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‘Trauma Lives in the Black Body’ – Cori Bush, Dem Reps Call For $14 Trillion in Federal Reparations to Compensate Descendants of Enslaved Africans
gateway pundit ^ | 5/17/2023 | Cristina Laila

Posted on 05/17/2023 6:47:51 PM PDT by bitt

Democrat Rep. Cori Bush introduced a resolution demanding what is estimated to be $14 trillion in federal reparations.

Reps. Cori Bush, Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman and Barbara Lee unveiled the resolution on Wednesday.

Bush said black people ‘continue to live under slavery’ because of the black-white wealth gap.

Rep. Bowman said, “Trauma lives in the black body.”

“Research has shown this from generation to generation trauma lives in the body and lives in the blood vessels and lives in the DNA and the cells and the mind,” Bowman said, according to the Daily Mail.

The Daily Mail reported:

A number of House Democrats led by Rep. Cori Bush introduced a resolution Thursday to reignite a push for federal reparations that would amount to over half the U.S. GDP.

The resolution states that the U.S. has a ‘legal and moral’ obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of black people and calls for $14 trillion to be paid – ‘at least the amount of the black white wealth gap,’ Bush told DailyMail.com during a press conference.

The entire U.S. GDP was $25 trillion in 2022. The U.S. is already $31.4 trillion in debt and lawmakers are currently engaged in tedious negotiations over where to cut the budget so they can raise the debt limit.

The $14 trillion figure is in line with the findings of Duke University professor and economist William ‘Sandy’ Darity, who estimates the wealth gap is in excess of $300,000 per person and there are roughly 40 million black people whose ancestors were enslaved in the U.S.

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To: xxqqzz

I have 180 trillion I can give them. :)


21 posted on 05/17/2023 7:10:12 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Salman
Using blacks to bring down the working class and middle class. Including blacks themselves.

And the saddest part is that they are none the wiser.

22 posted on 05/17/2023 7:11:07 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: xp38

You have Zimbabwean currency?


23 posted on 05/17/2023 7:11:38 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: bitt

Okay, everyone who takes a payment gives up their citizenship and accepts deportation to Africa.


24 posted on 05/17/2023 7:13:57 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: CFW

yup, I couldn’t have put it better myself. It’s all so ridiculous coming from the most pampered, indulged and over glamorized race of people on the planet.

It really kinda makes my blood boil how ungrateful they are. Most of them have never done one damn thing for America, while Americans bend over backwards to try and appease them and make them feel wholly equal. A lot of good all that did, huh? They just had their greedy hands out with gimeedat in return.


25 posted on 05/17/2023 7:16:25 PM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: bitt

**Bush said black people ‘continue to live under slavery’ because of the black-white wealth gap.**

The reason black people have not gained more.. they vote democratic!!

The dems never fixed their neighborhood nor improved their schools. They were given welfare and told hiw to get it..have babies and dont get a job.. that is the report from one who was there, and got out.

The dems never made them equal. Joe biden still makes reference, dividing the races.

My son worked with one young black man..who had 2 kids.. he worked to send his kids to private school. He had friends who said. “You tryin to be white?”

But blame anything but the reality.


26 posted on 05/17/2023 7:17:45 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: bitt

Leo Terrell called this scam for what it is. He was irate


27 posted on 05/17/2023 7:18:52 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: bitt

F them all

How about ‘reparations ‘ for the Yankee invasion of Southern lands and destruction of Southern property?


28 posted on 05/17/2023 7:19:19 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: bitt

Cory, Baby,
you must have Bush for brains to think that $14 trillion payoff would ever happen.


29 posted on 05/17/2023 7:19:57 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: quantim

Don’t even try to bring reason and logic into this.
It’s all about hate whitey and that’s all. They won’t listen to anything else.

There’s really no settling this other than CWII


30 posted on 05/17/2023 7:20:10 PM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: bitt

The reparation has been paid….in blood


31 posted on 05/17/2023 7:20:21 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: who knows what evil?

Yes, obviously.


32 posted on 05/17/2023 7:20:43 PM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Cori Bush is a blight upon the honor and dignity of Missouri. Y’all have to stop reelecting that turd


33 posted on 05/17/2023 7:20:56 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: bitt

This would never pass it’s just designed to get some black people riled up and keep them voting Dem.


34 posted on 05/17/2023 7:27:18 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: bitt

It’s not “Trauma,” it’s “Drama.”

Cori’s a Leftist woman, after all. “Drama” is all they know.


35 posted on 05/17/2023 7:27:20 PM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: bitt

40 acres and a mule. Back in those days that was a good profitable deal. Give him land work give him a few tools to work it and they made something of it. I heard this argument just recently from a black man, he said the reparations have already been paid.


36 posted on 05/17/2023 7:31:22 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: bitt

get stuffed


37 posted on 05/17/2023 7:31:35 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: bitt

Madrid 1936.


38 posted on 05/17/2023 7:33:32 PM PDT by Wdempsey (Democrats and slinkys.. Both useless but fun to push down stairs.)
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To: bitt

When they force digital currency on everyone the reparation amount will be fabricated and credited to accounts.


39 posted on 05/17/2023 7:34:00 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: bitt

How can Africans vote themselves to be millionaires off the backs of American taxpayers? This sh*t is unconstitutional.


40 posted on 05/17/2023 7:37:50 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Since O'Bama was ruling the roost, America has gone from melting pot to septic tank of the world.)
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