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Has the Debt Been Paid?(slavery reparations)
The activist campaign demanding payment of "slavery reparations" to today's black Americans probably strikes some readers as too far-fetched to take seriously. Better stop and look afresh. I myself realized that the concept had moved beyond faculty lounges, radical salons, and afrocentric pamphlets and into the realm of serious political struggle when I looked over the roster of a legal group convened to plot practical strategy for winning such compensation. It included not only DreamTeamer Johnny Cochran, Harvard Law School professor Charles Ogletree, and other ideologically predictable backers, but also one Richard J. Scruggs.
Scruggs is a white Mississippi ...
- Top Lawyers Seek Slavery Reparations.(formation of Reparations Assessment...
- Magazine article from: Insight on the News Elvin, John December 4, 2000 700+ words
...1 billion settlement for black farmers in a discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Richard Scruggs, who won the $368.5 billion tobacco settlement; Dennis C. Sweet III, who won a $400 million settlement in the "phen...
- Government Warns Blacks, Elderly To Beware Of Slavery Reparations Scams.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Jet July 23, 2001 700+ words
...information by con artists promising slavery reparations, the government recently said. The issue of slavery reparations, which harkens back to the...credits or refunds related to slavery reparations. The flyers also required recipients...
- DOJ slams Georgia tax preparers.(tax preparers claiming slavery reparations...
- Magazine article from: Accounting Today October 21, 2002 700+ words
...which claim bogus tax credits for slavery reparations. In one of the lawsuits, filed...claimed an estimated $18 million in slavery reparations. In the other lawsuit, filed in...which claimed almost $3 million in slavery reparations. "The tax law does not allow credits...
- IRS warns of bogus `slavery reparations'
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times JANET KIDD STEWART July 15, 1996 700+ words
...information about tax claims for slavery reparations that don't exist, IRS officials...coalition of black activists called for slavery reparations at a City Hall rally. Organizers...appropriate forms to collect the slavery reparations. Last spring, a Dallas man was...
- Day-long march, rally for slavery reparations scheduled in Washington.(Knight...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Pugh, Tony August 14, 2002 700+ words
...WASHINGTON _ The controversial appeal for slavery reparations comes to the nation's capital...Worrill said. Supporters of the slavery reparations movement claim that slavery and...both voiced their opposition to slavery reparations. But the success of reparations...
- Slavery reparations lawsuit.
- Newspaper article from: The Kiplinger Letter April 26, 2002 700+ words
Note an unprecedented slavery reparations lawsuit, a class action seeking millions filed against Aetna, CSX and FleetBoston Financial Corp. It's the opening salvo in...
- Slavery reparations... to whom?(Insider Report)
- Magazine article from: The New American April 19, 2004 700+ words
...excessive. In any case, his findings illustrate compellingly the aberrant foolishness behind the movement to extract slavery "reparations" from contemporary individuals and business interests. The vile institution of chattel slavery has existed in every...
- MORE MAIL: SLAVERY REPARATIONS DEBATE.(OPINION)(Letter to the Editor)
- Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) April 14, 2001 700+ words
Who should receive slavery reparations? The people who advocate reparations for slavery might do more harm than good for their country. It is hard to imagine that people...
