-Slavery Reparations-

email from "Scholar." | Unknown | Fred Reed

[Dick Bachert]

Thank you for the kind words.

And my thanks to Mr. Hailey for uttering his WISE words -- and to Mr. Neill for memorialzing them.

[pabianice]

I SUPPORT reparations. My ancestors were enslaved for 300 years by the Egyptians 3,500 years ago. With compound interest, I, and every other Jew, is owed just over $ 800,000,000 by Egypt.

Small bills, please.

What? Annan and the rest of the psychotic third-world morons running the UN won't discuss this? I'm shocked!

[Landru]

"With compound interest, I, and every other Jew, is owed just over $ 800,000,000 by Egypt."

HA!
Ok...lemme work this out.

"Small bills, please."

You realize this'll be in Egytian currency, eh?
(~whateverinthehellitisthesedayz)

Look, if I were you?
I'd be figuring on recouping somewhere around, $1.25??
That's $1.25 *US*, incidentally.

Of course that $1.25 will be net, after shipping, handling, applicable taxes --state & fed -- & sheister fees from here to...well...Egypt & back have *all* been deducted.

Still feeling so smart?
Face it, you gotta be an optomist about this stuff; 'cuz, could've wound-up owing the $1,25?

"What? Annan and the rest of the psychotic third-world morons running the UN won't discuss this? I'm shocked!"

Nawwww go on!
You aren't *shocked* one iota.
Might be able to fool some of the forum's members some of the time; or, even most of 'em most of the time.
But c'mon, Pilgrim, never all of 'em, all of the time.
OK?

...so I know you're just feigning that *shock*. ;^)

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ping!

[Greg-n-CA]

Just like it was back then!

[altair]

Yow. Blast from the past.

Sad to say, I have more stories to tell regarding slave trade today than I did 7 years ago.

[B4Ranch]

BUMP

[B4Ranch]

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[fromhere]

How many blacks, if they suddenly had the unworldly magical power to change one part of history, would make it so slavery never happened? They'd have to think long and hard on it, because changing that part of history would mean the events leading up to their conception never would have happened. Simply put, they never would have been born. 30 million blacks would “poof” disappear. I would guess 99% of blacks would not undo slavery if they could. But they'd still like reparations for something they wouldn't change even if they could. Go figure.

[arasina]

How did the slave traders “catch” so many of their fellow humans? Did they throw a net over them or what?

[B4Ranch]

>>Simply put, they never would have been born.<<

Some of them would have been born, but back in Africa on the dirt floor of a woven walled hut. Their ancestors are still living in that same hut bearing their children on that same dirt floor.