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

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (9745)	6/13/2001 1:25:32 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 59480

You miss the point because you are an ultra right-winger full of rage and anger and still bitter over the fact that JLA didn't ban me. In fact, this country has already paid out reparations for three centuries' worth of enslavement. (What do you think food stamps are?!) We are still paying the price for enslaving an entire race, and then forbidding that race of people from learning to read or write. To think that the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation and a few amendments to the U.S. Constitution "made everything right" is ludicrous. Whether or not any living American owned slaves or was enslaved misses the point completely. So step outside of your self-righteous shadow and think for a moment about the concept of offering free education from K through grad school for every African-American and Native American in this country, as a form of reparation. It would serve three purposes: (1) It would be a significant moral gesture. (2) It would encourage the underclass of this country to escape the welfare society through learning and hard work. (3) It would be cheaper in the long haul than continuing to shell out billions of dollars every year in welfare. (Note that high school dropouts would be excluded from this reparation formula. We're not talking about Uncle Sam giving every minority a $500 one-time payment. This is "earning for learning.") The bottom line is the bottom line: This plan would make economic sense for America, but the Republicans would never say yes for the five reasons you outlined.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (9745)	6/13/2001 2:01:59 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

None of my relatives were in the country before 1880. My wife's father's family were Quakers, and opposed, as a denomination, to slavery. My wife's mother's family were Southern, and some ancestors may have owned a few slaves, no one quite knows. How do we calculate the obligation? And if reparations are paid, can I get some on behalf of Jewish or Catholic relatives who may have been discriminated against?