Last Word on Reparations from Therese

Subject: Cultural insensitivity starts at home
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:58:44 -0500

The civil rights movement in this country was and still is the appropriately
sensitive response to the sometimes-deliberate and sometimes-unconscious
racism against black Americans.

Those poor excuses for citizens were screaming violence, hatred and revenge.
MLK would NEVER have done that. In fact, I don't think the Rev. Jackson, on
his own, would either.

Recognizing pain, yes. Designing quotas and mandates and favorable bidding
(MBE and WBE) procedures in public and private works, sure.

Paying out tax money and land to people not directly enslaved, collected
from people who did not directly enslave them or anyone else? Nope.
Absolutely not.

Don't push people onto sides in this argument. You're an American (I
presume). I'm an American. Nobody owes me a damn thing but an equal chance.
Nobody owes you a damn thing but an equal chance.

Therese

This is why we all must make hard choices.