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REPARATIONS??????
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Did any one else see O"Reilly,s segment on this subject, where the guy he was interviewing stated "You Owe US" when is it going to stop.
I had nothing to do with what happened 200 yrs ago, so why should I pay ?
Another thing, where is my money for the 10,000 acres that the Federal Government took from my Great Grandfather??
"A wise man is a man that realizes just how little he knows"
I had nothing to do with what happened 200 yrs ago, so why should I pay ?
Another thing, where is my money for the 10,000 acres that the Federal Government took from my Great Grandfather??
"A wise man is a man that realizes just how little he knows"
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>Chairman, Afro-American Studies
>Harvard University
>
>Mr. Gates:
>
>On the internet, I find that you are demanding that whites pay reparations
>to blacks. It's because of slavery, see. You are
>joined in this endeavor by a gaggle of other professional blacks.
>
>I guess you'll send me a bill for my share, huh?
>
>I feel like saying, "Let me get this straight, Hank. I'm slow. Be
>patient. You want free money because of slavery, right"?
>
>I don't blame you. I'd like free money too. Tell you what. I believe in
>justice. I'll give you $1,000,000 for every slave I own, and another
>million for every year you were a slave. Fair enough?
>
>But tell me, how many slaves do you suppose I have? In round numbers, I
>mean. Say to the nearest dozen. And how long were you a slave? Oh? You
>never were?
>
>In other words, I owe you reparations for something that I didn't do and
>didn't happen to you. That makes sense. Like lug nuts on a birthday cake.
>
>Personally, I think you owe me reparations for things you didn't do and
>never happened to me. I've never been coated in Dutch chocolate and thrown
>from the top of the Eiffel Tower. I'll bet you've never done it to anyone.
>
>I want reparations. Well, that does make just as much sense, doesn't it?
>
>But if we're going to talk about reparations, that's a street that
>runs in two directions. You want money from me for what some other whites
>did to some other blacks in another century.
>
>How about you guys paying whites reparations for current expenses caused by
>blacks? Not long ago blacks burned down half of Los Angeles, a city in my
>country. Cities are expensive, Hank. Build one sometime and you'll see
>what I mean. Whites had to pay taxes to repair Los Angeles for you. You
>can send me a check.
>
>Now, yes, I know you burned LA because you didn't like the verdict in the
>trial of those police officers. Well, I didn't
> like the verdict in the O.J. Simpson trial. But I didn't burn my
> house and loot Korean grocery stores.
>
>Over the years blacks have burned a lot of American cities: Newark,
>Detroit, Miami LA, on and on. Now add in the fantastic cost over the years
>of welfare in all its forms, of large police forces and jails and security
>systems in department stores. I can't live in the capital city of my own
>country because of crime committed by blacks. Washington, DC is almost 100%
>black. It has the highest murder rate of any American city of any size.
>Highest rate of rape, robbery, burglary, battery, carjacking, dope-dealing.
>Highest everything. I'd like to take my kids there to see our national
>heritage, but I'm afraid to. DC has the strictest gun laws as well, so I am
>not able to protect myself or my family.
>
>Toss in the cultural cost of lowering standards in hiring and education for
>the benefit of blacks. It's the 'dumbing down' of America. A rising tide
>raises all boats; a falling tide lowers all boats of all colors.
>
>Now, I'd view things differently if you said, "Blacks can't get anywhere in
>a modern country without education. We know that. We need better schools,
>smarter teachers, harder courses, books with smaller pictures and bigger
>words. Can you help us"?
>
>I'd say, "Hallelujah! Hoo-ahh! Not just yes, but heck yes.
>Let's sell an aircraft carrier and get these folks some real schools and get
>them into the economic mainstream.
>I'd say it partly because it would be the right thing to do, and
> > > partly, because I'd like see more people added to the tax base, not
>endlessly devour its resources.
>
>The current custodial state is expensive. I'd just love for
>blacks to study and learn to compete and stop burning places.
>
>But is it going to happen?
>
>But, Hank, what am I supposed to do about it? I can't do your
>children's homework. At some point, people have to do things for
>themselves, or they don't get done.
>
>Maybe now is time.
>
>I'll tell you what I see out in the world, Hank. I think blacks
>are too accustomed to getting anything they want by just demanding it. True,
>it has worked for over half a century. Get a few hundred people in the
>street, threaten to loot and burn, holler about slavery, and the Great White
>Cash Spigot turns on. Thing is, whites don't much buy it any longer. Most
>recognize
>that what once was a civil-rights movement has become a shake-down game.
>Jesse Jackson. Al Sharpton. Con men. Period.
>
>Few white people still feel responsible for the failings and
>inadequacies of blacks. Political correctness keeps the lid on--
>but everyone knows the score.
>
>Most people are quietly growing wearier and wearier of it.
>
>Not good.
>
>On the third hand (allow me three hands, for rhetorical convenience), blacks
>keep demanding things of whites, as if we have an unending supply of money.
>As I write, you demand reparations for slavery in the 19th Century. Blacks
>in Tulsa, Oklahoma want money for a race riot that took place in the 1920's.
>No one involved in that riot is still alive today.
>
>Through the federal equal-opportunity apparatus -- which means blacks --
>wants to sue Silicon Valley for not hiring nonexistent black computer
>engineers.
>
>That's a lot of demanding for one month, Hank. What happens
>if whites ever say, "No"?
>
>Now, how about you? You've got a cushy job up there at
>Harvard, and you can hoot and holler about what swine and
>bandits whites are. I guess it's lots of fun, and you get a salary for it.
>But don't you think you might do blacks more good if
>you told them to complain less and study more? For example,
>if you want blacks to work in Silicon Gulch, the best approach
>might be to find some really smart black guys, and get them to
>study digital design, not Black Studies. That's how everybody else does it.
>It works. Then blacks wouldn't feel left out, and racial tension would
>decline.
>
>Sound like a plan?
>
>Just out of curiosity, how many hours a week do professors of
>Afro-American Studies spend in the projects, encouraging poor
>black kids to study REAL subjects, Hank?
The Almighty Himself Entrusted the Future of All Living Creatures to a Wooden Boat.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -"Audemus jura nostra defendere"
WILL IT EVER END?
Rugster
Eric S. Williams
Edited by - E.Williams on 08/13/2002 16:58:29
In general, blacks aren't asking for a free hand out.
Just because someone claims to speak for a majority doesn't mean they do. How would you like to be grouped in with Al Gore or Janet Reno just because they happen to be white?
Guns are good, Guns are great... please don't throw them in the lake.
Edited by - Seth K. Perumeony on 08/13/2002 17:21:05
There are begging hands of all different colors.
Eventually you'll realize that ALL races have their bottom feeders.
Guns are good, Guns are great... please don't throw them in the lake.
Eric S. Williams
For the first time a nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more effecient, and the world will follow our lead into the future.-A. Hitler
must have been a democrat
Hell they get mad because i have a rebel flag on my arm
Harleeman1030@aol.com
These diplomatic missions increased to a feverish pace DURING the War between the States.
These diplomats, all black gentlemen, were here to plead with our lawmakers NOT TO END SLAVERY!
It seems the economies of these African nations was heavily dependant upon the slave trade.
Apparently selling their black brothers and sisters into bondage was extremely lucrative.
In spite of the Africans' pleas, our United States Congress saw fit to bring about the end of slavery. In so doing they virtually destroyed the economy of several of these African nations.
Since that time, this country has likely sent TRILLIONS of dollars in foreign aid to the continent of Africa. Who knows how many more billions have been sent by private charitable orginizations?
I believe that any black american citizen that calls for reparations should be put on a slow boat to Zimbabwe. There, they can stand in line for hours to partake of their share of overcooked, watered down rice as it spills out of the back of the 700 Club Mercy Vehicle, and THAT shall be their REPARATIONS!!
FAIR ENOUGH??
AlleninAlaska
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
-- Thomas Paine
But if they are successful in their quest for reparations, how many citizens of ANY color would turn down an offer of free money??
If it happens, I'll put all my money into Cadillac stock!
It's not what you know that gets you in trouble, it's what you know that just ain't so!
As their more plausible excuses are used up, newer excuses for failure are becoming more far fetched, yet we keep honoring these excuses instead of calling them - all in the name of keeping the peace.
Given the history of this problem, we should be well beyond handwringing by now.
Europeans who have long pointed their fingers at the U.S.s' Black race problem are now experiencing it from Italy to the north countries of Norway and Sweden and the British Isles including Ireland.
"Not as deep as a well, or as wide as a church door, but it is enough."
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
I'm not gonna' make any comments here. The last time I made a comment about blacks, I was cursed like you won't believe. The thread got poofed real quick but a friend saved it for me to read.
Mudge the timid
I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
Edited by - mudge on 08/14/2002 19:20:46
Mr. Petersen who was invited to debate this very subject at the National Association of Black Journalists.
It's a disgrace that these black journalists members who consider themselves elite and exclusive enough to form such an organization, would allow this to happen without so much as raising an objection to such treatment to one who they invited, especially to a black.
The entire story.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,60284,00.html
These blacks, not only don't have a backbone but can't even realize they are unable to be neutral if ever any of them report or even write about the subject.
How can they, they are all BLACK and for reparations!
These National Black Journalists have no CREDILBILITY.
"The great object is that every man.... everyone who is able may have a gun." Patrick Henry