Reparations: Overlooking African Complicity in the Slave Trade

FrontPageMagazine ^ | 5-8-2002 | John Perazzo

[Dick Bachert]

Time to get the old reparations scam pot boiling again.

[Zorobabel]

Not to mention the hundreds of black slave owners who lived in the pre-war south.

[TLBSHOW]

Time to bring up the white slave issue

Reparations is a shakedown by Jesse Jackson and his scumbag liberals anti-american NUTS!

[claptrap]

Lest hit whitey up for some cash! Typical lazy good for nothing slobs look at how they live then ask yourself what will they want after they spend all the money on booze and drugs?

[Blackyce]

Ok, now I'm not for repareations or anything like that, but whats the point of this article. "Dont blame us the Africans were doing it too." It really doesnt deflect the blame off the west. Its not as if African-Americans sold ourselves into slavery, we may tend to look a a bit alike, but we're not one and the same group of people you know. If anything the article hold a few probably long-vanished African Kingdoms concurrently responsible. Good luck getting money out of that.

[Chi-townChief]

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[heleny]

Gray Davis is considering reparations in California (which entered the Union as a free state). Since all the slaves are dead, the money is supposed to go to "civil rights organizations." I think he made his announcements in the company of shakedown artist Jesse Jackson.

[Warren]

"after they spend all the money on booze and drugs?"
Well, you know, each race has their own talents they bring to civilization.
Some work hard to invent wonderful things to enrich our lives, and then some others. . . . .

[Maceman]

Ok, now I'm not for repareations or anything like that, but whats the point of this article. "Dont blame us the Africans were doing it too." It really doesnt deflect the blame off the west. Its not as if African-Americans sold ourselves into slavery, we may tend to look a a bit alike, but we're not one and the same group of people you know. If anything the article hold a few probably long-vanished African Kingdoms concurrently responsible. Good luck getting money out of that.

well, following the reparations argument, doesn't it follow that all African assets in the US be confiscated and paid out as reparations? Doesn't it also follow that any grants to Africa's so-called developing nations ought to have reparations deducted before one dime goes to Africa?

What about debt forgiveness? When debt is forgiven, then all of the funds that comprised the debt become "income" (ask the IRS if you don't believe me). So doesn't it follow that to the extent Africa has been enriched by the assets no longer treated as debt, then Africa ought to be assessed reparations for its profit from slavery?

Most important, recognition of Africa's complicity certainly deflates the moral high ground argument of the third world about having been exploited by the uniquely evil western societies.

[big bad easter bunny]

I think we should encourage reparations in the form of a tax break. Eliminate all income taxes on all black people and the corporations they own. After they get it the effect on the economy will be incredible. Then every other person or persons can go after reparations for the hiers being oppressed. Chinese Americans, Jews, Irish, American Indian etc......sooner or later we won't have an income tax except for some poor bastard who can't come up with how his people were oppressed.

[Far Right Of Left]

I've said this before & I'll say it again...I have my checkbook out & will write a $1000.00 check to any living slave.

[Frances_Marion]

"Ok, now I'm not for repareations or anything like that, but whats the point of this article. "Dont blame us the Africans were doing it too." It really doesnt deflect the blame off the west. Its not as if African-Americans sold ourselves into slavery, we may tend to look a a bit alike, but we're not one and the same group of people you know. If anything the article hold a few probably long-vanished African Kingdoms concurrently responsible. Good luck getting money out of that."

I see your point, but the author is just playing by rules which he didn't set up. This article doesn't mention the trans-Meditteranean and Saharan slave trade which the Moors and Arabs had established well before Colonialists even entered the picture...

[Tao Yin]

You might want to clarify that offer; Slavery still exists in the world today.

Makes me wonder why there are still people worrying about slavery that ended more than one hundred years ago…

If all of these reparations movement people got together and tried to help those still enslaved, the world would be a better place. But I guess they’d rather divide our nation. Because I’d be personally offended to have to pay any part of reparations (directly or indirectly), and I’m sure there are many many people who feel as I do. Reparations would not help blacks (sociological fact), but it would hurt race relations.

[MEGoody]

The point of the article seems to be that if one chooses to demand reparations of one party to enslavement, then all parties should pay up. The 'kingdoms' may have vanished, but the ancestors of the citizens of those kingdoms are still around. Seems more just that they should pay reparations than I, whose ancestors never owned a slave. I don't expect to have to pay a single dime in reparations, neither directly nor indirectly through higher prices charges by the companies who are receiving the 'shake down' from so called civil rights leaders.

[1bigdictator]

The black community is ignorant to the Muslim complicity in starting and maintaining the slave trade w/ colonists in the new world. North African Arab Muslims kidnapped whole tribes of black animists from Central and Western Africa and transported these people to be sold on the Ivory Coast to settlers of the new world. Spielburg's movie Amistad chronicals some of this trade. It is ironic that african americans refuse to scrutinize Islam's role in starting the slave trade w/ America.

[El Sordo]

I'm a slave to love. Now where's my check?

[Far Right Of Left]

Clarification- I've said this before & I'll say it again...I have my checkbook out & will write a $1000.00 check to any American of African descent living slave.
"A hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts 'Native' before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance."
Theodore Roosevelt

[mhking]

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[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Excellent article.

I've been against any more "welfare" reforms based on RACE since this whole notion raised its ugly head.

The Africans who were brought here.. whose ultimate freedoms were fought for by MANY WHITE people, are very lucky to be living in this country. If they don't believe it.. then maybe we should offer them ONE KIND OF REPERATION.. "A FREE ONE WAY TICKET BACK TO AFRICA".

Otherwise..shut up!! Then try to eek out a living like all the rest of the decent hard working people in this country!!

HECK!! If I hadn't lost Ancestors who fought for Abolition of Slavery.. I might be richer too!!! GEE!! Maybe all of us need REPERATIONS TOO!!!

Hey.. (ka ching.. ka ching.. visions of George Washington with a green background) come to think of it, I'm also CHEROKEE and IRISH!!!! (Hmmm.. a house on a Lake, a Big RV..) let me rethink my position a while!!!