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Any candidate pushing reparations for something that happened over a century ago and who thinks the answer to the energy crisis is inflating your tires is out of touch	26% (1635)
This talk of reparations only feeds the victimization that has hurt so many minorities and enriched so many race hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton	18% (1107)
All the slaves and all the slaveholders have been dead for decades -- get over it!	13% (839)
If Obama is really backing reparations, he'll lose in a landslide	9% (591)
If he really supports reparations, when is he going to open his checkbook?	9% (572)
His remarks were so foolish, he's going to have to back pedal and explain what he 'really meant' -- that's going to hurt him with minority voters	7% (417)
Every American has ancestors who were victims of past oppression	5% (331)
Absurd! This is a nation of individual rights, not group rights	5% (296)
If this Pandora's box is ever opened, everyone will be lining up to get paid for a grievance	4% (261)
Other	1% (70)
Great idea! Where do I sign up for my check for this hangnail?	1% (61)
This will open the door for a massive, well-organized campaign by homosexuals	0% (30)
It's the right thing to do and long overdue	0% (16)
It's about time an American leader had the courage to address injustices of past racial victimization	0% (15)
This is another great reason to support Obama for president	0% (7)
It may be the right thing to do but it's political suicide for any candidate who proposes it	0% (3)

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Why don't we all just get reparations?!?
Posted by lovetheusa on Aug 08, 2008 12:52

This is further proof of Obama's hate American, hate whitey campaign. Since he supports reparations I'd like to know when mine will be coming. I had two ancesters who died in the Civil War fighting for thr freedom of blacks from slavery. I also had an ancestor die fighting in the Revolutionary War -- should I contact the British for my reparations? It's ridiculous. Never has any one group perfected the role of victimhood as well as those in the black community. This nation will never move forward with this type of thinking, but then again, the more I learn and think about it, I believe that is by design -- divide and conquer.

reparations
Posted by plain dan on Aug 05, 2008 05:19

as long as one group of people get more than another group because of the color of your skin or where we were borned how does any of this fix racial issues my ansistors were eaten by dinasouris do I get paid

RE: RE: RE: RE: His tory or Obama
Posted by bob on Aug 04, 2008 22:34

My guess would be that the only accurate source would be one that you agree with.

Reply to: dbc1951
I'm sorry but Grant almost certainly did NOT make that quote. It was printed in something called "The Democratic Speaker's Handbook" and published in 1868. If you read the thing it is definitely an election smear tool to discredit Grant and the Republicans. Both sides engaged in this sort of thing. The book itself is on Google books and the story with the quote is on page 33. It doesn't pass the smell test.

Interestingly enough, the supposed "quote" was publicized primarily by two "Lost Causers" George Edmunds (really Elizabeth Avery Meriwether)the wife of an officer on Forrest's staff and Mildred Lewis Rutherford a relative of Howell Cobb. Pardon me if I don't consider them as accurate sources.

RE: RE: RE: His tory or Obama
Posted by dbc1951 on Aug 04, 2008 12:17

I'm sorry but Grant almost certainly did NOT make that quote. It was printed in something called "The Democratic Speaker's Handbook" and published in 1868. If you read the thing it is definitely an election smear tool to discredit Grant and the Republicans. Both sides engaged in this sort of thing. The book itself is on Google books and the story with the quote is on page 33. It doesn't pass the smell test.

Interestingly enough, the supposed "quote" was publicized primarily by two "Lost Causers" George Edmunds (really Elizabeth Avery Meriwether)the wife of an officer on Forrest's staff and Mildred Lewis Rutherford a relative of Howell Cobb. Pardon me if I don't consider them as accurate sources.

Reply to: Emily H
Absolutely true!!! It's a great book too, though your stomach will turn while reading it, to realize the lies that have been accepted as truth all these years.

That's why I referred to the war in an earlier post as the "war against the south".

In fact, something I forgot to mention makes a VERY valid point against reparations... Many BLACKS owned slaves both in the north and in the south. How would they be able to confirm that reparations weren't being paid to the slaveholding blacks' descendants?

Slavery was, is, and always will be, wrong. But forcing the taxpayers of today, who never owned a single slave in their lives (and would in fact have to INCLUDE all tax paying blacks as well, now wouldn't it?), to pay reparations to blacks, who were never "owned" by a white man one day in their life, IS SLAVERY!!! The government would be forcing us to work and give up the money we earn to give it to someone who didn't earn it. Wait, that sounds a lot like the welfare system, doesn't it?

What America doesn't understand is that tax-payers are the slaves now. Someday they'll wake up, I hope.

Reparations
Posted by st146558 on Aug 03, 2008 20:12

The only reparations for slavery that I would support would be an apology, a small amount of money and a one-way ticket to anywhere in Africa in exchange for permanently renouncing your American citizenship. If you think this country is so bad, we're sorry we brought your ancestors here, here's some cash and your ticket back to Africa, good bye.

RE: I told you so!
Posted by bob on Aug 02, 2008 15:22

Kevin, You say that you are a university professor and have a Phd. I am impressed by that but do you have any common sense? Don't use an edited news clip as proof. Listen to what the man says. I have.

Reply to: KevinVT2
"Obama says he opposes slavery reparations, apology"
http://tinyurl.com/54wysk

I told you so!
Posted by KevinVT2 on Aug 02, 2008 09:36

"Obama says he opposes slavery reparations, apology"
http://tinyurl.com/54wysk

Stop defending Democrats!
Posted by PierceArrow on Aug 01, 2008 23:35

I am against reparations.
I think that only Democrats should pay reparations, because they were the ones who supported slavery.
I am fed up with all you Civil-War-history revisionists who keep defending DEMOCRAT slaveholders.

done!
Posted by on Aug 01, 2008 19:40

we have done that with both Natives and Blacks. They have received free benefits for every thing we can upt to now and we were not to blame. Our forefathers took their land and we have given them a way to earn money both with lands and gambling. Free higher education included.
plus they were given repartions if they were native Indians.
the blacks were given free higher education, position advancement in companies through the United States...plus many other benefits such as subsidized housing, and help finacially. We can only do so much, now it is up to them.