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To: Ilaine who wrote (38334)	8/17/2002 7:06:13 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

As a lawyer whats your take on this? Blacks Rally for Slave Reparations E-Mail This Article Printer-Friendly Version Subscribe to The Post By Janelle Carter Associated Press Writer Saturday, August 17, 2002; 3:43 PM WASHINGTON –– Hundreds of blacks rallied in front of the Capitol on Saturday to demand slavery reparations, saying that compensation is long overdue for the ills of that institution. "It seems that America owes black people a lot for what we have endured," Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan told the crowd. "We cannot settle for some little jive token. We need millions of acres of land that black people can build." "We're not begging white people," said Farrakhan, one of several speakers at a rally organizers billed as "Millions for Reparations." "''We are just demanding what is justly ours." While Farrakhan and Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., did attend, many major names in the black civil rights movement were absent, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton. "The people on the ground are the ones we want to give exposure to," said one speaker, Hannibal Afrik, 68, of Port Gibson, Miss. "If it's grounded in the people, it will be victorious." Conyers, who has proposed a commission to study the institution of slavery for the past 13 years, urged the crowd to pressure Congress. "Only the Congress can do what we want done," Conyers said. Lawmakers are now on their summer break until September. The reparations movement has gained momentum in the past year. Earlier this year, a group of slave descendants sued three companies, claiming the companies – or their corporate predecessors – unjustly profited from slavery. The Reparations Coordinating Committee, which includes many prominent attorneys and scholars, is working on a separate lawsuit against the federal government. Those at the rally said it was time for action. "They owe us. I want justice," said Antoinette Harrell-Miller, who drove 19 hours from New Orleans with her husband Dennis to attend. "They built this country off the free labor of our ancestors." Jaki Mungai of Philadelphia called the rally "a dream that's starting to come true." "Every other group has been compensated for the wrongs done against them. Africans in America – we are the only ones who haven't," said Mungai, who heard about the rally on the radio and decided to join in. Ken McDouall of Durham, N.C., one of a handful of whites at the rally, said the reparations issue "cuts to the core of the history of injustice of America." "America likes to pretend there are equal rights for everyone but look at the history of black people," McDouall said. ––– On the Net: Millions for Reparations: millionsforreparations.com © 2002 The Associated Press

To: Ilaine who wrote (38334)	8/17/2002 9:18:33 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Is this site for real? Or was it hacked? Jehad is Crap! Looks real to me. Just a young British Muslim mind stating the obvious -lol- Here is one of the links. muslimnews.co.uk Lots of other stories to read too. jpost.com So, Muslims everywhere, let's unite and end this jehadi madness, let's expose and stop the apparatus of terror that is being built up in the Mosques and websites of the U.S.A. and U.K. We especially need Arabic translators to join us because all the real jehadi sites are in Arabic. (Jehadis keep the real juicy stuff from the eyes of the kufir so they will stay ignorant). Let's Roll, - Johnathan Galt and Finally, we are NOT going to claim that the U.S. or U.K. authorities were forcing us to keep these obviously jehadi sites up like some pretty lame ISPs that we know of. We did it because exposing the Saudi - Wahhabi death cult is the right thing to do. Sounds normal and British to me. UW will like the "Lets Roll" bit -g-