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Debatable: Should blacks receive reparations for past slavery?
Journal Times Online, WI ^
| 2/12/04
| Phyllis Sides
Posted on 02/15/2004 6:33:00 AM PST by schaketo
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To: schaketo
Throughout the history of mankind there have been slaves. My family has been enslaved, your family has been enslaved, and everyone's ancestor at one time or another has been enslaved. I'm not running to the decendants of American slaves for reparations from centuries ago and will agree to call it a wash. Even Steven. Be done with it. They aren't currently slaves, they're parents weren't, nor were their grandparents or great grandparents, so get over it already.
To: xrp
I haven't benefitted from racism, I've suffered. I can't get hired to certain positions because I don't help to fulfill a quota.Same here. I applied for a dream job but after being hired by the district office, the head office denied it because the job had to go to a minority. Never mind a minority hadn't applied and never mind that after another 4 years a minority still hadn't applied.
To: geedee
I don't know any who want one.
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:09:31 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: aomagrat
the use of tax money to fund social services for black Americans and scholarships for African-American students and historically black colleges.Funny, I don't recall hearing of the National Association of White People, the White College Fund, or the White History Month.
To: schaketo
This is a nonsense issue, not even a debatable. None of the slaves are alive. And there are statues of limitations for a good reason. Next are we to turn over this country to the Indians? Some might well argue the case.
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:11:04 AM PST
by
Dante3
To: schaketo
Question: "Debatable: Should blacks receive reparations for past slavery?"
Response: There is no debate. There are no different points of view. There is no room at the table. The big tent has been folded. In other words-no!
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:11:17 AM PST
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(Further, the statement assumed)
To: mtbopfuyn
There is such an organization but there are not nice people, run by David Duke and all. There's nothing stopping white people from applying to any historically black college. People forget WHY blacks had to start their own colleges in the first place, because they were not allowed to attend the regular institutions.
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:13:05 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: 07055
Not to mention that many Blacks are descended from people who enslaved other Blacks shipped over here. Any reparations scheme would have to involve those Blacks paying the ancestors of the other Blacks for this conduct.Let's not forget that most Blacks who were here before the Civil War have white blood somewhere down the line. Thomas Jefferson's and Sallie Hemmings' decendants are a perfect example.
To: Dante3
Beyond the financial, just look through this thread. Reparations will cause more problems than they're worth in terms of resentment and the like.
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:20:39 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: PLK
Try telling my daughter, who is currently filling out scholarship applications for next school year, that she has a "preferential advantage." She is acutely aware of the fact that if her skin was black or brown instead of white, she wouldn't be strapped with thousands of dollars in student loans to pay back after she graduates. White, middle class kids need not apply.A-men!
To: PLK
She ought not to fill out any ethnic/racial categories in the first place. They have nothing to do with education. If everyone did that then universities would get the message.
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:24:27 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: cyborg
Exactly.
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:25:11 AM PST
by
Dante3
To: Rhys Ifans
I think that the advantage of having American citizenship instead of being stuck in Africa outweighs the disadvantage of past slavery.Whoopi Goldberg said she isn't an African American but an American. She'd been to Africa and didn't like it.
To: cyborg
David Duke runs the KKK, not the White organization of the NAACP.
To: schaketo
I was stuck in Monrovia, Liberia because of airplane problems. I met a man whose ancestors were from the
USA and he was sad they had been returned to Africa.
He said that living conditions in Liberia were worse
for the middle class then the poor in America.
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:38:19 AM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(I may grow old but I will never grow up:) 64 going on 19)
To: William Terrell
A reparation plan I can go along with.
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:38:43 AM PST
by
spodefly
(February is Tagline History Month!)
To: mtbopfuyn
He was the founder of the National Association for the Advancement of White People. NAACP is not the organization it was years ago. IMHO, it's closer to be racialist like NAAWP. Does the average person take them (NAACP) seriously? I had someone threaten to report me to the NAACP for playing Rush Limbaugh at my job. I took it as a compliment.
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:41:07 AM PST
by
cyborg
To: schaketo
"Should blacks in America receive reparations for slavery?"
NO!!! Not unless they are ready and willing to see the dissolution of the United States and another Civil War.
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:42:04 AM PST
by
DustyMoment
(Repeal CFR NOW!!)
To: schaketo
while we are discussing reps, i want reps from mongolia
for the treatment of my hungarian ancestors who were
victimized by the mongols, essentially they were slaves.
HUNGARIAN AMERICANS DEMAND REPARATIONS FROM
THE MONGOLIAN GOVERNMENT NOW!!
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posted on
02/15/2004 9:53:06 AM PST
by
jart
(smash statism)
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