Posted on 09/10/2002 1:14:13 AM PDT by Landru
Now you're talking!
Bulls-Eye...MUD
Like lug nuts on a birthday cake.
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!
In other words, it's time for the Right to put up or shut up.
The "shake-down game" never ends no matter what is going on in the world.
This man had more than his fair share of both wisdom AND horsesense.
...as usual, Dick; excllent comments.
There've been many injustices & crimes committed against peoples of many differing & varied ethnicities & religions while "in" this country.
However, any injustices performed were by man, against his fellow man.
Just as injustice in other places around the globe has ocurred, since the beginning of time immemorial.
In any event, we can *fix* those injustices, past; now.
We possess the power; &, soon we'll have the will.
"Fixing" institutionalized sabotage on the other hand, inflicted by the present ilk of Liberal-Socialists?
That I'm afraid is another matter, altogther; &, *that* is what we're dealing with, now.
This Leftist bunch have done their damnedest to engineer thier sabotage in such a way "fixing" [it] will be extememly difficult; which, assumes it can be "fixed" a'tall.
If I were black?
That one reality *alone*, would gall me more than anything which happened 400 years ago.
What the Liberal-Socialists have effectively done, is to rob a person -- any person -- of their *future*, while condemning 'em to live in the past.
That's a fact.
A more incideous, egregious "Hate Crime" perpetrated against people of any kind & having more damaging, debilitating long term consequences would be very difficult to find. -IMO-
Frankly, what they've done is flat-out criminal.
Just articulating what's happened at the hands of the Liberal-Socialists can get a sane, rational person sized for a tinfoil hat.
...it's that nuts.
A more incideous, egregious "Hate Crime" perpetrated against people of any kind & having more damaging, debilitating long term consequences would be very difficult to find. -IMO-
What you've described here is both correct and the sine que non of the problem. Without the systematic, deliberate attempt to undermine the will and self-worth of a people, we wouldn't be having these problems such as we have today. A struggle of a just cause's, which had been won, spirit has been usurped and used as the foundation of what we have now which began in the late 1960s:
The Marxist Laboratory.
Show me an advance in Leftist policy that did not have some reference to the "poor" and "underpriviledged" minorities (blacks) since then. Just one.
Who has benefitted from such policies?
Is it sinking in now?
Therefore I charge the Left with being the biggest dream destroyer on this planet. I charge the Left with being the biggest murderer on this earth with its abortion mills of death put into the inner-cities. I charge the Left with being the biggest liars on this planet. And I charge the Left with being the biggest hypocrites on this planet, with their living high off the hog of capitalism while preaching the heresy of socialism in the name of those they purport to fight for.
You, Landru, have just hit a mammoth homerun. What the Left has done is indeed a "Hate Crime." And I thank you for your stance with those American blacks such as mhking, Trueblackman, mafree, T Lady, and swheats who know better. I can't speak in their names, but I thank you on behalf of them anyway.
On the secular level, the Marxitization of a people has destroyed it. And what we call "conservatism" is its only effective cure on that secular level. The demarxitizing has begun, and it's not going to stop.
Oh, yes. Their foundations of deceit shall crumble and crumble soon.
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