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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the chairman of Afro-American studies at Harvard and is demanding that whites pay reparations to blacks for slavery. Fred Reed is reporter that presents an interesting essay on this subject. This is a good read!!!!! Subject: How Many Slaves Do You Own??? For those of you unfamiliar with Fred Reed, he's a police reporter for one of the large Washington newspapers....... Anyway, Fred publishes (published) a weekly online column in which he Got to say the things his editors would never, ever have let him write in the paper. His stuff is iconoclastic and various...

<p>Some of the wags with whom we regularly converse expressed concern nearly two years ago that a dire day soon would arrive for the American people. And they weren't referring to Sept. 11.</p> <p>What they were referencing was the Congress of the United States giving credibility to the incredible — the drive for reparations for black Americans. And the reparations train is being driven by a most unlikely shillaber.</p>