From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Sat Sep 07 2002 - 09:46:06 MDT
In a message dated 9/7/2002 10:27:17 AM Central Standard Time,
fauxever@sprynet.com writes: In Randall Robinson's book, ``The Debt,''
Robinson advocates a national trust supported by government, corporations and
other institutions that benefited by slavery, to pay for enriching the
education of black children and for college tuition for qualified blacks in
need. That's what the current reparations movement is about. (Randall
Robinson was a main player in dismantling apartheid in South Africa.)
Olga,
As long as we are going to account for historic injustices as seen
through the eyes of those that say they have been treated unjustly I have a
question.
Would you pay reparations before or after you returned to the American
Indian all the land that was unjustly taken from them. Just remember
Manhattan Island supposedly was not bought from the Indians that lived there
but from an outsider with no right to sell it. I doubt you would survive
with more than 10 to 25 percent of the U. S. intact.
In addition it is said in the books that 90% of the American Indians
were killed. Modern estimates puts that number at millions in North America
alone. Now most folks don't realise we killed so many and there is a very
plausible reason that you wouldn't realise it. But, never the less they
died. Now if you add up the payments for the dead and for the land we are
talking serious money. I wonder if there is enough money in the U. S. to pay
damages and accumulated interest on that bill. Besides I am going to hold
out for court costs.
So, I think you can see my concern. If you bring up the subject of
the one reparation I think it is incumbent upon you to explain how you intend
to handle the other as they cannot be settled seperately. The ball is in
your court.
Ron h.
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