Barack Obama is the greatest hope for us to finally rise above our past and be able to take our rightful place in society. No other act or event, be it affirmative action or programs for the underprivileged, has come close to evening out the playing field between the races. There is no doubt that the first African-American President will lift our people up and finally give us our due: Reparations for Slavery. Obama understands how our people have struggled, how our people have been oppressed, and how our people have not been able to defeat small-mindedness and racism in America. No other president has ever known our pain and this is our first chance to reverse course.

Of course, Obama cannot simply say that he will compensate African-Americans for centuries of slavery and inhuman treatment because the forces of racism are still running the show. But when Obama speaks of giving back to the people, of giving us hope, and of creating change, he is speaking to his people and we must read between the lines. Obama won’t simply sign checks, but change the entire power structure to finally benefit our people. This includes investing in education in our neighborhoods, taking away ingrained privileges and ingrained racism in government. We will no longer be swept aside when Obama becomes the face of America. We cannot fail him.

Bush may have destroyed confidence in government, but Obama’s rise won’t be very easy. It won’t be easy to turn the tables against the racists that pretend to represent the nation. As president, he will be in the best position to destroy the idea that only the racial majority should be represented. He will combat special interests and small town prejudice that have hijacked government. Obama is not a revolutionary, a Black Panther, a Malcolm X, or a Farrakhan, but he has brought us closer to taking back from history what history took from us. America owes us.

As long as blacks have the attitude that "America owes us", then racism will continue to divide us. The past is history. Slavery was wrong, but you can't make up for that a century and a half later. Look to the future. Blacks may actually be better off now than if they weren't pulled out of Africa.

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Liberals believe it is okay to kill babies, but not terrorists.

democrats believe it is okay to taser a 10 year old if this stance will get their guy elected.

Done yet?

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QFT. Anyone who votes along racial lines is a woefully uninformed bigot.

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My family didn't come over to America until after 1900. Any "reparations" taken from me is the equivalent to theft.

Blacks crowing for reparation need to PROVE that they have ancestors who were slaves. If not, then that is the equivalent to theft.

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"What do you mean, I'm not kind? I'm just not your kind." - D. Mustaine.

Has Obama taken a position on reparations? I would love to hear him without a teleprompter stating his position on that.

I don't owe you (*)(*)(*)(*)!

Why don't you just go ahead and say white people owe you, not America.

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Did you know that the Irish used to be treated worse than blacks in America (after slavery was abolished)? And do you know how the Irish solved that problem? By working hard and not complaining about people or America owing them anything. And an Irishman won the 1960 presidential election.

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he was asked about it in one debate i saw, and he bsed his way out of supporting it, if i recall correctly.

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