims first as they are the primary cause of slaves being taken from from Africa.

To put it all in perspective over 3.5 million slaves went to Brazil alone as opposed to the 430,000 that were landed in North America.

. The blacks that came to North America won the Lottery. In no other country in the World do Blacks have the opportunity that is available to them in the US. Education, Senators , Congressmen, Lawyers, Judges, Businessmen, on and on.

[IronJack]

This lie will be allowed to percolate through the news establishment until it assumes a legitimacy it doesn't deserve. The actual number, from eyewitness accounts, was closer to 5,000. Now, since liberals all have two faces, I can see how that number could jump to 10,000. But even drinking the electric kool-aid that this ilk does, you can't get 50,000 from that crowd.

Unless some of Calypso Louie's spaceship brethren were visiting.

[A CA Guy]

That was more like 5,000,000 people, wasn't it? LOL

[Phantom Lord]

Every media estimate I saw of the numbers put it in "the hundreds" and one even said it was "A couple hundred".

[Corin Stormhands]

My high estimate of 10,000 people was higher than anyone else's.

I was packing for vacation, but when I flipped through the channels and caught the "crowd" my estimation was about three hundred. But I can't find any pictures that show a full shot of the "crowd."

I did find this from PMSNBC: Aug. 19 — Labeled “Millions for Reparations,” Saturday’s rally at the Mall in Washington was attended not by millions, but a crowd estimated at several hundred to several thousand. Some will doubtless interpret the low turnout at an event organized to press the demand for compensation to the more than 12 million American citizens who are descendants of African slaves as evidence of indifference. They will be wrong.

They can spin it anyway they want. But what they have is an idea whose time won't come.

[spodefly]

50,000???

When they are done "kicking down the doors", "slapping"/"killing whitey", "taking what whites own them", and are living in "that house on the hill with a 2002 coupe de ville", maybe then they will get around to learning how to count.

[Pagey]

" Being a Victim is a one time event,not a Lifestyle "

Ohhhhh,that is good,I mean Great.That statement should be on T-Shirts,Billboards,Bumperstickers.The question should be:What is the Major difference between Republican and Democratic Dogma? Answer: "Well,For A Republican Being a Victim is a one time event,NOT a Lifestyle".Oh my, I can't wait to drop that into a conversation.Thank You!

[spodefly]

I wish I could claim credit for it, but the actual phrase appeared in an article written by a black man in response to the reparations rally ... I did make the graphic below, and the high res version has been printed onto stickers ... they have begun appearing wherever reparations-minded folk tend to gather. :)

[Libloather]

It was never intended or expected that a million African people in America would attend the rally. However, it was our contention that at this stage of the Reparations Movement, millions of African people in America support the idea that African people in America are owed Reparations.

This is so kewl. It's my contention that everyone in America get free cable TV. How many Americans can I get to sign up for that - a few million? Oh, yeah...

[sharkdiver]

Did the "Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan" care to pontifficate upon his current standing on black Muslims in Sudan kidnapping and forcing other black muslims and Christians into slavery. What is his position of muslim and Christian women and teenage little girls being forced to become prostitutes. When can we expect "Minister Farakhan" to travel to Africa to demand reparations for the current people forced in slavery. HHHHMMMMMMM when when when...By the way what college did he study at to be granted the title of minister?

[Guillermo]

50,000 people? LOL, more like 500.

The rally received support from the members of N`COBRA, the New Black Panther Party, the UNIA, MATAH, the Nation of Yisrael, The House of the Lord Church, Trinity United Church of Christ, Congressman John Conyers, Councilman Charles Barron, Councilwoman Sandy Allen, Alderman Lionel Baptiste, Dr. Ron Daniels of the Institute of the Black World, Henry English of the Black United Fund of Illinois, Bill Merritt of the National Black United Fund, Dr. Carol Adams and the Center for Inner City Studies of Northeastern Illinois University, and State Senator Donne Trotter...

OK, add these to the Enemies List, if they're not on there already.

[Higgymonster]

My mother is a genealogist and she found that five of our ancestors died while fighting for the North against slavery. I was just getting ready to sue somebody when she told me that we also had five ancestors who died fighting for the South. I was just getting ready to sue myself but after much deliberation have decided to settle.

Lucky that it wasn't four of one and six of the other or I'd be in court for years and of couse mad about how I've been mistreated.