Meet Obama's Reparations Model

American Thinker ^ | 6-04-08 | Lee Cary

[Renfield]

While some question the impact of preaching from the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ on Senator Obama's thinking, the influence of one of Trinity's most recommended authors on Obama is clear.

Three of Randall Robinson's books are available for purchase on Trinity's website. One, entitled "The Debt: What America Owes To Blacks," is particularly important to understanding Obama's notion of reparations.

So who is Randall Robinson?

He's a Harvard-educated lawyer, author, and civil-rights activist born in 1941. Robinson is described by Wikipedia this way:

[hellbender]

The ancestors of most white Americans lived for centuries in a degree of poverty far worse than what is seen in American urban ghettoes. People died like flies on projects like the Erie Canal. Whites died like flies in the Civil War. Walk through a Colonial-era cemetery, and you will learn of the appalling child mortality among whites in those days. All over New England, people cleared mountainsides by hand and dragged huge boulders into stone walls. None of those whites lived by the labor of blacks, nor did they enjoy any kind of wealth.

There is no line between what Obama and his mentors want, and what Mugabe has achieved in Zimbabwe. We are looking at the imminent destruction of Western civilization.

[mathurine]

Black leadership, in general, adamantly opposes the rearing of Black orphans by non-Black families. Perhaps this would lead to their attendance at schools systems, churches, etc. outside of the ghettos, break the mold that the race pimps want to preserve, and actually give the kids a break.

[rbg81]

Blatent reparations (payments to blacks for being black) will probably never happen because they will always be in the minority and the majority of the rest will not feel responsible enough. One could argue that reparations in the form of improving infrastructure and schools in minority areas is a rolling process that has been going on since the 60s. The effect of this is questionable. In the 80s, Kansas City made a massive investment in school infrastructure (mostly benefiting Blacks), but it had no measurable impact on achievement.

What many minorities fail to realize is that attitude is everything. If your attitude is that the world owes me a living, then you have no shot at catching up—only the race hustlers will benefit.

[NoobRep]

How come the reparations crowd never talks about their African ancestors that eagerly sold their own as slaves?

[xtinct]

Regarding Randall Robinson's complaints about South Carolina's schools and urban schools in general ---> Why didn't Robinson and other highly educated Blacks go into teaching instead of using their talents to join the ranks of chronic complainers who do NOTHING to improve the Black experience???

Obama will NOT get away with this type of BS.

And, for the record, America does NOT owe reparations to descendants of slaves or the hangers on who pretend to be descendants of slaves.

Furthermore, American citizens are NOT responsible for people who have for centuries been unable to pull themselves up by their boot straps and work for a living.

[BigCinBigD]

I will agree to reparations when I can get a refund with interest for Great Grand Pappys field help. I still have the receipts if it helps.

[capydick]

I’m still waiting for Hussein to be asked on national TV for his stance on reparations. Has he ever been asked?

[Altura Ct.]

civil-rights activist

I love how this moron and also the MSM(wait, is that the same thing?) use these terms "civil-rights" and "activist" without question and act as if that makes anything and everything these people push or harp about as altruistic and morally sound. Just what exactly is an "activist" anyway?

[bdfromlv]

and there were only about 25 million of them not 300 million. Git er done.

[Don Corleone]

He's a Harvard-educated lawyer, author, and civil-rights activist born in 1941.

Can't we get an 'earmark' to pump out that septic tank that is Harvard? Its beginning to stink!

[bdfromlv]

his half brother the co president of Kenya will be making the family money.

[M1D]

If blacks sue for slavery whites should sue for Geri crime

[M1D]

If blacks sue for slavery whites should sue for negro crime

[ken21]

i have an old woman friend, a democrat-tv watcher, who thinks and fears

that obama will be assassinated.

i don’t get it.

[PGR88]

Here in New York, we pay $14,000 per year, per student, for education, (I believe it is the highest per capital spending in the world) so that half of the students can fail.

[AmericaUnited]

And the billions in social welfare costs the past 6 decades?

Try 'trillions'.

[angkor]

A large segment of Pflager'speech last week was dedicated to reparations, though that part wasn't shown or even discussed in most forums. I ran across this larger video somewhere on YouTube. It's pretty shocking.

[normy]

As I read the article my blood began to boil. My three children are white as are my parents and grandparents and their grandparents. I look at my kids and see an evil is designed for them based on their skin color and I don't like it.

Then I realized that programs and money diverted to blacks will only cause them to trust in government instead of God. It's another dirty government trick to enslave black people to the government dole when so many are beginning to escape based on hard work and their own merit. These are the things that set blacks back. When 270 million American see 30 million getting special treatment based on race, how can they respect any accomplishment they make?

Treat each man as a man and that is it. Hard work trumps all government subsidies. Trust the Gospel for your welfare and safety and not politicians.

[nfldgirl]

Why should I have to pay for something that my ancestors did not participate in?

Because as Fr. Pfleger said: we've all benefited from slavery (or some such garbage to that affect).

[driftless2]

Concerning reparations what many Freepers have to remember is that most leftists believe in the zero-sum paradigm: we’re rich because we took wealth from other peoples around the world. I know it’s a crazy theory, but many leftists passionately believe it (just go to DummyUnderground the last place I heard this imbecilic nonsense). So redistributing all our “ill-gotten” gains is justified in their minds because we took it from them in the first place.