Posted on 04/23/2010 12:08:14 AM PDT by lbryce
If Obama is this country’s reparation for slavery, we have overpaid.
Glad to see this issue getting press although it cries for wider, frequent attention.
The lame arguments I’ve heard from Democrat is that the Africans sold their brothers and sisters into slavery because:
The Europeans dangled beads or what not in their faces and they simply couldn’t resist.
Or the Africans sold their own because they had no other way to acquire goods and services.
Or the Africans sold their brethren because the Europeans threatened to kill everyone.
Oh no, the African slave traders could not possibly have been greedy, hateful bas*****! They had to learn how to be that way from the white Europeans (hope I don’t have to add the sarc/ tag here).
According to these excuses Africans were apparently the most stupid, immoral, unethical, childish, barbaric race in the world which is just how Democrats view black Americans.
When you can find me a slave to “reparate” I’ll gladly cut them a check. Until then, get off your damned soap box you evil bunch of extortionist race baiters!
And, yes there were arabs involved, but there were also Jews involved (mainly based in the Caribbean), as well as Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English and French, amongst others.
If Black Studies Departments have uncovered these truths and Gates publicizes them, then perhaps they have, after all, served a good purpose.
Anyone - and that means ANYONE - with so much as two gray cells to rub together considers the very idea of reparations a particularly sad, pathetic, and rather sick joke.
From the Chicago Tribune (March 2007):
Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas. But an intriguing sliver of his family history has received almost no attention until now: It appears that forebears of his white mother owned slaves, according to genealogical research and census records.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0703020128mar02,0,1435954.story
I would be very cautious about giving Gates any credit. His racist views of America are well-known, and there is likely some other motive than just telling the “truth” at play here.
When Barry Soetoro hauls his behind all over the planet apologizing for his Kenyan (Luo-arabic/muslim) ancestors selling off the Christian Kikuyu of Kenya on the slave markets on the road to Mombassa, then that will be an honest day.
As for me and mine, we didn’t believe in slavery, never owned, worked, or SOLD a slave in the history of our family.
In fact my ancestors were slaves of the Welsh peerage in Britain...where’s my blasted reparations from the oh great ones across the sea? They never asked for reparations, they were just blessed to get out of the place.
Although I share your view, just reading what is in this column must be seen as somewhat heartening after the decades of lies and victimology.
It’s the “quiet” racists that are the most damaging.
...let him rant!
My white GGGGG-Grandfather was a member of an Federal Eastern Tennessee Calvary Unit. He and his brother and a brother-in-law were all executed by their neighbors for not fighting for the South. These guys have never been given any recognition or thanks by anyone. Slave reparations, how about reparations for all the white families whose men died in the Civil War. I guarantee the blacks of this country only know and have been taught only their slave history and nothing about the sacrifices of other groups on their behalf.
Your story illustrates my point exactly. I’m sorry for the losses your family has suffered. It’s a national tragedy that this type of sacrifice gets absolutely no attention whatsoever.
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