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UN: USA Owes Reparations to African-Americans
The New American ^ | 10/20/217 | Steve Byas

Posted on 10/20/2017 8:18:39 AM PDT by Bon of Babble

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To: Bon of Babble

If the US owes them reparations, then so does Africa since it captured and sold its own citizens.


81 posted on 10/20/2017 9:42:13 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Bon of Babble

Hey, Yooney Loonies. Why don’t you send your flying monkeys around to collect?


82 posted on 10/20/2017 9:42:28 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Bon of Babble

UN FOAD


83 posted on 10/20/2017 9:48:17 AM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: txnativegop

Dear un: KMA. STFU. Get of of the United States, you criminal losers.


84 posted on 10/20/2017 9:49:18 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Bon of Babble
Let us see, for purposes of knowing the people involved, who the members of this UN Committee are;

Mr. Sabelo Gumedze (Chairperson, South Africa)
Mr. Michal Balcerzak (Poland)
Ms. Mireille Fanon-Mendes France (France)
Mr. Ahmed Reid (Jamaica)
Ricardo A. Sunga III (Philippines)

Yes, indeed, experts all, I am sure!

85 posted on 10/20/2017 9:50:55 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: hal ogen

I agree completely.

Trump is our best shot at making that happen, I think.


86 posted on 10/20/2017 9:53:24 AM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: Bon of Babble

Like hell! We’ve paid enough in taxes, insults, and being attacked violently.


87 posted on 10/20/2017 9:56:12 AM PDT 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: circlecity

Excellent post.


88 posted on 10/20/2017 9:56:24 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: Bon of Babble

720,000 dead on the civil war was a very high price to pay.

The population in 1860 was 31,400,000.


89 posted on 10/20/2017 10:04:20 AM PDT by buffaloguy (Bond arms Cowbot)
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To: Bon of Babble

Well, lets add up all the welfare, housing, food stamps, etc., and deduct that from any reparations. Oh! They owe us money!


90 posted on 10/20/2017 10:16:46 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: JohnyBoy

They already tried that. Liberia. And they blew it. And the Brits gave them Zimbabwe. And that’s not working out too well either.


91 posted on 10/20/2017 10:31:15 AM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: Bon of Babble

56% of blacks owned slaves.
1.2% of whites owned slaves.

Blacks started legalized slavery in America: Anthony Johnson sued in Virginia to enslave John Casor in 1655.

Blacks kidnapped their fellow blacks in Africa and sold them to slave traders.


92 posted on 10/20/2017 10:38:30 AM PDT by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: Bon of Babble

I nor my family ever owned slaves so, no, I don’t owe anything.

However, the UN has taken our money for 6+ decades with absolutely nothing to show for it except for a fancy headquarters building on our property. I want reparations from the UN. Plus interest.


93 posted on 10/20/2017 10:42:00 AM PDT by ataDude (.)
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To: Bon of Babble; All

Trump needs to lock the doors of the building.... permanently, and reduce US funding to $1.00 annually.


94 posted on 10/20/2017 10:44:57 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Bon of Babble

A small part of me says ok, take your lump-sum of cash and that’s IT...it’s even. No more social benefits, no more quotas, no more affirmative action, no more complaining, no more anything that puts one race over another.

But that would NEVER happen.


95 posted on 10/20/2017 10:47:36 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: Bon of Babble

OK. So will the UK give reparations to the Irish and Scottish? The Spanish to the Low Countries? The Turks to the Greeks?


96 posted on 10/20/2017 11:44:27 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Bon of Babble
The group asserts that the reparations are due because of the disadvantages caused by 245 years of legalized slavery of black Africans in America...

Yet more proof that the UN is nothing but a den of low IQ liars and thieves. Slavery existed in the United States of America from its inception in 1776 (or 1783 if you go by the official start date of the US Constitution) until 1863 (or 1865 if you only count the North winning the war). That's, at most, 89 years. I don't give a damn if there was slavery on this continent before 1776 - you can't blame a country that didn't exist yet for something that was going on then. For that, you'd have to talk to the Europeans, who are the ones who brought black slavery to the Americas. For that matter, talk to the muslims, who sold the Europeans the black slaves, and talk to the black Africans, who sold the slaves to the muslims.

You know who you're not going to badger for more money on this issue? The country that fought an extremely bloody war to end slavery, then spent the next 150+ years reforming itself to make the millions of black people who live within its borders the richest, most pampered and well-protected black people on the planet.

I'd be willing to do this: pay reparations to any black person in the USA who can prove a black slave ancestor, but a condition of accepting the money would be that he has to move to Africa.
97 posted on 10/20/2017 12:00:32 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Bon of Babble

‘Spose we get credit for the 22T$ (and growing at rate of 1T$/yr) spent on the “Great Society” programs since inception?

When that’s factored, African-Americans may owe the US Treasury a rebate...

How about anyone who ever owned a slave, make reparations to those slaves and leave the rest of us alone...

My ancestors came over from Ireland in the 1870s, so not sure what this has to do with me anyway...


98 posted on 10/20/2017 4:10:05 PM PDT by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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To: Bon of Babble

So when does Trump throw the UN out of the US?

Can’t happen soon enough.

Their next headquarters should be in Sudan.


99 posted on 10/20/2017 7:14:18 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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