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Conyers Reintroduces Reparations Effort
pjmedia.com ^ | 1/4/13 | Bridget Johnson

Posted on 01/04/2013 11:56:41 AM PST by ColdOne

Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) introduced two reparations resolutions on the first day of the 113th Congress.

The first, H.R. 40, is “to acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.”

The second, H.R. 98, is “to provide a remedy for survivors and descendants of the victims of the Tulsa, Oklahoma Race Riot of 1921.”

Neither has been received by the GPO yet for the full text to be available.

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To: ColdOne; All

I just called Conyers office (Washington Office: 202-225-5126) and explained to the staffer that my dad, an member of the NYPD for 23 years, was passed over for a promotion to sergeant after 18 years on the job...the promotions were given to people who had half his job experience and received half the score on the sergeants exam than my dad did.. the only reason these people, who were significantly less qualified than my father, got the promotion was they were not white and my father was white....

i asked if congressman Conyers would fight for reparations for the victims of affirmative action such as my dad- qualified people who lost out on jobs, job promotions, college admission, college tuition assistance to lesser qualified individuals simply because they were white...

i asked the staffer if Conyers is going to fight on behalf of the victims of a government policy that encouraged the discriminatory practice of slavery on blacks shouldn’t he not be a hypocrite and fight on behalf of the victims who suffered under the government policy that encouraged discrimination against qualified people simply because they were white???


21 posted on 01/04/2013 12:19:39 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: zbogwan2

Blacks in this country are like the English “lower classes.” They were sold a bill of goods by the Socialists. They don’t know HOW to work, because they blow off school etc.


22 posted on 01/04/2013 12:20:34 PM PST by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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To: ColdOne

Give all the blacks a house to fix up in Detroit as long as they sign a contract to stay there and never take another cent from the government.


23 posted on 01/04/2013 12:20:38 PM PST by Iron Munro (I Miss America !!!!)
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To: ColdOne
Sure thing. Get in line behind the Jews, who are waiting for reparations from slavery by Egypt 3,500 years earlier.

-PJ

24 posted on 01/04/2013 12:21:44 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: ColdOne

We have already been paying reparations for four years now. As long as the government keeps printing up new money and handing that money out in the form of EBT cards and Obamaphones, the value of the money I earn is diminished. So when I go to the grocery store, I can only purchase two-thirds the groceries I could purchase before. The other one-third ends up in the cart of someone with an EBT card.


25 posted on 01/04/2013 12:22:30 PM PST by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: ColdOne
acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States

Palm plant.

26 posted on 01/04/2013 12:22:56 PM PST by grobdriver
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To: ColdOne
I'd like some reparations from charlatans like this.
27 posted on 01/04/2013 12:23:30 PM PST by Vision (Obama is king of the "Takers." Don't be a "Taker.")
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To: God luvs America

I am sure Conyers office was happy and quick to reply? What did you hear.....**crickets?**


28 posted on 01/04/2013 12:24:58 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: stubernx98

Maybe they should place a tax on all of Africa for selling his ancestors into slavery to begin with.


29 posted on 01/04/2013 12:26:50 PM PST by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: ColdOne

...I expect these bills to pass...


30 posted on 01/04/2013 12:27:22 PM PST by Tzimisce (The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
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To: God luvs America

Good for you. Did the staffer’s head explode?

Counters is older than dirt, and that Commie needs to be retired. but they keep getting reflected and reflected.

In the meantime, he and his family have scammed the taxpayers for decades.

I wish a Republican would castigate him on the floor of Congress.


31 posted on 01/04/2013 12:27:41 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: ColdOne

I’m not a history scholar, but I was under the impression President Monroe got them their own freakin’ country, already. If they want, buy any who wants one a one-way ticket to Liberia and bon voyage.

But be careful. The descendants pf the original freed slaves who went back, also went back to eating people. No kidding. Google it.


32 posted on 01/04/2013 12:28:55 PM PST by fattigermaster
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To: ColdOne
You have to forgive him, you see he is under duress...

Heck you'd float a goofy bill like this if your Wife i.e. Monica Conyers was finally let out of the Pokey! Man she is a piece of Work...

Can you believe it, a sitting Congressman with a wife that is a Convicted Felon and just served 37 months, Beem Me Up Scotty......

33 posted on 01/04/2013 12:29:41 PM PST by taildragger (( Tighten the 5 point harness and brace for Impact Freepers, ya know it's coming..... ))
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To: ColdOne

The complete destruction of our economy isn’t enough for you, Conyers?


34 posted on 01/04/2013 12:31:07 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: 2banana
My great grandfather emigrated from Wales in 1863 and spent two years in the Union Army. He had no obligation to do so. He survived and raised a family. There is no way my family "owes" anything to this race hustler. Most of the "national debt" is due to outrageous "social spending" directed into the pockets of the black population. Enough!
35 posted on 01/04/2013 12:32:31 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: exit82; ColdOne

the staffer was stunned...first he didn’t understand what i was saying and remarked “so you just want a clean slate for jobs?” and i responded “not just jobs but job promotions, college admission and college tuition assistance- basically reparations for anyone who was discriminated against because they are white due to the oppressive government policy of Affirmative Action which put race ahead of qualifications”...

he said “i’m copying what you said down to give to the congressman”...whether he does or does not, if 5000 other conservatives called his office with the same question it would make news...


36 posted on 01/04/2013 12:35:35 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: ColdOne

This is satire right? Right?

Damn I loathe these people..... The very things they are creating more rules and laws to get “justice” for, are the very same things THEY THEMSELVES are doing to US. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


37 posted on 01/04/2013 12:37:19 PM PST by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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To: ColdOne

Doesn’t the House have a rule that require that every bill introduced have as part of it proof that it is constitutional?


38 posted on 01/04/2013 12:40:10 PM PST by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: ColdOne

Doesn’t he pull this stunt almost every Congressional session?


39 posted on 01/04/2013 12:40:30 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: God luvs America

I know the feeling. First they promoted the unqualified blacks, then they promoted the little women who should have never been on the Police Force to begin with.

But they had to move them up the ranks qualified or not to match their quota’s.


40 posted on 01/04/2013 12:40:39 PM PST by Venturer
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