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Call made for slavery reparations from abroad
The British Virgin Islands Beacon ^ | March 6, 2014 | Bailey Penn

Posted on 03/06/2014 7:29:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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Yes, he's serious.
1 posted on 03/06/2014 7:29:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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“Britain, to pay 72.5 trillion pounds sterling to resettle 500,000 Jamaican Rastafarians in Africa”
That figure is NOT serious.


2 posted on 03/06/2014 7:35:13 PM PST by griswold3 (Post-Christian America is living on borrowed moral heritage)
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I know! I know what they want!

Everybody with a "smidgen" of black blood gets to own a white slave!

I'm right, aren't I?

3 posted on 03/06/2014 7:37:50 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If Barack Hussein Obama entertains a thought that he does not verbalize, is it still a lie?)
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I know! I know what they want!

Everybody with a "smidgen" of black blood gets to own a white slave!

I'm right, aren't I?

4 posted on 03/06/2014 7:37:56 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If Barack Hussein Obama entertains a thought that he does not verbalize, is it still a lie?)
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I favor reparations for enslaving of ancestors. My ancestors were enslaved and pillaged by Romans, Vikings and English. I need to investigate. The Romans may have done it vicariously. If so, they Italians can write a slightly smaller check.

I'd like checks from Italy, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and England. When I get those we can talk about possible compensation for others who, like me, were never enslaved.

5 posted on 03/06/2014 7:38:00 PM PST by stevem
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Well, since less than 5% of African slaves were shipped to what is now the USA, the USA only has to pay 5% of the total amount, right?
6 posted on 03/06/2014 7:38:23 PM PST by freerepublicchat
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Since whites pay the vast majority of taxes for all the wonderful welfare programs, that is already happening.


7 posted on 03/06/2014 7:40:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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“Reply Made From The United States” - piss off.


8 posted on 03/06/2014 7:43:58 PM PST by Billthedrill
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Since Arab slave traders were very much involved in the slavery of a large number of Africans, I agree to pay my fair share, as soon as ISLAM pays through the nose!


9 posted on 03/06/2014 7:45:14 PM PST by Kansas58
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While realizing the ‘instigating’ countries have virtually nothing.....

If there are going to be Reparations shouldn’t they start with the tribes that tracked down and sold the slaves to the ‘Transporters’?

Considering by the time they got to say New Orleans, they had been sold (or bartered) about 3 or 4 times so by the time they got to the ‘Plantations’ they had been enslaved for a while.

Maybe somewhere in there we can find a few pounds for the Irish that were transported here (in steerage by the way, with conditions about the same as the passage from Africa) to do the bidding for the British ‘Masters’.


10 posted on 03/06/2014 7:46:37 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98 --In CNNs (feeble) mind, EVERYONE that doesnt ask for more Kool-Aid is bullying BO)
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Re: Call made for slavery reparations from a broad”.

What is the broad’s name? I’ll send her a free ticket back to Jungleland.


11 posted on 03/06/2014 7:49:37 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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The number of Africans seized and exported as slaves is no where near this made up number. Prof. Adams of Howard Un. read the shipping manifests of the slave ships that he could find in Cuba, Portugal and the US and concluded that it was physically impossible to ship that many people across the Atlantic with the small number of ships involved in the slave trade.

Remember, a slave ship returned EMPTY and each trip took weeks or months, each way, so 50% of these transAtlantic trips contained no human cargo.

These supposed figures have been used by black marxists and racists/reparationists for years, without any proof from the ship manifests mentioned above.

How do you say “SCAM” and self-promotion con-job looking for a well paying job?


12 posted on 03/06/2014 7:56:15 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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They sold their own people. Maybe they can get those people to pay?


13 posted on 03/06/2014 7:59:01 PM PST by boycott
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In Africa hey sold their own people into slavery.

In this country there were thousands of blacks who owned slaves. Some were slave breeders and sold their own offspring into slavery.


14 posted on 03/06/2014 8:02:53 PM PST by ladyjane
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After its Civil War, the United States promised to compensate the freed slaves with acres of land which many did not receive, and the lands of many who did receive were taken back from them to be given to the white immigrants who arrived later.

I have no clue what he's talking about here.

There was never a formal promise of land made to the slaves.

Freedmen who acquired land often were pressured to sell it back to white men, or killed it they refused. But those white men were very seldom, if ever, immigrants.

15 posted on 03/06/2014 8:04:47 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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Something about General Sherman and 40 acres & a mule or some such. Fine, we have LOTS of land in Alaska, Idaho and etc. and I’m sure the mule ranchers will be happier than hell to sell us several million.


16 posted on 03/06/2014 8:06:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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who the hell cares what this nit-wit thinks or wants????


17 posted on 03/06/2014 8:17:30 PM PST by terycarl (common sense prevails over all else)
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Reparations?


18 posted on 03/06/2014 8:17:31 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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Making a quick buck off great-grand daddy’s suffering.


19 posted on 03/06/2014 8:34:47 PM PST by Politicalkiddo (Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. -M. Twain)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

From the way he puts it, slavery in Africa sounds almost fun! Why, a slave might one day become chief of the town that enslaved him!/sarcasm


20 posted on 03/06/2014 8:46:07 PM PST by Frank_2001
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