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DNC Chair Candidate Keith Ellison Once Called For Separate Country for Black Americans
Mediaite ^ | November 28, 2016 | Alex Griswold

Posted on 01/14/2017 2:06:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Democratic Minnesota Representative and Democratic National Committee chairman candidate Keith Ellison once called for slavery reparations and a separate country for black Americans in a university newspaper column.

Ellison’s writings while a student at the University of Minnesota law school– under the name “Keith Hakim”– raised eyebrows when he announced his first congressional run in 2006. The Weekly Standard noted that “Ellison refers to ‘Minister Louis Farrakhan,’ defends Nation of Islam spokesman Khalid Abdul Muhammad, and speaks in the voice of a Nation of Islam advocate… ‘Hakim’ demands reparations for slavery and throws in a demand for an optional separate homeland for American blacks.”

After Ellison announced he was seeking the chairman position, The Daily Caller News Foundation went back and dug up the columns in question, including two the Standard missed. In particular, they confirmed Ellison’s past support for a separate country for African-Americans:

Blacks would have the option of choosing their own land base or remaining in the United States. Since black people toiled most diligently in the southeastern section of the United States, this land, quite naturally, would be most suitable. That means Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi. Blacks, of course, would not be compelled to move to the black state, and, of course, peaceful whites would not be compelled to move away.

“Whites would be relieved of the burdens of the black-faced but white-dominated social programs. Blacks would employ themselves, teach their own children the truth and control their own neighborhoods. Black-white interaction would be voluntary instead of compelled,” he continued.

Ellison demanded the land grant in addition to a substantial slavery reparations payment. “This is a bargain,” he insisted.


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KEYWORDS: 115th; blacks; democrats; dnc; ellison; racism; segregation; separatists
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Exactly! Does Ellison not know about Liberia? It was bought for him!


21 posted on 01/14/2017 2:38:17 PM PST by abclily
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Just send their welfare checks there. Cut them in half.


22 posted on 01/14/2017 2:38:29 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Good idea! Give them each a P.O. Box # in Liberia for all the welfare checks.


23 posted on 01/14/2017 2:40:19 PM PST by abclily
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Okay. So how does one vote for DNC chair?


24 posted on 01/14/2017 2:40:33 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I say give them Puerto Rico. Free and clear.


25 posted on 01/14/2017 2:42:39 PM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good idea, but don’t expect any money from the people who work for a living.


26 posted on 01/14/2017 2:44:11 PM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: jazusamo

Yep. He is the perfect fit for the RAT party.


27 posted on 01/14/2017 2:44:46 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: Palio di Siena

Seconded.


28 posted on 01/14/2017 2:45:04 PM PST by sport
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bu there is one he can go to already. Liberia.

I hope he wins. I really don’t think the dem party can survive three bad chairs in a row, one worse than the last.


29 posted on 01/14/2017 2:58:05 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Africans don’t want them.


30 posted on 01/14/2017 2:59:03 PM PST by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: anton

He’s got my vote.”

Yep, give ‘em CA ., it is a lost cause.


31 posted on 01/14/2017 3:00:56 PM PST by DaiHuy (May God save the country, for it is evident the people will not! Millard Fillmore)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Excellent idea, then build a wall around it so they can’t get out.


32 posted on 01/14/2017 3:04:03 PM PST by euram
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s been suggested that Ellison is already the Head of the ISIS Hub in MN.


33 posted on 01/14/2017 3:05:34 PM PST by sockmonkey (Donald Trump will ban auto-correct with an Executive Order. Go Trump!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Somalia is always nice. Zimbabwe is a luxury destination.

Northern Nigeria is the hot spot for the burqa crowd.


34 posted on 01/14/2017 3:10:49 PM PST by lurk (TEat)
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To: DaiHuy

I was more thinking about Zimbabwe.


35 posted on 01/14/2017 3:20:32 PM PST by anton
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

GO KEITH GO!!! Tell it like it is X.


36 posted on 01/14/2017 3:25:10 PM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: beethovenfan

In college, I knew Blacks from Africa. They wanted nothing to do with African-Americans. And they said Afram women were the worst!


37 posted on 01/14/2017 3:29:18 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He never heard of Liberia.

Settled for blacks and the entire culture was created from scratch by blacks.

It is a paradise as we all know.

But I am OK with taking another shot at it.


38 posted on 01/14/2017 3:32:20 PM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo: not just the worst president in American history - worst *American* in American history (turf)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just imagine Ellison’s dream of a separate country run like Chicago. Or, probably more like Somalia.


39 posted on 01/14/2017 3:32:27 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Choose any country in Africa and git.


40 posted on 01/14/2017 3:37:54 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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