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Record Turnout for 2000 American Renaissance Conference
James Lubinskas, American Renaissance, May 2000
More than 200 people from all around the country gathered in northern Virginia over the weekend of March 31-April 2nd for the fourth
American Renaissance conference. The mostly-American audience was joined by participants from Canada, England and France. A small protest by a far-left student group provided added entertainment to what all participants agreed was an entirely successful conference.
The meeting was held at the Sheraton Hotel in Reston, Virginia, and began with a Friday evening cocktail reception. The general session on Saturday opened with Richard Lynn of the Ulster Institute for Social Research, who discussed the history and impact of Third-World immigration on Britain. He noted that despite Enoch Powell’s famous warning that “we are building our own funeral pyre,” non-white immigration continues in the face of popular opposition. Arranged marriages, f
With reparations, there is the issue of who pays. Do African countries owe reparations to Black Americans? After all, Harvardâs director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Henry Louis Gates, wrote that 90% of those enslaved and shipped to the New World were sold by Africans to European slavers. All whites? Only whites? Nonwhites? Are payments owed before the United States became a country?
Former University of California, Los Angeles, historian Roger McGrath writes:
âThe reparationists claim that the United States must compensate the descendants of slaves for 400 years of slavery. Since the United States was not established until 1788 (when the required three-fourths majority of the states approved the Constitution), slavery existed for only 77 years before the 13th Amendment abolished it.â McGrath also writes about the number of whites who owned slaves in the January issue of Chronicles Magazine:
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With reparations, there is the issue of who pays. Do African countries owe reparations to Black Americans? After all, Harvard s director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Henry Louis Gates, wrote that 90% of those enslaved and shipped to the New World were sold by Africans to European slavers. All whites? Only whites? Nonwhites? Are payments owed before the United States became a country?
Former University of California, Los Angeles, historian Roger McGrath writes: The reparationists claim that the United States must compensate the descendants of slaves for 400 years of slavery. Since the United States was not established until 1788 (when the required three-fourths majority of the states approved the Constitution), slavery existed for only 77 years before the 13th Amendment abolished it. McGrath also writes about the number of whites who owned slaves in the January issue of Chronicle Magazine:
Author of the article: Larry Elder
Publishing date: Mar 07, 2021 • March 7, 2021 • 3 minute read • This photo taken on May 5, 2006 shows the liberation from slavery statue in a street leading to the House of Slaves on Goree Island, just off Dakar, Senegal, where thousands of African slaves were held before being sent to the Americas. Photo by SEYLLOU/AFP /Getty Images
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With reparations, there is the issue of who pays. Do African countries owe reparations to Black Americans? After all, Harvard’s director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Henry Louis Gates, wrote that 90% of those enslaved and shipped to the New World were sold by Africans to European slavers. All whites? Only whites? Nonwhites? Are payments owed before the United States became a country?