Reply #189: Kerry opposes "repairs"...

[Al Newer]

John Kerry yesterday told students at Howard University that he doesn't support financial reparations for blacks, saying it would only divide the nation and "not heal the wounds."


John Kerry does not know anything about healing wounds, especially in America. Talk about finance...Has he been to the doctor lately?


I personally do not believe that America is going to advance if we go backwards and look to reparations in the way that some people are defining them," Mr. Kerry told Aaron Nelson, 20, a junior political science major, who questioned the Democratic presidential hopeful on his stance.


If Mr. Kerry worked for me for any extended period of time without receiving pay, he would not only want severance pay, but he'd want retro pay, especially had he not been paid for his services. If he says that he would voluntarily work for free, then he is not the man to sit in the seat of president. We already have had too many liars in office.



The senator from Massachusetts said he understood the deep-rooted "scars" blacks still feel in America after slavery, Jim Crow legislation and segregation, but said reparations would divide the nation, not heal wounds.


Reparations would not heal wounds? What is "reparation"?


rep·a·ra·tion n.

1. The act or process of repairing or the condition of being repaired.
2. The act or process of making amends; expiation.
3. Something done or paid to compensate or make amends.
4. reparations Compensation or remuneration required from a defeated nation as indemnity for damage or injury during a war.


restoration, from Latin repartus, past participle of reparre, to repair. See repair1.]


Now, let's re-write the above section of the article and replace "reparation" with "repair".


The senator from Massachusetts said he understood the deep-rooted "scars" blacks still feel in America after slavery, Jim Crow legislation and segregation, but said REPAIRS would divide the nation, not heal wounds.


"Repairs" would divide the nation, not heal the wounds? Damn, I thought Bush was bad with his "strategery". Can we get an intelligent person in office?



"When you mention the word slave ... in 2004, it's almost a shocking, unbelievable notion that in this country we wrote slavery into our Constitution before we wrote it out," Mr. Kerry said.


Mr. Kerry, it is not unbelievable. Mere inscriptions on paper are no more shocking than the script of a horror movie. Re-writing the script does not address the act after it has been played out. More must be done. Repair must be done. Reparation must be done.


Al Newer