Obama won't give us our 40 acres and a mule?

I can't believe Obama won't give us our money America owes us for slavery.

More blacks will vote for him if he does. it's only right

Do you think Obama should"show us the money"?

As a Black woman I will say this. Blacks need to make their own way and quit waiting on reperations or any damn thing else from the Goverment or "Whitey"!!!

What slavery was 400 plus years ago and we didn't get anything then!!! And WHY should Whites today be made to pay for things their forefathers did BEFORE they were even born???

We were not the only race that has been done wrong just look at the Jews and yet they thrive and prosper!!!

We need to invest our money and quit spending on expensive liqour, rims, clothes and other shyt made by companies that we DO NOT OWN!!!!! We need to create and build our OWN WEALTH!!!!!

I mean how many times must we be kicked int he teet to see this??? Civil Rights Movement dead in the water after MLK and Malcolm died. Hurricane Katrina is that sin't a wake-up call I dont know what is!!!

rachel3 said:

Donjuandeblacko said:

First mistake is lumping all Black people in one box. Newsflash, we all don't think the same, spend money the same way, eat the same foods or live on the saae economic levels.

For my own personal opinion, I never expected Obama to be the one to push for reparations just because of who he is. Money will not solve the race issues in America, it takes people willing to "change the way they think about race"that will improve race issues, so that the past will not be repeated.

I feel "fairness" in employmemt, housing and more funds to better our school systems, especially those that live within inner cities would be a start in improving many of those communities some of us live in that need help the most and basically improving our quality of life.

Honestly, I don't know the real answer to reparations, as I am not waiting for anybody to give me a damn thing, since I've always been able to earn my money honestly, and work hard for it. Sure I had to face racist attitudes, but that made me even stronger knowing there was someone out there that didn't want to see me progress. Well, I wasn't going to give up and let them win, so I pushed on. No one gave me any handouts. I just believe in "fairness" when it comes to getting a piece of the American pie. I am a citizen and I deserve just as much right as any other citizen when it comes to fairness in housing, employment and education.

What I spend my money on is my choice. I don't let anyone dictate how I should spend it nor will I tell another how they should spend theirs. How I save or invest my money is my choice. I don't spend my money on liquor, drugs or any of that nonsense so I'm good on a personal level. We could use some financial advisors and educators to come in and educate those living within many lower-income communities, to teach them how to manage and invest their money, so they can look forward to upgrading their living standards. I believe that is what's missing most from many lower-income communities--the lack of financial education, how to manage and invest money and how to seek job training and educational funds. Often times people don't share information to try to "lift up" (so to speak), others because they are so caught up in "getting mine." We've basically become a "selfish" community in some ways.

As a "whole" community, yes African-Americans can do more to improve those communities that are on lower, economic scales. We can volunteer as mentors to the kids in those communities. Write elected officials to let them know what resources are needed to improve that community. Have community meetings with local law enforcement agencies to discuss dealing with crime in the area if it becomes one of the major problems of that community. Share news with your community and others, i.e., job listings/training programs, educational news, news on healthcare/free screenings, etc. It doesn't take that much energy to put up flyers with this information.. There are a lot of communities doing this, but you will be lucky if you see this in the media. Often times we are much harder on ourselves, than those outside of our communities and focus more on the "negative" of what some elements within our community do, instead of focusing on the positive things that many are out there doing to improve it.

Well, that's just my rant even if some may disagree with some of what I have said.
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http://prince.org/msg/15/286132


BARACK OBAMA, FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!! Get used to it HATERS!!

and give all the land promised the first nations.

You sell your soul
Like you sell a piece of ass
Slave to the dead white leaders on paper
welfare cases, Rapists and hoes
All reinforced by your tv show
Exotic and beautiful videos

Yeah
Jail's a sanctuary for the walking dead
It fucks with your head
When every black leader ends up dead
Somebody said
Our greatest destiny is to become white
But white is not pure
And hate is not pride
And just cuz civil rights is law
Doesn't mean that we all abide

So tell me are you free?

Campaign for every
Dead nigga blvd
So y'all motherfuckers, y'all motherfuckers
can Drive down it in your fancy cars

Try to hold on to some africa of the past
One must remember
It's other africans
That helped enslave your ass

Everybody's
Just trying to make that dollar
Remember what jesse used to say?
I am somebody
No longer do i blame others
For the way that we be
Cause niggas need to redefine
What it means to be free

I can't even tell my brothers and sisters
That they're fine
This absence of beauty
In their heart and mind

Stopped breastfeeding the child
You put 'em on the cow
And now you wonder why they act wild
You see brown folks are the
Keepers of the earth
Unifiers of the soul and mind
Not these wannabe-gotti pimps and thugs
Wearing diamond watches
From african slave mines

Perhaps to be free
Is to all love those who hate me
And die a beautiful death
And make pretty brown babies

Campaign for every
Dead nigga blvd
So y'all young motherfuckers can
Drive down it in their fancy cars

You try to hold on to some africa of the past
One must remember
It's other africans
That helped enslave your ass

Everybody's
Just trying to make that dollar
Remember what jesse used to say?
I am somebody
No longer do i blame others
For the way that we be
Cause niggas need to redefine
What it means to be free

tryin to make that dollar.....


[Edited 8/5/08 10:23am]

2elijah said:

"Behind every successful woman there is an astonished man." General Ann Dunwoody

ehuffnsd said:

http://prince.org/msg/15/286132


BARACK OBAMA, FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!! Get used to it HATERS!!

morningsong said:

http://prince.org/msg/15/286132


BARACK OBAMA, FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!! Get used to it HATERS!!

2elijah said:

"Behind every successful woman there is an astonished man." General Ann Dunwoody

Z I agree with your post 100%!!!

Me I have mentored but now I am too tired to carry on anymore and nobody else wants to pick up the torch and do anything!!! That is very frustrating!!

Donjuandeblacko said:

morningsong said:

2elijah said:

Thanks, I actually thought I mentioned "mentor" but thanks for stating that. We just have a lot of work to do.

You did. I wasn't correcting you, just taking note of the word.

http://prince.org/msg/15/286132


BARACK OBAMA, FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!! Get used to it HATERS!!

rachel3 said:

http://prince.org/msg/15/286132


BARACK OBAMA, FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!! Get used to it HATERS!!

I'm still waiting on my 40 acres and an Asian Water Buffalo.

Bossy 3fine bottom


I need your suggestions QUICKLY!!!: http://prince.org/msg/3/290561

Once upon a time I saw KRS1 live in Cologne, Germany. I was in the front row and he spit this fire in my face it seemed...

These are poems circulating throughout the nation
everybody's bad and everybody's tough
but how many people are intelligent enough
to open up their eyes and see through the lies
discipline themselves, yourself to stay alive?
not many
That's why the universe sent me today on this stage
with this to to say
the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer
and in the final hour many heads will lose power
what does the rich versus the poor really mean?
psychologically it means you got to pick your team
when someone says the rich gets richer
visualize wealth and put yourselves in the picture
the rich get richer, cause they work towards rich
the poor get poorer, cause their minds can't switch from the ghetto
let go, it's not a novelty
you could love your neighborhood without loving poverty
follow me, every mother, father, son, daughter
there's no reason to fear the New World Order
we must order the whole new world to pay us
the New World Order and the old state chaos
the Big Brother watching over you, is a lie you see
Hip-Hop could build it's own secret society
but first you and I got to unify
stop the negativity and control our creativity
the rich is getting richer, so why we ain't richer?
could it be we still thinking like niggas?
educate yourselves, make your world view bigger
visualize wealth and put yourselves in the picture!

tracks 1,2 & 3 from I Got Next!

rachel3 said:

New World Order (NWO) - Bboy87 - Timmy84 - LittleBlueCorvette - MuthaFunka - phunkdaddy - Christopher: Deal with it, muthafuckas!

Jealousy/Of what are we/Becomes tendency/For their thievery

While I agree that monetary reparations is a bad idea for a "multitude of reasons". I completely disagree with the notion that "slavery was 400 plus years ago and we didn't get anything then!!! And WHY should Whites today be made to pay for things their forefathers did BEFORE they were even born???"

The ramifications of slavery have had a devastating impact on Black people leading up to at the very latest, (if you can't see what's really going on right here in present day) the end of the Civil Rights Movement, in the late 1960's, when Jim Crow Laws were finally abolished. We have been suffering the injustices of this country's sins FOR 400+ years! We have been deliberately, maliciously and meticulously stagnated as a people FOR 400+ years! In spite of that, we've persevered without sitting back waiting for reparations! However, that does not mean, by any means, that America doesn't owe Black people reparations! The only question is, in what form should the reparations be?

Imago said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

No I am not trying to bait but honestly when are "WE" as a people going to wake up and do it for ourselves????

I quit mentoring becasue of responsiblities at work and home, along with the negative attitudes I kept encountering within the Black community. The crabs in the barrel syndrome is so sick and out of control!!!

rachel3 said:

New World Order (NWO) - Bboy87 - Timmy84 - LittleBlueCorvette - MuthaFunka - phunkdaddy - Christopher: Deal with it, muthafuckas!

Jealousy/Of what are we/Becomes tendency/For their thievery

rachel3 said:

2elijah said:

All the reparations that black Americans need who havent already achieved it is a quality education and job skills.
[Edited 8/5/08 15:56pm]

If they do the reparations thing, I think they ought to funnel all that money into organizations to help clean up the ghettos and to make it so that young black kids can go to college basically free as long as they keep their GPA high enough. If you want to fix things you have to invest in the future while living in the present.
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