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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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1 posted on 05/17/2023 6:47:51 PM PDT by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

GANG OF GIMMEDAT...


2 posted on 05/17/2023 6:48:51 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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To: bitt
Do I really need to tell Cory where to shove this?


3 posted on 05/17/2023 6:52:45 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: bitt

It’s amazing that the black people who were born closer to the time of slavery did not suffer as much as those who have been born in the past 20 years or so. Previously, black people were succeeding, buying homes, growing families, creating businesses, and otherwise moving up the ladder of success. It was only after Obama was elected did they find out that a re-emergence of “white supremacy” was the culprit that caused all their woes. (I’m discounting Sharpton and Jackson’s fake rhetoric in the intervening years).


4 posted on 05/17/2023 6:53:10 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: bitt

Don’t owe you guys a thin penny. Your feels ... just do not care about them. Go pound sand.


5 posted on 05/17/2023 6:53:12 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: bitt
It will never be paid, but making it an issue serves to get blacks riled up. That is the real purpose.

Using blacks to bring down the working class and middle class. Including blacks themselves.

6 posted on 05/17/2023 6:53:33 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: bitt

kkkorey should take dat bush she gots and put it on dat bald ass head. Or get together with Alcee Hastings and they can make an ass of themselves. But then again, kkkori has always been half assed, and her mouth can spew a lot of shit on its own, do we’ll just turn dat other cheek, naamean?


7 posted on 05/17/2023 6:53:50 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: bitt

I believe the US taxpayer has transferred about $20 trillion to minority individual since the War on Poverty began in 1965.

Step off, we’re all paid up here!


8 posted on 05/17/2023 6:55:11 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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Shouldn’t us white Yankees who lost Union solders in the Civil War and freed most of the blacks from slavery get paid by the black people alive today to settle the score and make everyone equal?

If this kind of crap keeps up one can see another civil war not so far away.


9 posted on 05/17/2023 6:57:57 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: bitt

Is this one of those obese commie black chicks? Whatever.


10 posted on 05/17/2023 7:00:27 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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F them

All these leftists do is legalize crimes.

In this case, stealing.

Including from the descendants of those who died freeing the slaves.


11 posted on 05/17/2023 7:02:22 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Salman

Of course. And, the Democrats will successfully blame the Republicans for preventing them from receiving the promised reparations.


12 posted on 05/17/2023 7:04:05 PM PDT by sjmjax
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To: bitt

Only $14 trillion????? I am sure the government can issue some bonds to pay for it. Particularly, if they cut back a little on the billions for vouchers etc. for illegal aliens.


13 posted on 05/17/2023 7:04:36 PM PDT by xxqqzz
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To: bitt

Debt accumulated over 404 years ( 1619-2023) should be paid out over 404 years.


14 posted on 05/17/2023 7:05:30 PM PDT by sopo
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IANAL, and I hate to be a party pooper, but my understanding is that legal damages are often calculated by assessing the current financial state of the aggrieved party, and comparing that to what their financial state would have been had the tort not occurred.

Does the U.S. black community really want to go down that road?


15 posted on 05/17/2023 7:06:11 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Joe biden has spent this country into oblivion.. there is no more to give.. I want him charged with treason!


16 posted on 05/17/2023 7:08:06 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: bitt

Lottery ticket sellers stand to reap the largest cut of that bounty.


17 posted on 05/17/2023 7:08:31 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: bitt

What research would this be? Please?


18 posted on 05/17/2023 7:09:18 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.e)
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‘Trauma Lives in the Black Body’ – Cori Bush

Yes, and the only treatment is other people's money.
19 posted on 05/17/2023 7:09:51 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: bitt

F’ you Cori, and everyone who thinks like you.


20 posted on 05/17/2023 7:10:04 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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