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THE DEBT: WHAT AMERICA OWES BLACKS: Is America ready to pay reparations for its sins of slavery?
eurweb.com ^ | 07/03/08 | William Reed

Posted on 07/03/2008 5:20:26 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3

Segments of Americans are gearing up to oppose Senator Barack Obama because they fear he will be more considerate of the debt America owes to Blacks.

Anti-Obama whites, in particular, are concerned he’ll get into the White House and put Blacks on track for “a reparations gravy train.”

CNN debate moderator Anderson Cooper put Black Reparations on track to be a part of the presidential dialogue during the South Carolina Primaries.

The African-American vote in South Carolina was very important, and that made the reparations question relevant in the Democratic Debate. At that event former Senator John Edwards said “ I'm not for reparations…but I think there are other things we can do to create some equality that doesn't exist in this country today” he said, going on to talk about inequities African Americans experienced paying mortgages in Charleston, S.C., where the debate was held.

When Cooper asked Sen. Barack Obama about reparations he sidestepped a yes or no answer instead preferring to redefine reparations to make it part of a broader conversation about economic justice. “I think the reparations we need right here in South Carolina is investment, for example, in schools.” Obama said.

To corner Obama and nail all the candidates down, Cooper asked for a show of hands and questioned: “Is anyone on the stage for reparations for slavery for African-Americans?” The only “yes” came from Congressman Dennis Kucinich who said: “The Bible says we shall be and must be repairers of the breach. And a breach has occurred. We have to acknowledge that. It's a breach that has resulted in inequality in opportunities for education, for health care, for housing, for employment.”

From then on, reparations have been an issue in the campaign. America owes Blacks $700 billion to $1.9 trillion for unpaid labor that built the country’s infrastructure, including the U.S. Capitol. While Obama dodges the issue, his “old church, Trinity United Church of Christ, lists “The Debt: What America Owes To Blacks, by Randall Robinson (Penguin Putman Inc., 2000) as recommended reading”. In The Debt, Robinson argues that America still owes an enormous debt to Africans and African Americans for the incalculable damage that backs have suffered and continue to suffer as a result of two hundred and fifty years of slavery and segregation.

Barack’s birthright brothers many whites; but Wautella Graham of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) breaks the question of slavery into four categories of involvement: victims, collaborators, perpetrators and beneficiaries and makes the point that, “Even immigrants and people whose ancestral line contains no slaveholders should pay reparations, since every American benefits from slavery.”

Slavery victimizes free blacks to this day. All American people are responsible for the debt America owes.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: extortion; obama; racehustlers; reparations; reveseracism; stickittowhitey
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To: VRWCmember
The first place reparations should begin is with the descendants of the BLACK Africans that captured other black Africans and sold them to the British.

And don't forget the middlemen -- the Muslims.

Never understood African-Americans taking Muslim names?
61 posted on 07/03/2008 6:01:07 AM PDT by Beckwith ('Typical White Person')
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To: whitedog57; cookcounty

no,no,no

start with their own FAMILIES in Africa who sold them to the white men

All the slave ships were is only a second part in this, the slave traders the third, the buyers the fourth

go for the FIRST party in all this, the very people of Africa who sold them in the first place.


62 posted on 07/03/2008 6:01:57 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty; The Pendleton 8: We are not going down without a fight)
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To: TornadoAlley3

How about this, $100,000 to every black who will accept it along with a one way ticket to any African country and a permanent denunciation of their US citizenship and they can NEVER return.


63 posted on 07/03/2008 6:02:09 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

How many hundreds of thousands died during the Civil War? Our country tore itself apart to atone for an evil practice brought here from Europe. I’d say we’re well in the black.


64 posted on 07/03/2008 6:03:24 AM PDT by Washi (Support the country you live in, or go live in the country you support.)
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To: TornadoAlley3
Slavery victimizes free blacks to this day. All American people are responsible for the debt America owes.”

Do a DNA test on those wanting reparations to see where in Africa their ancestors came from. Then send them back there. Problem solved.

65 posted on 07/03/2008 6:03:56 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Little Ray

With his 20 years of warming a pew in Rev Wright’s hate-whitey church, I believe that he would, but not in his first term where it would destroy his re-election chances.


66 posted on 07/03/2008 6:03:57 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: kellynla
Correct.

And for any reparations for Jim Crow, please apply to the DNC.

67 posted on 07/03/2008 6:03:57 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: Snow Eagle

same here.

my mother is 3/4 indian.

i never got a cent from being indian or even native american, as some call themselves.

i would have appreciated in-state tuition after i was accepted to a ph.d program.


68 posted on 07/03/2008 6:05:38 AM PDT by ken21 ( people die + you never hear from them again.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

There is no money. We are already in debt so far the only way out is total economic collapse.


69 posted on 07/03/2008 6:06:01 AM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: Little Ray
...by the Portugese

I forgot about them specifically. Thanks for the reminder

70 posted on 07/03/2008 6:06:40 AM PDT by YellowRoseofTx (Evil is not the opposite of God; it's the absence of God)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Rather than take the time to make a logical and consistent argument against reparations (which won’t be listened to by those arguing for them anyway), I simply say, “NO”.


71 posted on 07/03/2008 6:08:50 AM PDT by ex-NFO
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To: TornadoAlley3
THE DEBT: WHAT AMERICA OWES BLACKS: Is America ready to pay reparations for its sins of slavery?

They can all kiss my lilly white ass, Im not paying them a cent. They should be forced to pay me for putting up with their stupid shit. Reparations...yeah you bet.

72 posted on 07/03/2008 6:09:34 AM PDT by Snurple
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To: ex-NFO

Exactly

NO!


73 posted on 07/03/2008 6:10:09 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: TornadoAlley3

““Even immigrants and people whose ancestral line contains no slaveholders should pay reparations, since every American benefits from slavery.”

So blacks benefit from slavery?

”Slavery victimizes free blacks to this day.”

Rice, Powell, Thomas???

Pure BS - simply an attempt to steal money.


74 posted on 07/03/2008 6:10:22 AM PDT by driftdiver
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To: Blood of Tyrants
How about this, $100,000 to every black who will accept it along with a one way ticket to any African country and a permanent denunciation of their US citizenship and they can NEVER return.

Now that I would go for, but they wouldn't.

75 posted on 07/03/2008 6:11:48 AM PDT by Snurple
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To: TornadoAlley3

If the Government forces us to pay reparations, then I predict there will be a violent backlash from White America. It will be time to overthrow the Government. Before long, you will see things like are happening in Zimbabwe right now: squatters claiming property that is supposedly theirs due to the sins of the ancestors of the current owners.

Reparations are reverse slavery. I will NOT be a slave.

Also, once could argue that we have been paying reparations for decades in the form of various social programs.


76 posted on 07/03/2008 6:16:47 AM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yes, but how much would you have to deduct for room and board?

I’m sorry, that was very very tasteless, but so is forcing immigrants who came here in the late 1800’s and further on to pay for something they had absolutely nothing to do with. Heck, my family has been here since the early 1600’s up in Maryland and Virginia, but *I* still had nothing to do with slavery.


77 posted on 07/03/2008 6:18:49 AM PDT by autumnraine
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To: TornadoAlley3

Let’s see, reparations for slavery, minus the billions wasted in the war on poverty and after-school programs, etc., leaves a hefty balance due the American taxpayer. Hmm, how will I spend my refund???


78 posted on 07/03/2008 6:21:23 AM PDT by mass55th
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To: puroresu

Native Americans had slaves as well. When a warring tribe won a battle, the women and children were taken in as slaves.

How does that reperation work? They were slaves to the same race, different tribe. And it flip flopped too. Back and forth.


79 posted on 07/03/2008 6:22:03 AM PDT by autumnraine
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To: TornadoAlley3

America does not owe any debt to blacks.

It’s an ignorant thought.


80 posted on 07/03/2008 6:22:26 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain -- Those denying the War was Necessary Do NOT Support the Troops!)
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