Reparations Should Be an Election Issue, Say Activists

New California Media, CA ^ | April 06, 2004 | Staff Writer

[fella]

Weather or ot the War was started over slavery that is what it ended up as. The entire price of that War was the cost paid to give the ex-slaves the full rights of citizanship.

[Howlin]

Hey, TOH; been missing seeing you around......see you on the trial threads!

[The Other Harry]

Weather or ot the War was started over slavery that is what it ended up as. The entire price of that War was the cost paid to give the ex-slaves the full rights of citizanship

I don't think so.

The weather is just fine here in Virginia. You know how long it would take me to go to war against an invading Yankee army? I wouldn't even need to get my clothes on.

How much do you know about the Emancipation Proclamation?

[The Other Harry]

Hey, TOH; been missing seeing you around......see you on the trial threads!

I have been watching them. I just haven't had anything to add.

[gawatchman]

Yeah, cave in to extortion, and that will be the end of it. /sarcasm. You don't deal with terrorists or criminals through appeasement. Your solution will be embolden them to push us even further, and there will be no end to their entitlement programs if whites are held legally responsible for blacks' shortcomings.
I might consider giving them a shekel or two along with a one way ticket BTA after they formally agree to renounce their American citizenship upon receipt of said reparations.

[fella]

I was born in Alington and raised and educated in Falls Church. The battlefields of Northern Virginia and our nations Capitol were my playgrounds. As a child I had several neighbors who had lived through the War and I heard many tales of the yankee depridations and the valor of the South in defending their homes.

[Captain Peter Blood]

You know you might be right. I get so damn tired of all this. Whatever we do it will never be enough. We have spent at least $6 Trillion bucks since 1965 to make things better, etc. and where are we, nowhere. It ain't ever going to be enough money or enough guilt thrown on the whites. SO what is the solution?????

[The Other Harry]

I was born in Alington and raised and educated in Falls Church. The battlefields of Northern Virginia and our nations Capitol were my playgrounds. As a child I had several neighbors who had lived through the War and I heard many tales of the yankee depridations and the valor of the South in defending their homes.

It's a funny thing. Not funny as in humorous. More like odd.

I have never lived in VA until the past two+ years, but my relatives have. I feel like it runs in my blood. There is no other way to explain it.

I respect the Yankees. After all, they did win and they did make sacrifices of their own.

But I would have killed every one I could have killed. They did not belong down here. IMO, they should never have crossed the Potomac. That was asking for trouble.

I see that war as a cultural difference.

[expatguy]

How about some dough for my ancestor's "Irish Need Not Apply" job discrimination?

WOOHOO!!! I have finally achieved victim status!! Where is my money?!

[The Other Harry]

So what is the solution?????

I don't think there is one.

The way I get things, it's best to make friends and to treat all people equally.

[Barlowmaker]

Now that's the wisdom a middle-aged man is supposed to represent!

What do you expect from a guy who planned to vote for Howard Dean ?

[rdb3]

Whoa! That should be anathema, right? Especially if one considers himself to be a conservative.

Thanx. Very revealing.

Show 'em my motto!

[dwd1]

I would say the Indians have a much better case...
There are far too many historical wrongs to be addressed...

The best way to make things right is for the left to stop pandering and for the right to stop beating up on the left about such divisive issues...

Jobs, national security, social security... Those are the issues... However, there will always be those who want to be able to get others to think "n%gger lover!" and sway votes...

[Xenalyte]

On March 20, during the townhall meeting of the Third NDABA conference -- “ndaba” is a word used in South Africa to describe coming together to reach a consensus . . .

Okay, let's go over this again. I'll try to use small words.

If you put a name in all capital letters, like (say) NDABA, you are saying the individual letters each stand for something. Newest Dumbest And Baddest Around, maybe.

If you just like the word, then you do not capitalize it. You are free to call yourself the Third Ndaba Conference from now until we all die of suspense waiting for you to use correct grammar.

[Pagey]

"Reparations is a method by which that which is broken is made whole," Minister Farrakhan told the cheering crowd

No, I disagree, Reparations can't really be a method, though that was a nice try at extemporaneous speech, Louie. Reparations are what people who want something for nothing ask for. Frankly, I can't hear the cries of their ancestors.(that is highly laughable) It's too bad people like Mr. Farrakhan (and don't forget Jesse Jackson) can't encourage black children to: stay in school, study hard, obey their parents,learn a skill, get a job and pay taxes like every other American learns. You just keep your fellow people down Mr. Farrakhan, don't bother trying to encourage them to develop themselves into productive, successful human beings---instead continue (subconsciously)telling them the benefits of feeding off the trough of gov't funds/really keeping them enslaved for their whole lives. That's actually yours and my tax dollars he wants a part of for the uninitiated, thank you very much. (He's a real winner of a leader,isn't he?) How embarrassing. (a very sad 'exhale' for Louis Farrakhan)

[GregoryFul]

Perhaps the advocates of reparations should sue Jesse and Louie for keeping their people enslaved!