-Caveat Lector- Subject: [Fwd: If I Have to Pay Reparations for Slavery . . . Just *couldn't* resist! :) Patty If I Have to Pay Reparations for Slavery . . . By Patricia Sharon Neill � 2001 Then I want to own some slaves first, at least one or two. Hellfire and damnation, make that a whole plantation full. Of course, I don't own a plantation, but we'll get to that problem later. It makes no logical sense to ask me to pay reparations for slavery unless I have personally indulged in slavery and caused some actual harm thereby. So if "free money" is to be made from my alleged "white guilt," I think it only fair that I have something to be guilty of. And I plan to be plenty guilty before I'd be willing to allow any government silly enough to call me its "subject" to take my money for reparations for slavery. I don't particularly care one way or the other what color, race, ethnicity, sex, country or planetary origin said slaves come from. The only slaves I'd rather avoid are Irish ones on the outside chance that they could out-drink and out-talk me, an abhorrent thought. So, let's get me some slaves. The only place I know where slavery is still a legal business concern is Africa, but I'm not sure if they sell to foreigners as they used to. Thus, I'm not at all sure where to get my slaves. However, I have full confidence that the delightful black market will find a way of providing me with plenty of slaves, as anything banned is always richly available to those who desire the contraband, superbly supplied by the ever-talented sub-rosa, piratical crowd (cf. drugs, weird sex, endangered species, etc.). My main problem with this entire idea is what the hell to do with the slaves once I have them. I don't own a farm, plantation, big house, hotel or any other venture requiring vast amounts of labor. I garden, and help with the plowing, planting, weeding, harvesting would always be good. Slaves could do some of the chores I currently do, but then, what would I do with my time? I'd probably have to spend most of my waking hours figuring out chores, tasks, jobs, etc. for the slaves to do, which would leave me little time of my own. What a pain in the keister! But this is the only way I will accept being taxed to pay for some horrible stuff that happened so long ago that no one is alive who was either slave-owner or slave-long before my Irish ancestors happened upon America, which they did as indentured servants early on, and in coffin ships equally as bad as African slave ships after the Famine. Many, many peoples have suffered to come to America-every ethnicity and race on the face of this earth struggled to come here. And prospered. Richly. Mightily. Even African-Americans are far better off in America than they would be if the slave-traders had left them alone. If African-Americans don't believe me, they should check out Calcutta, India, various regions of Africa, the parts of Washington DC where the real people live (as opposed to the politicals ...) and other such dismal seepages. If we are going to blather on about this ridiculous, empty-headed "gimme gimme" of reparations for slavery for African-Americans, then goddammit, I want reparations for American-Americans too. We all suffered to get here and to get established in this country-Jews, Italians, Germans, Polish, Russians, Japanese, Chinese, Turks, Egyptians-you name it, we're ALL here. And worse yet, American-Americans continue to suffer from the Continually Whining Party-those folks who have no idea of how well off they are, and who always want more-more of other people's money, time, and effort, that is. You want me to pay reparations for slavery? Fine. I'll do it once I commit a whole slew of slavery, and experience the horrors of it firsthand. I assure you, I'll try to make sure my slaves experience some horrors too, which is the one thing that gives me pause in this entire rant. I'm afraid I'll have to work much harder than the slaves do, providing work, food, clothing, and shelter for them. If that turns out to be the case, then I'll sign over my ownership papers to one of my slaves, and we can take this really dumb idea as far as it will go. Hah! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. 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