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doodahdaze  02/17/2010 06:41 AM Report

To Shalom Freeman (is that your real name?) (if it is, who cares? Here's a Bozo button for you), whose to say who "suffered the most in American history". When you talk about people 'as groups' everybody comes out smelling pretty rosey. When you separate people as individuals and what they do, that's when you can make accurate and fair assessments about their character, no matter what there position is in the pecking order. And I'm rather suspicious of people who make a big deal about their ethnicity, because in my mind, it don't mean shit. So put that in your minnorruh and smoke it.

doodahdaze  02/17/2010 06:23 AM Report

I think President Obama should make my 'being-black sin-tax' a national priority to reconcile the evil scourge of slavery that their slave-owner grandfathers left on this country just so they could live the life of Riley, just sitting on their porches and drinking their sweet tea, bossing everyone around. Because of the scientific preciseness of DNA, we can now make the 'justice' completely 'fair'. For example, if one individual has 7% slave-owner blood in him, then he will only be taxed 7% over his regular tax. And if one individual has 50% slave-owner blood in him, then he will be taxed 50% over his regular tax, to be dispersed back to those without slave-owner blood.

African Americans with no slave-owner blood in them should get this money. So too, should the descendants of slaughtered Union soldiers who died to free a people they didn't even know or had a personal moral obligation to. You never hear anybody from the Civil Rights world give any thanks or acknowledgment to the 100s of thousands who suffered and died to make them free.

ShalomFreedman  02/17/2010 04:27 AM Report

This is a reply to Mr. ReMant. (Is that your real name?) I will not speak for the blacks, the group which has suffered the most in American history. There is no way to measure the suffering of the generations, the suffering of their slavery, and the price of it to individuals, to families, and to the society as a whole.

The Jews have not 'suffered' in America. Rather America has given them the opportunity to contribute all - out-of - proportion to their numbers to the overall well- being of the society. I speak only for myself personally but my strong sense is the vast majority of American Jews have a feeling of gratitude and thanksgiving for the opportunities America has given them.

doodahdaze  02/16/2010 12:35 PM Report

Learn some history. Some UNBIASED history, for a change.

doodahdaze  02/16/2010 12:33 PM Report

Also we'll have to compensate all the white indentured servants (white slaves) and the thousands of orphans that were kidnapped off the streets of London and thrown on ships by the big corporations. I got some advice for the 'historians'. Read some history.

doodahdaze  02/16/2010 12:21 PM Report

If the blacks want to be compensated for slavery then there should be a tax added to 'being black', since it has been proven through DNA that (on average) African-Americans are 20% northern and western European (white). It can be surmised that African-Americans are the descendants of slave-owners, much more so than the average white citizen, since the majority of white people did not own slaves; at the height of southern slavery, less than 5% of the white population owned slaves. Sometimes justice isn't so black & white, pardon the pun.

If we really want to be fair, we can determine through DNA just how much slave-owner blood African-Americans have so we can tax them appropriately.

REMant  02/16/2010 11:12 AM Report

I think blacks, like the Jews, would like to perpetuate the idea of suffering and desert, and for the same reason. Only yesterday black farmers renewed their petition for compensation for past discrimination as if they were the Bonus Army. I have dreaded this. I'm afraid the gays will soon be joining them and in a way women and adolescents already have. For a long time blacks have even complained of preferential treatment given Latinos, Asians and other immigrants, as if these ppl were not also not white. As if the Irish need not apply. We used to ask why, unlike myriad others, blacks and Jews had not melted. Now this is considered meritorious. It has a direct impact on our economy, too, both in entitlements and in productivity. I wonder when and where it will stop.