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I think what Farmer-Paellmann is doing is fantastic. I wish her all the success in the world. I want to support her and think that others should as well so I hope she has a website where people can donate money to help her with her cause.
1:19 PM | Carolina Girl
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I think that what the Sister is doing is right on and I wish that I could talk to her and get her to come and speak in Detroit!!!!!!!!!!!! ministermalikshabazz@comcast.net
12:33 AM | Minister Malik Shabazz
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forty acres and a mule, huh? just another reason for us not to get our asses in gear and get a real job. Maybe those still living who actually felt the effects of slavery in their lifetime is a topic that deserves discussion. But as for the younger generation, please, it's time to stop looking for a handout. You are NOT entitled to anything because your ancestor's suffered in order for you to live in the world you now live in. NOBODY owes you anything, a mindset that Dr. King feared would cripple the African American community. But that part of his message often goes curiously unmentioned.
7:38 AM | A self-sufficient young woman
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I understand what she is doing and commend her, but I also feel we are always looking for handouts and excuses because of what happened years ago! I mean if those businesses are still a helping hand to the turmoil in Africa, Haiti and so forth then that is a reason to go after those companies. Our people have and always will have half their shadow in the past and the other half unconsciously in the present. When are we going to put the black card away for good and?
7:27 PM | Anonymous
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I guess the last two commenters don't have a problem that a portion of their tax dollars are being used to pay for descendants (yes, the descendants) of white jewish victims of the holocaust, which didn't take place on US soil. Oh, by the way, the blackvictims of the holocaust aren't being paid reparations. But, I guess they should put away the "black card" and just be grateful for the wonderful society that they live in now. It's a fact that the effects of not only slavery, but segregation, lynchings, and current institutionalized racism have a major role in how the black community is progressing today. Reparations could help to build the black community just like it does for the jewish communities. I am a part of the "younger generation" and I feel the effects of slavery every day when I go to work as a black female attorney amongst the white faces. Trust me, the effects of racism lives on.
9:36 PM | Concerned for All
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Wonderful, Wonderful, work. Other races and ethnicities have fought and received reparations, why can't we as African-Americans? It would be really cool if every person of African American descent could attend college for free. Those who chose not to attend college should receive a one time payment. But then the question would be, "How would we define who is Black?", since we have mixed with different races through the years?
10:09 PM | safa
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Go sister go, I wish it would have stated how can other folks get involved in this! This is FAR from a handout. This is no different than the reparations that the JewS received for their pain & suffering...No other race endured 300+ years of slavery & then went through more hell during the Jim Crow/Civil rights era. You can't use people for hundreds of years, then finally free them & tell them go now we're done with you, get go on into the real world now with ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! This money that she's getting companies to give to Black organizations & insitutions should just be the tip of the iceberg....How about no taxes for decendants of slavery? How about these big corporations who profited off of slavery give monies to struggling, black owned businesses?
3:40 PM | Kia
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I commend her for her work, and while I agree wholeheartedly with the cause, I do wonder whether our fight for reparations for oppression, not just slavery, would be better served if we focused more on the post-slavery era in which we were taxed without representation from the passing of the Grandfather Clause to the signing of the Civil Rights bill. America was founded on this premise would be hard pressed to deny the systematic methods to refuse the right of suffrage and representation as well as congressional gerrymandering in the century following Reconstruction.
6:49 PM | C. Jackson
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Its funny...no one scouffed at reparations for the Japanese Americans that were held in American camps during WWII nor of the reparations to the atrocities suffered by Jews in "death" camps in the 40's. But b/c blacks seek reparations for building this country on free labor for hundred's of years, we are lazy and looking for a handout. I commend what she (Ms. Deadria Farmer-Paellmann) is doing...we can't begin to heal until slavery is addressed and accounted for. And I think the money should go into a trust fund - more so than giving to individuals and to organizations. It's a chance to spread the money where its most needed (education, housing, healthcare, etc). As we know, nothing comes for free- nor should the free labor of slavery and its atrocities. It has left a legacy - a legacy that is far from being over.
6:52 PM | Anonymous
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I commend the attorney for the work she is doing. However, I wish the magazine would have included how to contact her for those of who would like to join her in this struggle. How about those of us who want to help Google her name and send her a donation? I don't mean to minimize what she has done, however, 20 million dollars is a lot of money to me, but I feel that the four corporations got off cheaply - that averages 5 million dollars per corporation. That's pocket change for in payment for what could have been a PR disaster for them, thereby costing them money They would not want their stock holders and customers to get wind of this potential scandal. This is something that they would gladly sweep under the rug for only $5 million. These big corporations pay more $5 million that for one year's advertising budget. A large company pay more than that in a personal injury lawsuit if they cause ONE person to die accidently. I say they got off ch
12:07 AM | Shayla
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Addressing "A self-sufficient young woman". Since your ignorant "self-sufficient young woman" making those stupid comments...turn whatever might come your way pertaining to this topic down. If you can't saying anything nice, just stay out of it completely. You don't have the right to make those comments...little girl.
12:29 AM | Anonymous
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I say GOD be with you Mrs. Farmer-Peallman. I commend you for your fight and would like to join in that fight for reparation. It angers me too, that although I am capable of holding a fulltime job, I live in a decent town home, but I could do better if it was not for the color of my skin. I have co-workers who speak frankly about how they can go into a bank, because their mother knows "so and so" with no job and bad credit get a loan, but me who has been a little late occassion in the past can't get two pennies to rub together. Racism has not gone away and it won't until america is brought to their knees and the only language they understand is "money". I tip my hat off to you. I'll google your name and pray you're there so I can help with your continuedeffort to help us all.
3:23 PM | Brigitte A. Rivers
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YES MADE THEM PAY.HOW CAN I HELP WWW.WATERJRWJ@aol.com
1:02 AM | J.FOX
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I commend her for having the strength and determination to fight for our reparations - which are 100 years long over due!!! We are still suffering from the economic impact of slavery.
10:48 AM | Kimberly
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I commend her for all of her efforts. I bet the Department of Energy in Washington, DC profited from slave labor. I was a contractor there and worked for a high level official as an Executive Assistant/Office Manager. I was the ONLY black in the office and one of my white "superiors" called me a "NIGA Master" via E-Mail. YES...I have copies! EEOC dismissed my case b/c I was a contractor and not a FED. There is something seriously WRONG if they get away with this! No I'm NOT a FED, but I am HUMAN!!! I have chosen to KEEP fighting this! I need Al Sharpton for this one! Turia_Lennon@yahoo.com
2:09 PM | Turia
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does anyone realize that regardless of your stance, racism does exist in this world on a daily basis. why do you think people of color have the highest incidences of HBP die earlier of strokes. you can blame it on the porkfat if you want to but...we all better wake up and unite to do whatever needs to be done to eliminate racism and make superior education available to all. i'm glad to see the money going to HBCs but are those in charge there making sure the money goes to those who don't have the finances to attend?
2:39 PM | paula togood barlow
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Wonderful...keep up the good work,,,,press-on
4:07 PM | kim
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Good Job Deadria, I have followed this from the very beginning and I know it has been a long journey. I pray that you continue to find the strength to fight this battle. I want to thank for your hard work and determination.
4:40 PM | Sonya Reeves
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Fantastic!! I've only read this one article and I am thankful for something being accomplished regarding reparations. This woman reflects the courage of those who bore the cruelty of slavery and, yet, still rose to do more. I applaud her endurance and hope that the corporations that have paid so far do not have the options they have enjoyed for years and be able to write these reparations off as tax donations, at our expense, ethnically speaking, since the beneficiaries are NAACP, and schools and other like institutions, that exist because of the perversion of slavery in this nation's history, directly or indirectly.
8:54 PM | PAHoui
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Great job! I feel that this is a tremendous thing she is doing. I want to know how to get deeper involved with this cause. Slavery was an unjustafiable act put on our people and I feel that the discovery of companies that continually make money off of our ancestors should put forth as much money as possible to give not only the black youth who are going to school, but to more black owned business and entrprenuers who are trying to get their business started. Not having to go through so much red tape likethe government grants that are supposed to be there for everyone
1:34 AM | Rebecca, Tx
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did someone on this board really compare black slaves imported from Africa to the holocaust. This person's delusions are what should be of concern. Hitler's "final solution" was to completely eradicate the Jewish race from the face of the earth. Six million and those who were counting had to stop because no one had the stomach for it anymore. Let's also try and remember that there are still Holocaust survivors living, you will be hardpressed to dig up a liberated slave. African slaves were worth more to their white masters dead than alive. And since you are looking for reparations, let's go back to the very beginning, all the way back to the motherland and the Africans who traded other Africans for blood money. Africa's trade in human flesh still goes on till this day. Anybody care to discuss that, hmmm? I wonder how regime's like Mugabe's would respond if approached for reparations as his country, to name one, is still actively participating in human trafficking......should b
7:35 AM | oh please
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very interesting to say the very least
7:37 AM | oh please
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Kia needs one apparently. No other race, huh? Someone has been very selective in their history classes. The Israeli's were enslaved by the Egyptians for 400 yrs, so try again. And if you think black American's are the only ones who have suffered youare truly living in Lala land. Human trafficking and exploitation has been going on for centuries, in many countries, and has not discriminated. How bout the current states of events in the African continent...........
9:15 AM | a history lesson
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Ms. Farmer-Paellmann is absolutely correct. in her efforts to secure "the forty acres and a mule" for recompense. How African Americans were "enslaved and used" well up until WWII to enhance the wealth and domination of white corporate America is a holocaust that never would have been exposed were it not for Ms. Farmer-Paellmann's voice. United Steele is another one of the many corporations identified in a book by Douglas Blackmon, Slavery By Another Name, that corroborates the claim of extended slavery by many African Americans who have long since died. Yes the American government owes the descendants of slavery, a hell of lot more than a" mule and forty acres".
9:31 PM | Gwen Giorgis
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I think because the goverment had a part in slavery, they should pay, by letting Blacks Americans not pay taxes on anything for the next 20 years. that would be a start.
6:49 AM | sidney
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Big thumbs up for you for doing a wonderful job.
2:46 PM | Anonymous
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As a great Grand child of a Union Soldier drafted by Abe since he coulnt pay $300 to buy his way out of the draft (later killed in some field in PA,) I demand the same payment. No Justic No peace
9:55 AM | Paul
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Every last one of you that have anything negative to say about this, need to have your head examined, literally, this country is rich of the back of black folks. We don't even have our own communities like other ethnic groups. We don't even have a singlesolitary place to send our children to be trained and educated. Nothing, nothing, nothing and all you can do is run your mouth. Is it fair that the wealthy keeps on getting wealthy off the oney that our people broke their backs on and we can even get thesame wage on the same job as a white male in America. there are plenty of black men and women who are out there struggling daily to make ends meet who need that boost to help them get out of the poverty situation and all you can do is say something negative. What about just not saying anything at all. since you abviously won't be there to help fight ( but you will be there with your hands out, won't you) when success does come. america has to go back and take care of their first busine
4:23 PM | Philip Bridges
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it is such an priviledge to have a strong black woman to fight for our rights in this great country tha my for fathers worked and lost their lives so we as black amercians can have abetter life,iam aolder black woman .i exprienced so much hatred aganist blacks and aganist my sons .in the early 80.,thank you for speaking out and being the voice of so many of us .may god bless you.
9:14 AM | r brown
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It is not hand outs and excuses to make companies that were involved in the slave trade pay for wages they did not pay to a people who were forced into labor without any means of support. We should not have the mindset of continued victims of the crimes of slavery. Victims are helpless we are not helpless nor hopeless. Our priorities should be to empower each other, and see to it that we accomplish our personal goals and help those less fortunate, who want to help themselves. As it is it is every manfor himself, which is foolish to say the least. No, no one owes us anything but they did owe our ancestors 40 acres and a mule. i am proud of what she is doing and the way she is going about doing it. a humanitiariam trust fund is a great ideal, slaveshuman rights were exactly the issue stripped from them. Great Job!
4:02 PM | Anonymous
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I think what she is doing is great! If the Native American's and the Japanese from Hiroshima are still getting paid to this day for what has happened to them. And now there is a bill up to be pass for the Jewish people getting paid restitution, why should African-Americans not get something for what our descendents went through. We should considerate it a hand up instead of a hand out. Because no matter what you think, THINGS STILL ARE NOT EQUAL!
3:17 PM | Victoria
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I thank God for you sister, please stay strong and continue the fight, it's important that our ancestor life did not go in vain, because, of Slavery, Our people are so far behind, economically, I am a single black female, strugging, to raisie two daughters, The harm that was done to Slaves family is unbelieveable, reading and learning about effect slavery did to our people, I cry and cry, its really hurts, to imagine what our ancester with through, because it have effect generation after generation. Thank you.
6:34 PM | Geneva Jackson
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I think what Farmer-Paellmann is doing is wondefull. But what bothers me is the giving of the money to schools like Howard when there are millions of young black children (yes decendents of slaves) who won't get out of high school let alone get to college. Let's address that and come up with a solution to raise graduation rates among our childeren and literacy rates among black people in general, then we can talk about college. Until then, I believe that it would be wiser to put that money to use preparing children for high school and beyond. With the emphasis on high school. We as a people need to look at education from the begining. It's fine to have aspirations to go to college but please let's give our childeren the tools to achieve that end.
12:34 AM | black man in KY
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I certainly admire her courage and faith, but I would love to see the reparations used to invest in black owned female businesses or male owned businesses to help us gain some of the wealth of this country that is as of today still not available.
4:08 PM | Barbara J. McDavid
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Why did the school not call Nanny 911 for little 6 year old Desser'e like they always do for the little 6 year old White children? Also, it is only the right thing to do by America paying reparation to the chosen Blacks who've suffered as a result of slavery. For example those Blacks who had drugs and guns dropped in their neighborhoods. Whoever deposited the guns and drugs there should be chargable.
5:55 PM | Anonymous
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Wow. As a white man growing up in a sheltered American community, I was oblivious to the race issue. As I got ordered I began to notice it and wondered what was keeping this repulsive issue alive. And now I know; it's publications like this that continue to perpetuate the ignorance of racial discrimination. Obama can't change the world for African Americans, but he can be the catalyst. Use this opportunity to "Change" your life and seize your greatness. Stop whining and looking for handouts, it doesn???t help anyone.
9:15 AM | Ryan
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In a 300 year+ race how can we catch up?????????????????? We can make strides, but in a race between turtle and a hair it not always how the race is won, but who finishes..........
11:40 AM | Richard M. Henderson
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Fantastic work Deadria. I would like all of the names of the companies made public so we can take other economic action against them.
11:57 AM | Robyn R. Bowne
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The Chinese got their reparations, so did the Jews, Native Americans. WHY FOR GOD'S SAKE CAN WE GET OURS!!!!!
1:19 PM | cherylecayce@aol.com
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4:52 PM | Trust -Fund Babies!!!
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5:01 PM | Trust -Fund Babies!!!
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Personally, I think it is outrageous to try to sue a company for something that did not occur to that individual. If these reparations were being paid to people who were enslaved by these companies, it would be an honorable and justifiable lawsuit. She never lived as a slave and the current business owners she is suing have never employed a slave (unless one of them is a measly 143-years-young). Slavery impacted her life so drastically that she could only become a lawyer, I feel so bad for her. I do not condone racism or slavery one bit, but I really do not like people who file illegitimate lawsuits on any innocent person (even if it is business with high capital). Nobody takes into consideration that these current business owners have never used the services of a slave and probably don???t have racist bone in their body. Should they really be punitively damaged for what their dead ancestor did? I think the reason this is considered ???a one woman movement??? is because most of
12:08 PM | Person who does not sue innocent people
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I think the reason this is considered ???a one woman movement??? is because most of society understands the current business owner had nothing to do with human resource operations in 1865! Or maybe it is because other people consider it unethical tomoney from an innocent person. I have to give her credit though??? She is an intelligent person who is equipped with the most important value for being a lawyer, greed. I know what lawyer I???m calling when I need to file a fraudulent lawsuit on annt person, someone with the same moral and value beliefs as Farmer-Paellmann. whoopisteet@yahoo.com
12:10 PM | cut my last message off
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