Just in: Obama supports Slave Reparations

[SKYGUNS]

I have a feeling were gunna get a lot more casinos built...

[MoeRon]

My relatives came to the U.S. after 1900 from Poland.  What am i gonna be paying for?

[Mustaine]

I see this topic ending badly.

[Chalenge]

When Obama can present one person living today that lived under slavery in the U.S. I will pay the reparations myself.

[MiloMorai]

I think it is a good idea. 

A greater percentage of blacks owned slaves when compared to whites.

I can just hear the outraged howling from the blacks when the blacks have to fork out because they were also slave owners. In fact, would go so far to say, since they owned the greater percentage compared to the 'whites', they should pay the greater percentage of the reparations.

[Hangtime]

This is all covered as part of the democratic initiative on immigration reform.

It's pretty simple, really.... all blacks that can trace ancestry here in the US to pre-civil war will be awarded one illegal immigrant, the $5,000 bond for stay of deportation paid by the federal government.

Any surplus illegals already here (not already deeded to blacks) can stay with payment of a 5,000 bond. Most will be paid by the sweatshops they work for, and the cost worked off via 'indenture'.

Any 'free range' illegals remaining can be vouchered by white citizens as long as they contract for veterinary... errr 'medical' costs with a private provider and pony up the $5,000 fine.... errr; "domestication bond".

I understand there's gonna be a 10% neutering discount available on the males.

I love this country.... justice for the black man; at last!

[midnight Target]

Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004 Obama opposed reparations for slavery. After his election, Obama subtly changed his view, stating he was against "just signing over checks to African-Americans," leaving open the possibility of other forms of reparations would be acceptable to him (Chicago Tribune 11/14/2004).

Do you even read the stuff you link?

[Slamfire]

Do you even read the stuff you link?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5XAvfgpesU
See 1:52 - Obama cleary supports reparations for slavery.

BTW, I love the twisted/troubled look on Hillary as he gives his answer. 

[CAP1]

This is not a racial issue because blacks had slaves too.  A greater percentage of blacks owned slaves when compared to whites.  There were over 3000 black slave owners in New Orleans by 1860. 

From americancivilwar.com:

According to federal census reports, on June 1, 1860 there were nearly 4.5 million Negroes in the United States, with fewer than four million of them living in the southern slaveholding states. Of the blacks residing in the South, 261,988 were not slaves. Of this number, 10,689 lived in New Orleans. The country's leading African American historian, Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, records that in New Orleans over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city.

To return to the census figures quoted above, this 28 percent is certainly impressive when compared to less than 1.4 percent of all American whites and less than 4.8 percent of southern whites. The statistics show that, when free, blacks disproportionately became slave masters.

The majority of slaveholders, white and black, owned only one to five slaves.

Concerning reparations...how would it be determined who got what?  And from whom?  Some blacks would be subject to pay reparations if such a thing were to come about.   

I'm against reparations.  I think it's foolish for our present government to apologize for something they had no part in.



Les

sooo.......


aahhhh hell...nevermind...not worth it

[CAP1]

When Obama can present one person living today that lived under slavery in the U.S. I will pay the reparations myself.

i'm a slave.

slave to the PRNJ. slave to the fed government. slave to the IRS

would you like to pay me the reparations in cash, or check? i can take credit cards too, but i'll hafta charge ya an extra 3%

[Chalenge]

I can prove my ancestors helped to smuggle escaped slaves out of the country to Jamaica. How much will Obama give me? 

[Vudak]

I'll support reparations for the descendants of black slaves just as soon as I receive my check from the Italian government for enslaving my ancestors back around the turn of the Common Era.

[Slamfire]

Funny you read his speech and then you read what he really meant on a wingnut website.   

Well, since I assume you disagree with my observation that Obama supports Reparations for Slavery, please enlighten me:
What, in your own words, is Obama's position on reparations for Slavery ?

MT, please feel free to enlighten me as well.

[Hangtime]

i'm a slave.

slave to the PRNJ. slave to the fed government. slave to the IRS

would you like to pay me the reparations in cash, or check? i can take credit cards too, but i'll hafta charge ya an extra 3%

... all in turn; owned by the PRC.

Foolish American slaves, bow to your owners!



 

[lyric1]

I would not get into to much of a tizzy over cash being handed over. After all was there not an agreement for 40 acres & a mule? They got stiffed then & they will be stiffed now.