$5 B. Claim Filed Against Jay-Z, Bruce Ratner
Editor's Note: This story originally reported that the Clive Campbell who filed the claim 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.
Brooklyn activist Clive Campbell is seeking $5 billion from rapper Jay-Z, developer Bruce Ratner and Barclays bank, filing a “claim of lien” in property records that seeks the money for slavery reparations.
Mr. Ratner, Jay-Z, and Barclay’s are all linked through the $4 billion Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, for which Mr. Ratner plans to build a Frank Gehry-designed basketball arena for the Nets and more than 6,000 apartments. Jay-Z, a partial owner of the Nets, has been a major supporter of the project, appearing at press conferences to tout its merits. Barclays owns the naming rights to the arena, and has been accused of having links with the slave trade—an accusation the bank denies.
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.”
Mr. Campbell filed the claim in October with a group called the DA Black Defense League. Earlier this month Forest City Ratner dismissed it as not having any legal merit.
A representative of the Defense League said the group is filing a lawsuit in court for the action.
A spokesman for Forest City Ratner, Mr. Ratner's development group, declined to comment.
Or better yet, gun him down on the Las Vegas Strip.
Suckers.
racist pigs!
The world not ready to give the blackman his due. We need to respect ourselves and consolidate our economic power in order to pull off stuff like this lawsuit. Do it like the Jews, overstand. It's not gonna fly (I say that with tears in my eyes), Jay-Z is a pawn anyway. Good effort with excellent intentions in a corrupt system. I don't dignify comments like the 1st. Just like a racist C**cker would post!!!!
racism is so played out. its brainwashed individuals with simple and small minds who subscribe to this idiotic, savage, lizard-minded mentality. dude, wake up. regardless if it was 1% ...America's economic power was built by the labor of enslaved africans, resulting in usa becoming a world leader (well, thats changin). un-enlightened beings such as the self-hating, miserable, guy who posted 1st are really sad. i actually feel sorry for him and his type. your intelligence doesnt make you human...its compassion. but dont worry, man even if u dont love yourself...God loves you. realize we all are one and come from the same seed...
Those 7% were out of how many millions; should of left us there if you didn't want us here
Does it matter whether Barclays or some predecessor company was involved in the slave business? Even if the allegation is true, it happened over one hundred years ago. All the victims are dead. The estates of American slaves and other nineteenth-century poor people are unlikely to have heirs who can prove themselves to be legitimate heirs within some legal jurisdiction. There is obviously no living individual with a direct claim. The only crime without a statute of limitations is murder, right? If I were to allege that someone enslaved me for a period of time even twenty years ago, it would probably be thrown out of court. This case is about publicity, not money, and is even more deserving of dismissal.
Maybe I should sue Time Inc. for running Mercedes ads. I'm sure Daimler Chrysler profited from the holocaust in some way.
Well, if people are stupid enough to start playing these reparation games, they better get ready to start suing the ancestors of those Black Tribal Chiefs that sold millions of their fellow blacks into slavery...predominately to the Muslim Arab world....
Seriously..this is so Childish and stupid...everyone has suffered...we can all go back in our family tree and see how we were oppressed by another group...
Lets forget about hating and unforgiving one another and say for the future...Never Again....
Devon
Moe, what Holocaust?
What's next? Will the "Boys from Brazil" resurface as cohorts of some developer and inscribe "Arbeit macht frei" over the gates of their ill-gotten real estate gains, really?!
Up next?
Israel's reparations for crucifying Jesus.
i like jay-z !
he`s realy cool !
but to me, there`s only one real king of hip hop and that`s fiddy.
he got this awesome backstage channel where he posts live stuff, directly from his mobile phone:
http://www.kyte.tv/ch/18531-50centtour
peace !
You can all go fuck yourselves. I am sick of the fucking Jews in New York businesses and the black gethos all over the streets. Fuck New York and fuck you all.
ASSHOLE THEY STOLE OUR GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO INHERIT THE WEALTH OF OUR MOTHER LAND...NO MAN HAS THE RIGHT TO ILLEGALLY ENSLAVE ANOTHER PERSON FOR PROFIT...SLAVERY WAS ALWAYS A WAY A LIFE AND WAS FOR THOSE IN DEBT, THOSE WHO WERE PRISONERS OF WAR AND THOSE WHO WERE RELIGIOUSLY PERSECUTED....THE BLACK RACE WAS ENSLAVE SOLELY AS A BUSINESS VENTURE....SO FUCK U...
YEA, THE BLACKS NAMELY THE ASHANTI NATION THAT SOLD OTHER LESS POWERFUL TRIBES INTO SLAVERY ARE DESERVING OF BEING HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS....SO DONT THINK THAT BLACK AFRICANS THAT AIDED AND ABETTED THE SLAVE TRADE, WILL NOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE....FUCK U ALSO...EVERY PEOPLE THAT WAS ENSLAVED WAS COMPENSATED AFTER THE ENDING OF THEIR BONDAGE EXCEPT BLACKS...
FUCK U DEVON...THE BLACK RACE IS POWERLESS ECONIMICALLY AND POLITICALLY...WE HAVE BEEN ROBBED OF OUR HERITAGE AND CULTURE AND WE CELEBRATE ALL THE SLAVE MASTERS CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS...I AS A BLACK MAN HAVE BEEN ROBBED OF MY ANCESTRAL LANGUAGE AND WAY OF LIFE...NOT TO MENTION ALL THE VALUABLE RESOURCES THAT YOU WHITES STOLE AND STILL CONTROL UP TO THIS DATE...WHAT ABOUT GOODYEAR AND FIRESTONE AND ALL THE OTHER PIRATES THAT CONTROL AFRICAN DIAMOND AND GOLD GIVE THAT SHIT BACK SO THE BLACK RACE CAN HAVE WEALTH AND POWER AND DONT HAVE TO GET AFFIRMATIVE ACTION MOTHER FUCKER....SOMEONE NEED TO SNATCH UR ASS AND MAKE YOU WORK 400 YEARS FOR FREE AND SEE HOW THE FUCK U ACCEPT IT...WHY DONT THE FUCKING JEWS ACCEPT THAT 6,000,000 OF THEM GOT MURDERED BY HITLER AND JUST FORGIVE AND FORGET...UP TO THIS DATE, JEWS ARE STILL HUNTING NAZIS...SO FUCK U YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE....
u are not ur ancestors. were u ever enslaved? im gna guess no.
If you want to live like an african go to africa (no) okay then shut the fuck up about it - Coming from an African American man (me)
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