[Republican Red]

I think the issue of reparations is a BIG thorn in the side of the Democrats. They can't win on this one and I, for one, would love them to get caught in their own web of deceit.

[Consort]

The current US Supreme Court should settle this issue and then retire.

[Gorzaloon]

They really owe MY ancestors a fortune then.

They worked hard and created businesses that generated revenues, jobs, and taxes in the trillions.

That is why I am such a victim today...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I think its just a matter of time before reparations are a central plank in the Democrat platform.

[Piquaboy]

I think that the DNC should pay them.

[G.Mason]

Will these people ever assimilate?

[Question_Assumptions]

We've finally hit the point where a substantial part of the population believes that the road to success is a matter of winning the lottery, not working hard.

[RFP]

Hmmm, this works both ways though: The Mississippi state legislature didn't ratify the 13th amendment until 1995 because they were upset about not being reimbursed for the value of their slaves. I'd love to see someone with guts (and kahonees), like David Horowitz, argue reparations from this angle. Like el Rushbo always says, illustrate the absurd with absurdity.

[rhombus]

Consideration should be given to suing the Democratic party for its creation of a welfare system that destroyed African Amerian families.

[Rebelbase]

"R.J. Reynolds Tobacco"

As much as the extortionists would like to rape Reynolds Tobacco, it is'nt going to happen.

The company was started in 1875 by Richard Joshua Reynolds. When slavery ended in 1865, RJR was only 15 years old.

[TakeitBack]

I think all those who toiled for hours on end, under horrific conditions, for meager pay, during the Industrial Revolution should also be seeking reparations. Well, of course, all of those people are long-since deceased - but hell, I could use the money. Don't listen to me though - I'm a racist: I'm prejudiced against the color of Greed.

[BIGZ]

You thought the Civil War was tough. Wait until you see the Backlash created by Reparations if it ever passed.

In any event part of the reparations deal if you take the money you return to the country of origin.

[muir_redwoods]

I think reparations, as a concept, provides good intellectual fun. For example,(and I'm stealing this idea from a columnist whose name escapes me)I want $300K in reparations from Spike Lee for being dipped in chocolate and thrown from a third-floor window. It didn't happen to me and he didn't do it but I want the money.

Another idea, During the Civil War, the North had the manufacturing base due to their market economy supported by paid labor. The South was largely agrarian without a developed market economy due to a lack of paid laborers in the middle class. It makes perfect sense in our litigious society for the States of the former Confederacy to sue the decendents of the slaves who crippled their economy.

I find the whole idea of reparations racist. People who looked like me wronged people who looked like present day African-Americans and I'm supposed to pay up. During the time of slavery, my ancetsors didn't own shoes much less slaves. My ancestors were grubbing about for potatoes while their British landlords systematically dispossessed them and tried to starve them into emigrating.

[hgro]

Intelligent Americans of African origin are not the ones asking for reparations. Its the blood sucking mentally stunted element of their race who think they can capitalize on the slave trade of the 1750 to 1850's.

[SC Swamp Fox]

"Lawyers and plaintiffs in the suit say financial compensation is the only way to make up for present-day differences between blacks and whites -- disparities in such things as home ownership, educational attainment, health status and life expectancy."

No, no! They need to compare the decendants of U.S. slaves to the descendants of blacks that stayed in Africa.

Oh. That wouldn't lead to the result they are looking for, would it?

[SC Swamp Fox]

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[jmaroneps37]

If you look at just COMBAT deaths sustained by Union soldiers only ( since the Confederates were the slave holders and the Union was the liberators),this country paid a price of 77 body bags full of it's best young men every single day, without a single break, for four years. The Union was just twenty million people in 1860. If we lost the same proportion of combat deaths today, it would mean over one million such body bags. We have paid in blood in full. Case closed.
Some last thoughts: Since Derick Jeter is half Black and half White would he be ordered to move some sum of reparations from his right pocket to his left? Would those who are one quarter Black, three quarters White, have to pay 50% reparations ( since 25% Black would cancel out 25% of his White background?). Stupid? So is reparations except as a way to kill the rat party once and for all.