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jerm 0
QuoteScore one for the good guys. Liberals everywhere must be going into convulsions over this! Can't wait to hear some jewels of wisdom from leftist talking heads on this!
i gernally fall into the 'liberal' category when it comes to arguments on dz.com, but then the 'conservative' contingent here see to fall slightly to the right of pat buchanan. But i digress.
Even given my tree-hugging hippie status on these boards, i still think the whole slave reparations idea is one of the most assinine lawsuits i've heard of in a long time. If these people put half the energy they're spening on this lawsuit into helping and destitute slave descendants get educated and emplyed rather than looking for a handout for a bogus charge.
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oh yeah, and slavery sucked, it never should have happened to anyone.... but i never owned a slave, and i bet none of the current officers, stock holders, or employees of those companied did either. How on earth are they responsible for the actions of their ancestors?
Landing without injury is not necessarily evidence that you didn't fuck up... it just means you got away with it this time
rhino 0
Reparations = LAZY BASTARDS WANTING SOMETHING FOR NOTHING..
JohnRich 4
Quoteever heard of the NAACP? About as Liberal as they come.
I found the attached poll on the NAACP web site:
71% don't think the issue of reparations for slavery even needs to be studied, but 26% think that it should. So even the large majority of blacks seem to think that this idea has no merit.
I'm unable to find any kind of organization policy statement on the issue.
The only mention that appears in the search feature is this:
"Some of the resolutions adopted included... contacting the White House and the State Department to actively participate in the United Nations World Conference on Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Reparations."
Oh great, now the U.N. wants in on the action. Just one more reason to kick the U.N. out of America.
And it's interesting that they would pass this resolution, despite the fact that their own poll indicates 71% of their members don't think it should be an issue...
JohnRich 4
QuoteOh great, now the U.N. wants in on the action.
Here's some stuff from the U.N.:
"The Abuja Proclamation observed that the damage caused by slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism 'is not a thing of the past, but is painfully manifest in the damaged lives of contemporary Africans from Harlem to Harare, in the damaged economies of the black world from Guinea to Guyana, from Somalia to Suriname.' It argued that a moral debt is owed to African peoples and called for 'full monetary payment ... through capital transfer and debt cancellation.'"
Read it, and gag:
Africa Recovery
Some of my ancestors fought in the Civil War to free America's slaves. I wonder if this would exempt me, as their descendant, from having to pay a UN "slave reparations tax"?
QuoteQuoteever heard of the NAACP? About as Liberal as they come.
I found the attached poll on the NAACP web site:
71% don't think the issue of reparations for slavery even needs to be studied, but 26% think that it should. So even the large majority of blacks seem to think that this idea has no merit.
I'm unable to find any kind of organization policy statement on the issue.
The only mention that appears in the search feature is this:
"Some of the resolutions adopted included... contacting the White House and the State Department to actively participate in the United Nations World Conference on Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Reparations."
Oh great, now the U.N. wants in on the action. Just one more reason to kick the U.N. out of America.
Yep, nothing but a money grab, just like the tobacco lawsuits.
RoadRash 0
So, what these nitwits are saying is that because my family owned land along the Mississippi in the late 1600s (yes, the late 1600s, probably 1690s), then my family and I should have to pay somone money they haven't earned...
...No offense, but if they want to sue me...they can have the measely $8.00 left in my bank account...'cause that is all their cause is worth...This crap gets brought up every once in a while and it always burns me up...
...I have spoken to people whose ancestors were slaves and they say that they don't care about reparations, and that it is a waste of time and resources...
On a lighter note: A guy in one of my history classes (who is black BTW) said he hated the idea and also said that people today should not be punished for the mistakes of the past...I say good show man!!!!
P.S. My greatest of grandparents named the plantation "Hard Times" for a reason...
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...No offense, but if they want to sue me...they can have the measely $8.00 left in my bank account...'cause that is all their cause is worth...This crap gets brought up every once in a while and it always burns me up......I have spoken to people whose ancestors were slaves and they say that they don't care about reparations, and that it is a waste of time and resources... On a lighter note: A guy in one of my history classes (who is black BTW) said he hated the idea and also said that people today should not be punished for the mistakes of the past...I say good show man!!!!
P.S. My greatest of grandparents named the plantation "Hard Times" for a reason...
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