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In Reply to: Reparations to Blacks - among other things. posted by Micron on August 21, 2002 at 16:46:39:
I saw the Washington thing, which was quite a small turnout. One of the speakers was demanding seven times the worth of what a mule and 40 acres would be today, or in other words, everything. As in control at every level. I know in Houston, there was a small turnout, but a large vote in city council over the issue of studying the issue of reparations. It was defeated by just one vote. But then in Houston, there is alot of black power in that the current mayor, chief of police, and most city and government jobs and others in this city are held by blacks. The atmosphere is one of a sharp division. Personally, I think if reparations were examined, you'd have to take it back to it's origins. Tribes sold their people, their own people to Dutch and other slave traders. Slavery was practiced around the world. It still is in some countries. It is now recognized as wrong, and there have been MANY injustices towards blacks in this country, but to get on the reparations bandwagon and award everyone that is black today a huge sum of money would bankrupt our country. I think it is another step towards division instead of unity. It is not the dream that Martin Luther King had. I can't see the murder of Nicole Simpson being justified on the basis of race either. I worked with black women at that time and they would talk about how they knew he was guilty but then talk about her color and character and say they would [basically] riot if O.J. was convicted. Talk about injustice.
