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BLM Demands Reparations For ‘Environmental Racism’
dailycaller.com ^ | Aug. 2, 2016 | Michael Bastasch

Posted on 08/02/2016 1:58:00 PM PDT by PROCON

Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists have put out a list of policy demands that includes the government and corporations handing out reparations for years of “environmental racism” and “food apartheid.”

“Reparations for the wealth extracted from our communities through environmental racism, slavery, food apartheid, housing discrimination and racialized capitalism in the form of corporate and government reparations focused on healing ongoing physical and mental trauma, and ensuring our access and control of food sources, housing and land,” reads BLM’s list of policy demands.

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Women, children and minorities hardest hit.
1 posted on 08/02/2016 1:58:01 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

They meant repatriation. I’m sending money.


2 posted on 08/02/2016 2:00:09 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Common Sense Trump and Pence. More of the same Clinton and Kaine.)
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To: PROCON

I see now that BLM is a world wide movement. I wonder after they have outlived their usefulness how long it would be until teamsoros keeps on paying them? Feeding them? Giving them healthcare?

I a sure they won’t live to be our age. Soros will be paying his new base. Sharia types. They don’t have a clue what they are asking for. No clue at all.


3 posted on 08/02/2016 2:00:56 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~First woman nominated to be Prez, Valerie Jarrett, not Hillary.)
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To: PROCON

4 posted on 08/02/2016 2:01:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: PROCON
What's funny is they probably think a wastewater treatment plant or landfill going into a rich suburb is more likely under socialism.
5 posted on 08/02/2016 2:01:24 PM PDT by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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To: PROCON

Blacks live at the bottom of the Ocean?
You learn something new everyday. /sar


6 posted on 08/02/2016 2:02:16 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: PROCON
Take their automobiles away from then.

satire? I can't stop laughing

7 posted on 08/02/2016 2:02:33 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: PROCON

I guess they haven’t figured it out. Without fossil fuel how will they be able to have cell phones? Heat? Big screen TV’s? Anything plastic?


8 posted on 08/02/2016 2:02:37 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~First woman nominated to be Prez, Valerie Jarrett, not Hillary.)
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To: PROCON

Whenever a grocery is opened in their neighborhoods, the steal it blind and that’s what causes “food apartheid”.


9 posted on 08/02/2016 2:02:44 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: PROCON
These subhumans are INSANE !

They are affected MORE by the HOAX of CLIMATE CHANGE, than anyone else? HUNH?

"FOOD APARTHEID"? Say what? Someone holds a gun to their heads and makes them eat junk?

Perhaps, if they didn't burn down stores in their neighborhoods and/or steal from stores, they'd have better places to shop in.

And since NOTHING stops them from getting on a train or bus and going to market in another neighborhood, I'd say the blame is on THEM !

10 posted on 08/02/2016 2:03:30 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: PROCON
ensuring our access and control of food sources, housing and land,........................which you will have none once socialism takes over.
11 posted on 08/02/2016 2:03:53 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~First woman nominated to be Prez, Valerie Jarrett, not Hillary.)
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To: PROCON

They are really getting ludicrous now.

They will be around as long as the “flower power” crowd was.Remember them?

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12 posted on 08/02/2016 2:04:03 PM PDT by Mears
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To: PROCON

BLM is so irrelevant - who the hell cares what these buffoons demand! I demand that they pay me for all the taxes I’ve had to pay for their welfare!


13 posted on 08/02/2016 2:04:35 PM PDT by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: PROCON

Hey BLM, quit acting like children and we’ll quit treating you like children.


14 posted on 08/02/2016 2:06:05 PM PDT by Bullish (That establishment heads from both sides are exploding over Trump is the very best part.)
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To: PROCON
This is what you get when you have generations of progressive, socialist grievance mongers (in this case, black ones) passing through state-run universities studying useless things like "race studies," "gender studies," "social work" etc...

It becomes a self reinforcing cult-religion, spewing crazy dogma and meaningless cliches like: "Shift towards black community control of more local sustainable energy and food systems"

This meaningless barf would sound bonkers even in Zimbabwe

15 posted on 08/02/2016 2:07:01 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PROCON

If they get money for that, they’ll demand money for slavery. If they get money for slavery, they’ll ask for payment for Jim Crow, then for the KKK, then for OJ, then for Ferguson, then for etc etc. It will never end.


16 posted on 08/02/2016 2:07:16 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: PROCON

Nope.

You may now commence buring down your neighborhoods and capping each other, as you normally do.


17 posted on 08/02/2016 2:07:51 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: I want the USA back

This is why you cannot appease them, and why you never should start.

The word is Implacable.


18 posted on 08/02/2016 2:08:33 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Black Lives Matter Bureau of Land Management


19 posted on 08/02/2016 2:08:59 PM PDT by dasboot
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To: PROCON

Here we go — AGAIN — with the insanity that just won’t die!

Reparations for slavery?
When a black woman is one of the richest people in America?
When a black man was Secretary of State??
When a black woman was Secretary of State?
When black men have sat — and do sit — on the Supreme Court??
When a black would-be despot sits in the White House?????
When countless black men have risen to the top of the ranks of the richest in professional sports and show business?? Men like Hank Aaron. And until the recent and multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, men like Bill Cosby who, despite his support for Obama, spoke out against the cultural rot and violence among his black brethren causing the race pimps to call him either an Uncle Tom or Oreo Cookie.)
And, how about Liberation Theology?
Liberation from WHAT? The chance to achieve and succeed??
Give me a break!!
Let me make it clear right up front: I am NOT a racist. I supported Herman Cain in his run for the Senate and supported him in his run for the WH. And if Allen West or Dr. Carson (need some clarification of Dr. Carson’s position on the Second Amendment) go for it, they, too, have my support.
I also consider Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams two of the finest economists and minds extant today. In case you don’t know them, both are black.
Sowell, Williams and Cain – among others — have spoken out against those fellow blacks who castigate and vilify America for a slavery now long in our past. And ALL thinking men and women oppose the periodic calls for reparations. (When he ran, I supported Alan Keyes. I even spoke in his stead on the RTKABA at a Capitol rally and was asked to fill in for him on his radio show at the time. Sadly, while I still consider Alan a good man, I have had to rethink my support since he came out FOR reparations.)
The fact is that the modern descendants of slaves brought here in chains in admittedly miserable, soul-gutting conditions now calling for reparations need to remember something:
They should not only be glad to be in America, they should be glad to be ANYWHERE!
Had their ancestors NOT been brought OUT of Africa – many by MUSLIM slave raiders —the blood of those ancestors would have run into the earth over there several centuries ago, victims of the OTHER black tribes that captured them in one of the interminable tribal conflicts STILL ravaging that sad continent and these modern day would-be “plaintiffs” would not even exist.
And I would remind you that slavery is STILL practiced in parts of Africa (mainly by – American BLACK MUSLIMS LISTEN UP!! — MUSLIMS), the Middle East and Asia today. How ironic that disgruntled American blacks are embracing a system that participated mightily in their initial bondage – and would, if Islam takes root here, probably put any who cling to their Christianity back INTO BONDAGE – or to the sword. In fact, as the majority of muslims consider black folks as “sub-human”, many of you black muzzies will get the axe.
95% of the African slaves who were transported across the Atlantic went to South and Central America, mainly to Portuguese, Spanish and French possessions, and that less than 5% of the slaves who crossed the Atlantic went to the United States, it was remarkable that the vast majority of academic research, films, books and articles concerning the slave trade concentrated only on the American involvement, as though slavery was a uniquely American aberration.
And should the great-great-great grandchildren of SLAVE OWNING BLACKS also be subject to PAYING these reparations? If so, how do we find THEM?
And I have traced MY family back to the SLAVS. Although the term looks to be related to “slave,” depending on your source, it either means “glory” or “worshipper.” But my family research indicates that many of my ancestors LIVED lives of virtual or real slavery to some despot or other. Do I qualify for reparations? From whom?? And it begs a question: Are most of us now living here headed into a modern form of that servitude? But that – and the slave history of the Irish, the heritage of both myself and my wife – is a topic for another discussion.
The official US Census of 1830 lists 3,775 free blacks who owned 12,740 black slaves. Furthermore, the story outlines the history of slavery here, and the first slave owner, the Father of American slavery, was Mr Anthony Johnson, of Northampton, Virginia. His slave was John Casor, the first slave for life. Both were black Africans. The story is very readable, and outlines cases of free black women owning their husbands, free black parents selling their children into slavery to white owners, and absentee free black slave owners, who leased their slaves to plantation owners.
-”Selling Poor Steven”, American Heritage Magazine, Feb/Mar 1993 (Vol. 441) p 90
Of course, a full telling of Black History would not be complete without a recitation of the origin of slavery in the Virginia colony:
Virginia, Guide to The Old Dominion, WPA Writers’ Program, Oxford University Press, NY, 1940, p. 378
A few more salient points on the subject:Until the US declared independence, the Colonies were REQUIRED by the King of England to embrace slavery.
The Northwest Ordinance (1789) prohibited slavery in federal territories.
A law prohibiting the importation of slaves into the US became effective in 1808.
Beginning in 1820, the Democratic Congress started passing laws allowing and encouraging slavery.
It was only after the Republican Party (many of whom were southern Blacks) was formed some 40 years later that the anti-slavery movement was able to move forward.
And the holier-than-thou Northern liberals are strangely silent on recent archeological evidence from NEW YORK CITY clearly tracing the financing of the slave trade to NORTHERN BUSINESSMEN!!
At the height of his remarkable boxing career, Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay), once declared, “I’m glad my great-grandpa got on that boat.”
And speaking of ancestors, my paternal grandmother’s daddy, William Henry Robinson, joined with the 80th Ohio Volunteer Infantry early in the War Between the States (re-upped twice) and fought on the Union side at Vicksburg, Jackson and elsewhere in the deep South then joined up with Sherman for that infamous march to the sea through Georgia. My wife’s great-great grandpappy ALSO fought for the Union. While I revere the memory of my ancestors, inasmuch as that conflict was less about slavery than it was the economic exploitation and abuse of the South by the North, I fear they MAY have been on the wrong side.
Author Robert Hitt Neill tells of attending a Tennessee Mountain Writer’s Conference years ago with several other authors. Among them was Alex Hailey, celebrated author of “Roots.” Watching a TV news show, a group of them watched a demonstration in a Southern state against the “Rebel” flag incorporated into that state’s flag. The very next report covered a famine in Africa. Graphic images showed dead bodies, starving children with distended tummies and runny noses and dying people covered with flies, too weak to brush them away.
Mr. Hailey intoned in a low, serious voice, “Every time an American black sees a story like that, they should find a Confederate flag and kiss it.” He then pointed to the TV screen and continued, “Because these would be me and my descendants, except for American slavery. I thank God that my family and I are here instead of there.”
Next problem!
Dick Bachert
AFTERWORD:
A brief review of the FACTS on the subject:
Until the US declared independence, we were required by the King of England to embrace slavery.
The Northwest Ordinance (1789) prohibited slavery in federal territories.
A law prohibiting the importation of slaves into the US became effective in 1808.
Beginning in 1820, the Democratic Congress started passing laws allowing and encouraging slavery.
It was only after the Republican Party (many of whom were southern Blacks) was formed some 40 years later that the anti-slavery movement was able to move forward.


20 posted on 08/02/2016 2:11:58 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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