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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (9484)	6/7/2001 6:02:54 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 59480

Reparations? Don't be absurd!!!!! Not I nor any of my family ever owned slaves, in fact they were slaves themselves further back in history and many of them were Nazi holocaust victims... who are you, and who is anyone, even to suggest that I should I have to pay for someone else's education just because their racial ancestors were slaves... what nonsense!!! Who paid for my education? I'll tell you who paid for my education... I did, not you, not the Nazi's, not the Germans, not the Egyptians, I did... I held three part time jobs round the clock and went to school... I used the G.I. Bill after I was discharged from military service, and that was no hand out but a privilege which I earned through hard work and self respect... Your whole concept of reparations stinks... it continues the racist division in this country and perpetuates the victim mentality of those who are looking for, and expecting, a free hand out from big brother... haven't you heard? Communism is on the way out, not on the way in... your giveaway programs have done nothing but create a subculture in this society that now depends on, and readily expects, more and more hand outs for more and more things... there's nothing wrong with helping someone along the way, but to condition a whole society of people to expect more and more free hand outs has proven time and again to be a failed social experiment... what these people need is less government pity and more self respect to earn their way just like everyone else... they don't need to be treated like an adopted puppy; they're people, not pets... the sooner these groups drop that 'pity me victim mentality' the better off everyone will be..... GZ

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (9484)	6/7/2001 8:15:10 AM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

Hogwash!! Forget reparations. I didn't have anything to do with it. Nor did anyone I know. That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Only a liberal looking for votes would float that idea. Why can't the libs look to the future instead of the past?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (9484)	6/7/2001 10:53:20 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 59480

Re reparations: One idea being floated is to offer reparations in the form of free tuition. In other words, Uncle Sam would pay for all education costs for all African-Americans and Native Americans kindergarten through Ph.D. Would you favor of this as a way to partially pay for past sins? Not unless I'm compensated for the discrimination my Irish and Italian ancestors faced. JLA

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (9484)	6/7/2001 3:11:25 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

My mother was from Canada; Canadians involvement in slavery was pretty much restricted to running the underground railroad. My great-grandfather was a Union soldier; he fought to free them and spent two years in Andersonville Prison for it. That destroyed his health and he died in 1867. I fail to see that I have slave blood on my hands. As for the rest of us native born who had ancestors in this country in 1865: No living American ever owned a slave. Why are they responsible? And what of all those Americans whose ancestors arrived here AFTER the war? Are they responsible too? And how about the guy about twenty feet from me? He wa born in Vietnam. Is he responsible for what some Americans did 140 years ago? If so, why? This is the stupidest idea that has been put forward since the Civil War.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (9484)	6/7/2001 3:11:25 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 59480

My mother was from Canada; Canadians involvement in slavery was pretty much restricted to running the underground railroad. My great-grandfather was a Union soldier; he fought to free them and spent two years in Andersonville Prison for it. That destroyed his health and he died in 1867. I fail to see that I have slave blood on my hands. As for the rest of us native born who had ancestors in this country in 1865: No living American ever owned a slave. Why are they responsible? And what of all those Americans whose ancestors arrived here AFTER the war? Are they responsible too? And how about the guy about twenty feet from me? He wa born in Vietnam. Is he responsible for what some Americans did 140 years ago? If so, why? This is the stupidest idea that has been put forward since the Civil War.