I need a link, if anyone can help me, to the lawsuit filed by Johnny Cochran on behalf of decendants of the American Slaves, seeking reparations from CSX due to their lineage back to the B&O.
Thanks in advance, google is not being much help
wHY DON’T YOU CONTACT HIS OFFICE. i AM SURE THEY WILL BE MORE THAN HJAPPY TO ADD ALL THE NAMES THEY CAN. FEES FEES AND MORE FEES.
TOM
GOD BLESSS THE GREAT NORTHERN
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/dog/results?otmpl=dog/webresults.htm&qcat=web&qkw=++CSX+railroad+slave+labor+issues&top=1&start=&ver=10569 Here is a good place to start.D
Moronic, ain’t it? And they’re counting on a moronic jury somewhere to help them win the CSX Lottery. They’ll probably find it, too.
are they going after cotton manufactures,tobbacco companies and other agricultural companies?
stay safe
joe
Which raises the question,
Do all the Chinese labors who worked for Central Pacific, as if they were indenture servants, and all the Irish who built UP have a lawsuit based on the conditions and lack of saftey concerns?
I am the descendent of a German Jew, arnt I owed somthing for the mass murdering of WWII?
Of course not.
No more than the descendents of the slaves mentioned in this lawsuit are owed anything.
At the time, slavery was legal.
Yes, the laws have changed, thank God.
I have a shipping reciept for a slave, dated before the Civil War.
(long story on how I came to have this)
It is quite sobering to hold a reciept for another human being in your hand.
A 12 year old girl, and someone sold her, as if she was a piece of merchendise!
But, again, that crap was legal.
You cant go back and retro fit laws.
If that were the case, every person who can trace their bloodline back to the pilgims should be able to sue the Nation of Great Brittan for religious persecution.
Ed
Here here! I’m with you on that one Ed. Do the Christians go against Italy because the Romans once fed them to lions as sport etc etc…
The case against CSX is particularly absurd, because no railroad right now is particularly liquid, all are heavily saddled with debt due to aquisitions and merger. They are “plant” rich, and cash poor.
And as they have stated a number of times in the mag, though right of way and rails are expensive to put in place, it isn’t worth much without traffic.
If there were a huge judgement, what incentive would CSX have to operate for years on end, withoutt profit to pay the shareholders? Id throw in the towel, how bout you? Let them start ripping up the rails, and sel l them for scrap, til it dawned on them that black consumers benefit from the operation of existing railroads just
Why can’t we have more common sense people like Ed running this country instead of the power hungry, money hungry idiots who currently do?
And, on top of all of that, what is the proof that a person is a descendent of slaves?
Base it on the color of their skin?
How many Hatiains, Cubans and black South Americans have migrated here legaly?
How do you decide which is which?
Documentation from that time about slaves is scarce.
There is no photo id of slaves, and the receipt I have is typical of the times.
It list a girl, named Adaline, 12 years of age.
She was shipped from Baton Rouge La, to Port LaVaca, Texas.
Period.
No last name, no names for her parents
As if she never exsisted before she was purchased.
Prove who her descendents are?
How?
I know this sound like I think slavery was ok, trust me, I dont.
But there isnt going to be a very good paper trail to follow back to discover who really are descendents of slaves.
And unless you can prove that, you have no basis for any suit.
Part of this is due, of course, to the fact that, until the later part of the 20th century, most black Americans were denied even the most basic education, and lacked even the most rudimentary skills, like reading and writing.
Until the 1920s, most states failed to keep records of any quality of the births of blacks, names and dates and any of the info we find necessary today.
If the only qualification for joining in this lawsuit is being black, then CSX, and the Federal goverment, and the American taxpayer, are in a lot of trouble.
Do I think the instution of slavery was correct?
No, and I dont think the caste system in India, nor the class system in Brittan are right, either.
What I do think is that each and every American is promised, not guarnteed, a change to succede, if they wi***o work hard for what they get.
And all you are promised is the chance to try, the rest dependes on you and your drive, regardless of the color of your skin, or what god you worship, or where your parents were born.
Stay Frosty,
Ed
MY ANCESTORS WERE IRISH AND CHEROKEE INDIAN. I SHOULD BE ABLE TO SUE EVERYONE. THIS INSANITY HAS TO STOP SOMEWHERE.
“HE IS WITHOUT GUILT, LET HIM CAST THE FIRST STONE”.
True,
But remember,
“Before attending to the mote in thy neighbors eye, attend to the beam in thy own”
And your right, in that you would be hard pressed to find any race that, at some point in time, was not enslaved by some other race.
It is insane, but we all could find a reason to file a lawsuit as un supportable as this one.
Hondo, huh?
I lived in Helotes for years, if I could find a railroad like my current employeer, I would move back in a instant.[:D]
Stay frosty,
Ed
I hope that IF this foolishness does go to court that people like you are on the jury.
If a company makes a faulty product that truly injures someone then a lawsuit should be allowed. But some juries have gone overboard with the settlements. However, the settlement caps that I am hearing about now may be too low. There must be a happy medium.
Hey, I have some Cherokee Indian in my blood too. And if this lawsuit wins–I’m gettin a lawyer.
Because Ed is too smart to run for president!
Jen
This case isn’t any sillier than the coffee spill/McDonald’s lawsuit. It is about deep pockets. And lawyers who have a lifestyle to support.
But greed and “how far can I pu***his” runs rampant in this country and common sense seems to have gone begging!
Jen
Remember folks that only in the good old United States can we tell all we know that so many of our leaders are a bunch of moronic cretins and get away with it, or write as freely in this forum as we all do and without fear of being arrested and put up against a wall and shot! GOD BLESS AMERICA!
I put Ed for president on the bottom of many of my posts. I wish someone with his common sense would run and be elected. We really need some common sense leadership. Funny how once you are elected you lose it (if you ever had it to start with).
The courts are not helping things one bit either.
If I want to hang a copy of the !0 Commandments in my office that is MY business. Surely the founding fathers of this country are turning over in their graves. This country was founded on Godly principles and now the courts are doing everything they can to negate those principles.
More on this subject later. I am sure other readers can site some examples of this trend. I have in my tool box at work an article along this line that I will try to bring home tonight and post some of it.
Until then, Have a Great Day [:)]
Stay Safe, and Look, Listen, and L I V E
Don’t Forget the Troops
Ed for President [;)]
The person and the lawyer(s) who brought this case up should receive the Darwin Award. Only problem is that to receive it the “stunt” you pulled must have killed you. This does remove a few of the “stupid” genes from the gene pool. Unfortunatly “theirs” didn’t make it (I really didn’t say that–the devil made me do it). [}:)] [;)]
I hope that this suit is a failure. It’s not about slavery, it’s about greed.
B I N G O ! ! ! YOU HIT THAT ONE RIGHT ON THE MONEY (pun intended).
It’s also about the weakness of spirit of a nation too weak to face reality in it’s attempt to heal it’s past
There are those among the target white community who would much prefer to hand over a wad of cash, and not have to “own” the unfortunate past.
The rub being, it’s not necessarily THEIR money they are willing to hand over for that comfort.