Posted on 05/12/2021 6:23:23 AM PDT by deport
As the Biden administration promises to confront structural racism and inequality, a growing number of Democratic lawmakers have given their support to H.R. 40, a decades-old bill first introduced by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., in 1989. The bill would create a commission to study slavery and discrimination in the United States and
potential reparations proposals for restitution.
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1) Welfare 2) Food Stamps 3) Section 8 Housing 4) Medicaid
Reparations of any sort would be unconstitutional. The government cannot treat people differently based on race.
The reparations talk, whenever you see it, is basically proof it is a slow news day. It will never go anywhere.
Well, when I say “never”, what I mean is that if it actually DOES go anywhere, we will be living in a cultural/political environment where that will be the least of your problems.
Pass “reparations” and I’ll go get myself 40 acres and a mule - and not pay another dime in federal taxes.
Remember: half of wage earners pay no taxes. Being in the taxable bracket is voluntary.
Reparations is completely unworkable.
Before the civil war half of blacks were not slaves.
Many slave owners were black.
There were many White slaves.
There were many black slaves held by Native American tribes.
Africans colonized and pillaged Europe and enslaved Europeans earlier and for far longer than Europeans did it to africans.
At the tim of our founding there were more White Europeans and Americans enslaved in Africa than blacks enslaved here.
That's only a few of the issues.
Make a stipulation that if taken, the recipient must cash-out and give up citizenship to this country. Setup a fund accessible from Mexico, and they must move there to accept the cash with no authorized return to here.
Oh, and as indicated above, any recipient, recipient family members, relatives, pets, etc., taking the gift, are forever barred from public assistance of any kind in this country!! Any crime committed within the first 2 years of taking, results in default and payback of all of the gift. (yeh, I know, wishful thinking)
I would consider 60+ years of EEOC and quotas reparations enough for people who were never slaves, paid for by people who never owned slaves.
What’s forty acres and a mule in 1865 dollars worth today?
Offer them each a cheque for that amount provided they renounce their U.S. citizenship and emigrate to wherever will have them.
Problem solved.
I think there needs to be a stipulation.... if you accept the payout, your citizenship is revoked and you are sent back to your homeland.
It's not reparations for slavery that are being proposed. That's just rhetoric. It's the settlement for the war going on right now.
Whenever reparations are brought up they never mention Liberia which should have turned out to be where US could have set up secondary manufacturing resources instead of China.
If you want to know what it will look like, just check out Dave Chapelles Reparations skit...
Go explain the deal to a second-generation Russian guy...whose father came in the 1930s. Any type of reparation will be taken as a massive negative.
British slave owners received reparations for emancipated slaves. American slave owners did not.
The real problem with reparations is where you draw the line. If it’s a handout to every black person, you’re including many who were never related to slaves - including some whose families owned slaves.
But nobody wants to look at that - they just want to redistribute wealth from the whites and give them to the blacks, just like in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Any people who can prove that they were slaves in the antebellum US should get one million dollars, tax free.
Anyone who can prove that both parents were slaves in the antebellum US should get $100 000, tax free. If only one parent, then $50 000, again, tax free.
Other than that, no.
Yup. My ancestors also.
Some of the family back then gave the last full measure. They, of course, don’t have any descendants.
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