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NAACP to target private business

July 12, 2005 7:26:12 AM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums
Sounds like extortion to me. As usual blaming their problems of today on something else, and taking no personal responsibility.


MILWAUKEE -- The NAACP will target private companies as part of its economic agenda, seeking reparations from corporations with historical ties to slavery and boycotting companies that refuse to participate in its annual business diversity report card.
"Absolutely, we will be pursuing reparations from companies that have historical ties to slavery and engaging all parties to come to the table," Dennis C. Hayes, interim president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said yesterday at the group's 96th annual convention here.
"Many of the problems we have now including poverty, disparities in health care and incarcerations can be directly tied to slavery."


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Reply #1 July 12, 2005 7:46:54 AM
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Extortion is exactly what it is, and it needs to be stopped. I don't have a problem with groups boycotting, but the NAACP is doing this as a business now, like Jesse Jackson.

I mentioned on one of my articles about how boycotting is getting its own business model. No doubt the NAACP will pick up on the whole stock manipulation/boycotting thing and make a mint while destroying honest companies who just happened to have had ties to slavery 150+ years ago...
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Reply #2 July 12, 2005 8:03:21 AM
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Our legal philosophy concerning corporations is "perpetual life," which means it lives until it goes bankrupt (so essentially, it can live forever). The crimes a corporation committed 140 years ago are still relevent today, and so long as the property of its owners and managers isn't taken away (which it cannot be, by law), you're only punishing the corporation. It's somewhat of a difficult approach to comprehend, but it takes back the money that was earned by means of slavery, though it takes it only from the corporation, not from people.
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Reply #3 July 12, 2005 8:35:56 AM
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"The crimes a corporation committed 140 years ago are still relevent today, and so long as the property of its owners and managers isn't taken away (which it cannot be, by law), you're only punishing the corporation."



If a corporation was a living entity, I'd agree. In reality a corporation is its stockholders, it's employees, and its managers, NONE OF WHICH were alive to contribute to slavery.

So, if you think you can punish a, well, building, or the paper documents that define the corporation, or the property it sits on, then maybe I can see your point. Otherwise, anyone you punish are living breathing people who committed no sin regarding anything previous to their involvement with the company.
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Reply #4 July 12, 2005 8:42:54 AM
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Our legal philosophy concerning corporations is "perpetual life," which means it lives until it goes bankrupt (so essentially, it can live forever). The crimes a corporation committed 140 years ago are still relevant today, and so long as the property of its owners and managers isn't taken away (which it cannot be, by law), you're only punishing the corporation. It's somewhat of a difficult approach to comprehend, but it takes back the money that was earned by means of slavery, though it takes it only from the corporation, not from people.


This would NEVER stand up in a court of law and it shouldn't. Using this twisted bit of logic then a firearm mfg by say Smith & Wesson or Colt to kill a slave some 140 years ago should be just cause for prosecution of the company because they made it? I mean, after all they profitted from the original sale right? Bull!
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