Yet, wanna bet *someone* will find this "racist"?
Especially since the very word, "racist," has -- somehow -- come to mean people may no loner communicate in plain, old english?
In essense people are being forced to lie to others?
...& worst of all; lie to ourselves.
...thanks.
The slave trading that's still going on is blacks selling blacks.
On PBS about two years ago they had a documentary on Africa. And it was hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Actually, it was a pretty good documentary. When it even broached on an Afrocentrist viewpoint the response was it might be that way or it might not be we don't know. The historic revisionism was kept out. The thing most irritating was that everywhere Gates went, and it didn't matter West Africa, Ethiopia, East Africa or Zanzibar, anyone, who he ran across whose ancestors had taken slaves, he'd asked does it bother you that you may have enslaved my ancestors? After a while it became so cliche on his part to be bothersome. I found myself saying to myself, "Mr. Gates your ancestors are from West Africa--why are you embarrassing these East Africans etc. with this question."
It became quite apparent that this guy has a problem with the fact that some folks enslaved his ancestors and they looked a lot like he did.
I'll second that!
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Now, I'd view things differently if you said, "Fred, blacks can't get anywhere in a modern country without education. We know that. We need better schools, smarter teachers, harder courses, books with smaller pictures and bigger words. Can you help us?"
I'd say, "Hallelujah! Hoo-ahh! Not just yes, but hell yes. Let's sell an aircraft carrier and get these folks some real schools and get them into the economic mainstream." I'd say it partly because it would be the right thing to do, and partly, because I'd like to add you guys to the tax base.
You do realize that we have the power within our hands right now to bring this to fruition, right?
ZERO!
Favorite lines from a great piece......
So far as I can tell, Keyes, Sowell and Williams oppose this idiotic call for reparations.
Those who are NOT descended from AMERICAN slaves need to sit down and shut up. Under even the most tortured, leftist, idiotic (redundant!) logic (oxymoron!), these people have no standing. And those who ARE descendants of slaves now calling for reparations need to remember a few things:
They should not only be glad to be in America, they should be glad to be ON THE PLANET! Had their forebears NOT been sold to the slave traders, the blood of their ancestors would have run into the earth over there several centuries ago. Their ancestors would have been killed outright or worked to death by the OTHER black who captured them in one of the interminable tribal wars still raging on that sad continent. These modern day would-be "plaintiffs" would not even exist.
And should the great-great-great grandchildren of the approximately 3,000 SLAVE OWNING BLACK plantation owners in this country also be subject to PAYING reparations?
If so, how do we find THEM?
Robert Hitt Neill tells of attending a Tennessee Mountain Writer’s Conference years ago with several other authors. Among them was Alex Hailey, celebrated author of “Roots.” Watching a TV news show, a group of them watched a demonstration in a Southern state against the “Rebel” flag incorporated into that state’s flag. The very next report covered a famine in Africa. Graphic images showed dead bodies, starving children with distended tummies and runny noses and dying people covered with flies, too weak to brush them away.
Mr. Hailey intoned in a low, serious voice:
“Every time an American black sees a story like that, they should find a Confederate flag and kiss it.” He then pointed to the TV screen and continued, “Because these would be me and my descendants, except for American slavery. I thank God that my family and I are here instead of there.”
What about the millions STILL living in slavery, held there by members of THEIR OWN RACE in Africa and elsewhere today?
Do you suppose THEY are NOT targets of these reparations whores because they have little or nothing of value for which they can be EXTORTED?
And how about the MILLIONS of WHITES and ASIANS who have slavery in their backgrounds?
Next problem!
Small bills, please.
What? Annan and the rest of the psychotic third-world morons running the UN won't discuss this? I'm shocked!
Ping!
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