Funny how you guys keep saying "its the past, its the past"..when the PAST is the cause for the poverty that many African Americans are experiencing today. It was THEIR ancestors who leveled the land in America, the east would be all forest if it wasn't for their labor. They were beaten, starved, abused, neglected, and forced to work until they basically collapsed of heat exaustion, or getting beaten to death. Such brutallity can't be ignored, doesnt matter if your ancestors were the ones who did that shit..it was THEIR ancestors who suffered it. They were FORECEFULLY brought to this country and FORECEFULLY put to work with NO pay , they were treated like animals if not worse. And now we're going to ignore it? Now we have the "THEY'RE HERE SO THEY'RE HERE" attitude..when it was THEM who had to live in the ghettos because of discrimination and being ostricized over the years..and we're going to just ignore it? Just because it was the PAST? They deserve reperations without a question.