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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (10794)	4/9/2001 12:07:57 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 82486

He is also a secular Jew who happens to be Pro- life.....

To: The Philosopher who wrote (10794)	4/9/2001 12:47:03 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

<<<One wonders why Clinton, with his international orientation, was so silent to this plea. >>> I suspect because there wasn't anything in it for him. Also, African American "leaders" have shown, for the most part, remarkably little interest in the subject; in fact have done the opposite. My opinion is that the myth that only whites can be oppressors of blacks is one too useful for demagogues to yield easily; and that it is tactically inconvenient and embarrassing to acknowledge that there is slavery in Sudan and Mauritania, and effectual slavery elsewhere in Africa. Certainly there is little evidence that those who demand reparations for slavery they didn't experience from those who didn't enslave give a whit about the Africans who are slaves today. Hey, I'd be willing, as a symbolic "reparations" gesture, to contribute to an anti-contemporary slavery fund. Most Americans would, I believe. I also believe that that proposal would be most uninteresting to, for example, Al Sharpton, who, incidentally, has never disassociated himself from the vicious slanders committed by Tawana Brawley. I'm an admirer of Nat Hentoff, too, even when we disagree. He's a man of great courage and integrity.