As a child growing up in America, I saw the Jews, being acknowledge of crimes against humanities. The American Indians have reservations and tribal control. I don't care how wealthy any black person is, I beleive we should not have      to pay taxs into a system that allowed humans to work for free for 400 yrs and +. Wake up America, we were slaughtered, hunged, raped, and just any unimaginable atrocities was done. It was a holocost on Blacks.
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I ask you this: Why should you get paid for something that you had nothing to do with?  Why should I end up having to pay more taxes because of something that I had nothing to do with.  You were not enslaved, so what makes you think you are entitled to anything?
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i agree with you. they are not here to hurt anybody just make a better life for themselves. this is no longer a matter of money and how they are steeling americans tax money it's just racism and i'm tired of it so thank you for standing up for us.
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To be honest I think most Blacks are looking for pay back, I heard some say innocent whites need to be kill just as innocent black were. Yes blacks need equality but lets be honest giving blacks equality doesn't offset over 300 years of oppression and struggle. On paper all people need equal rights seems fine, but look deeper into this issue, you will find that the black race deserves much more than equal rights. \n\nWhen Blacks were first "bought" (not sold) into slavery they were oppress from the time they were "purchase," not sold to whites. You can't sell nothing if no one is WILLING to buy it. Blacks were oppress from the time they got own until the time Dr. King died in 1968, by whites not Africans. Is giving the black race equal rights make right all the oppression they face?\n\nHow can 400 years of oppression which include segregation be made OK by giving them equality? Will equality fix or bring justice to the Millions America kill unjustified. Will equality fix or bring justice to tens of thousand that were lynch during the early 1900's. What about their lost knowledge of a language, religion, culture and customs? Will Brown was shoot over 1000 times beaten , then burned alive. These things did not happen in ancient times but in my and my parents generation. We were oppress so we couldn't vote this was only the 60's. So the ones who were slaves could not get anything for their misfortune because they had no rights to back then. Equal rights could not repay all that was done against the Black race. So in reality the two groups will never be equal one side had 300+ years of struggle and robbery while the other had/has 300+ years of privilege and benefits and the expense of one group, not just from free labor but from being on the side of the oppressors. That in it's self gave you privilege.\n\nTruth is the people who would have inherited the money their father SHOULD have got are still here. Just as the people and nation who inherited that borrow wealth, is still here, and the wealth is still here. So if Blacks got paid for that wealth they would have left their descendants with something rather than a spirit of poverty. As a result 70% of elderly blacks have no  financial assets. Which is a direct result form segregation design to keep the wealth in the white community and keep blacks from the houses, shools, and inherited wealth they help build for the white community. It's never to late to do what rights, however reparation will divide the country.\n\nBlacks don't need reparations but equality, and as I said equality is not giving blacks equal rights. Truthfully all the things the white race did or has done against the black race most surely can not be repaid with equality, neither can it be repaid with all the wealth this nation has.
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You gatta be kidding me; Israel had committed many massacres against the Palestinian people, France killed more then a million in Algeria, Britain killed so many people in India, Spain in the new world (Latin America now) America, in South east Asia, Japan, central America, Iraq, not to mention the slavery, and the native American mass homicides.. I can go for ever, that shows how much stupid you are, historical facts my a**
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the American government is not white supremcist, if it was we would not have affirmative action that hooks up non whites in education, jobs and contracts.  We wouldnt have hate crime laws that only whites are ever charged with.  it is instead pro business and pro israel so whatever corporations and israel says, they do
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Excellent points!  We're always being told that our ancestors enslaved them, but we're never told that our ancestors also fought and died to free them.  It's been 140 years since there was slavery.  There are so many programs to help black people, at the expense of white people.  Its about time black people quit looking for excuses and try to make it like I know they can.  And don't start calling me prejudice cause I aint!
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Just look at the Republicans Party not allowing them to vote today in their own elections. More strategy of the Conservatives to disrupt America for their own agendas. It's all obvious hate to the African American population in America, and a stand of white supremacists. I say it's really sick, and they are after the real estate of Americans through a natural disaster. The levies weren't being repaired just like a lot of African American neighbor hoods and streets in America. It's just another opportunity to repress the African American population. The Republicans, and George Bush are doing it all in Americas face too. Vote these people out of office, or it's going to be the end of Americas freedoms!
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First off you have to understand that white people don't understand because they can't relate. This nation call America is a hypocrite, name me one time throughout history that America ever admitted to any of their wrong doing? Never! Why are people so blind to see that America is the biggest threat to the world,why? Because they been making and committing crimes since the beginning against other nations and still do it. Because they can justify all their action. Like when they took this land instead of admitting they were wrong the say it "happens" and since Indians are OK with it mean that it OK. When they, America  killed millions of blacks and rob them of everything in everyway they say it "happens" they say bad thing have happen to the Jews, Irish, Hebrews, etc. "Everyone was mistreated at some point", by saying this makes that 400+ years of oppression OK because it "happens."\n\nNow would they still feel the same way if a hate group of blacks started killing INNOCENT whites because that hate them. And then this Black hate group say "don't punish us because people kill people all the time for hate, so why should we be punished"\nWhy do they resent such crimes committed against them, but justify the crime committed against others?\n\nSo according to there concept it happens to everyone at one point or another so it okay to kill, shot, steal, rob, lynch, oppress people because it "happens". And any nation that does these things should not be punish because other nations do it all the time. As long as you let America believe that, not slavery but the oppression and deaths of many blacks not only during slavery but also the civil rights era. As long as America believe it's Ok then they will always pose a threat to the world. The moment you let crime be committed and go unpunish then you are only cheating yourself, if you don't stand up for what is right then you will place yourself in bondage. \n\nThey say the Indians don't talk about was happen to them because their OK with it. The Indian should be kings of this land and should be paid taxes to all Indains that live here. They don't because they let other dictate who they are and what they should have. But Blacks are different don't let anyone make you think that crimes and oppression committed angainst God's people is okay.The only reason to keep you a slave ethier physically or mentally is by keeping you a fool and void of truth. If you don't know truth then how can you be set free.
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I hate to say it but, I agree. I think that we all need to acknowledge that 1) the past happened; 2) it was worst than horrible thing that you could imagine; 3) it made white people think that blacks were not human; 4) it created laws to exclude blacks; and 5) it affects the way blacks see themselves today and how whites view blacks.\n\nI wish that we could all take a person and examine that individual for who he/she is and not for what race they happened to be born in. \n\nBy the way, don't use the argument that whited help end slavery. While they may have been so, in the grand scheme of things, it's like putting a Kleenex over a gunshot wound. ALL blacks don't hate ALL white and ALL whites don't hate ALL blacks, but it sure does seem that way sometimes. I think that too much bitterness exist in blacks and white people just don't understand how far and how deep the hurt goes. I was raised by parents who could drink from the white water fountain or couldn't sit down to eat lunch with their white friends and couldn't go to the white beach. Those experiences and worse have shaped the generations. \n\nAs a psychologist, a believe in moving forward. I believe that in order to be ones best self, one must not get caught up in the past hurts and live life as a victim. One has to free themselves from the past. You should not feel responsible for slavery but should only be responsible for your own actions. Nor should I treat you any differently because of the actions of some people who happen to be white. I don't know what it would take for society as a whole to move towards this concept.
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Jeff A, take off your pointed hood and open your eyes.\nLet's look at it from a bigger picture and ask ourselves a couple of questions.\nWhat percentage of the Global population living under the poverty line is black, asian, colored?\nNo matter how you look at it, there is a corelation between the color of skin and prevalence of poverty.\nNow, slavery and colonialism have various debilitating effects. These effects take a lot of time to heal. Every civilization in the past has at one time or the other had slaves from other conquered cultures e.g Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Nevetheless, in none of these cases has the proportion of slaves to citizens come close to the prevalence of the United States. At the height of slavery in the US, there was 1 african slave for every 4 citizen.\nIn the case of previous civilizations, the negative effects of slavery have been greatly healed by the passage of time. It has been barely a century since slavery was abolished in the US, and just a copule of decades since civil right reforms were implemented in the south. It is over optimistic, to the point of naivette, to assume that societal and racial relations in the US would be normalized after only a copule of decades.\nThis brings to mind a skit in an episode of "Family Guy" where a colonial white man removes the shackles from his african slave and says "Okay, its over now. We're cool, right?".\nIt is understandable that minorities unconsciously feel slighted about the past and wish to strike back. In roman history, an army of escaped and former slaves led the Thracean Spartacus led a bloody revolt against the Roman populace.\nIn modern US society, It is sometimes taken as a subconscious mental victory that it is politically incorrect for a white person to say "Ni99er" while black people can refer to each other that way. These irrelevant mental victories help to heal racial problems in the society.\nBeing born and raised for the first 20 years of my life in a West African country, I have the advantage of being able to look at the US society from an outsiders perspective.\nFor anyone who says that the current US society is racially fair, I ask them to research the average family income for a black, hispanic, asian then caucasian family. Numbers dont lie, but ultimately, time heals all wounds (hopefully).
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I resent you saying that I have the same mind set as my ancestors whom you claim owned slaves.  All white people did not own slaves, in fact, a lot of them were against it and fought for the freedom of the slaves.  I have always been on the slaves side when I have read or seen anything about slavery.  Just because I am white does not mean I think slavery is acceptable.  I think it was deplorable!  However, a lot of other people have been wronged in history too, mainly, the indians whom we stole this very land from.  Are you going to make repairations to the indians for the fact that YOUR ancestors stole THEIR land????!!!!!
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Good point.\n\nSlavery, the slaughter of whole Indian tribes, and witch burning are also a part of our history .. but no one is crying to get chains, piles of dead Indian children or witch trial monuments placed.\n\nThat is the whole thing about American religion and politics, religion has nothing to hang it's claims on in the metaphysical world, so they are desperate for some connection to legitimacy in the "material" world .. they always go for numbers (mob rule) or the political connection (if it were not for christian laws, the USA would be nothing).
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all of them..blacks are considered ignorant and bad, native americans are considered primitive and inferior, hispanics all of them are considered to be ignorant, dirty immigrants, and the list just goes on and on......jews were killed in the millions and so were native americans and lost of other races.........a whole bunch of ignorant thinking done by so many ignorant people....
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We absolutely need reform.  I realize that several minorities are upset by this, but we pay taxes and health care to these people that aren't even citizens.  It's costing us millions of dollars a day.  If they want to live and work in the US, they should pay taxes and be legalized, they deserve no special benefits that naturalized Americans do not.
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Not until black people are given their 40 acres and a mule. Seriously. We do way too much for foreigners in our country but won't take care of our own people. It's sickening..and I don't have any problem with their race, ethnicity. Just wanted to clarify that.
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Liberals have done that to whites also, but not at the rate they have to blacks.  They preach that blacks are worthless and cannot do anything unless the Democrats/government is there to hold their hands.  I think the Dems are still holding a grudge against the end of their reign as slave holders.  They even lost their hold as sharecropper overlords, KKK members and Jim Crowe law writers.  Welfare was their last trick to destroy the black race.
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Black people today are not feeling the effects of what happened during their Grandfathers era.  There are more social programs from minorities than there are for White Men.  Black have more opportunity for advancement and more opportunity to attend college than most white people.  Look at the scholarships available today, most are for minorities or gays.  I am not holding the Black Man down, I do not owe anybody anything.  There is no free lunch, go out and work and make yourself better.  Don't expect me to help, but I won't stand in your way neither.