This is such F'N BULLSHIT!!!

[HumanShell]

I can't believe this shit. I'm talking about how some people, namely African Americans (not all of them) are wanting America to pay them money, because of slavery. D/L and watch this video clip, it was just on Fox 4 News here in Dallas. THIS SHIT IS RIDICULOUS!!

Slavery Clip 11.5mb DiVX

Low Res Slavery Clip 6mb DiVX

 

[Warik]

I 100% support reparations for slavery.

I think that anyone alive today who was at all responsible for slavery should be forced to pay reparations to anyone alive today who was a slave.

Anything else would be unfair.

-Warik

 

[WarriorPL]

reparations for slavery is not necessary, who cares!


~WizKid

 

[Diesil]

Everyone alive today had no fucking part of slavery, but if you want to get critical i think the fellow brothers that sold there other brothers in africa should pay as well. It just pisses me off that they keep bringing shit up that nobody alive today had antthing to do with.

 

[Warik]

Everyone alive today had no fucking part of slavery,

Precisely. =)

-Warik

 

[Weapon X]

Good one, Warik!

They should also hunt down the descendants of all the Africans who sold their kinsmen to the whites and deman dreparations from them, also!
Remember: this shit is stiull going on in Sudan, and America ain't got nothin' to do with it!

 

[thefantom1]

Its this type of shit that makes me want to pull my hair out....it is stuff like this that throws fuel onto the fire of race relations.... What about reparations for the men and families who fought and died in the Civil War to free the slaves?? How many white men died to free the slaves?? (And hats off to the men that did die..slavery is total bullshit) But this country will never "heal" until race is taken out of the question... and this "reverse" discrimination kills me.... there is no such thing as "reverse discrimination" If someone does not get a job because he was white, then he got discriminated against..... time to drink a nice cool glass of water to chill the jets......

 

[KAYNE]

I AGREE WITH WARIK!!! ANYONE WHO IS ALIVE TODAY THAT WAS A SLAVE SHOULD BE PAID!!!

KAYNE

 

[Gilbyag]

i aint touch'n this...

 

[satanic goatslayer]

 

[The Dude]

Warik for United States Reparations Commissioner!!

 

[Weapon X]

Chicago — In a 1999 major class-action settlement, the Clinton administration agreed to pay $50,000 to each black farmer who had suffered discrimination at the hands of the federal government. As of 2001, some 40,000 people have applied for their cash.

The problem is, according to the Census Bureau, there are only 18,000 black farmers in the country.

http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,29321,00.html

Gary Grant, for example, sees no problem with black non-farmers getting their share. Even if all 40,000 claimants aren’t strictly tillers of the earth, Grant said every single one of them deserves a payment.

"If you are an African-American, you deserve $50,000 because your roots are in farming and your folk have already been cheated," he said. "You are collecting what your grandparents didn’t have the opportunity to."

 

[strongchick]

Reparations. Hmm. I wouldn't think they would be necessary, however...

Didn't Jews get money?
Don't Native Americans get Casinos?

Why is it that we want to deny Blacks so bad, but don't argue against paying other creeds/races for their suffering?

The reason is because of guilt. Denial of guilt makes things easier. The reparations aren't really the point...it is that Blacks want to be acknowledged for their suffering.

Early Americans weren't much better than Hitler, by accounts that I've been reading...note my current book indulgence which details the horrors of slavery as well as a good grounding in history from a non-white perspective:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...9/sr=2-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_1/002-6507843-7298421

Comparisons of early Americans to Hitlerism may seem far-fetched, but when you actually read a book or two on the subjects, you realize that Americans are just not ready to deal with the guilt of being so awful...while at the same time going to the rescue of other races.

Which brings me to the question: Eastern European wars that the US gets involved in .... similar atrocities happen in Africa....why don't we go there also?

whatever. I never expect anyone in denial to get better until they admit they are sick. Reparations won't come until the denial is over.

And by the time that happens, we'll have a Black president.

 

[Mandinka]

Clever girl , strong chick ,
great that someone can step back and see the anomalies that exist. Of course it is nonsense to see what occurred in Germany during the war years and America during the civil rights period as seperate issues. The systematic suppression of a people by a dominant one is plain old racism. At least one should be consistent when applying "the rules".

 

[VicTusDeuS]

I don't think any denial is going on. I honestly dont want any of my money that comes out of my paycheck going to pay reparations for slavery. I didnt own a slave, my parents didnt own a slave, neither did their parents. They werent even in the US. Why should we have to pay?????Its our hard earned money and I didnt nothing wrong.
If you want someone to take the money from, take it from families that have been here before the civil war era. Just add an extra tax to them to pay for this slavery crap, but dont tax me, I never owned a slave.
Jews were givin money because it was theirs in the first place. They put it into Swiss banks to protect it before WW2, but it was always theirs to begin with.
Same is true for the native americans. We gave them that land because they were basically theirs first. I think our human rights treatment back in the day was terrible but so was every other countries. That was the time.

 

[Mandinka]

Victus , you are factually incorrect , the reparations to Jews have been paid by German companies , most of whose shareholders were not even alive during the War. As far as I know there are no Swiss banks who have made payments , but I am open to correction.
Furthermore the latest round of reparations are not for deopistors money , but exactly the use of Jews as labourers in German factories.
It ain't that I think you should pay , it's just that I think the same rules should apply to all , and not as in Animal Farm , "All are equal , but some are more equal than others".
Peace

 

[Yellowbomber]