Michael Richards?

[Zanchief]

HAHA yea that movie was pretty cool.

[Tossica]

Anyone remember that show Fridays? Was some funny shit when I was a youngster. Lots of drug references and things that they would not be able to get away with today.

[Gypsiyee]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yibdi0eP ... ed&search=

[Diekan]

I've always hated this guy.

I hate Seinfield.

I especially hated him while on Seinfield.

I concur. SOME episodes were relatively funny, but for the most part - Seinfield was "that" type of show where once you've seen one episode, you've seen them all - the same thing week in and week out.

I never got on the Seinfield banwaggon.

[Diekan]

Well, in their defense we DID tear them from their homes and enslave them for two hundred years.

But it was all in good fun wtf!

Uhh actually... no. The majority of slaves brought to the colonies (later to become the U.S of A) were traded by other Africans for supplies and goods. The various tribes would war with each other - capture each other - and trade each other off.

The idea that whity went over there with net in hand and went on a safari of capturing slaves is just not true - never happened. Regardless of what you may have learned in history class.

[Gargamellow]

i am sad that kramer turned prick

[Lueyen]

Another youtube video with racist attitudes.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0FI82DOuxE

[Jay]

Well, in their defense we DID tear them from their homes and enslave them for two hundred years.

But it was all in good fun wtf!

Uhh actually... no. The majority of slaves brought to the colonies (later to become the U.S of A) were traded by other Africans for supplies and goods. The various tribes would war with each other - capture each other - and trade each other off.

The idea that whity went over there with net in hand and went on a safari of capturing slaves is just not true - never happened. Regardless of what you may have learned in history class.

It's both actually. Maybe not with a net persay but definately with guns.

[Gargamellow]

slave trade was not just done for the US...and slaves were treated differently in different places as well

our slaves were treated as less than human...they didn't even have rights to their own children

they bred them like cattle here in the great USf A

honestly..i think kramer's insane reaction to the heckler in the audience was just what could be under the masks of many of the men in power in this country...

[Dylan]

Guess what?

All the slaves are dead.

All the slave owners are dead.

[Gargamellow]

but the familes are suffering because of the way the US government set things up for them..

restitution should be payed to the descendants

[Diekan]

what?

[Gargamellow]

what nothing..that is how it should be...

when you hurt someone..you first apologise then make it up tto them what you have done..it is only right..i don't see why it is so hard for this country to handle things with a little respect for ALL voters

i won't change my mind on this so anything rude you guys post...well let's just say you will only be convincing yourself

[Mop]

If you wish to get technical, african empires sold slaves to the US, and the rest of the world for that matter - they should be paying any restitution if any.

[Gargamellow]

they aren't responsible for how the US treated the slaves after they landed on our shores...

and i can get really technical..i have a minorities book sitting right here and i can enter data all night so please don't get me started

[Diekan]

Ohh yes - because that is full of "facts."

Here's a little TRUE history for you. At the end of the Civil War - 90+ % of the freed slaves STAYED with their previous "owners" to work the SAME plantations and fields. Only this time it was for a "pay check." The horror stories you have heard about in high school history were actually few.

As for paying people today (who weren't even alive 200+ years ago)... people like you, obviously completely clueless, are scary. In case you haven't noticed... blacks have MORE options for advancement than any other minority group. THEY are the ones who choose to ignore those options and take the easier route of selling drugs / committing other crimes - then blaming the oppressive white man for their ills.

No one alive today deserves any money for something that no one alive today had any control over. That's got to the absolute most idiotic suggestion I have ever heard - not because you said it - but because it was actually kicked around in Congress some time ago.

I am NOT paying Tyrone from 'da hood X number of dollars because his great great granddaddy MIGHT have been a slave.

[Gargamellow]

i believe there wouldn't be a hood if this country had given them a fighting chance a little earlier

behavioralism...socialization...consequence

[Mop]

I am not going to argue with you, I just refuse to have my taxes go to more people that already abuse the system -

I can site 8 or 9 people off the top of my head that I manage at work, all of which get well over 6grand a month because they keep having babies and live in section 6 housing. I could probally think of more if i considered our overnight crew here. All of which plan on having more kids so they get more money.

My taxes already pay enough for their abuse of the system. Until I see a resolution that doesn't just leach off taxes so people can get free cash ( IE: World Trade center Claims ) I am 100% against it.

Hypotheticaly - If there was a reperation that didn't involve the ones already abusing the system getting a dime I would be all for it.

But frankly, this is a different time and age, most of which could care less about civil rights and what people had to go through until they need to pull the race card out ( at least in my experience - which in this area is mainly a negative one ). This is a world where you make your own future and your own life. being Young and black doesnt mean you have to be stupid and a thug, there are millions of chances to make ones life count with out the US govt paying for it, just because.

Now i am half asleep and was about to go to bed, so this maybe a stupid question, How good were records kept during slave days, How do you know Mr. Joe standing in line is actually Kunta Quinta (sp) great great great great grandson? Should we just give ALL black people 40 acres and a mule, or should we dump more money from our taxes into research of geneology of young black americans. And at what point do we stop, should we go find all japanese people and give them the same for mistreatment by a goverment? Should we give all of a wican religion a couple g's for witch burnings and what not?

Instead of giving them the cash in hand how about giving them more chances to succeed from a younger age, better schooling ( security, teachers, classroom items such as computers, ect ), maybe even *gasp* programs for youth and teens with in the inner cities. I would much rather see any sort of reperation given out be one that actually helps them as a whole - rather than buying the new Jay Z album and a pair or jeans.

Seriously I am not trying to argue with you, I just have a very Jaded view of those that already abuse the system constantly for money and housing as I see it every single day at work

[Darcler]

It's their own fault they live in shitholes. Noone is twisting their arms to stay in that tax bracket either. They could go get jobs instead of collecting government money (OH IRONY, eh Taxx?). But they dont because they have it in their head that noone will give them a chance because they are black, when that isnt the truth. We HAVE to give them chances due to the crappy equal opportunity and race quotas.

[Gargamellow]

I now what you are saying and I understand. But I think it would be easier to spot a slave descendant than you think in this country.

[Mop]

I dont remember the actual number, tho I remember it being high the amount of false claims, and the amount of false claims paid out to people claiming to be WTC victims was outlandish and that was something that probably was already stored with in an Excell file that they could have verified, but yet we paid out alot of cash to people undeserving that we could have checked on with probaly a couple mouse clicks.

[Gargamellow]

I realize that there are dishonest people out there. But how can it really go wrong? We are talking about slaves here. We aren't talking about some group that can't easily be spotted. These people have been a part of our country since we ordered them from the slave traders to begin with.

There has to be some way. There has to be a way to make things right. Things aren't going to get better as long as everyone keeps pretending that nothing ever happened. Of course people are still angry! There hasn't been anything done about it!

I am really tired tonight.

[Lueyen]

and i can get really technical..i have a minorities book sitting right here and i can enter data all night so please don't get me started

Any of those written by Kamau Kambon or published by Blacknificent Books by chance?

[Gargamellow]

no hun..minorities.

secondly..you should probably know that you can't receive aid for newborns..only the children you have when you first applied..also, 3x what they spend on welfare is spent on defense..so what are you worried about?

not to mention.,..welfare amounts have been cut across the nation as well as the time you can actually collect welfare

anyone with a bad view on welfare should read "So you think I drive a cadillac?"

[The Kizzy]

Gargamellow saw Roots, she knws what Kunta Kinte went through