Blacks file slavery suits against U.S. firms

yahoo ^ | Tuesday September 3 | Bill Rigby

[NMFXSTC]

"To ensure that things be decided without regard to race, creed, color, sex, or national origin, we insist that nothing be decided except according to race, creed, color...."

Somewhere along this line, someonew has to draw a line...it's nonsense and chewing up the tax dollars that could be saved by ridding the nation of an ungrateful bunch of biggots (the blacks themselves!)

[GaryMontana]

Perhaps we should also look into the blacks paying the Jews reperations for Slavery in Egypt. Farhakan says that blacks ruled Egypt. Since blacks ruled Egypt, they first need to pay the Jews for slavery for their bondage in Egypt. Once the blacks do this, than we can look into paying blacks for slavery in the USA. Until than the black community has not right to bring up this issue.

Once the blacks first pay the Jews, and than the blacks get paid reperations I want reperations payment for the fact that my relatives fought in the Civil War to free Slaves (Wisconsin and Michigan Iron Brigade Units).

My wife had relatives fight in the Iowa units during the Civil War. She deserves reperations for their service.

Every black person who gets reperations must send a big part of their money to the decendents of the Union Soldiers who sacrificed so much to free them

[APBaer]

I would like to hear Simon Legree express his views.

[sit-rep]

I would agree only if we insert "80% + of blacks themselves".

There are some out there who are more or less embarrassed by their brothers and sisters...I hope

SR

[A CA Guy]

Maybe there can be a movement to finance the suits against these companies with monies to provide ONE-WAY tickets back to where ever any of these bozos think they came from!

[Isle of sanity in CA]

How can you sue for something that was totally, completely legal and in fact mentioned in the constitution? While slavery was morally wrong, it was completely legal and sanctioned by the govt. Either I'm completely misunderstanding the legal system (which is highly likely) or they don't have a leg to stand on.

[Bahbah]

Bingo! Notice the names of those attorneys filing the lawsuits are not included. I am sure the 119 year old man thought this up all by himself (God bless his soul).

[Fintan]

The more I hear, the more I'm glad I'm over fifty. The world has gone crazy and it seems to be picking up speed on a daily basis.

You and me both.

If these shysters are dumb enough to believe for one minute that I'm giving up my 401k and stocks for this insanity, then they've been hanging out with Sharpton wayyyyy too long.

They are, however, more than welcome to my (ahem) Social Scurity "benefits".

Just in case they want something to really bitch about...

[Tacis]

You gotta figure that, if the slaves worked as hard for these companies as their descendants work for the Post Office, there was darn little enrichment. This is a pure Jacksonian shakedown.

Where is the detail, where is the proof? Actually, slavery was legal and supported by the Constitution. We fought the Civil War to free these folks. Let's also calculate how much better/worse they would have been had their ancestors remained in Africa and they, today, lived there. What a crock!!!

[Brilliant]

They should sue the Democratic Party. And if not, then the defendant companies ought to implead the Democrats for contribution.

[Verginius Rufus]

The framers of the Constitution used circumlocutions to avoid the words "slave" and "slavery"--for example, the provision about fugitive slaves reads "No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour..." Similarly with the provisions about the slave trade and counting slaves for apportionment purposes.

The first time the word "slavery" entered the Constitution was when the 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865. The word "slave" first appears in the 14th Amendment, added in 1868.

[IronJack]

"We are asking for a humanitarian trust fund, to be used to deal with the vestiges of slavery ...

"We be askin' fo a humanitarian trust fund, to be used fo the bigges'-ass kegger and mazola pahty them white boys ever did see," said Pizzaria Seldom-Smart, who was just released from Lompoc after being convicted on five counts of welfare fraud, but who is now legitimized because she's a "activist."

[goldstategop]

"Show us the money cause we are owed by Whitey!!!"

[traditional1]

HOW ABOUT THE IDEA THAT 'ANY PERSON BENEFITING FROM SLAVERY' TO INCLUDE THE LAWYERS WHO ARE FILING THESE EXTORTION SUITS?

If not for slavery, these "reparations lawyers" would have nothing to fill their pockets with fees.................

[Rebelbase]

Reparations, I ain't no fool, set up my 40 acres, Set up my mule
Reparations, I ain't no fool, I want a house the hill and a 2002 Coupe De Ville.

Show me your money or I'll show you my Glock.

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

It's not the people. It's the GREEDY LAWYERS who convinced them to go for the money! If they win, the lawyers will get at least half of the money! It's all about money!

[omni-scientist]

That is also the first thought that came to my mind: although slavery is now understood universally to be a repugnant vestige of the past, can we even hold someone responsible for something that was lawful and sanctioned by the government at the time?

And further do we now hold those persons responsible who do not in any way support or have ever participated in slavery, but by chance happen to exist when it is has long since been abolished?

It seems totally irrational - there is no justice in it, it is ancestral economic revenge.

[DugwayDuke]

I noticed that no attorneys were named. I really expected to see Johnny Cochran's name. It's been mentioned before in these corporate cases.