Good!!!! pass it!!!
We may actually get a senate seat out of it if they do.
And if not, then I have legal grounds to divorce my wife based on the intolerable cruelty of her asking me to still live here.
And if we must tear down symbols and ban of the Southern side of the civil war because of its association with slavery, then we should tear down symbols of the Democrats for the same reason.
The Democrats are not only the party constantly trying to condemn America for its past sins. In most cases they were the party that committed the sins. Slavery. The trail of Tears. Japanese Internment. Jim Crow Laws. Lynchings. The KKK. More recently the Weather Underground. Antifa thugs. And BLM thugs. Always the party of division and hate. If any entity in America owes restitution, its the Democrat party.
I had two ancestors serve and die in the Union army. I want my 50% cut from descendants of slaves who receive compensation.
A large amount of white immigrants were indentured servants for years to pay for passage to America in 1700-1800s. So why do they think slaves were only black? They had free passage to America to be sold, and owned by other blacks as well. The fact that slaves were only owned by whites is a myth.
Trying to hold a generation of whites accountable, whose ancestors may never have owned slaves or who would never have been in agreement with slavery is ludicrous! That is over 300 years ago. Those who took taxpayer monies in the past 50-60 years as food stamps/welfare were predominately black, do we ask for refund if reparations are approved?
Most Americans descendants probably weren’t in America when slavery occurred yet being forced to pay for it. If anyone should pay for it, its the DEM party, not America
As a native New Yorker, FUNY!!!
What about the family descendants of immigrant Yankee soldier that were used as cannon fodder during by the North in the civil war? How do they benefit?
And so it starts - watch this get copied in other states and turn into an avalanche.
Time to start looking for a place in Mexico? or Canada?
The families of those who died to free the slaves should also have reparations as their loved ones, mostly the bread winners in the family died, leaving those families poverty stricken for two generations....
BTW, you’re welcome for the free libraries, public education, hospitals, penicillin, clean water, ice cubes, air conditioning, Iphones, McDonalds, Levi’s and Boom Boxes...
Grow up.
If your very FATHER raped someone or murdered them, you do not get arrested and punished for his crime. This idea is ridiculous.
The idea that being “held back” keeps people from achieving for generations is a MYTH. Proven so by many who were tortured beyond belief in Hitler’s Germany, came here and worked hard and made good lives for themselves and their offspring.
It’s not like you can dig up the people who bought you nor can you dig up your very own ancestors, of the tribes you originate from, and sue them for reperations.
How come you don’t go to the Hague and sue them as well?
I guess by now provenance is an issue so you want to play professional victim and continue tell everyone you are inferior by circumstance and by God you will hold onto your contrived excuse for failure.
And yet today’s imigrants beat your ass all day long and thrive economically and they sure don’t commit the number of crimes your community engages in.
Nor are they killing each other and constituting the vast majority of murders, which so happen to be black on black crimes...
How romantic....
The strongest people reduced to gimmefreeschitters.
What a joke.
I reject the premise as well.
Reparations is a con job to give money to people who did squat to deserve it. There was a time when people worked for a nickle a day. Should their ancestors demand that they were underpaid and they be given the $120 a day they should have received? These New York Democrats have become con artists.
Good cant wait till MASS does this also...
I have an ancestor who was a slave in the 1600s...
Oh and she was white...
Legislators said that reparations have been paid to the Jewish victims of the Nazis, and to the families of Japanese-Americans put into internment camps during World War II. Descendants of freed slaves should also be compensated.
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I do hope the bill also states that any freed slave may apply for the “reparations” as the Jaws and Japanese-Americans did...on their own behalf...
and that the money should be back pay equal only to 19th Century pay scales...deductions made for room and board and clothing allowance...and for the wife and kiddies also...
oh and paid by their own former “masters” ...
I and my family and ancestors never owned slaves...
I refuse to pay for wages for someone elses employees...
I don’t own any cotton fields...
Two hundred years from now some legislature will be debating reparations for white males discriminated against by affirmative action programs in education and employment in the late 1900s and early 2000s.
What goes around comes around.
While you are studying the problem, why not trace the descendants of the BLACKS who owned slaves or bought & sold slaves. Just to ensure that they do you receive Reparations, rather they PAY reparations.
Popcorn concession in Harlem, anyone?
As if being stuck with 40 million losers isn’t payment enough. They have ruined every single city in America.
Funny thing, many slave owners took out life insurance policies on their slaves thru New York based insurance companies. Most of the companies still exist today. Let them, who were paid a premium to insure the black man, pay reparations.