Keyes "Wedge Issue" on reparations is WORKING!!!

[Walt Starr]

Only not quite in the way he had thought it would:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1193122/posts?page=1,50

The Freepers are in full out civil war mode from what I've seen on this thread!

[Caution]

1. hehehe good :)

[CatWoman]

2. Hey, didn't I get into a fight with you about reparations???

;-)

[Walt Starr]

6. Yep, I think we had differing views on how it should happen

I think I'm pretty close to the Barack Obama position which is targeted more at education, employment opportunities, and business startups.

I also think we got into specifics about how a lawsuit would play and the issue of "standing".

Regardless, I think Barack Obama has the dead on right idea about an approach that will work.

:D

[Rambis]

22. "We never got the 40 acres...

We never got the mule, so we decided to ride this donkey as far as it would take us".
Al Sharpton
He was so good at the convention that a bunch of us ( all white small town iowa) watched it at a convention party we had the next night.

[Kahuna]

26. In other words, you support Affirmative Action. That is what you described

nt

[phillybri]

3. What a line...

"I want to know where my reparations are for the slaves taken from my ancestors."

Wow...:crazy:

[JohnKleeb]

7. youre kidding me

[mzmolly]

14. OMFG, you've got to be kidding me!

:wow:

[Momgonepostal]

4. OMGosh

From a poster there: "I want to know where my reparations are for the slaves taken from my ancestors."

You've got to be kidding me.

I also love how when the media reports something the freepers view as negative about one of there own, it must be 1) wrong 2) misreported 3) an out and out lie by the liberal media.

[NoPasaran]

24. "I want to know where my reparations are..."

That may be the stupidest thing I've ever read... which is saying a lot.

[nyhuskyfan]

27. Another contender...

I read this in Mark Crispin Miller's new book Cruel and Unusual. * visited a slave museum on his trip to Africa a couple years ago, and then was quoted afterwards as saying (I'm paraphrasing, since I don't have the quote memorized) it was an inspirational story about how so many people left their homelands in search of freedom in America.

I almost dropped the book out of my hands.

[MallRat]

5. Does this mean he'll dip below 20% in the horse race polls?

There's really not much further to go, is there?

:-)

[Walt Starr]

10. Well, he could go where my ultimate goal is

My first goal is to make certain he gets less than 28.98% of the vote to break his all time record for the lowest percentage of the vote he takes in a Senatorial race.

Ultimately, the ideal result would be a third place finish behind the Libertarian.

[Momgonepostal]

8. OMGosh the Sequel

From the site: "Blacks still owe the federal government big time for the incredible expenditure of money and lives during the civil war which was fought to gain their freedom."

Unreal.

[iwantmycountryback]

11. People say these things??!!

The stupidity of people continues to amaze me.

[xray s]

9. He just lost all his contributors

all five on 'em :)

[Walt Starr]

12. LOL, read this one!

To: GetZarqawiNow
I just got a fundraising letter from Keyes.

I told him to take his cut out of my reparations.



707 posted on 08/17/2004 12:13:53 PM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs (I am on my way to the GOP convention in NYC and am very honored to be representing my party.)
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[Momgonepostal]

13. OMGosh 3

From the site: "The majority of blacks pay no income taxes anyway."

Where on Earth do they get this stuff?

[Name removed]

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[Momgonepostal]

18. Link please...

...that shows that the majority of blacks are on welfare. Not that you'll be around long enough see my message, you future tombstoner, you.

[Walt Starr]

19. It took two posts

I think the mds must be a little overworked at the moment. This guy outed himself as a racist on post #1.

[xray s]

20. even those that have income too low to pay income taxes pay FICA

of course, Keyes was quoted as saying they would still have to pay FICA under his plan because "FICA isn't a tax" :shrug:

[Inland]

15. But see the comment Keyes was aiming for......

"I am all for getting rid of tax's. For all but if only for blacks that is OK too."

Nutbag conservatives that hate taxes and the federal gov are happy to see any dumb reason.

[Name removed]

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[Momgonepostal]

21. More evidence that Freepers are dumber than the average bear...

People in that thread totally miss the point about the 1-2 generations. They seem to think that means the 1 or 2 generations removed from slavery. They are busy scracthing their heads about how to pay reparations to dead people. :dunce:

[Old and In the Way]

23. My name is George W Bush and I approve of my supporters at FreeRepublic.

When that's all you got, you gotta go with it.

[maxrandb]

25. I Actually Love This One

A Freeper with a sense of humor

To: Dog Gone
Well, Keyes just lost the white, hispanic, asian, and aborigine vote.

Not to mention the Carthaginians.