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Cory Booker introduces Senate bill on slavery reparations
Fox News ^ | Apr. 8, 2019 | Paul Steinhauser

Posted on 04/08/2019 12:56:34 PM PDT by Innovative

Sen. Cory Booker on Monday introduced a bill that would study the possibility of reparations for descendants of slaves, embracing a push that recently has caught the interest of fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.

The senator from New Jersey said Monday that “this bill is a way of addressing head-on the persistence of racism, white supremacy, and implicit racial bias in our country. It will bring together the best minds to study the issue and propose solutions that will finally begin to right the economic scales of past harms and make sure we are a country where all dignity and humanity is affirmed.”

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I hope and expect this to fail miserably.
1 posted on 04/08/2019 12:56:34 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

For more commentary on farticus BS bill:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3740512/posts


2 posted on 04/08/2019 12:57:36 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Innovative

They are using this bill to say “the Republican party doesn’t care about slavery”.

It is all despicable propaganda


3 posted on 04/08/2019 12:57:43 PM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: Innovative

slavery and Fartacus go hand in hand..


4 posted on 04/08/2019 12:57:50 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtards at our company for the past 12 yrs at every election. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: Innovative

Such a bill will not change those whom are racist to non racist, not one of them, by any definition. Especially a leftist or liberal definition.


5 posted on 04/08/2019 12:58:57 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Innovative

This man is a fraud. Nobody alive today had anything to do with slavery. Booker pandering for votes.


6 posted on 04/08/2019 12:59:29 PM PDT by Metrobank
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To: Innovative

Spartacus wants whitey’s money.


7 posted on 04/08/2019 1:01:40 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Innovative

So which Rs will vote for it?


8 posted on 04/08/2019 1:02:14 PM PDT by JonPreston ( The GOPe is on board with the North American Union and the European Union.)
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To: Innovative

What an ass this jerk is. If the GOP can’t figure out how to hang THIS abomination around the Rats’ necks they probably deserve to go the way of the DoDo bird.


9 posted on 04/08/2019 1:02:39 PM PDT by truthkeeper (All Trump Has Going for Him is the Votes)
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To: JonPreston

Murkowski (RINO-AL)


10 posted on 04/08/2019 1:03:27 PM PDT by Tigercap
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To: Innovative

1/1064 black. How much does she get.

11 posted on 04/08/2019 1:03:45 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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Reparations= A ticket to your homeland plus $500.


12 posted on 04/08/2019 1:04:05 PM PDT by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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To: Innovative

They already got their 40 acres & a mule, not to mention preferential hiring treatment.

Time to let it go.


13 posted on 04/08/2019 1:04:08 PM PDT by sevlex
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“I hope and expect this to fail miserably”.

I agree.

Let’s hope that their nominee campaigns on reparations.

“Pay up all you white people”.


14 posted on 04/08/2019 1:04:18 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Innovative

in 2008 I was convinced that people wouldn’t be stupid enough to vote for a nobody like 0bama. In 2012, I was convinced that people wouldn’t be stupid enough to vote for a failure like 0bama a 2nd time. Now, even with Trump in the White House, I’m not so sure that we won’t end up with someone like a Booker, Harris, O’Rourk or Warren the next time around. If we do, we will have ringside seats to our country being washed down the tubes forever.


15 posted on 04/08/2019 1:04:24 PM PDT by euram
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What’s the name of the bill? The “Please Don’t Walk Away” Bill?


16 posted on 04/08/2019 1:07:11 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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My family arrived her around 1900 from $h!tholes in Europe. I owe nobody who’s forebears arrived via slave ships a friggin thing.


17 posted on 04/08/2019 1:07:13 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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I’m sure it will. However, someone in Congress that has the nuts needs to tack on a few lines to the bill. Something to the effect that with reparations there will be no more Equal Opportunity Employer, no more getting accepted to colleges based on minority status, no more all minority clubs or events (needs to be open to all), no more kneeling during the national anthem. BLM needs to be declared a terrorist group (as well as the black panthers) and no more slurs verbally or otherwise against those who descended from Europeans. So go for it!


18 posted on 04/08/2019 1:08:26 PM PDT by alabama_heart
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To: seawolf101
How much does Talcum X get?


19 posted on 04/08/2019 1:09:18 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: euram

I agree. The Demos, Warner, Booker, and Harris have changed their playbook from calling for reparations to asking for Congress to “investigate” the potential of reparations.

This is their typical ploy, so that they will earnestly argue that they are not for reparations, but for a study to investigate reparations during any Presidential debate.

Someone has probably poll-tested their initial approach and realized that granting reparations up-front is a non-starter with “independent voters”


20 posted on 04/08/2019 1:10:11 PM PDT by ConchKarl (From a member of the Herd, 173rd)
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