Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: Devisive Bullcrap! (was: Re: RON DANIELS FOR PRESIDENT 1992)
From: ivler@mdcbbs.com (J.M. Ivler    ivler@mdcbbs.com)
Date: 9 Apr 92 11:04:55 GMT
Organization: M&E (Division of EDS), Cypress CA
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In article <1296500170@igc.org>, fscofi@igc.org (Frank Scofi) writes:
> 
>           RON DANIELS FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
>            *********************************************
>            FRAMEWORK FOR A PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM FOR 1992
>            *********************************************
> 
> **  REPARATIONS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS for the spiritual, cultural, 
>     and physical damages and economic retardation resulting from  
>     the slave trade and slavery.

Hmmm, I thought that was what affermative action was. What type of reparations? 
Are we talking about giving money to this sector of society because they are of 
a differnt colour? If that is the case, isn't this just a form of reverse 
racism? My wife is Vietnamese, she arrived here less than 15 years ago. What 
does she owe the great-grandchildren of former slaves? Why should her hard 
earned money go to reparartions to this perticular minority group?

There has been at least two generations of children born without "slavery" as a 
social tool being used to hold them back. During this time the "government" 
sought to redress some of the wrongs be making affermitive action into law. It 
said, if you have two applicants for a job and one was of european extraction 
and heritage and the other was of african extraction and heritage you *had* to 
choose (if both were equal in everything else but this) the african american.

Wasn't this enough? 

My parents didn't keep slaves...
My grandparents didn't keep slaves...
My great-grandparents were not even in this country...

In fact, my great-grandfather owned a farm in what becam part of the USSR. He 
was a simple farmer. Then one day the "authorities" came to him and told him 
that he had one hour to pack his family and all the belonging that he could 
carry and leave his farm. He was not to be paid for what he left behind, he was 
just to leave. Welcome to the pogroms. Well, he left and travelled with his 
family all across Europe until he reached Spain. Then he and his family 
travelled "stowage" class to America.

He arrived knowing no english. He had no money. He was provided with *nothing* 
by the people on Ellis Island. He was a new American, and he had his freedom.

At that point in time he was the equal of everyman. He worked three jobs to put 
food on his families table. His wife took in peicework. The children all had 
odd jobs. In time, he saved up enough money to move. He bought a small farm in 
Long Island. He still didn't know a word of english. When he bought the land 
his eldest son, who was 12 at the time, had to act as a translator so he could 
understand what was going on.

I can continue to tell about how a family struggled to make it in this new 
land, but I won't bore you with the details anymore. As you can clearly see, My 
wife and I had nothing to do with the slavery that took place in this country, 
and all of the friends we have who are of african descent have not been slaves, 
nor were their parents (and in most cases their grandparents).

So WHY DO MY WIFE AND I *OWE* THIS ONE SUBSECTOR OF SOCIETY ANYTHING MORE THAN 
THE SAME CHANCE THAT WE HAVE? If equality isn't enough, then they will have to 
fight and finally kill me to get more than equal treatment!


> **  ELIMINATE ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION based on race,          
>     nationality, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age or        
>     disability. Pay equity, paid paternal leave, an Equal Rights  
>     Amendment to the Constitution.

This goes directly against what he stated about reparations. "We are all to be 
treated equally, but some are more equal than others."


> Author, lecturer and syndicated columnist RON DANIELS is a veteran
> social and political activist. He was President of the National
> Black Political Assembly; National Co-chair of the National Black
> Independent Political Party, 1980-1985; Executive Director of the
> Rainbow Coalition in 1987; and Southern Regional Coordinator and
> Deputy Campaign Manager, Jesse Jackson for President Campaign, 
> 1988. He holds degrees in History and Political Science. 

Gee, look like he was involved with a large number of causes that specialize in 
helping out one sub-sector of the american population. What has he done for the 
Korean population? The Vietnamese? The Thai? The Philipino? The Columbian? The 
San Salvadorian? The Mexican? The Argintinian? The Hatian? The Barbadian? The 
Jamacan? The Puerto Rican? The Indian? The European? Has he ever directed any 
concern to the Amish?  ---- I thought not! ----

jmi
ivler@mdcbbs.com
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