- This nation is poised for a battle that will divide us
like never before. We have endured the destruction reaped by welfare, affirmative
action, Rodney King and the L.A. riots, and O.J. Simpson, but this is one
battle that I'm afraid we may not recover from as a nation. That battle
is "reparations" for slavery. The whole idea of reparations is
racist and divisive in and of itself. It is racist in that it unfairly
burdens white America with the mistakes of the past-of which they have
nothing to do with! It is divisive in that it foments rage that should
have been discarded years ago. Simply, reparations is another misuse of
slavery by the civil rights establishment to gain power and wealth.
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- Have you ever noticed that in the last forty years the
black leaders in this country seem to have grown in wealth, power, and
fame, while the grievances and complaints of average black America have
only escalated?
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- What needs to be realized is that these so-called leaders
are not working for the black community, but against it. By keeping blacks
enraged at whites their status continues to grow. But if blacks were to
yield their rage these "leaders" would no longer be necessary.
That is why these "leaders" drum up insidious ideas such as reparations-a
plot which I believe will be the most destructive blacks have ever faced.
And the sad part about this is that the leaders aren't going to suffer
like the average black will suffer: The black community is headed for a
huge backlash brought on by a populace tired of being labeled "racists"
every time they disagree with a black person.
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- Despite all white America has done, black complaining
has worsened. We asked for welfare-they gave us that. We asked for jobs-they
gave us that. We asked for their schools-they gave us that. We asked for
their communities-they gave us that. We asked for affirmative action-they
gave us that. We asked for their women-they gave us that. Now we want reparations?
This giving has only increased our anger, perpetuated our rage, and held
us back. The only ones who seem to be succeeding among us are our "leaders"
like multi-millionaire Jesse Jackson. This is how it will continue if we
are given "reparations."
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- Who will pay for reparations? I'll tell you who it will
be. It will mostly be people who don't have a racist bone in their body.
It will be people who immigrated to this country after the Civil War. It
will be people struggling to support a family. It will not be the Klansmen.
It will not be the slave owners. Those who will pay for the problem will
be those who never had anything to do with it. Another consideration: when
blacks receive reparations, will they go back to Africa? Certainly shipping
blacks to America as slaves was wrong. If we undo one wrong, shouldn't
we undo other wrongs as well? I know it sounds crazy, but so does the idea
of reparations.
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- I grew up on a plantation near Montgomery and Tuskegee,
Alabama, in a time when laws were against black America. I remember going
to the marketplace and seeing separate black and white bathrooms. I remember
every year, when it was time to plant and gather the crops, I had to stay
home from school to work. And yet black Americans were able to do better
then than they are now. There were good black schools, fine black universities,
safe and well-groomed black communities, and intact families.
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- I grew up until the age of 18 never having heard about
a drug addict or a drive-by shooting. Despite the seemingly worse conditions
of this time there was no racist attack on white Americans as we are seeing
today. My parents, my grandparents, their parents, and their grandparents
worked the same plantation and never once did I hear them accuse white
Americans in such a hateful tone as I hear today, and if anyone had a just
cause for anger it would have been them. It is interesting that we didn't
have the leaders or the anger that we have today, and we were successful.
Yet today we have nothing but "leaders," and at the same time
nothing but complaints, anger, and demands. And the demand for reparations
is the latest in a downward path since the abandonment of independence
and the influx of black leadership.
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- This whole idea of reparations is being headed by racist
leaders of the black community such as Randall Robinson, executive director
of TransAfrica and author of The Debt, U.S. Representative John Conyers
(D-Michigan), who, since 1989, has unsuccessfully presented legislation
calling for a study on reparations, Leonard Jeffries, a political science
professor and a racist to the core, and Ebony magazine Editor Lerone Bennett,
Jr., an outspoken proponent of reparations, who said that "[reparations]
has been an idea that has been around for a long time. . . America owes
us some money."
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- These are just a few of the black liberal "leaders"
of this country who would rather keep blacks angry than demonstrate to
them how they themselves became successful in life. As we are going to
hell these men are becoming wealthy and powerful and not thinking twice
about us. If-God forbid-blacks were to receive so-called reparations the
money would end up in the hands of these black leaders, politicians, lawyers,
and many of the black ministers. In addition to not solving anything, the
anger of the black community will only continue because reparations will
be another failure just as affirmative action and welfare have been. White
Americans are not guilty of the sins of the past and must be careful not
to fall to the anger of these socialistic, destructive black leaders who
want to racially divide and conquer us. Black Americans must drop their
anger and realize that it is not white America who is causing their destruction
but their own so-called leaders, to whose evil there is no end.
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- All Americans must say "no more!" to groups
like the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA),
the National Black United Front, and the Republic of New Afrika who have
led grassroots efforts to keep this issue alive over the past decades.
America is the greatest country in the world. All men and women are free
in this country to succeed or fail, and we will no longer cave in to racism.
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- Reparations was a wrong idea years ago and it is a wrong
idea today. It will destroy us if we don't stop it.
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- http://www.bondinfo.org/servicesactivities/specialevents/reparations/reparations.htm
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