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

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

[Centaur]

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

Heck he doesn't have enough class to be a star-nosed ground mole.

[badfreeper]

A & W was first, started in 1919. The only requirement for franchisees was that they buy the company's root beer syrup and carry a few signature items. Other than that the franchisees could do whatever they wanted to, with no royalties to pay beyond buying the syrup.

Were they more organized, like the chains that started in the 50s, A & W would probably be the biggest now.

[MadIvan]

"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.

Those who were shipped are dead, thus no plaintiff is around, nor even any member of their immediate families, around to make such claims.

Kindly shut up, Mr. Conyers. Race baiters like yourself are the true purveyors of division and hatred.

Ivan

[maica]

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.

Jesse, Conyers and Rangel are scheduled to speak at this Saturday's anti-war rally in DC. They will be giving even more publicity to their irrelevance and malevolance.

[aristeides]

I wonder if any of those shipping companies is still in business.

By the way, under U.S. federal tax law, there is no statute of limitations, shockingly, for tax fraud. Since corporations remain the same legal person for as long as they survive, it is thus in theory possible for the federal government to make a tax claim against a corporation for tax fraud committed in 1910, say (the current federal corporate income tax antedates the 1913 income tax against individuals by a few years.) When I clerked for the U.S. Tax Court, eight or so years ago, I actually saw such a case decided for the government concerning alleged tax fraud allegedly committed by a real natural person from the 1950's.

[Godel]

But the North never had slavery so how do blacks have anything to do with Wall Street?

Remarks like this are racist because they imply that a small minority 12% had a larger impact on the prosperity of America than everyone else.

[Puppage]

ALL YOUR BURIAL GROUNDS BELONG TO US

[Guillermo]

IMO, the more press he gets, the better.

[astounded]

Was Jesse Jackson drunk? That is the only valid explanation I can come up with for his lunatic ramblings.

[SunnyUsa]

"Jackson compared opposition to slave reparations to denying the holocaust."

Classic apples and oranges comparison.

Jackson and the black caucus socialists are nothing if they are not dividing the country on racial lines.

[aberaussie]

But the North never had slavery

I am not certain this is true...however, I am sure that northern shipping interests transported Africans for slavery....

[PokeyJoe]

"It's easy to dislike the people that are opposed to the positions that I raise," Conyers said.

In other words, Conyers is not in a contest of ideas. He is a member of the vast left-wing conspiracy engaged in the politics of personal destruction. In his world, anything that advances his position is good, and anything or anybody that hinders his position is evil.

Those who are against racial discrimination of any kind are "hated" for the mere fact of being idealist, and believe in equality before the law.

[hchutch]

Jesse Jackson's getting desperate. Maybe he sees the IRS sniffing around...

[Taxman]

". . . the content of their character."

Jackson (I will not denigrate the term "The Reverand") is a bigoted, shameless race baiting hustler con-man & pimp. He is delusional, to boot. Why anyone, black or white, would so much as give him the time of day astounds me. We know the content of your character, Jesse!

[Turbodog]

Winning reparations would put JJ in the Guinness Book of World Records for the biggest shakedown in history.

[Constitution Day]

But the North never had slavery so how do blacks have anything to do with Wall Street?

This link is not about Wall Street, but the Yankees most certainly had slavery.

Archaeology Magazine, Sept-Oct 2001: "Yankee Slavery"

"New Salem was one of many New England plantations that were part of the so-called triangle trade, in which rum was shipped to Africa and exchanged for slaves, who were brought to the West Indies and exchanged for molasses, which was shipped back to Rhode Island to produce more rum.
Some ten percent of slaves brought to the New World ended up in the North.
'Our written history suggests that there was no such thing as slavery in the North,' says (archaeologist Gerald) Sawyer.
'But our Connecticut site was not working in isolation--enslavement there could not work without a global colonial political system behind it.'"

[dennisw]

Real deal is every black American should be down on his hands and knees and kissing the ground. The best deal Jesse Jackson ever got was when his slave ancestors were shanghaied to the United States and worked under the hot southern sun. Was a rotten deal for his slave ancestors but a great deal for all Black people living here today. Sure beats living in Africa. White people (Asians too) are able to set up free, prosperous countries while the African continent is littered with failed nations. Soaked with blood from tribal wars.

My people came here penniless, didn't come here as slaves and I'm grateful to be born in the USA.

[twigs]

Thank you for that information. I think it answers a question I've long had. I'm from an area that made a lot of moonshine earlier last century. Someone once told me that there was still a lot of that money there and many old families take great pains to hide its source. I never understood why something from so distance a time would affect people today.

More pertinent to our discussion, will this affect slavery reparations that is increasingly in demand?

[TommyDale]

Yeah, my great-great grandfather had 230 McDonalds franchises in Manhattan alone!

[TommyDale]

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

More like a pimple on their butt. That's why they call him "pimp" for short.