Jesse Jackson: Wall Street Built On 'African Burial Ground'

CNSNEWS.com ^ | 1/16/03 | Marc Morano

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[Poohbah]

"At the beginning of the (20th) century, before we had the right to vote, all these [economic] territories were given away - automobile territories, fast food franchise territories, federal licenses, Homestead Act land grants, universities, all of this was given as largess," he said.

They were giving away fast food franchises at the beginning of the 20th century?

[MadIvan]

Wall Street was built on the site of a defensive wall for the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Still, even if Jesse Jackson was speaking figuratively, he's an idiot. What made America an industrial power and developed its industry was ingenuity, not slavery.

Regards, Ivan

[billorites]

Hey Jesse! The check's in the mail.

[mhking]

Gypsy Jackson desperation alert!

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[RippleFire]

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[Georgia_JimD]

This guy needs a padded room....

[Poohbah]

I believe the technical expression (from the Monty Python Fish License skit) is "he's gone off his chump."

[bybybill]

Jessie is a racist, Conyers is an old fool, and both of them are old news. Who cares what they say? They are only hurting their own race by saying their nonsense and , most blacks that are trying to improve themselves, don`t have time for them.

[xsmommy]

honestly, i thought it was an Onion article!

[RLK]

"Wall Street is built on the backs of African people.

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Wall street would exist as it does now regardless of the presence or absence of African people.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Um, Jesse? Wall Street isn't in Africa.

Um, Jesse? People came to America because they were poor, oppressed, and starving overseas. They got better here.

Um, Jesse? American slaves went from slavery to education and economic success in one generation. If not for the DEMOCRATIC Jim Crow laws, we wouldn't have had the lingering discrimination for a hundred years. But even evil forced segregation caused black businesses, black colleges, and the black community. But the REPUBLICAN supported Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended that.

Still, you're a clever opponent. I like your phrase, "the Trent Lott card".

[aristeides]

According to a map in "The Historical Atlas of New York City," the "Negroes' Burial Ground" in 18th century NYC was just north of what was then the city common (what is now City Hall Park). That's several blocks north of Wall Street, and outside the financial district.

Don't anybody tell Jesse, but, according to the map of 18th century NYC in Burrows & Wallace, Gotham, the slave market in 18th century NYC was at the far eastern end of Wall Street, just off the East River docks.

[Exeter]

Sounds like the coffers for Operation Push (a.k.a. The First National Bank of, by, and for Jesse Jackson) are starting to get low, so it's time for his Spring shakedown of Wall Street. But what if this year's theme "Wall Street is a slave cemetary" doesn't play with the investors? What next? Will the "Rev. Jackson" try to declare a boycott of this financial institution?

I just hope that this is the year that someone in New York finally takes off the blinders and realizes that, after all these years, the people who've benefitted most from Jess Jackson's Operation Push/Rainbow Coalition is Jesse Jackson and his family.

[The Wizard]

$10 says Jesse Jackass was an FBI Mole when he was with MLK

[sticker]

Jessie hasn't got enough class to be a FBI mole.

[Adder]

"The shipping companies were involved in the transportation of slaves. Might they not have a legal obligation going back 200 years? That is what I think," Conyers told CNSNews.com.
Conyers noted that lawsuits against the insurance industry for its alleged profiting from the slave trade were already proliferating. "No one is waiting for [attorney] Johnnie Cochran...people are suing the crap out of them right now," Conyers explained."
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The answer to your first question, Mr. Conyers, is a resounding NO!. There is not responsibility that goes back 200 years and you are an idiot to believe that there is.
In response to your second point, they may be suing the crap out of them to use your colorful phrase but they have yet to win a case or to even have any cogent LEGAL arguments. ALL they offer are emotional appeals and skewed history.
You, sir, should take your reparations bill and place it in the hopper....the flushing kind.

[Swiss]

"In 1840, there was more Africans enslaved in New York than there was in Charleston South Carolina," he said. "So if we didn't know all our history, then the conclusion [that blacks deserve reparations] might seem unfair."


And I suspect there was more Serfs in Russia and Prussia than Slaves in America at the time. Russia never gave a cent to the serfs when Tsar Alexander freed them but I think the government did pay the lords that owned the serfs money for their loss of value.

Therefore using 19th Century international actions as a guide it is the decendents of American Slave Owners who deserve reparations, not the slave decendents

[Elsie]

Last time I checked, there is NOTHING keeping ANYONE from LEAVING this country.........