# AA and Reparations MCGXVIII **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 16, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397 "2003-12-16T21:22:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/1 "2003-12-16T21:22:56Z")
No not a debate in the true sense. One in the rant sense. Why on earth must we debate these two topics every-mother-fucking week? I’m trying to remember the last time I entered GD and one of these topics weren’t being rehashed for the millionth fucking time. Ok maybe not a million, but let’s see there are 52 weeks in a year times x nuber of years, time y number of freaking morons who couldn’t be bothered with a search= tired of fucking talking about it. Can’t we just sticky one of the two or three thousand threads on these subjects that must be in the archives. Don’t like Affirmative Action WE GET IT!!! Don’t want to see slave reparations? Guess what, since it’s in no danger of ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever fucking happening get a grip Assholes. I mean has there ever been anyone of power, say a senator or something really proposing this? Ever? I mean I’m black so I know some black people, well really a lot of them. You know how many times this comes up when I’m hanging out. NEVER, Not even once. Wait there was that time in HS way back in 1984. Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/2 "2003-12-16T21:39:15Z")
that’d cut the number of topics they yell about in there to… three? I quit caring ages ago. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/3 "2003-12-16T21:46:31Z")
That place scares me. It’s cozier in the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Algorithm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/algorithm/32/12204_2.png) [@Algorithm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algorithm)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/4 "2003-12-16T21:57:33Z")
> [@](#): > > AA and Reparations MC **G** XVIII G? What does the ‘G’ mean??? ---
**Author:** ![NotMrKnowItAll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6bbea6/32.png) [@NotMrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotMrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/5 "2003-12-16T22:07:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Algorithm \* > \*\*G? What does the ‘G’ mean??? \*\* Goddamned As in One Thousand, One Hundred and Goddamned Eighteen threads… ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/6 "2003-12-16T22:08:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Algorithm \* > \*\*G? What does the ‘G’ mean??? \*\* Gangsta as in Original Gangsta. 😃 Ok it really means I don’t know my roman numerals. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/7 "2003-12-16T22:28:39Z")
All these problems would go away if we’d just get out of the UN, and bring back the Gold Standard. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/8 "2003-12-16T23:05:12Z")
It’s the highschoolers. The topics come up in their debate segments and they rush to the boards to share what they think are unique insights. ---
**Author:** ![Algorithm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/algorithm/32/12204_2.png) [@Algorithm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algorithm)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/9 "2003-12-16T23:33:33Z")
Hence the spit vs. swallow thread. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/10 "2003-12-17T02:17:42Z")
Why would anyone be asking Alcoholics Anonymous for reparations? Oh. Nevermind. As for reparations: I expect some. I have African heritage going right back to the Rift Valley. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/11 "2003-12-17T02:36:29Z")
Did anybody see Barbershop? See the conversation about this topic? No? Watch “the value of respiration” and understand. _“Don’t need no reparation, holleration!” “I ain’t takin’ no reparations. As a black man, I have my pride and my dignity.” “Bull! You know why that’s bull? 'Cause you got bills to pay!”_ ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/12 "2003-12-17T02:49:36Z")
AA and reparations? I’m not on Step Nine yet! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sqube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Sqube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sqube)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/13 "2003-12-17T04:25:19Z")
Yeah, I’m black too. I’m tired of it. It’s not gonna happen. [Cynical] And if it did happen, we wouldn’t spend it on anything useful anyway. I can see an Escalade in every driveway. :rolleyes: [/Cynical] ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/14 "2003-12-17T04:33:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sqube \* > \*\*Yeah, I’m black too. I’m tired of it. It’s not gonna happen. > [Cynical] > And if it did happen, we wouldn’t spend it on anything useful anyway. I can see an Escalade in every driveway. :rolleyes: > [/Cynical] \*\* That’s what Cedric The Entertainer said in Barbershop. “The only thing that would happen is Cadillac will sell a bunch more cars.” or something like that. I have no backend points in Barbershop. I swear. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/15 "2003-12-17T06:18:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stuffy \* > \*\* I mean I’m black so I know some black people, well really a lot of them. You know how many times this comes up when I’m hanging out. NEVER, Not even once. Wait there was that time in HS way back in 1984. \*\* Didn’t this come up at the last **Meeting of All Black Folk** last year when it was decided that, in order to keep the slang one step ahead of whitey, _hizzle_ would become _flippity-floppity-floop_? Pea-zizzle. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/16 "2003-12-17T11:55:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sqube \* > \*\*Yeah, I’m black too. I’m tired of it. It’s not gonna happen. > [Cynical] > And if it did happen, we wouldn’t spend it on anything useful anyway. I can see an Escalade in every driveway. :rolleyes: > [/Cynical] \*\* My wife’s black, too, so I make sure to check the mailbox every day–and our on-line banking accounts. So far, zilch. I’m very disappointed in the government. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/17 "2003-12-17T12:15:26Z")
I don’t know about never. It’s only a matter of time until some type of stupid shotgun lawsuit gets settled and the floodgates are opened. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/18 "2003-12-17T16:02:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by moriah \* > \*\*Didn’t this come up at the last **Meeting of All Black Folk** last year when it was decided that, in order to keep the slang one step ahead of whitey, _hizzle_ would become _flippity-floppity-floop_? > > Pea-zizzle. \*\* Dammit! I didn’t get a memo. Oh wait, my calender is set for CPT, sorry I missed it. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/19 "2003-12-17T16:23:01Z")
**FLIPPITY-FLOPPITY-FLOOP!** \ Obviously the solution to mixed-race couples is for the white one to hand the black one a check, with an apology, and each of their kids gets 1/2 or 1/4 or whatever depending on the percentage of AA blood, because everybody knows exactly how much they have, right? Now if you’ll excuse me, my Dread Lord Antichrist John Paul II is calling all us Papists together for the World Domination Meeting. Ave! ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397/20 "2003-12-17T16:52:26Z")
Guys, be careful. I’m still waiting for the chairmen of the Great Jewish Conspiracy to send me my first check, washed in the blood of Gentile accountants, so that I can open my business and start making my MILLIONS. I tell you, the leaders of the Great Conspiracies just can’t be trusted. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aa-and-reparations-mcgxviii/219397.md?page=2)