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I think you are right, I actually doubt Obama ever intends to do anything  on 
reparations, but I do not doubt that there are many out there that think he  
will.
That is one of his biggest dangers, will large numbers of his voters feel  
they 
have been deceived when these things do not come to pass. I do see the 
possibility that acorn and others have been saying these things in his  name.
 
Drew
 
 
In a message dated 11/7/2008 11:41:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
Clansgian AT wmconnect.com writes:

>  >...I don't know whether or not Obama intends to pay
> reparations to  various ethnic groups or how he might do that should he
> want to.  

I very much misdoubt Obama will even bring it up.  From my  readings he had 
had his economists work out what any sort of reparations  scheme would cost. 
NOT 
to seriously consider implementing it but rather to  shut up the people who 
expected him to take up the issue.

He's a  socialist but he's not stupid.

The real issue here is not what Obama is  going to do, but what people's 
expectation of what he'll do is.  And  the thing I took from your original 
observation on the matter, Bev, is  that probably not everyone is  even 
consciously 
aware that they even  have that expectation.  But so very many do.

If you had been  stewed in the notion that many of your problems were not 
your 
fault, not  the results of your decisions, but instead were the lasting after 
effects  of abuse and discrimination, then with a non-white president, how 
could  you help but have a feeling of expectation.

When that expectation is  not realized, there may be trouble.  It may be as 
subtle and below  the conscious as the expectation itself, but it's coming to 
a 
country near  you.

James


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