Will Obama support reparations?

real life wrote:

Actually I started this thread a few days before Obama's recent statement.

His appointment of several advocates of reparations to campaign advisory positions made it a valid concern.

Even now after denying support for 'reparations', it seems clear that he could easily support the concept but using a different label for political cover.

The original concept of reparations, right after the Civil War, was the "40 acres and a mule." That was supposed to make African-Americans self-sufficient, I thought. It did not happen (the order was rescinded).

So, for those African-Americans that are self-sufficient today, what would be the purpose of reparations? It could not be for stealing their assets, like the reparations to Nazi Holocaust survivors? Then, I can only think it is for the injustice of slavery on one's ancestors. And, since American taxpayers would be paying for those reparations, the inference, I believe, is that present day citizens are liable for the sins of past generations of Americans. And, that liability is to be paid to a current population of African-Americans that never was enslaved. I am sorry, I think something is wrong with that logic, unless there are other purposes for reparations that I have not understood?

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We still have what...... 60 some odd days to learn Obama's position on any given subject so it's too early to know considering his stances change practically daily. :wink:

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And I thought he was just tap dancing.

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real life wrote:

Even now after denying support for 'reparations', it seems clear that he could easily support the concept but using a different label for political cover.

...which means no matter what the answer, you'll just keep smearing the **** with insinuations.

At least you're consistent.

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DrewDad wrote:

real life wrote:
Even now after denying support for 'reparations', it seems clear that he could easily support the concept but using a different label for political cover.

...which means no matter what the answer, you'll just keep smearing the **** with insinuations.

At least you're consistent.

Please clarify this for me.
Is what RL is saying what you are calling "the ****", or are you refering to Obama as "the ****" because he is the one getting smeared?

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Feh. I typed to quickly to be clear. RL will keep using insinuations to smear **** on Obama.

Clear now?

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DD,

Basically any plan to redistribute wealth is unacceptable.

The best thing that the government could do for minorities to encourage self sufficiency is to get the federal and state governments out of the public schools and allow local school boards to run them and hire qualified teachers whether or not they are union members.

The next best thing they could do is to get serious about hard time for drug dealers and violent offenders. I'm talking chain gang hard time, not country club jail with TV, internet and a weight room.

The third thing that should be done is to lower taxes. Pretending to 'tax the rich' is a shell game. Tax the 'rich' doctor or the 'rich' plumber because he's a business owner, and all he does is raise his rates to pay the tax. Who pays the increased rate? The consumer. This would also free up money for local governments to repair crumbling infrastructure. It's amazing how much farther money will go when it passes thru fewer hands.

The next thing is to crack down on the violent and pornographic 'entertainment' targeted at teens and preteens. This particularly applies to music which is allowed over the airwaves which are owned by the public. Don't take my word for it, ask elders in the black community such as Dr William Cosby. Even Democrats like Al Gore previously understood the danger of allowing this putrefaction, until he got ambitious for the national spotlight and had to change his tune to get on the ticket.

You want a strong vibrant minority community? That's what you do. You educate them, let them keep more of their own money and protect them from predators.

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Even though Obama claims not to support 'reparations', (at least not by that name) he continues to show signs of embracing those who hold reparations as indispensible.

Quote:

Democratic convention chief wants reparations for blacks
Shares controversial 'liberation' theology with Obama's ex-pastor Jeremiah Wright
Posted: August 11, 2008

The leader anointed by the Democratic Party to assemble the coronation of a 2008 presidential candidate in Denver in two weeks espouses the same black liberation theology pursue by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose church presumptive nominee Barack Obama was forced to leave because of its controversies.

Those included Wright's condemnation of America, a vicious attack on Hillary Clinton from the pulpit and others, and WND reported when, finally, the Obama campaign announced he was resigning his 20-year membership in the controversial organization.

Now a profile in the New York Times has revealed that Rev. Daughtry, whose father, Herbert Daughtry, who served prison time during his 20s for armed robbery and bad checks, also runs a church, shares popular "black liberation theology" beliefs such as the "debt" the United States "owes" all blacks as reparations for the existence of slavery two centuries back.

In a description of the church where family members have preached for decades, the Times said, "Below the sanctuary, in the fellowship hall, a banner for slavery reparations proclaimed, 'They Owe Us.'.....

http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=72149

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