DOH!! Totally didn't catch that...try to proof read all my posts pretty thoroughly. Well caught...my bad!!

Very poorly organized and followed through with that is for sure. The schools and other institutions should have been notified before hand (Maybe they were and the illeterate admins offices couldn't read the memos...but I digress)...but as I was saying, notify the necessary personnel so when the alert comes out, you can go through the motions with your school of a 'TEST' drill...but make it VERY clear that it is a TEST...just like a more elaborate fire drill.

Mr. Ferguson and the rest of the employees out there need to realize is that we are still in a recession, as much as everyone wants to be optimistic and think otherwise...companies are losing money...MAJOR companies are losing money. More so with the unionized companies, they are finding it impossible to continue with the outlandish union contracts and benefits and perks as they are just now. Instead of the unions trying to be realistic and work with the companies to minimize the impact of the payroll, these sort of things are going to happen. LOTS of companies are in a hiring freeze or even downsizing exercise at the moment...it's not all peaches and cream and let's demand more and more out of the various business owners. Must be nice to look at the world through the rose coloured glasses of a union.

I will applaud and stand proud only for the apology part...still against the monetary side of it...sadly, the lawyers aren't going to argue for an apology for free...hence the monetary side...again sadly, the only people who will get money out of this is the lawyers.

...and sadly...there will never be any closure...there will always be this cloud over people's heads...chips on their shoulder...I can't see the current populace ever letting that go...it's too engrained in thier mindsets and too easy of a 'get out of jail free' card for their shortcomings.

100% wholeheartedly agree that apologies can and should be given from all those involved, that's a no brainer...the whole reparations thing though, you've taken it one step too far and people are going to resent the entire process because of the legal stupidity and expenses and lack of actual benefit to the descendants.

I will agree with you that the concept of the slavery reparations has nothing to do with whatever government is currently in power...it is not a PLP or FNM issue that is pushing the reparations bid...the whole concept is just ludicrous though, and for the government not to see that it is wasting time and effort and money and realize that this is simply a money and fame grab by the lawyers behind this who want to tout some massive victory on behalf of all the down trodden slaves...there is no way as I stated before that the common man, who is the ancestor of slaves will be seeing a single red cent in their pocket. By the time ANY funds are dispersed...and I use the term ANY lightly...it's just going into the legal maniacs pockets. Get all these people out here hyped up that they are going to have some major windfall in money because of it. be honest with them upfront...assuming there is a victory...someone then has to do background checks and genealogy checks on people to verify they came from a certain slave...if you haven't seen the shows, the majority of the records on the slaves going back through history are VERY sketchy, a lot of the research done, takes into a count a fair degree of margin for error. Dispersing the funds will be a logistical nightmare and ripe for abuse.

Highly doubtful...a vast majority of the foreign owned properties do not pay their RPT.

There is always someone else to blame...and in this case, all of our present problems are fully traceable back to the slave master and the slave trade...gonna make all this noise and fuss because you are unable to look beyond your past and take charge of your future. Everything is about how you wronged my great great great great great grandparents and I'm socially stunted because of it since. The only people who are going to make any money out of this are the lawyers...or are we going to pay every person in the world of slave ancestry 1 buck out of this, because at the end of the day that is the most the common man is ever going to see from it...simply a legal ploy to line some lawyers pockets.

Are you going straight back to the source? You need to be pursuing the history and connection back in Africa that enslaved the people and sold them onto the slave trade that then took them overseas...oh wait...silly me, they have no money...let's chase after and annoy someone else who does for something that is generations old done and past.