Posted by highfivesucka:
Name one person alive today who had anything to do with the slave trade in america, the spanish slave trade, or whatever you want to pick. guess what, they're all gone. I'm korean, should the Japanese have to pay reparations for rampaging through Korea? uh.. no. shinzo had nothing to do with any of that, and even if he did, there's a handful of people alive who were effected by those events.
the true crime here is that while you want people who aren't responsible for what happened to pay reparations to people who weren't even alive when these things happened, there are real people who are actually enslaved right now around the world and it's disrespectful to them and people in this country 200-300 years ago who actually did suffer when you talk about how bad you have it and need reparations.
Whereas, More than 30 million Black African Americans are direct descendants of slaves brought to the shores of America almost 400 years ago; and
Whereas, It is estimated that 80 to 100 million Africans died from starvation, disease, execution or other brutal treatment while being transported to the Americas and other regions of the globe during centuries of a horrible Black holocaust; and
Whereas, Slave labor was the primary source for clearing, cultivating, planting and harvesting the land, processing the products, and all other duties necessary for the economic enrichment of slave owners and their families; and
Whereas, The use of free slave labor is the major cause for the rise of the United States as the strongest, wealthiest nation in the world, and
Whereas, Free slave labor, championed by the United States Government, allowed slave owners and their families to accumulate great wealth that was bequeathed to their descendants, while the slaves and their families had only the products of poverty to consign to their descendants; and
Whereas, Slaves were considered only three-fifths of a person in the United States Constitution and were deprived of pursuing any of the basic rights and privileges afforded other citizens; and
Whereas, Emancipation, followed by 100 years of legal segregation supported by laws that continued to deny freed slaves and their families the same basic rights as former slave holders, and
Whereas, The cruel and inhuman treatment and the denial of opportunity to Black people caused extreme, lasting social and psychological damage to the descendants of slaves that continue to impede their social, economic and educational progress; and
Whereas, The brutality and trauma suffered by prisoners in World War Two described as the Helsenki Syndrome was a microcosm of the post slavery trauma suffered by descendants of American slaves, passed on by culture, language and emotions; and
Whereas, The inhumanity of slavery followed by 100 years of government sponsored discrimination against Black people also resulted in extreme psychological damage to the descendants of slave owners that continue to fuel racial division and hostilities; and
Whereas, There will never be racial healing until America decides to face the criminal debauchery that people enriched themselves by committing wrongful acts against
JAMES DOLAN on Isiah : He's a good friend of mine and of the organization and I will continue to solicit his views. He will always have strong ties to me and the team.
5/24/2007 3:37 PM