Alabama Family Recovers Land Taken by State Decades Ago

Associated Press ^ | Published: Jun 1, 2002 | By Bill Poovey Associated Press Writer

[RGSpincich]

You are dating yourself.

[countrydummy]

My Goodness, I am telling my age! LOL LOL

[Arkinsaw]

Records show that a judge in 1965 said allowing the state's claim would create a "severe injustice," but nonetheless signed an order giving the property to the state.

Amazing. This judge had an inkling in the back of his mind what a judge should be, but in the end felt more loyalty to injustice.

Its called the "justice" system for a reason and judges and juries should remind themselves of that.

[mafree]

Thanks for the ping.

Always glad to see land ownership rights restored. The state taking land is an ongoing problem affecting all kinds of folks.

[usconservative]

That's because there's no profit in it for Jesse Jackass.(darn it, I always mis-spell his last name)

If there isn't a big corporation with deep pockets for Jesse to stick his hands in while screaming RACISM! he wan'ts no part of it. And besides, isn't BIG OPPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT the friend of the liberal left?

[bok]

us; it was the state government that took this land using an obscure federal law for their excuse. mh; I've always blamed these damn cracker southern governments for putting us in the position we are today concerning our rights of free association. If they had protected all of their citizens back then, the feds never would have been able to step in.

"CRACKERS" is that any relation to Honkys? Is that code for white folks used by African-Americans? How many white families had their land stolen, let's not forget what reconstruction did to southern people, it brought yankee corruption down to the south. Can i use the N word on this forum no i can't and it would be unacceptable and i expect the same for slandering white people with such names as cracker and honky.

[bok]

I'm just a "CRACKER" and nothing more. Reverse discrimination of whites happens on colleges such as academic and collegic scholarships and the job market, whites are getting payed back don't worry. Jesse Jackson is doing a shakedown of white america, we may not be slaves but we're getting paid back reassured metesky.

P.S. I'm white devil and they're running the white devils off from the job market and professional sporting teams.

[metesky]

Of course Reconstruction sucked and many Southrons got screwed bigtime. Why, are you of the philosophy that two wrongs make a right?

The fact of the matter is that if Southern state gooberments hadn't repaid fifteen years of evil Reconstruction with eighty-five years of evil Jim Crow, the Feds would never have been in a position to screw all of us.

[bok]

Your choice of words is totally unacceptable! Basically it would be just as bad if i called someone the N or another word saying they were corrupt. Caucasian in the south will never be able to live down anything past southern goverments did or the general public did, at the end of the civil war to the present. I wasn't even born when MLK was assinated, but i'll get the blame because a white man did it just like everything else.

[Southack]

"Now to really stir the pot up, you notice that Jesse Jackson and the rest of the racial warlords are nowhere to be seen in regards to a true case of injustice?"

That's becuase Jackson is more partisan than he is civil rights warrior. The Judge who signed the order, the lawyers who argued the case, the governor of the state, and the police who enforced the order were all, to a man, Democrats.

Good heavens, why would Jackson ever take on Democrats in a civil rights case?

You don't see Jesse Jackson asking for justice on the news everyday for those poor Alabama men who were abused in the Tuskegee Experiments, after all. Again, those crimes were all committed by Democrats in Alabama.

[metesky]

Accept this:

[mhking]

That's becuase Jackson is more partisan than he is civil rights warrior.

It's not even as complex as that! Jesse hasn't touched this case because there is no money nor any TV face time to be had from this case. Unless there is room for either (or preferably both), Jesse Jackson will be nowhere to be found. Al Sharpton is rapidly learning this technique as well.