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Calls for reparations gain steam as U.S. reckons with racial injustice
Reuters ^ | June 24, 2020 | Nellie Peyton and Christine Murray

Posted on 06/26/2020 4:03:05 AM PDT by C19fan

When California State Assemblywoman Shirley Weber introduced a bill last year to study reparations for African Americans, she was worried people wouldn't accept that racial inequality and injustice were still alive and well. Instead, the bill came up for a vote two weeks after the death of an unarmed Black man, George Floyd, at the hands of a white police officer spurred a nationwide reckoning on that very topic. It passed the assembly on June 11 with a 56-5 vote. "Maybe we'll be a model for what can happen at the federal level," Weber told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The bill goes next to the California State Senate, where she expects it to pass and then be signed into law by the governor. The idea of reparation is nothing new and has been used around the world to compensate victims of war, rape, terror and a host of other historical injustices.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: blm; reparations
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1 posted on 06/26/2020 4:03:05 AM PDT by C19fan
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How about FU


2 posted on 06/26/2020 4:04:09 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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They can call all they want, it isn’t going to happen.


3 posted on 06/26/2020 4:05:41 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Again I knew what was rude as or AP by just reading the article :-) I’m getting good at this.

we really really need Trump to win so he vetos any of this garbage that comes across his desk and no I do not trust the Senate.


4 posted on 06/26/2020 4:05:55 AM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of the Republic is at stake. dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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OK...but first they pay back all the FREE STUFF we have given them....free housing....free food....free health care....etc. etc.....after that is all re-paid, we can talk about reparations!!


5 posted on 06/26/2020 4:06:37 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Mo mo mo mo cash money whitey! Cash money re-po-rations CASH!


6 posted on 06/26/2020 4:07:22 AM PDT by dennisw
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Just like gay marriage wasn’t :-) or even domestic benefits for gays before that. Or health insurance paying for transgender surgery. Or 7 year olds getting to decide what gender they want to be. Or anal sex being taught to kids in grammar School.

Nothing is ever going to happen.

Until it does.


7 posted on 06/26/2020 4:07:29 AM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of the Republic is at stake. dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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Reparations from anyone living who owned slaves to anyone living who was held as a slave in the USA. That’s all.


8 posted on 06/26/2020 4:08:54 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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Let’s start with (a) the nations in Africa whose tribes captured, enslaved and sold the slaves to the European slave traders, and before we are done be sure to include (b) all the descendants of all the white soldiers on the union side who died during the civil war. And that’s just to start with.


9 posted on 06/26/2020 4:09:29 AM PDT by Wuli (Get)
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Reparations were paid in blood during the civil war. Thye Union army won. The south’s surrender should have settled it. What is the standing of those seeking reparations now?


10 posted on 06/26/2020 4:09:45 AM PDT by Rapscallion
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You bet. After my descendants of the next 1000000 years are first served. Never darken my door with your oozing puss commie panhandlers.


11 posted on 06/26/2020 4:09:52 AM PDT by whistleduck
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Harvard University and Sen Warren
owe the most reparations.
10 trillion dollars to native Americans.

THEY who stole are still alive,
and the victims are still alive.

Pay up Harvard Law School
Pay up you thief, Sen Warren.


12 posted on 06/26/2020 4:10:41 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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Enslaving black folks even more to the Party(D).


13 posted on 06/26/2020 4:10:42 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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So then we would NEVER have to hear about racism and slavery again?

Didn’t think so.


14 posted on 06/26/2020 4:13:34 AM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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More lies from a left wing Brit propaganda outfit peddling its
own campaign .


15 posted on 06/26/2020 4:13:45 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists)
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NO.


16 posted on 06/26/2020 4:14:05 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (https://www.barelytherebiden.com)
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No reparations. No rescue. No refugees.


17 posted on 06/26/2020 4:15:31 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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There's a term for how any cash payment would affect 99% of the recipients:

N... Rich

After that money is gone they might have more debt or some new rims but no real change in their lives.

Anyone THAT oppressed should get a one way ticket to the Affican shit hole of their choice.

18 posted on 06/26/2020 4:15:34 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Altura Ct.

As a trans-black handicapped lesbian, do I get triple reparations?


19 posted on 06/26/2020 4:16:36 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (https://www.barelytherebiden.com)
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Whites have been paying “reparations” ever since the “Great Society.” Trillions in $ on the Welfare State, immigration legal and illegal, and Whites will soon be a hated minority. Enjoy.


20 posted on 06/26/2020 4:16:45 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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