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August 01, 2008
Poser Obama : Wants Reparations To Blacks, Native Americans
Obama suggests reparations to blacks, Native Americans
Says 'the most important thing to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds'
Sen. Barack Obama told a meeting in Chicago the U.S. should review how it can make amends for "offenses" committed during its history.
And one author is speculating that might even include reparations for al-Qaida soldiers, since, after all, they've been held in violation of their "rights."
Obama's comments came in a meeting with members of UNITY '08, an event for journalists who claim membership in various minorities.
Obama, according to the report in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, stopped just short of endorsing an official U.S. apology to various groups. He said instead the nation should acknowledge treating certain groups poorly.
"There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got some very sad and difficult things to account for," Obama told the convention.
He has told Hawaii reporters he supports a federal plan to recognize native Hawaiians. He was asked for his thoughts about a formal U.S. apology to American Indians.
"I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged," he told conventioneers.
"I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds," he said.
The issue of reparations to African-Americans for the historic slave trade or Native Americans for the "invasion" by Europeans periodically has been raised. Several years ago a lawsuit was filed claiming damages for labor at a current value of $1.4 trillion.
Obama said, "The biggest problem that we have in terms of race relations, I think, is dealing with the legacy of past discrimination which has resulted in extreme disparities in terms of poverty, in terms of wealth and in terms of income. Our inner cities are a legacy of what happened in the past. And the question is less assigning blame or rooting out active racism, because that's not the reason that those inner cities are in such bad shape, but rather figuring out are we willing to make the investments to deal with that past history so we can move forward to a brighter future? And that involves investing in early childhood education, fixing the schools in those communities, being willing to work in terms of job retraining. And those are serious investments."
But at the American Spectator, Jeffrey Lord, CEO of QubeTV and former Reagan White House political director, said the logical extension of such thought obviously could include reparations for al-Qaida.
"Does Barack Obama believe it's time for America to apologize to al-Qaida?" he asked. "You think I'm joking, right? Wrong."
"The push has begun among Obama's fellow-liberals for reparations to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida warriors. Look no further than the Los Angeles Times review of the new book by liberal journalist Jane Mayer, 'The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals.' Mayer's indictment of the Bush administration's fight against terrorism has predictably received glowing reviews from the gatekeepers of liberalism, including a July 15th review from Times staff writer Tim Rutten.
Please GO HERE to read entire article , thank you.
Wild Thing's comment........
Reparations - Extortion paid by those who were never slaveowners to those who were never slaves!!!!
I’ve had enough of leftist whackos telling us what to do.
Barack Hussein Obama doesn’t have any African-American ancestors. He does, apparently, have ancestors who were slaveholders. So logic dictates that he pay up.
....Thank you Mark for sending this article to me.
Posted by Wild Thing at August 1, 2008 04:45 AM
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Maybe it was Obama's ancestors who sold their countrymen into slavery?
Here's an interesting article about Black slave owners in America. People fail to realize that not all Blacks in America prior to the Civil War were slaves.
Posted by: BobF at August 1, 2008 09:59 AM
I want reparations for the two known Black felonies against my family, including a frighteing home invasion against my 76 year old mother. I want reparations for all my tax money that has been spent in the wasted War on Poverty. I want reparations for the cost to my society for the overall failure of the Black community to be anything more than a crime and welfare drag on my society.
Posted by: TomR at August 1, 2008 10:47 AM
Your spot on WT Slavery has been paid for many times over. The picture looks to be of Fredericksburg, the Stone wall on Marye's Heights. The confederats held the high ground and the Union the city of Fredericksburg. December 13, 1862 the Union made 13 assaults on that position and every assault was a dismal failure and in the course of about 10 hours, General Burnside lost more than 12,500 troops. 'All that was necessary was to load and shoot'. The Confederates were behind that Stone Wall 4 and 5 deep and just cut down the troops trying to come up that hill. The amazing they kept coming again and again.
The heroism and determination of those troops has long since be forgotten but there were so many who were given their orders to go and they went, it was as simple as that. That is how much they believed in their cause.
Since I have a special attachment to the Irish Brigade, one little bit of information, the Irish were told, before the battle, and 'they knew there was going to be good one' by General Meagher to put sprigs of Boxwood in their caps, so when it was all over everyone would know that the Irish did their job and died facing the enemy.
Sadly, there were Irish on the other side shooting them down.
The Brigade was decimated that day.
If this Obama, this world class idiot thinks there is a debt to be paid then they had better start counting White people, The Irish, The Italians, the Germans, and on and on, who laid it all on the line for their freedom.
This reparations thing is pure unadulterated BS.
Posted by: Mark at August 1, 2008 12:50 PM
BobF, thank you for the article and link.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 1, 2008 07:39 PM
Tom, I am so sorry what happened to your family and your Mother. How awful, and well said Tom!!! You are right about what you said!!!
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 1, 2008 07:40 PM
Mark, thank you that means a lot to me.
Mark what you said about the Irish Brigade and the Boxwood in their caps, gave me goosembums and tears.
Yes they paid the price and nothing I read their wanting Reparations mentioned anything about the lives that are no longer and all because of this. If they keep pushing this Reparations the media if they had any backboned at all should do entire shows on the price that has already been paid and our true history.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 1, 2008 07:45 PM
