Monday, February 25, 2008

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

In the claim, Mr. Campbell said that Mr. Ratner and Jay-Z worked “in concert” with Barclays, and “profited from the African Slave Trade and continue to profit from these gains, through a conspiracy dating back hundreds of years and continue to date to oppress Black people, enslave them, unlawfully deport them to all corners of the Earth.”

Source: Observer

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.

No will give you 40 acres and a mule, you have to go out there and get it yourself.

The article made a correction, DJ Kool Herc is not the one filing the lawsuit, lol something sounded wrong.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

this nigga need to go get a job.They need to change the law so when ppl bring crazy lawsuit like this and they loose they have to pay the defendant lawyer fee. just like in England

Anonymous said...

herc, get a job

Anonymous said...

Herc needs the money to save 1520 Sedgewick lol

Anonymous said...

Editor’s Note: This story originally reported that the Clive Campbell who filed the lawsuit was the real name of D.J. Kool Herc, a founder of hip hop. In fact, it is a different Clive Campbell. Mr. Campbell is a Brooklyn-based activist. The story has been corrected.

Anonymous said...

If your black with Native American ancestry(instead of white) would you be able to recieve reperations. Off topic i know but i just wanted to know.

Anonymous said...

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

- Jay-Z

Anonymous said...

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.