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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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To: Innovative

We have more domestic enemies of the US Constitution than foreign enemies.

JoMa


61 posted on 04/08/2019 2:04:33 PM PDT by joma89
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To: Innovative
...make sure we are a country where all dignity and humanity is affirmed.”

If this is not a country where dignity and humanity are affirmed, there is no such country on earth. I would tell Booker to stick it in his a**, but he would probably like that.

62 posted on 04/08/2019 2:11:42 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Innovative

Sorry the Neanderthals are first in line, and with accrued interest all the blacks will have to be sold back into slavery to pay off THAT debt.

Maybe simply ‘redistribute’ rich leftists possessions to pay for this ?? The can do it voluntarily, but somehow never have bothered.


63 posted on 04/08/2019 2:37:08 PM PDT by elbook
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To: Innovative

Corey, will indentured servants get money? How about blacks who captured other Blacks to sell for slaves? Will those blacks pay or will they get the money? How about people from Vietnam who came over in 1970s? Will they pay? Or will they get paid or get nothing. What about illegals - oh wait, they get money from the taxpayers..


64 posted on 04/08/2019 2:39:51 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (WFLA's Jack Harris: Brooklyn is missing their village idiot. Right you are, Jack.)
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To: sevlex

Exactly. 40+ years of affirmative action should have paid any “reparation debt” in full!


65 posted on 04/08/2019 2:43:17 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Innovative

Hopefully, one of the Republicans slips it into the bill that in order to be “considered” for reparations, complete DNA testing and genealogy would need to be submitted. Then the Dems will object to the bill because the DNA could be used to identify wanted criminals.


66 posted on 04/08/2019 2:44:22 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Innovative

Does his white part have to pay reparations to his black part?


67 posted on 04/08/2019 2:44:36 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: euram

Was there ever a poll that tried to find out how many white republicans voted for Obama due to their own “white guilt”?


68 posted on 04/08/2019 2:53:17 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway

I know one!
My late parents family doctor.


69 posted on 04/08/2019 3:08:07 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Innovative
Cory Booker introduces Senate bill on slavery reparations to start CW2 along racial lines.

Not going to end well.

70 posted on 04/08/2019 3:17:26 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: Innovative

What a waste of time and money this is. There are no slaves or people who suffered as decenants of slaves. So why is this goofball doing this? To try to enhance the democrats chances of unseating President Trump in 2020. They know it has no chance in hell of passing. So why do it?


71 posted on 04/08/2019 3:18:30 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: bert

Thanks for never giving the left ammunition to call Freepers racist!


72 posted on 04/08/2019 3:19:26 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

No, Spartacus wants blacks’ votes.

Advocates for reparations are publicly admitting assimilation has failed and there is no hope for most American blacks - they are being left behind by foreigners washing ashore daily who don’t even speak English. This is to cement on the books an arrangement akin to that worked out for American Indians - free sh!t for life if they so choose.


73 posted on 04/08/2019 3:35:52 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Innovative

So anyone against this criminal behavior is a racist, got it


74 posted on 04/08/2019 3:45:03 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: seawolf101

Next Fauxcahontis will want reparations for yer 1/1024th native american ancestry too. Certainly that deserves a bill too.


75 posted on 04/08/2019 3:59:41 PM PDT by Cannoneer ("Liberty means responsibility, that is why most men dread it." Geo B Shaw)
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To: Innovative

It’s more bullsh*t pandering by the racist black klux kan.


76 posted on 04/08/2019 4:15:15 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: Innovative

If they really, really want Civil War to come sooner, then dictate reparations.


77 posted on 04/08/2019 4:17:22 PM PDT by libertylover (Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
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To: Innovative

If I have to pay for black slavery then I demand a black slave.


78 posted on 04/08/2019 4:22:06 PM PDT by Clarancebeaks
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To: Innovative

I think its great we’re finally going to get paid for freeing the slaves. Slavery is still legal in most parts of the world. Africa alone has 27 million slaves.


79 posted on 04/08/2019 4:52:10 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Innovative

How about a bil for reparations to anyone whose Union ancestor was killed or injured?


80 posted on 04/08/2019 4:57:58 PM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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