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DNA Testing Could Help Make a Case for Reparations as More Blacks Trace Their Roots to Africa
The Atlanta Black Star ^ | January 25, 2016 | Manny Otiko

Posted on 02/01/2016 4:23:37 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So a community with a 73% illegitimacy rate is suddenly preoccupied with genetics ... ?


61 posted on 02/01/2016 5:25:01 PM PST by BillyBonebrake
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
How many freaking years of money should blacks be entitled to. We pay enough for welfare and I never owned a slave in my life. Working Americans are the ones enslaved by taxes.

Save everyone money and buy them a ticket back to Africa if they are sorry to be here otherwise shut up and become American.

62 posted on 02/01/2016 5:32:23 PM PST by Lady Heron
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
How many freaking years of money should blacks be entitled to. We pay enough for welfare and I never owned a slave in my life. Working Americans are the ones enslaved by taxes.

Save everyone money and buy them a ticket back to Africa if they are sorry to be here otherwise shut up and become American.

63 posted on 02/01/2016 5:33:00 PM PST by Lady Heron
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To: Lady Heron

We owe it to them to return them to their ancestral homeland, in the same financial circumstances their ancestors were in prior to their enslavement.


64 posted on 02/01/2016 5:34:40 PM PST by I Hired Craig Livingstone (2/1/2016... a YUGE day in political history.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No reparations without repatriation.


65 posted on 02/01/2016 5:39:18 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Any reparations paid to the descendants of slaves should automatically be forwarded the descendants of the soldiers who fought to free them............


66 posted on 02/01/2016 5:39:51 PM PST by DKM
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Instead of reparations, how about repatriation?
67 posted on 02/01/2016 5:45:42 PM PST by D Rider
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Reparations?!

If you trace your DNA back to Africa, perhaps you should just go back home to Africa if you don't want to be an American.

68 posted on 02/01/2016 5:48:04 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reparations from whom?
The Muslim Berbers and other Africans that hunted their forefathers?
Or the African kings that sold them to English, French and Spanish white slavers?
Or white slavers that sold them to plantation owners?

So when are reparations coming from Muslin countries like Lybia?
When are reparations coming from African countries, like Congo, Kenya, etc.
When are reparations coming from England, France and Spain?
This whole thing is idiotic.
My forefathers where slaves of German barons for generations.. I want reparations too! /s


69 posted on 02/01/2016 5:57:20 PM PST by Toughluck_freeper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lazy ingrates who just want handouts, even though it’s almost certain they’ve never been unjustifiably wronged in their miserable lives.

I wonder if they’ll only try to badger whites to pay for reparations, or if they’ll get greedy and try to make Asians/Hispanics/Cherokees/blacks not affiliated with the NAACP/etc. also try to help pay for reparations.


70 posted on 02/01/2016 6:28:12 PM PST by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: Objective Scrutator

It’ll probably come out of taxes if it ever happens, so everyone will pay.


71 posted on 02/01/2016 6:29:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: RoosterRedux

All these years people have wondered where the ancestors of black Americans came from—Africa, Asia, Australia, Antarctica, or South America. Finally, DNA is resolving the mystery.


72 posted on 02/01/2016 6:39:58 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

True. The “people” demanding reparations and extensive tracing of family trees can’t even trace their own family trees back two generations. (Some of them may not even have grandparents, perhaps being of a more demonic/supernatural origin.) They’ll probably just say that anyone without enough melanin has to pay “donations” to anyone with sufficient melanin.


73 posted on 02/01/2016 6:40:04 PM PST by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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I predict that the Philippines and Costa Rica will be welcoming a lot of expatriates on that day.


74 posted on 02/01/2016 6:42:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Every damn one of them should thank God every day their ancestors were slow or dumb and got caught by the Arab slavers.


75 posted on 02/01/2016 6:43:09 PM PST by maddogtiger
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All this dna information may make it possible to solve a lot of unsolved cimes


76 posted on 02/01/2016 7:14:36 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In he Bible, Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery.

He never asked for a pay back. He ended up being second in command over the most powerful nation on earth. He told his brothers, “You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good.”

The descendants of black slaves in the US, though what happened to their fore parents was evil, has worked out to their advantage. They were born into the richest, most powerful, and up until now, most free nation on the planet. We have advantages that the rest of the world envies.

Reparations should require repatriotization.


77 posted on 02/01/2016 7:30:48 PM PST by unlearner (RIP America, 7/4/1776 - 6/26/2015, "Only God can judge us now." - Claus Von Stauffenberg / Valkyrie)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No, not reparations; it will tell each one exactly where to return. If you want reparations then, get them from the tribe that kicked your tribe’s butt and sold you to the white guys.


78 posted on 02/01/2016 7:33:15 PM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They have been getting reparations (welfare) for far too many years already.


79 posted on 02/01/2016 7:48:29 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The Bush family needs to just go away. The Clinton family needs just to go to prison.)
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To: manc
Ever ask a black guy or gal what country in Africa and they have no idea.

Exactly. I am not big on genealogy, but I am glad some of my relatives are. Thanks to their diligent work, I can carry both sides of the family tree back over 500 years, which ain't much in the genealogical game but is about 350 years further back than can most descendants of slaves. And by tracking back that far, I can tap into national and clan histories stretching back millennia. I can entirely understand that black Americans would like to be able to do the same. It's not the end of the world if you can't access that history, but it's great to recover it if possible.

80 posted on 02/01/2016 8:49:48 PM PST by sphinx
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