[judgeandjury]

"The Germans got theirs. The Indians got theirs and may get more," she said. Everyone has received reparations, except African-Americans. It's our turn now."

Well, if we want to right all wrongs from the past, we will need to give reparations to just about every American alive today. Just think how many Americans are descendents of immigrants (who were mistreated in many different ways) from Ireland, Germany, Poland, Japan, China, Italy, Russia, etc. Just think how many Americans have female ancestors who were treated like second class citizens and denied many basic rights for so many years. Just think how many Americans have ancestors who, as children, were mistreated and exploited by American companies before child labor laws were passed. Just think how many Americans have ancestors who were discriminated against and persecuted because of their religious beliefs or political beliefs. If the U.S. is really serious about "righting" wrongs from the past, then I guess I should be expecting at least a few of them there reparations checks to be mailed to me.

[A CA Guy]

As a descendant of a famous American family filled with world famous abolitionists who helped form and run the underground railroad and probably who actually started the Civil War, I hereby proclaim!

Assolvo tutto per tutto su questa edizione.
Tempo per i decedents degli schiavi di trovare auto degno e di funzionare, piuttosto quei giustificazioni.
Amen! :)

[rw4site]

Bump!

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[buffyt]

I am so white that I glow in the dark, but I have black slave ancestors. Rufus Hargrove was my cousin, and he was a black slave. Are they going to let whites like me receive reparations? I have just as must right to it as a descendant of a black slave. My grandmother was part of the huge Hargrove family. We have all colors, from all countries in the Hargrove side of the family. I think my dad was the first one to look very white. The rest were pretty dark. Some how my dad ended up with blonde hair and blue eyes and passed on the lighter genes to his kids.
Do I want reparations? NO! [unless I can have my forty acres in Napa Valley, Calif. And you can keep my mule! HA!] Growing up in Okla 1951 till integration came along, there was much prejustice and we even had water fountains for colored and white, restrooms for colored and white. Now THAT was a huge sin! That was horrible. But I think we have come a long way since then, and an education is EVERYONE's ticket out of poverty in USA.

[lavaroise]

UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!! THE EMANCIPATION TOOK CARE OF REPARATIONS:::

POWER TO DESTROY OVER TRUTH...

[PetroniDE]

Houston Bump.

Calm down people. They will introduce this in the Texas Legislature, but thank goodness it will go NOWHERE.

If I pay reparations, I want slaves, darn it.

[stainlessbanner]

The Indians got theirs and may get more," she said.

Excuse me? Exactly what reparations did Native Americans recieve. I'm sure this woman's idea of reparations does not include rounding up slave decendants on reservations.

[MEGoody]

I wonder how Martin Luther King would feel about such a lawsuit? Based on what I know of him, I doubt he'd encourage this sort of thing.

[TheJollyRoger]

If they want reparations..it's OK with me...but I won't take a check...they gotta have cash.

[pupdog]

I run a web site for people who are openly declaring that they won't pay reparations, no matter what any court or legislature says. Every time one of these lawsuits gets filed, more people sign up.

While I enjoy seeing people coming together to fight this, it also makes me sad. These race hustlers are driving us directly towards another civil war. I hate that prospect, and I hate seeing it come to this. But I hate even more the prospect of eternal surrender.

We Won't Pay

[mhking]

Idiotic nuisance lawsuit alert!

Loser pays legislation would help wonders for cases like this...

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[eddie willers]

Her great-grandfather was 10 years old when he was purchased in North Carolina to be the playmate of a boy in Daingerfield. McGee said the boy had a stutter and was shunned by other whites.

Nowadays if you have a kid nobody likes, you have hang a porkchop around his neck so dogs will play with him.


(Shamelessly stolen from Lewis Grizzard)

[Destructor]

I come from a long line of "poor white trash."I only have one ancestor that was wealthy enough to own slaves, and he was an immigrant from Germany. If they come to me for reparations I'm going to refer them to Germany!