Setup for reparations discussions anything but fair for the con side

The Baltimore Sun ^ | Originally published Nov 24, 2002 | Gregory Kane

[vannrox]

IWALKED OUT of New York's Penn Station right into a horde of bodies that couldn't quite avoid smashing into each other along 7th Avenue near 34th Street. After about 20 minutes, I figured the driver who was supposed to take me to Queens wasn't going to show.

So down into the subway I went, to hop one of those cars to Queens that former Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker said were so horrible. (The ride wasn't that bad.) My debating partner, Congress of Racial Equality national spokesman Niger Innis, picked me up in Queens, and the two of us headed for the Rev. Floyd Flake's huge church.

[vannrox]

Hum...

[Sparta]

They want their 40 acres and a mule, give it to them, then kick them out of the country.(The ones who take reparations that is.)

[VMI70]

"The pro-reparationists get about five, six, or seven on their team. They square off against one or two on the con side."

Sounds like about an equal match to me.

[Abcdefg]

Doesn't the 14th Amendment guarantee equal treatment under the law? How could the courts justify treating non-Blacks differently than Blacks when it comes time to collect the money or to disperse it? For that matter, how could affimative action exist?

[What Is Ain't]

My sincere thanks to Gregory Kane and Niger Innis for challenging these shakedown artists.

[Jarhead_22]

They want their 40 acres and a mule, give it to them, then kick them out of the country.(The ones who take reparations that is.)

How about 40 acres in Iraq and a mule? As well as a voided US passport.

[Sparta]

I like that suggestion.

[Jarhead_22]

I'm here to help.

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[kcar]

I'm sure Hillary will promise her 40 acres of ass. (somebody censor me please).

[goldstategop]

In all this they never show a single ounce of gratitude to God for making them free. Its all about dollars with these folks.

[Petronius]

Why don't we devote a day to urinating on the graves of those who died in the Civil War. To sensitive patriots like myself, this is far less offensive than reparations.

[demosthenes the elder]

can't, but I will *censure* you!
BAAAAAD kcar!
how dare you infliuct upon my virgin mind such an horrific mental picture as that... of acres of cottage-cheese textured lumpen pasty buttocks...
>turboyak/projectile vomiting commences<

[demosthenes the elder]

and, of course, some of us come from families which consisted of dirt-poor whites, or of post-emancipation immigrants (or, like me, both) who would find reparations nothing less than theft, to be treated as such.
I have said it before and will say it again: anyone coming to my door demanding anything from me as "reparations" for slavery had better be wearing a kevlar bodysuit.

[Eternal_Bear]

but, but...don't you feel the pain? (absolute sarcasm)

[okie01]

"My sincere thanks to Gregory Kane and Niger Innis for challenging these shakedown artists."

With a special thanks to Gregory Kane. As an anti-reparations black man, he can't have many friends in the workplace at the Baltimore Sun.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

However, the way blacks were treated after the end of slavery does deserve reparations, and in many cases there is documentable history. Sadly, there is so little knowledge of our history in this country that most people can't even imagine what went on, though it's all right there in the record.

But what butters my biscuit is how the IRISH were treated in Philadelphia by the land-owning blacks who were afraid that the unclean Irish would destroy their city.
Church burnings and hangings were the order of the day, but you won't hear that mentioned anywhere...
Because nobody can conceive of blacks doing things like that. Especially not to 'white' people.