Originally posted by Thrawn
Here's a hint for you morons that don't know what racism is. It's judging some one based on thier race.
IE: Send THEM back to Africa. Them includes ALL black Americans, hell even those that are against reperations themselves.
Reparations aren't racist because they don't target white people. They target the institutinos and companies that profitted from it.
No one on this tread has yet to say that they support reparations. But don't let that get in the way of your little Klan meeting.
Not quite, no one said "Send THEM back to Africa". What I said was that if these black charlatans are going to claim that by simply being black in America their "Sufferage" is so unique and dreadful that they are due some sort of special recompense for simple existing here I am going to point out that even as bad as as these charlatans claim they have had it here they would have it worse off in Africa. In Africa there would be no one to extort money from. So my point is that as much as Africans claim "sufferage" by being here they have also benefitted.
These charlatans arent targeting companies alone but the US government. By doing that they are targeting my money. They are targetting folks who have no connection to slavery.
None of the institutions in government today are the same as they were during slavery. Thats the same with the citizenry.
The specific call for reparations has to do with back wages and punitive damages "owed" by slave owners. None of the slaveholders are still alive and no slaves are alive to sue them.
The majority of Americans living at the time of slavery didnt own slaves. The majority of citizens living today in America had nothing to do with slavery. I doudt you could show that an overwhelming number of blacks in America today had relatives that were slaves.
At the time of the time of slavery the US government was an entirely different entity then it was today. The individaul states themselves had overiding control of what went on in their states. The Civil War and the years following changed that.
The call for reparations is actually an accusation. You cant expect people to to just bow down and write check for something they didnt do. So if you keep the context of the statements made by folks in this thread you will see they are not targeted at "Black people" but at the contention that the rest of us owe them something. Even Bill Clinton couldnt bring himself to apologize on be half of the government for slavery. Thats because the people in government and the citizens of this nation alive today are not responsible for what happened then.
So if you say "gimme 10 billion dollars because I am black". Folks are gonna tell you where to go.
Theres big difference between that and a klan rally.
This thread was about reparations not about being a racist but a few have turned into a thread about "whos the least racist". Leave my wallet alone and I am completely indifferent to how the rest of yas live.
hmmmm I used the word "indifferent" is that code for "I am a racist?". Damn wheres my code book...........
