Comments on: Brooklyn-based activist Filing A 5 Billion Dollar Lawsuit Against Barclays Bank, Bruce Ratner & Jay-Z

By: tdollazNJ

tdollazNJ — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:47:52 +0000

Why is this considered far fetched?????So should we forget about slavery and act like it didnt happen…It was not that long ago…..Do you think that the People from the Frican Diaspora are living in terrible conditions for no reason????/Compton, Brooklyn, Newark, Atlanta, Liberia, Somolia, Dominican republic, Haiti, Jamaica…Every where you find black people you find suffering…Is this a coincedence, Or is it that western nations make more money off the natural resources of our home lands if we are not in a position to profit from them our selves????? Think about that before you call a law suit calling for reperations frivolous….You have to know your history so that you dont repeat the same mistakes..

By: 2cents

2cents — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:01:08 +0000

@ 11 crew88 your opinion matters none! These fools been livin good off of our life savings and life work for generations!
For get the good ole slavery part you still got all those jim crow years to deal with too when negroes got robbed and killed for their welath and nothin was done cause it was broke as Bushes and Kennedy types doin the dirt to get to where they are now!

@ Kintell thats what happens when you consistently sleep with the enemy! The nigga jay act like he gamin these folks but he’s simply their employee! Who owns the Nets?

By: 2cents

2cents — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:53:50 +0000

@ #7 I would assume it would depend on the blackness… how you got here and when. As far as the native part you have to go the tribal route there they already got their pay out!

By: 2cents

2cents — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:51:49 +0000

@ #5 Joy

40 acres and Sonata! lol… there’s more ways to recieve the reparations. The short sightedness of the school process is are we goin to school still to support their system or will we be goin to school to create our own outlets…again we have no major black businesses! We may buy into franchises and what not but we hold no power in their world except from a consumer perspective!

By: 2cents

2cents — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:47:53 +0000

“People still think about getting slavery reparations? It’s not going to happen and even if it did how would money be dispersed with not every black person having ancestors from here? How would you even determine the appropriate amount to be given per person? This sounds like a waste of time.”

Sorry fam but this sounds like some coon sh!t… I don’t think jews or any other unified people would jus fold like this!

By: kintell

kintell — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:33:15 +0000

everyone wants a piece of jay or 50.them niggas get sued out the ass.what the fuck?

By: we stone

we stone — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:48:22 +0000

Dame is probably celebrating.

By: Crew88

Crew88 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:45:58 +0000

Maybe because I am white I may opinion may not matter as much as others. However, as a decendent of Iish and Italian immigrants, I know acism was a big facto in their daily lives. Obviously enslaing a people is diff, but we are a far from that, although we have far to go. We all have to lookk inside to see our own bias and stereotypes. But seriously, in reply to this announcement, stop wasting tax payers dollars by filing frivolous lawsuits.

By: ceo

ceo — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:38:12 +0000

Yall aint give me 40 acres and a mule/ So I got my glock 40 now I’m cool

– Jay-Z

By: werd

werd — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:01:58 +0000

you took the kool herc off of the title!