[xcamel]

like they even care?

[avacado]

Is anyone apologizing for the mostly Irish slaves shipped to America as indentured servants!?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Reparations: Carbon credits for racial guilt. People who never owned slaves paying money to people who never were slaves.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Jesse illustrates Kipling’s observation, once you pay the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane. There is no amount of money that will make Jesse Jackson and his ilk go away.

[Dudoight]

Don’t you just love it? Jesse Jackson is true to his psychopathology. That particular London Mayor has been an idiot time after time.

[mtbopfuyn]

After bullying London's mayor into apologizing for his city's role in the transatlantic slave trade more than two centuries ago

Oprah made the whites in her audience stand up and apologize for slavery when she did a segment on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Heming's decendants. Somehow she's still luuuuved by the nation, ugh.

[TRY ONE]

And...Jesse asked for double reparations from those F-—— Jew B@stards!

[quadrant]

Anyone reading Horowitiz’s article can detect (if he or she wishes) the logic and validity of his arguments, but those who want reparations are not going to be persuaded to abandon their claims no matter how logical or valid the arguments against such a foolish idea.
Attempts to reason will result in endless debate that will satisfy neither side.
This is an emotional matter that can only be disposed of by a firm and repeated “no”.

[junta]

Its a charade to strip mine the resources of the sheep and concentrate them in fewer hands. Since there is no serious challenge to this game from anyone then it will continue.

[elhombrelibre]

The race grievance industry has been very, very good for Jesse. He’s made a fortune through using it.

[Bogtrotter52]

The only reason poverty pimps like Jackson want reparations is because they are planning on getting a big cut

[rod1]

Has Jackson apologized for mistresses kept on the taxpayer’s dole and little kids, out of wedlock, with missing black father(s)—thinking of one in particular.

[KeepUSfree]

I strongly believe in reparations.

I think we should take the median income of all "African Americans" in the United States and subtract from that the median income of all blacks in Africa.
Then, divide that number in half and the American blacks should pay that sum into the Federal government as "reparations" for helping to get them out of the hell-hole that is Africa and into America.

[RepublitarianRoger]

Afterwards, in his classic mumbo-jumbo non-sequitur rhyme-speak...

"I announce the formation of an organization for the condemnation of the causation of harm to the African Nation by way of abdication for the purposes of subordination, and there-FORE, we demand immediate compensation and a continuation of capitulation for the misapplication of...hey, stop makin' fun of my proNUN-shaysun!"

[hophead]

Only about 5% of ALL blacks taken from Africa during the slave trade came to North America. Yet, we take as gospel that we were the driving force behind the trade. About 80% went to South America and the West Indies.
Any talk of reparations should be directed at those who shipped and received them, proportionally.
http://africanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa080601a.htm

[maine-iac7]

Well, that mayor made one giant mistake. He had the best opportunity to make history by telling JJ to stuff it and high himself back across the pond where, BECAUSE of slavery, he was born in a country where he could become a millionaire instead of running around in the African Bush with the descendant cousins of Kunta Kinteh that Halley found when he went to visit his ancestral homeland of Gambia, on the African Coast. (Whew. 'catch my breath.)

(Maybe I'm looking at all wrong? Maybe I could make a fortune by going to England and shaking them down for what they did to my ancestors?) That is the site of the port where captive blacks were brought (captured and sold to the slavers BY BLACKS) and held until bought by the slavers. The white slavers didn't dare go into the country to capture blacks. Without the 'delivery system', they would've had no trade. It was a 50/50 trade arrangement between the African chieftains and the white traders. But when have we ever heard about the blacks part in this? (I'd wait for an answer, but, as a grandmother, I don't have enough time left.)

Now Gambia celebrates an annual "Homecoming Roots Festival" , per:

"The festival is open to all descendants of black Africans around the globe interested in returning to their “roots” This gives all The Gambians, separated for hundreds of years and thousands of miles, a unique opportunity to experience the life and the cultures of their nation"

So why doesn't JJ and his ilk take advantage of it - and move on over? (But first, JJ is missing a grand opportunity for a shake down of the prime source of the slave trade - in Gambia!)

My direct ancestors were harried out of England almost 400 years ago, after suffering years of persecution, arrests, jailings, confiscation of lands and goods, - even women and children jailed - all because they had the audacity to think they could read and understand the Bible themselves.

Very few of you, I could bet and win, know even a small part of what "The Pilgrims" went through for 2 decades before they sailed in the Mayflower. (Governor Bradford's own words are still available in his published journal: " Of Plymouth Plantation" - but more amazing is the movie made last year, aired on The History Channel, the most authentic = only a couple small glitches = about the entire saga. It's a top shelf movie, photography, drama, and every other wise, even if you weren't interested in the history of it.)

DVD available in Amazon and other outlets

Now I look at this persecution of my ancestors this way: Were it not for them being hounded from pillar to post, from England to Holland to the shores of New England, I would likely have been born in England. I must admit that I am a proponent of Genetic Memory. I have a great affinity for my ancestral home, particularly the countryside of Yorkshire and Nottingham Shires = but the England of today? I am Eternally, with a capital "E", grateful I was not born there.

So I have oft wondered why the blacks in this country today think: "Hmm, but for slavery, I would likely be living in the inland Bush Country in and around Gambia."

And if their answer to themselves comes back, "I've been cheated. I should be in Gambia." - then who is stopping them?

Bottom line: Until they admit that the slave trade was a 2 way deal, that the blacks of Africa first captured and sold their own countrymen for profit, "STFU. Because of it, dastardly as it was, it's long over and you have riches and/or opportunities you would never have had."

(Maybe I'm looking at all wrong? Maybe I could make a fortune by going to England and shaking them down for what their 11th and 12th great great grandparents did to my ancestors? Ya think?)

[Polybius]

After bullying London's mayor into apologizing for his city's role in the transatlantic slave trade more than two centuries ago, Jesse Jackson did what he does best - demand money. At Thursday's memorial commemorating the 200th anniversary of the abolition of England's slave trade,...

The British did not invent slavery.

Slavery existed on every continent, including Africa, since the dawn of History and it still exists in Africa to this day.

The British, however, invented abolitionism coupled with the use of the Royal Navy to put an end to the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

The fact of the matter is that the tribe of Jesse Jackson's African ancestors certainly owned slaves captured from other tribes and that the tribe of Jesse Jackson's African ancestors also profited from selling their captives to the white slave traders.

Back in Africa during those days, some days you enslaved another African and some days another African enslaved you.

Either way, it was Africans selling Africans to the white slave traders.

Jesse Jackson's "reparations" is the reality that he is now fortunate to live in America thanks to that other African who sold his ancestor to the white slave trader.

If that is not good enough for Jesse Jackson, I will gladly pay his "reparations" out of my own pocket as long as he agrees that it is "One Way".

[rabscuttle385]

Jesse Jackson just wants money, and he's going after the boys with the deep pockets.

If he really was against slavery (especially the slavery of blacks), he would start crusading against the ongoing slavery in Africa and the Middle East (in Muslim nations).

But that, good folks, would not be politically correct...plus the U.S. and U.K. governments are easier to target because they will acquiesce (due to the large numbers of girlie men in the governments).

[Neoliberalnot]

If london’s mayor is stupid enough to buy this BS then he deserves everything he gets.

[maine-iac7]

You Tube - great take by Jason Whitlock - a black man - on JJ, Sharpton, etc

http://thebiglead.com/?p=2111

enjoy