Posted on 04/15/2019 5:27:35 AM PDT by C19fan
Marianne Williamson, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, argued that reparations for descendants of slaves are a “debt we owe” as a society.
Williamson has suggested allocating $100 billion to a council that would spend the money on programs that benefit African-American ancestors of slaves as a form reparations.
Williamson was asked how she would pay for reparations, specifically where she would allocate the money from in the federal budget. In response, Williamson said that "nobody" asks that same question when tax cuts are passed or when wars are waged.
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Have we finally passed the tipping point where we can make up names of dem candidates as there are so many now? Would be fun.
Ancestors of slaves? Not descendants?
Whatever debt may have existed was paid in blood and treasure long ago.
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Marianne Williamson, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, argued that reparations for descendants of slaves are a “debt we owe” as a society.
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Screw you.
That “debt” was paid in human blood 150 years ago.
If anything, I want “reparations” for having to hear this “level playing field” bullshit for the past 30 years.
The guilt-ridden, unwise Ms. Williamson clearly calculates she needs the gibsmedats vote to gain a foothold in the Left’s nomination.
No we don't
"This country will not heal until we take a serious moral inventory."
BS
If anyone owes anything, these virtue signaling publicity hounds had better get informed. It was the democrat party that promoted slavery and a Republican President (put in by republicans) who ended it
Pay the ancestors? By all means. If you can find an ancestor of a slave alive today, write him a check. (Our pathetic educational system on public display once again.)
I guess she wants to buy several Deloreans and Flux Capacitors with the money.
We? Got a mouse in your pocket?
I checked. My family has never owned slaves.
We spend far more than that each year on preferential economic treatment that benefits African Americans.
A one-time $100 billion slush fund foundation would generate perhaps one-tenth of that per year.
So, aside from the virtue signalling involved in the explicit use of the word "reparations", what would be the point? More precise targeting of the entitlement based on distant ancestry? A camel's nose under the tent for escalating future entitlements to a hereditary racial gentry down the road?
They have already received over billions on free stuff and government checks since LBJ first came up with his free stuff for them to lock up their votes, which continues to this day. A good 98% of blacks vote for dimocratic candidates across all elections. Like the fixed 100% that voted in Philadelphia when the Black Panthers held fort over the voting booths. They don’t need free stuff to “level the playing field.”
As others have posted, this so-called “debt” was paid in American boys’ blood....1.7 million wounded/killed...mostly white boys at that.
This country owes them NOTHING more....nothing.
Now, if they want a free one-way ticket back to Africa, perhaps that can be arranged with the condition they NEVER come back.
Williamson has suggested allocating $100 billion to a council that would spend the money on programs that benefit African-American ancestors of slaves as a form reparations.
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We already do that. It’s called welfare.
> “This country will not heal until we take a serious moral inventory.” <
That sentence ranks right up there with “We need to have an honest conversation about (whatever).”
All such statements mean the exact same thing:
“You conservatives just shut up and listen while we preach to you.”
I had not heard of her before now. You are right. There are so many candidates that you can’t keep up.
I realize that I will never ascend to the heights of spirituality, righteousness, and purity that she has so easily scaled, but if she truly believes that, let her sale all her possessions and give to the poor to prove her good faith.
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