Democrat Earl Jones
Democrat Larry Womble
Posted on 04/14/2005 6:40:24 AM PDT by Flint
RALEIGH -- Companies seeking state contracts would have to examine their pasts under a bill approved by a House committee Wednesday.
The measure would require companies to determine whether they profited from the 19th-century slave trade in the United States.
Democratic Reps. Earl Jones of Greensboro and Larry Womble of Winston-Salem championed the bill. If it became law, companies would have to submit an affidavit stating their research findings but would not have to take specific steps if they should find they profited from slavery.
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And people wonder why many think life is too short, to do business with the government.
This is fairly stupid. How many companies have been around since before the Civil War?
Unbelievably stupid. Legislators who introduce this sort of garbage should be removed from office.
Hmmm. I wonder if the North Carolina state government ever profited from slavery.
Now THAT'S clever!!!!
BUMP!
Voters who elect legislators who introduce this sort of garbage should be disenfranchised.
Exactly!!!!!! I'd bet 10 to 1 that the representatives are black. This is a first step in slavery reparations. How can something like this pass? Look at how uneducated and ignorant the masses are. Keep watching American Idol and Pimp my RIde America, it shows.
NC news ping.
Unnngh!
Democrat Larry Womble
You just beat me to the punch. I knew it! Keep watching what happens. As soon as ONE company shows some kind of slavery connection, BAM! Law suit and it's on like a chicken bone.
Government contracts are handed out to the lowest bidder or minority and the quality of work and production goes to hell. You always get what you pay for.
Yes, but that was before Reconstruction so it doesn't count./sarc
Hand out for handouts!
Seems like the biggest profiteers of all are being overlooked: The African war lords who stole the land from rival tribes and then sold them into slavery. In fact, displacing people is still on the agenda of most of the African dictators today. One never hears about reparations being demanded from these thugs, or their ancestors - and that is where it all began.
The City of Chicago has had such a law for about 3 years now. Insurance companies keep getting caught. Apparently there are many present-day insurance companies that grew by buying up smaller companies around the nation, as far back as before the Civil War, and there were a number of them in the South back then that insured slaves as property. I forget what the penalty is.
Instead of focusing on the dead and the innocent, why not demand a litmus test and detailed background investigation for the politicans and judges?
Members of the N.C. Racial Justice Network, along with Greensboro City Councilman Earl Jones, who also represents the NAACP, and the Rev. Nelson Johnson of the Greensboro Pulpit Forum, sharply questioned the three school board members on their reasons for voting in favor of the plan. Harding Edwards, the other black member on the 11-member school board, voted against the plan. Jones told the three men that they should have "a black agenda" on the board. "White schoolchildren are already being taken care of. Black children are the ones who are hurting the most," Jones said. "Black school board members should be steadfast in looking out for a black agenda."
Oh, now THAT'S a big suprise! Morons and the morons who vote them in......incredible!
...and a similar bill was recently passed in Philadelphia. (As if Philly can afford to sacrifice more business).
Since the NC State government, and government at all levels in NC profited from Slavery shouldn't that preclude NC from engaging in these contracts?
Isn't this something that the Civil Rights division and prevent from happening? I remember that during the Nixon administration Nixon had John Mitchell send men down south to make sure that the the civi rights act was enforced, and isn't civil rights under the law for all citizens and not any of one particular color?
So if the answer is yes, it's all a total waste of time. (I wonder if this new policy also applies to illegals getting below minimum wage...)
FReegards...MUD
No. These grandstanders are not wasting their time. If they can find worthless apologetic White North Carolinians to go along, they will be able to force companies to do research for them, which will later set them up for the next demand! This is about forcing others to do the research for the agitators.
Anyone, White or Black, who votes for something like this should be targeted for defeat on the basis that they are trying to stir up--or willing to stir up--racial antagonism for a political end. I suspect that if the campaign to defeat all such persons were handled right, the overwhelming majority of North Carolinians, of every race, would support replacing the grandstanders.
Of course, it is not my business as an Ohioan--at least not directly. But it is very important to all of us that the people of each State stand up to those who are trying in every way that they can to trash respect for heritage. They have been picking us off a few at a time, with different devices, and the sudden interest in an institution that ended almost 140 years ago, is just one more example of the technique.
For more on this particular aspect, see Creating Hate In America Today.
William Flax
free dixie,sw
It's all about money. 50 years from now, will there be a reparations act for all those "non-quota'd" folks passed over, denied "access" because of "preferential affirmative action"? Again, it's all about money and power.
MurryMom still lives?
I'd have thought that by now she'd have walked in front of a bus or tried to wash her toaster while it was still plugged in, or something like that.
MurryMom -- that's a name I haven't seen in awhile. What ever happened to this pathetic moron?
Until somebody with a spine stands up to these scumbags, they'll keep on picking and picking. Nobody is stopping them so, heck, why not?
It's always all about race...
I tried to find Bios on Womble and Jones but was unsuccessful. But knowing the good ole boy nature of the NC Legislature and those elected to it, I would venture that they are born and raised southerners. Correct me if I am wrong.
There are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The modern commerce in humans rivals illegal drug trafficking in its global reach and in the destruction of lives.
Read about Child Sex Slaves!!<
Tennessee in June 1861 became the first in the South to legislate the use of free black soldiers. The governor was authorized to enroll those between the ages of fifteen and fifty, to be paid $18 a month and the same rations and clothing as white soldiers; the black men appeared in two black regiments in Memphis by September.
Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia, Ervin L. Jordan, Jr., (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1995) pp. 218-219
Citing the official US Census of 1830, there were 3,775 free blacks who owned 12,740 black slaves. Furthermore, the story outlines the history of slavery here, and the first slave owner, the Father of American slavery, was Mr Anthony Johnson, of Northampton, Virginia. His slave was John Casor, the first slave for life. Both were black Africans. The story is very readable, and outlines cases of free black women owning their husbands, free black parents selling their children into slavery to white owners, and absentee free black slave owners, who leased their slaves to plantation owners.
-"Selling Poor Steven", American Heritage Magazine, Feb/Mar 1993 (Vol. 441) p 90
Of course, a full telling of Black History would not be complete without a telling of the origin of slavery in the Virginia colony:
Virginia, Guide to The Old Dominion, WPA Writers' Program, Oxford University Press, NY, 1940, p. 378
"In 1650 there were only 300 negroes in Virginia, about one percent of the population. They weren't slaves any more than the approximately 4,000 white indentured servants working out their loans for passage money to Virginia, and who were granted 50 acres each when freed from their indentures, so they could raise their own tobacco.
Slavery was established in 1654 when Anthony Johnson, Northampton County, convinced the court that he was entitled to the lifetime services of John Casor, a negro. This was the first judicial approval of life servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
But who was Anthony Johnson, winner of this epoch-making decision? Anthony Johnson was a negro himself, one of the original 20 brought to Jamestown (1619) and 'sold' to the colonists. By 1623 he had earned his freedom and by 1651, was prosperous enough to import five 'servants' of his own, for which he received a grant of 250 acres as 'headrights.'
Anthony Johnson ought to be in a 'Book of Firsts.' As the most ambitious of the first 20, he could have been the first negro to set foot on Virginia soil. He was Virginia's first free negro and first to establish a negro community, first negro landowner, first negro slave owner and as the first, white or black, to secure slave status for a servant, he was actually the founder of slavery in Virginia. A remarkable man." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/famous/johnson.html
I found the reference, out of Michael A. Hoffman II's "They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America" : Joseph Cinque was himself a slave trader, selling his fellow blacks into this horror after he himself was set free by a US court.
Amistad producer Debbie Allen calls this destabilizing fact a "rumor." She'd better. If the thinking public, black and white, discover that "noble" Cinque later sold his own people in the very manner he condemned, then there will be a second mutiny, this time against Spielberg and his shameless hoaxing.
Here is Samuel Eliot Morrison, one of the most distinguished of American historians, writing in his "Oxford History of the American People,"
(New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, 1965), p. 520:
"The most famous case involving slavery, until eclipsed by Dred Scott's, was that of the Amistad in 1839. She was a Spanish slave ship carrying 53 newly imported Negroes who were being moved from Havana to another Cuban port. Under the leadership of an upstanding Negro named Cinqué, they mutinied and killed captain and crew. Then, ignorant of navigation, they had to rely on a white man whom they had spared to sail the ship.
"He stealthily steered north, the Amistad was picked up off Long Island by a United States warship, taken into New Haven, and with her cargo placed in charge of the federal marshal. Then what a legal hassle! Spain demanded that the slaves be given up to be tried for piracy, and President Van Buren attempted to do so but did not quite dare.
"Lewis Tappan and Roger Sherman Baldwin, a Connecticut abolitionist, undertook to free them by legal process, and the case was appealed to the Supreme Court. John Quincy Adams, persuaded to act as their attorney, argued that the Negroes be freed, on the ground that the slave trade was illegal both by American and Spanish law, and that mankind had a natural right to freedom.
"The court with a majority of Southerners, was so impressed by the old statesman's eloquence that it ordered Cinqué and the other Negroes set free, and they were returned to Africa. The ironic epilogue is that Cinqué, once home, set himself up as a slave trader."
(End quotation from historian Samuel Eliot Morrison)
BLACK SLAVEOWNERS
http://americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveowners.htm
Child slavery today in West Africa?
http://gbgm-umc.org/nwo/99ja/child.html
Slavery throughout historyhttp://www.freetheslaves.net/slavery_today/slavery.html
"To pursue the concept of racial entitlement--even for the most admirable and benign of purposes--is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American."
--Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take it away from those who are willing to work and give it to those who would not."
Thomas Jefferson
Perhaps the group that had the strongest vested interest in seeing the South victorious were the black slaveowners. In 1830 approximately 1,556 black slaveowners in the deep South owned 7,188 slaves. About 25% of all free blacks owned slaves. A few of these were men who purchased their family members to protect or free them, but most were people who saw slavery as the best way to economic wealth and independence for themselves. The American dream in the antebellum South was just as powerful for free blacks as whites and it included the use of slaves for self-improvement. They bought and sold slaves for profit and exploited their labor just like their white counterparts.
Richard Rollins
After their capture one group of white Virginia slave owners and Afro-Virginians were asked if they would take the oath of allegiance to the United States in exchange for their freedom. One free negro indignantly replied: "I can't take no such oaf as dat. I'm a secesh nigger." A slave from this same group, upon learning that his master had refused, proudly exclaimed, "I can't take no oath dat Massa won't take." A second slave agreed: "I ain't going out here on no dishonorable terms." On another occasion a captured Virginia planter took the oath, but slave remained faithful to the Confederacy and refused. This slave returned to Virginia by a flag of truce boat and expressed disgust at his owner's disloyalty: "Massa had no principles." Confederate prisoners of war paid tribute to the loyalty, ingenuity, and diligence of "kind-hearted" blacks who attended to their needs and considered them fellow Southerners.
Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. A History of the South Fourth Edition, Alfred A. Knopf 1947, 1953, 1963, 1972 by Francis Butler Simkins and Charles Pierce Roland P. 125-126 BEGIN QUOTE: Abolitionist assertions that the bondsmen were frequently inadequately clothed, underfed, and driven to death are economically unreasonable. Masters wished to preserve the health and life of their slaves because a sick Negro was a liability and a dead Negro was worth nothing. A rough plenty prevailed on the average plantation. “The best preventive of theft is plenty of pork,” was the advice of a Virginian. Slaves probably fared as well in the enjoyment of the necessities of life as did most of the free laborers of the country. One of the most respected of all Northern critics of slavery, Frederick Law Olmsted, wrote that the Southern bondsmen lived in quarters quite as adequate as those of most mill or mine workers elsewhere, and that the slaves were perhaps the best fed “proletarian class” in the world. He also testified that they worked less than did free laborers. Incomplete statistics reveal that the slaves averaged somewhat higher sickness and death rates per thousand than did Southern whites as a whole. But the slaves were from all indications as healthy and long-lived as white common laborers in the United States before the Civil War. It was general knowledge at the time in Louisiana that the slaves were better off in these respects than were the thousands of Irish immigrant laborers engaged in clearing land and digging drainage canals on the sugar plantations. The planters were reluctant to commit their expensive chattels to this dangerous work, but preferred to hire free laborers, whose loss by death, sickness, or injury cost nothing. A careful study of the figures on a group of 875 plantation slaves whose records are preserved indicates their average life expectancy at the time of birth to have been longer than that of the general population of such cities as New York, Boston, and Philadelphia during the same period. An authority on urban slavery concludes that the medical care, health, and welfare of slaves in Southern cities were superior to the care, health, and welfare of the free Negroes; and the outstanding work on the life of Negroes in the North at this time shows that they fared no better in such matters than did free blacks in the land of slavery. END QUOTE
North Carolina is run by a bunch of lunatics, just as our national government is.
I can tell these idiots one thing: The good ole American tax payer spring is running dry. If reparation is given to anyone it will be given by the American tax payer, not corporations or businesses, who merely pass the costs on to their customers.
The combination of these blacks and illegal Mexicans who are standing with their hands out, taking every dime Americans make is going to destroy this country. Have they never heard of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs?
a scalawag is the LOWEST FORM OF LIFE. NATURE is UNKIND to turncoats & scalawags.
even a damnedyankee is above a scalawag.
free dixie,sw
Being that a "damn yankee" is defined as a yankee who moves to the south and doesn't leave, of which I am one, could you let me know how I am a racist?
dixie[><]ping
Punishing people who happen to work for companies that profited from something done nearly 100 years before any employee was born.... Yeah, that makes sense! </sarcasm>
Actually it's "damned yankee" and "___ damned yankee" Of which you are the second lol.
Not meaning to be insulting, just setting you straight on what the 2 classifications are :)
a damnyankee is a SOUTH-HATER, who SINCERELY believes that everyone/everything in dixie is SUBSTANDARD and/or LESS WORTHY, when compared to similar persons/institutions in the north.
one truly hopes you do NOT fit that description!
we call NON-damnyankees, who happen to be originally from the north, TRANSPLANTS or adopted southerners.( or in TX, WINTER TEXANS, if they only spend the winter down here.)
being NORTHERNBORN no more makes you a DAMNyankee than it makes you a plumber. damnyankee is a LEARNED PREJUDICE against dixie, her bloodstained battleflags, her memorials to WBTS dead, our institutions, our mores,our culture, etc,etc,etc.
free dixie,sw
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Because any legislator who votes against it will find him/herself the victim of race-based ad hominem attacks when the next election rolls around?
It's not really taken seriously...it's just voted for.
“There is (a) class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their (the black people’s) wrongs – partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs . . .”Booker goes on to say: “There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out, they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."
Nonsense. A d***yankee is one that moves South and tells us we do everthing wrong, and/or tells us how to live.
Pity Carolina and the do-gooder influx.
Great information!
I will have to bookmark this post for later use. Thank you very much!
I moved to NC from NY just shy of 9 years ago and it would take an act of God to get me to move back, and even then I would resist and question God's motives.
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