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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_urchin who wrote (21252)	6/21/2004 5:52:28 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81101

Re: Soon they'll make an "Apartheid Industry", like the Holocaust Industry, and open museums in every big city, experts will give lectures and contributions will find their ways into the pockets of certain people... ...and then draw a parallel between Israel's Palestinians and Zimbabwe's white farmers! The Palestinians could resettle in a DOZEN Arab countries --Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, you name it... yet they stubbornly stick to the Jews' ONLY homeland! Likewise, Zimbabwe's Anglo-Saxon white farmers could go and thrive in the white countries of Europe, the Americas, Australia, even Russia --but no, they won't budge! They cling to the lands they stole from native black Africans!! Perhaps Africans should resort to the same smear tactics as the Jews: those who oppose Robert Mugabe should be called racists --plain racists! Those who defend Zimbabwe's white farmers should be called racists: for they don't just hate Mugabe and his regime, NO: they hate ALL Africans! Worse still: they hate ALL black people! To be anti-Mugabe or anti-Zimbabwe is actually a devious, cunning way to cloak one's racism under an allegedly "political" pretense.... Anyway, here's a paper on the issue of slavery reparations in the US: The success in recent years of those lobbying for the victims of the Nazi Holocaust has given impetus to the reparations cause. Doesn't America owe as much to African-Americans as Germany owes to the slave laborers of the 1940s? As much as $9 billion dollars, to come from German, Austrian and Swiss government and corporate sources, has been earmarked for victims of the Nazis, including Jews and the slave laborers who worked in German factories. Then there is the $20,000 and the formal letter of apology that the U.S. government has given to each Japanese-American held in a U.S. internment camp during World War II. And the Native Americans, who have been given money and sovereignty for having their land taken away from them, land which in many cases was then worked by African slaves for the benefit of white owners. If we can apologize to the Japanese and the Native Americans, then why not to black Americans? So argues Adjoa Aiyetoro, the chief legal consultant to the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America. She says there is a double standard here -- the white establishment, and the government in particular, can acknowledge the rights of some oppressed peoples, but when it comes to African-Americans it has turned away. Why the denial? The answer is a simple one. Because the debt to African-Americans is so great and the sin so heinous that nobody is ready to face it, even now. [...] old.hartfordadvocate.com