Tillman isn't helping debate over slave reparations "I want 40 acres and a Lexus."

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | December 8, 2003 | Laura Washington

[lowbridge]

Tillman is not alone. During the debate over the reparations law, 34th Ward Ald. Carrie Austin voiced her support by declaring, ''I want 40 acres and a Lexus. You can keep the mule.''

Then work for it.

[azhenfud]

"These kinds of remarks make African Americans look like a bunch of operators trying to hustle our way into making an easy buck out of a national tragedy....."

Although not applicable to ALL BLACK AMERICANS, this is quite a brilliant observation. Using the hardships of one's own ancestors to bait a shake-down shows how patheticly despicable these persons are.

"The racial wounds of slavery are real. But as long as the reparations debate is framed around pointless posturing and pandering, they will never be redressed."

Those "wounds" were first begun in Africa, where those "ancestors" sold their brothers and sisters into slavery and murdered those who wouldn't submit. Racism and slavery's evils were far more vicious there than anywhere else on the globe. Reparations - if any - should begin in Africa, but then, that wouldn't afford an easy hustle, would it?

[azhenfud]

Reckon these Yahoo's actually think reparations are due them from the ancestors of slaveholders - an institution which was legal (despicable - but legal) by that day's standards?

Wonder if (unhyphenated) Americans can get reparations from relatives of criminals engaging in illegal activities who've costed countless dollars on the backs of the fed's slaves (taxpayers)?

Next, we'll see reparations for Illegaliens pushed because they "offer so much to our economy".

Oops. Too late. The $400 bil medicare plan did that already with a billion dollar/year subsidy.

[yankeedame]

I want the Italian government to pay me reparations for slavery during Roman times. I'll be waiting by the mailbox for my check.

Better bring one of those folding lawn chairs, it might be kind of a wait. (grin)

[LibertarianInExile]

Patronizing Liberal "her heart is in the right place since we ALL agree with her view if not her method" bump.

[BenLurkin]

" . . . activists rightly argue that America was built on the backs of black slaves . . ."

Nonsense.

[Alouette]

''Who is she to say that things have changed?'' Tillman ranted. ''Things have not changed.

Somebody sell her down the river.

[JustPiper]

Dorothy is our Barbara Lee ;)