Shear and utter nonsense issue. Almost as dumb as Sleepy Joe Biden promising to cure cancer if he is elected. All demorats have a loose screw in their noggin.
A great opportunity to educate millennials on the Democrat Party’s history of systematic racism in America! The Dems are going to regret ever bringing this issue up! They own racism in America!
Nancy can open a bank account, open to anyone.
If a person has an overwhelming sense of guilt, they can make unlimited deposits to this reparation account. I'm sure the line will extend out the door and around the building.
Certified blacks who can prove they descended from slaves can withdraw from this reparation account, one time and up to some maximum amount (Nancy can decide that).
Done and everyone is happy.
They need to factor in reparations of descendants of white troops and others who died to free the slaves.
I want certified funds.
Produce ONE slave from the `8th century and pay him a TRILLION dollars. Problem solved.
I have a lot of disagreements with Michael Savage (and the posts yesterday blasted him correctly).
But the 2nd hour radio show I happened onto on June 20,2019 about reparations was one of the best talk radio hours I have ever heard. Not sure if this was a re-run (2nd hour often is here on WJR in Michigan) but all should hear its contents.
He listed (as 2 years ago) the faults in reparations (who doesn’t deserve it such as recent immigrant blacks, slaveholder family blacks,Oprah the billionaire and so on) and who shouldn’t pay (all of us who did not own slaves, we had relatives who arrived after the 1870s-—almost all of us,those of us who are poorer than Cory and others).
He probably has come just short of being kicked off the air (slurs against Cory and Maxine and Warren and AOC were fantastic!).
For that show I give him a little credit and forgive him for some things I’m mad about.
Here is a cynical picture. The white men of Maine’s 20th Regiment died on Little Round Top to settle the question of slavery. And now their great great grandchildren are expected to pay the bill.
I’m an immigrant. Why should I pay reparations?
http://www.theradiancefoundation.org/civilrights/
from link:
The Democrat party (the party of slavery, separate-but-equal Jim Crow laws, lynchings, KKK, poll taxes, literacy tests, and now the party of abortion) doesn’t seem to like its role in that history.
Any time you hear liberal politicians talking about civil rights, they act as if the Democrat party led the fight for African-Americans, women, and other minorities in this country. It was the Republican party that introduced and passed all Reconstruction Amendments (13th through the 15th) and introduced nearly every African-American civil rights bill from the end of the Civil War through the mid 20th century.
The Civil Rights bills of the 50s and 60s were mere copies of bills defeated by Democrats nearly 100 years prior, and the GOP still voted in overwhelmingly larger margins than Dems.
... Ironically, it was Democrats who voted unanimously AGAINST the 15th Amendment, which guaranteed the right to vote ... regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”.
There is not a single person alive today in America that is owed ANYTHING in regards to slavery that occurred 154 years ago. That is 5 generations! No one living now ever knew a slave. Their parents didn’t know a slave and their parents didn’t. Time to stop this nonsense!
Reparations for the “Fair Housing Act of 1968”?
Lots of houses in Washington, DC and elsewhere were sold real cheap thereafter.
Why has no one addressed the fact that between 1619 (as the author states) and the time the United States was free from British rule, that slavery was done under the Brits. Why not sue the British for their hand in slavery in an attempt to get reparations? Ahh, because the Repubes in Congress will attempt to appease them and own it from 1619. If a true discussion were to be had, the truth about the original owners of the slaves would be made known to everyone. Their own people sold them into slavery, even to this day. And that most merchants weren’t as the movies and storybooks portray but were mainly of mooslime origin, and now they still are. Why is slavery still legal in the KSA? Why are there still people being forced into slavery in Africa. Reparations? Where does the people who were sold into slavery, whipped beaten and tortured taken onto the ship, having lost friends and family but sold to other countries, where do they get their 40 acres and a mule from? America is the only country that has admitted to its sin (not original but one of them). At the time of the Civil War, there was a movement traversing the world to end black slavery. It was the democrats who felt that if they didn’t have slaves then America’s growth and economy would tank. Let the Demonrats pay for the sin and have them atone for what their ancestors did. If they go through with this, how are the going to postumously handle the “great” Congressman from West Virginia who was a leader of the KKK? His name should be sticken from everything.
People who have suffered under insane/stupid liberalism should demand reparations.
Not one of even my most distant ancestors in this country owned slaves. My great grandfather was also a Civil War veteran and fought for the Union with the 181st Ohio Infantry. I think I need not be taxed to pay any reparations. The Democratic Party not only fought for slavery, but was active with the KKK, pushed Jim Crow laws and fought against civil rights laws.
If reparations are passed, the
government should stick to the
original agreement. Give them
40 acres and a mule somewhere
in close proximity to Needles.
What very few people understand is the fact that reparations HAVE been paid.
Some 22 Trillion Dollars in reparations. Thanks to LBJ and his Great Society.
Civil rights, voting rights, housing, welfare, affirmative action, and tens of thousands of other special entitlements to blacks.
So why are we having this argument?
Bingo! And we know who the clowns will be that are first in line to collect. Why, it’s even enough to force cynthia mckinney out from under her rock.