Posted on 02/20/2017 5:32:26 PM PST by TigerClaws
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus and other Democrats this week re-introduced legislation that would set up a commission to consider whether reparations should be paid to black Americans for slavery.
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has proposed the bill in each Congress for at least the last two decades.
A description of the bill said the legislation would set up a commission to both examine the possibility of reparations, but also an apology for the "racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans."
It's a response to the "fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States."
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Conyers' new bill wasn't released as of Wednesday, but the version of the bill proposed last year found that 4 million blacks were enslaved in the U.S. from 1619 to 1865. It said the commission would examine the entire history of slavery, and then make recommendations on whether the U.S. government should apologize for slavery, and whether reparation payments are warranted.
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I’ll willingly part reparations for every slave I’ve ever owned.
Eff reparations. If we back out what has been paid in terms of welfare and affirmative action, I bet they’ll owe us.
1619? Take it up with Great Britain. Since they want to ban Trump, I have no problem with them paying for reparations for 150 years.
Good. I hope they actually fight for this bill. It’s good for us the stupider the Dems get.
no.
we will pay for a one way ticket to africa, and we’ll revoke your citizenship to this awful country.
These damn black leaders need to work with Trump on JOBS. More handouts is a major problem for this bunch.
Keep pushing to the Left Dems. Pretty soon you won’t get elected to seats on village water boards.
Free one-way boat tickets to Liberia.
Every democrat should give their entire estate, their salary and any retirement accounts they have to a pool to reward black Americans for the way their lives have been ruined by liberal politics.
The only acceptable reparation for slavery must include repatriation to Africa.
I’m more generous than you are.
I’ve already paid reparations (40 acres and a mule) to each and every every slave I ever owned and to the slaves (and children, grand-children, and great-grandchildren of slaves) owned by my parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great grandparents.
The reparations scam is a non-starter. These parasites need to stand on their own two feet and move on instead of dwelling on a distant and dead past.
Let’s talk about what your demographic between the ages of 15 and 35 owes to civil society. I mean everything from broken car windows to over 50% of murders. All of it! Sick to freakin death of you scumbags!
How about a provision which strongly condemns Islam for its role in the slave trade of the 1800s as well as a condemnation for its continuing practice in a lot of the Muslim world?
Wow. Awesome thinking. How long did slavery exist PRE united States?
Hit em with the bill!!
We’ve paid ours in welfare, medicaid, section 8, SNAP etc.
England hasn’t paid a cent.
Ditto for the French, Spanish and Portuguese.
I think all of us with ancestors who fought on the Union side should be compensated for freeing the slaves and compensated by the Democrats who made it necessary for us to have to do it.
For 1619 to ~1779 send the bill to England.
The moslems had enough sense to castrate the black males for their own use. To them black slaves were cheap, and just across the desert if they needed more.
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