Life as Slaves (till the early 60's)

abc ^ | 12/20/03

[Lady Eileen]

Yeah. Why would they NOT disclose those evil slave keepers?

Maybe because they don't exist.

Exactly.

[liberallyconservative]

Check your FReepmail, "TXgirl".

[P.O.E.]

Sadyly, not a lot is said about sex slaves brought into this country, either.

[cyborg]

Or the disgusting pieces of trash that go to other countries that are lax in child sex laws

[P.O.E.]

I'm constantly amazed at the mountains made of molehills here in this country, when there's so much oppression going on overseas. Most countries in Africa, for instance, always seems to get a pass. And it's Africans who pay the price.

[cyborg]

We're a nation of whiners. If these people ever lived one day in Africa or India they'd know the true meanining of oppression.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Thanks

[Victoria Delsoul]

True, but don't be surprised if the Jesse Jackson Traveling Roadshow uses this to his betterment; true or not.

They would use any excuse to advance their agenda, which is purely racist, since whites weren't the only ones who benefited from slavery. What we have here is racism in reverse, the antiwhite racist rhetoric underneath reparations arguments. Should blacks collect reparations from the black Africans who were the first to enslave their people and sell them to many different owners including Arabs?

Not every black slave suffered physical and economical hardship, so who gets reparations? Is being black the only claim to get reparations? How about blacks slaves who were treated well?

[Non-Sequitur]

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[speekinout]

Not every black slave suffered physical and economical hardship, so who gets reparations? Is being black the only claim to get reparations?

That's a question I have as well. My Irish ancestors came here in the early part of the 20th century as indentured servants.
Indentured servants often got harsher treatment than slaves. Why don't their descendants get reparations as well?

[Victoria Delsoul]

That's exactly right, or how about Jews who came from the ghettos of Europe or war refugees, do they all get reparations? There was only a minority who owned slaves, how about the rest? Why should any of us who never owned slaves pay for reparations? After all, the descendents of all those civil war soldiers who sacrificed their lives to free the slaves never got a dime.

[Capriole]

What happened to the so-called charming, professional Chinese family? Any thought to deporting them, as should have happened?

They're American citizens, so they couldn't be deported, but they could have gone to jail and had large fines placed against them. However, the woman who was held as a sort of slave told us (in the halting English she had painstakingly taught herself in secret, with our modest help)that she would not participate in the prosecution. At the time she was in the US on a tourist visa that she had overstayed. She was terrified of being sent back to Indonesia by the INS, for she knew that the area she came from was subject to anti-Christian pogroms on the part of the Muslims, so she wanted to draw no attention to herself.

I have to confess, though, that I clipped a few articles from the local newspaper when people were convicted locally of this sort of thing, and made sure that this family saw them. This made them produce the money that they owed their victim. She wants no further action against them.

[Brian Allen]

<< .... And by the way, there are still blacks all over the South living in uninsulated shacks that look like the door is ready to fall off and you might break through a floorboard if you step in the wrong place. I have seen it myself. >>

Me too.

Why only a week ago the "president of Iraq" was emancipated FRom such a shack on the outskirts of sunny down-town Tirik!

[Tired_of_the_Lies]

I understand your point, but this one wasn't "just one more." It caused the death of thousands, and subjected many thousands, perhaps millions, to ruined lives with incurable viral disease. It never ends... the viruses let loose by this scheme (AIDS and Hep C) keep on infecting new victims even now.

There simply is no end to the damage that he did on all front, although I understand and agree that this is far worse than most of the other "accomplishments." I wasn't aware of this scheme until you posted it, but it is certainly in keeping with his character.

[T'wit]

>> I wasn't aware of this scheme

Not your fault. Few ever heard of it. The media covered up for Clinton as usual. A group of us Freepers, the "Bloodhounds," did our best to get some publicity. We published something like 600 threads, some with really potent medical information. We even held a press conference at the National Press Club in D.C. featuring one of the Cummins plasma donors (near death from Hep C) and seven Canadian victims, most with both AIDS and Hep C. We had lawyers and hemophilia spokesman from both countries. The press listened but refused to report it. The only coverage we got in our long campaign was a few newspaper columns and a news segment on Christian Broadcasting.

Due to quirks in the export laws, Canada was the first victim of the tainted blood sales. It was hard hit. In their small population, they may have had as many as 80,000 victims originally, mostly Hep C. There -- with no inhibitions about Clinton -- the story was front-paged for ten years. In fact, it was Canadian coverage that broke open the Arkansas connection and the real source of the diseased blood. The Mounties (who are equivalent of FBI in Canada) traced the bad blood to Arkansas and asked for help in Little Rock. The door was slammed in their face, and related information was even removed from public libraries.

Forgive me if I don't relate more, it's a long story. And besides, if I don't give you enough facts and figures, it may sound like tinfoil-hat terrain. But it isn't. This bad blood has brought health disasters, trials, political upheavals and reparations laws all over the world. (France, Germany, Ireland, England, Iran, China, Australia, Japan, Spain all had court cases.) Lots of people DO know about it -- if they are safely outside U.S. borders and free to get news that the U.S. media can't control.

Free Republic's archives run very deep if you want to learn more.

[adam_az]

It reparations ever happen, I'm buying stock in liquor, beer, and tobacco companies.

[Tired_of_the_Lies]

Thanks. I didn't start following Free Republic until Sep or Oct of this year and, therefore, was not around Freep when you did all the prior work so I didn't see it at the time. I did check the archives and found some of the threads you mentioned. Thanks again.

[T'wit]

You are most welcome, and I hope you enjoy Free Republic as much as I and thousands of others do. It keeps us all ahead of the news and exceptionally well informed when it is time to go to battle in the war of ideas.

[bourbon]

(((Long Overdue MS PING)))

[WKB]

Mississippi blacks are still slaves. It's just to the democrat party now and not plantation owners.