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Congresswoman Hopes Reparations Bill is Path to ‘Repair Some of the Damage’ Caused by Slavery
PJ Media ^ | 12/30/2018

Posted on 12/31/2018 6:39:35 PM PST by Altura Ct.

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To: Altura Ct.

Damage to blacks today is most certainly not coming from memories of past slavery. I believe blacks have more opportunity and are happier than in past times. Can’t believe all the screaming attention hogs


61 posted on 12/31/2018 7:40:07 PM PST by cymbeline
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To: Altura Ct.

I’ll chip in for a roll of duct tape for the congressclown’s mouth.


62 posted on 12/31/2018 7:40:12 PM PST by an amused spectator (Hillary For Prison)
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To: Altura Ct.

Having traveled in Africa I can guarantee that there are enough people there who would *gladly* trade places with American blacks.And,having done so,they’d work hard...obey the rules...stay out of prison and off of drugs...and would be clear assets to this country.


63 posted on 12/31/2018 7:40:39 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: Altura Ct.

Lee ... LEE?

Shouldn’t that name be BANNED?


64 posted on 12/31/2018 7:41:50 PM PST by _Jim (democrats create mobs. Republicans create jobs.)
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To: Altura Ct.
One of the best rebuttals to the notion of reparations I have ever read:

"Paid in Full"

65 posted on 12/31/2018 7:44:50 PM PST by lightman (Obama's legacy in 13 letters: BLM, ISIS, & ANTIFA. New axis of evil.)
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To: Altura Ct.

I will personally apologize and pay reparations to each of the persons whom I held as slaves.


67 posted on 12/31/2018 7:49:25 PM PST by BruceS
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To: Altura Ct.
My ancestors weren't wealthy enough to own slaves. They weren't necessarily poor, but slaves were expensive.

My granddad had a pecan orchard on the Flint River in Georgia. He had black employees, not slaves. Their benefits included pecans and all the squirrels they could take. The operation was all a big family.

So there.

68 posted on 12/31/2018 7:51:35 PM PST by real saxophonist (One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
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To: Altura Ct.

She loves that word de-facto. She uses it in every opportunity when she opens her pie hole.


69 posted on 12/31/2018 8:04:22 PM PST by blackdog
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To: Chode

I’m going out and getting married to a black woman right away. Anchor spouse to government payouts over slavery. Nice.


70 posted on 12/31/2018 8:06:12 PM PST by blackdog
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To: IYAS9YAS
Okay, if you can find an individual who suffered as a slave, you can pay them from the taxes you can take from the person who kept said slave.

Shouldn't you seek the damages from the person that sold the slave? In today's society, we don't punish the casual drug user, we punish the drug suppliers.

71 posted on 12/31/2018 8:09:26 PM PST by Go Gordon (I gave my dog Grady a last name - Trump - because he loves tweets.)
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To: Altura Ct.

As long as they STFU and leave never to come back.


72 posted on 12/31/2018 8:09:28 PM PST by Agatsu77
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To: Altura Ct.

My family were serfs and had to sneak out of their country to get here in the 1830s. They lived in Iowa. Most people do not know that over 70% of the men between 14 and 40 died in the civil war. Iowa had no slaves, my ancestors in Europe also had no slaves. Four of my great,great grandfathers brother died and he lost an arm.
What did they get, a chance for their descendants to become second class spit on citizens.


73 posted on 12/31/2018 8:13:49 PM PST by Agatsu77
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To: Altura Ct.

Count me in if it’s a 1-way ticket to the African nation of choice.


74 posted on 12/31/2018 8:14:36 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Altura Ct.
If you really want to be fair, you need to know more about slavery in the Colonies that became the United States. So ....
After all you just want to be fair ... don't you ?
75 posted on 12/31/2018 8:15:48 PM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Altura Ct.

Uh, question.

Haven’t we been paying reparations since the mid-1960s, with Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty, the longest war in American history, that endless quagmire with no light at the end of the tunnel?


76 posted on 12/31/2018 8:17:14 PM PST by franksolich (Scourge of the primitives)
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To: Altura Ct.

Further enslave white taxpayers in the name of slavery reparations. How cheap, mean, miserly, parsimonious, close-fisted, penny-pinching, cheeseparing, grasping....


77 posted on 12/31/2018 8:17:42 PM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: goldstategop

I’m Irish! Where’s my Barbary pirate check?


78 posted on 12/31/2018 8:31:20 PM PST by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime." - Donald J. Trump)
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To: Altura Ct.; All

Get the first ‘allotment’ fro the African Chieftains to brought them to the shores of Africa and sold them to the slavers - ..Then give them a ticket to the African bush and have some time there - and ask themselves:” Would I like to be living here or am I thankful my ancestors were brought to America?


79 posted on 12/31/2018 8:33:25 PM PST by maine-iac7 ( Christian is as Christian does mt-h)
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To: BenLurkin

“Three ancestors. Three. Served in the Union Army.”

In the context of this thread I have to ask: were they fighting to “free the slaves?”


80 posted on 12/31/2018 8:37:24 PM PST by jeffersondem
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