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Pastimes : Slavery Reparations -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (175)	9/4/2002 10:50:18 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 203

Thomas Sowell September 4, 2002 'Friends' of blacks Who was it who said, "if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall"? Ronald Reagan? Newt Gingrich? Charles Murray? Not even close. It was Frederick Douglass! This was part of a speech in which Douglass also said: "Everybody has asked the question . 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!" Frederick Douglass had achieved a deeper understanding in the 19th century than any of the black "leaders" of today. Those whites who feel a need to do something with blacks and for blacks have been some of the most dangerous "friends" of blacks. Academia is the home of many such "friends," which is why there are not only double standards of admissions to colleges but also in some places double standards in grading. The late David Riesman called it "affirmative grading." A professor at one of California's state universities where black students are allowed to graduate on the basis of easier standards put it bluntly: "We are just lying to these black students when we give them degrees." That lie is particularly deadly when the degree is a medical degree, authorizing someone to treat sick people or perform surgery on children. For years, Dr. Patrick Chavis was held up as a shining example of the success of affirmative action, for he was admitted to medical school as a result of minority preferences and went back to the black community to practice medicine. In fact, he was publicly praised by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights -- just two weeks before his license was suspended, after his patients died under conditions that brought the matter to the attention of the Medical Board of California. An administrative law judge referred to Chavis' "inability to perform some of the most basic duties required of a physician." A year later, after a fuller investigation, his license was revoked. Those who had for years been using Chavis as a shining example of the success of affirmative action suddenly changed tactics and claimed that an isolated example of failure proved nothing. Sadly, Chavis was not an isolated example. When a professor at the Harvard Medical School declared publicly, back in the 1970s, that black students were being allowed to graduate from that institution without meeting the same standards as others, he was denounced as a "racist" for saying that it was cruel to "allow trusting patients to pay for our irresponsibility" -- trusting black patients, in many cases. Why do supposedly responsible people create such dangerous double standards? Some imagine that they are being friends to blacks by lowering the standards for them. Some don't think that blacks have what it takes to meet real standards, and that colleges and universities will lose their "diversity" -- and perhaps federal money with it -- if they don't lower the standards, in order to get an acceptable racial body count. My own experience as a teacher was that black students would meet higher standards if you refused to lower the standards for them. This was not the royal road to popularity, either with the students themselves or with the "friends" of blacks on the faculty and in the administration. But, when the dust finally settled, the students met the standards. We have gotten so used to abysmal performances from black students, beginning in failing ghetto schools, that it is hard for some to believe that black students once did a lot better than they do today, at least in places and times with good schools. As far back as the First World War, black soldiers from New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Ohio scored higher on mental tests than white soldiers from Georgia, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Mississippi. During the 1940s, black students in Harlem schools had test scores very similar to those of white working class students on the lower east side of New York. Sometimes the Harlem scores were a little higher or a little lower, but they were never miles behind, the way they are today in many ghetto schools. If blacks could do better back when their opportunities were worse, why can't today's ghetto students do better? Perhaps blacks have too many "friends" today. www.townhall.com

To: TimF who wrote (175)	9/22/2002 7:20:18 PM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 203

Bankers Sued for Slave Reparations Despite all the media hype about reparations for African-Americans, one major lawsuit involving reparations has not received much publicity. Find out why. americanfreepress.net Exclusive to American Free Press By Michael Collins Piper It hasn’t made much of a splash in the mainstream media, but the world’s wealthiest, most powerful and highly respected international banking family—the Rothschilds—has been targeted in a lawsuit by African-Americans who allege that numerous Rothschild empire-related corporations profited from the African slave trade. Neither ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN nor Fox—all of which are owned by a clique of powerful, interconnected families and corporations with ties to the Rothschild interests—have reported on this story. However, on Sept. 4 a brief item appearing in The Washington Post, referencing the Reuters news service, provided some specifics. African-American citizens—descendants of slaves—have filed suit against a number of major global corporations demanding reparations for reaping profits on the backs of slaves. The Post cited Deadria Farmer-Paellman, who is filing lawsuits against a diverse series of corporate targets demanding that they release corporate archives which might shed light on how those corporations may have profited from the slave trade. Farmer-Paellman had previously filed a federal class action suit against CSX railroad, which used slave labor in building its lines, and Aetna, the insurance giant. Aetna apologized for insuring owners against injured and runaway slaves, but has refused to make restitution. What the story in the Post did not mention—but which is very much the case—is that many (if not all) of the corporations targeted are corporations historically controlled by the wide-ranging international web primarily dominated by the Rothschild family. The diverse targets include: J. P. Morgan Chase & Co., Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Brown Brothers Harriman, the Loews Corp, and Lloyds of London among several others. These named corporations are all part of the Rothschild sphere of influence, which includes such wealthy families as the Bronfmans, the Reichmanns, the Belzbergs, the Newhouses, Murdochs, Sulzbergers and others. Other corporations named include American Inter national Group, Inc., the insurance firm, as well as Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern Corp. railroads. WestPoint Stevens Inc., a textile firm, and such tobacco makers as R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc., Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. and Liggett Group, which is now indirectly owned by Vector Group Ltd. The interests, which dominate the American media, have downplayed the significance of these lawsuits, but the ramifications are far reaching: rather than asking every American taxpayer to “kick in” for reparations, those who are asking for payback are targeting those who actually profited directly from the slave trade. ============= @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ PLANETNEWS broadcast... From: Rumor Mill News Reading Room Forum ROTHSCHILDS Sued for Slave Reparations Posted By: X Friday, 20 September 2002, 12:35 p.m. When Jesse Jackson took on Coca Cola and won, I wondered if he could have joined Faction Two. When Farrakahn talked about the Jewish Conspiracy controlling the world, I wondered where he had learned the things he knew. The rift is widening between the Democratic Blacks and Jews. rumormillnews.net And now this! The Blacks are taking on the founding families of the Federal Reserve System. Could it be that someone (FAction 2?) is behind all of this, pulling the strings and orchestrating things? Hmmm? ============= Slavery continues to this day. The only difference is that todat it's FAR, FAR more diabilical and it affects the entire planet. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution which established blacks as the first Federal Citizens of the United States laid the groundwork which turned us away from our roots in Common Law and back to Roman Civil law. From the creation of the municipal private federal corporation for the District of Columbia - ALL CAPS "THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" - on February 21st 1871 (see The Act of 1871) the rest of free Americans effectively began to unwittingly contract into these unilateral contracts "with strings attached" - ie. slavery, bondage, etc. And with the forced illegal scrapping of the original 13th Amendment - see "The Missing 13th Amemdment" - that Virgina DID finally vote to pass on in 1819 which outlawed members of British titled and members of nobility including members of the BAR Association - ie. "BAR = British Accredited Registry" - the path was set for our country to be taken over from within by agents who were bought and paid for by the London and Paris banking interests as headed up by The House of Rothschild. I believe THE ENTIRE WORLD SHOULD STOP paying illegal taxes which support this fraud and START supporting the concept of slave reparations by going direct to the souce and SUE this world banking cartel. Peace and God Bless! 119293!!