Posted on 08/25/2025 9:54:28 PM PDT by dennisw
President Biden's nominee for governor of the Federal Reserve has said repeatedly that she supports reparations, the controversial proposed policy of financial compensation for Black Americans as a form of atonement for slavery and discrimination.
"Everybody benefited from slavery. Everybody," Lisa Cook, a Michigan State University professor, said in a September 2020 "EconTalk" podcast. "So, I think that we absolutely need some sort of reckoning with that. There are many proposals on the table to study the possibility of reparations, many economic proposals being put forward, and I think they should all be taken seriously."
Biden said during the 2020 presidential campaign that he supports the study of reparations. White House press secretary Jen Psaki doubled down on that last year when asked about H.R. 40, a House bill that would create a commission to study reparations. Cook said last March she supports that bill, too.
"One thing I do support is H.R. 40 which would put in place a commission to study this. I think that's absolutely what needs to be done," Cook said at a forum hosted by the University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business. "It's difficult not to comment on a particular plan because there could be many different plans to achieve the kinds of reparations that [two authors] are suggesting."
Cook also has a long history of more general liberal activism. She said in 2020 she supported "bail funds" that were active during the summer 2020 riots – the same kind of groups that Vice President Kamala Harris was criticized for backing in 2020. Cook also advocated for people to donate to Stacey Abrams' "Fair Fight" political group at the same speaking engagement.
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EVERYBODY BENEFITED FROM SLAVERY....EVERYBODY!
What a clown, with her claiming two primary residences to cheat on Federal -FHA mortgage rates and insurance
EVEN BLACKS, LISA???
Everybody benefits!
So what’s her status now? Is she in the Fed?
Especially blacks, Lisa. Africans brought to the American colonies lived longer and better than the members of their tribes that stayed in Africa, and a hell of a lot better than captives that went anywhere else in the world. That’s not even saying anything about the descendants of those slaves. How many “African-Americans” would trade their US citizenship for a return to their ancestral homeland? If you find any, I’ll buy their ticket, so long as they don’t retain US citizenship.
BTTT
Forgotten slavery: The Arab-Muslim slave trade
"While European merchants primarily sought strong young men to work as labourers on their plantations, Arab merchants focused on concubinage, capturing women and girls to serve as sex slaves in harems. In fact, the demand for female slaves was so high that merchants would often double their price, with the ratio of captured women to men being three to one.
Male slaves were often assigned to work as field labourers or guards at harems. To prevent them from reproducing in case they became intimate with female slaves, men and boys were subjected to castration, a brutal procedure that resulted in the deaths of many during the process."
Excellent!
Including the African tribal chiefs who rounded up their neighbors and sold them to the slave traders.
Yeah, all those Union soldiers from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maine, etc. who had only recently "come over on the boat" from Scandinavia, Ireland, etc. - and who died gallantly in battle to defeat the Confederacy - they benefited. And their great-great-great-grandchildren should be forced to pay reparations!
/mordant sarcasm
Regards,
EXCELLENT!!!!
Watch for this to be a key part of her defense in her upcoming mortgage fraud trial. She was entitled to cheat as a form of reparations !
Trump fired her. She said he can’t and she won’t resign and retire to her two primary residences. She retained a Dem atty who will of course be shopping an injunction with a DC District judge. That’s where we are at right now.
… to include capitalization and nounification of the word “black”.
except today's whites.
W/o slavery in America, they would have been killed by their captors because they were worth more alive than dead.
reparations should be a free one way ticket back to Africa, use DNA to figure out which country they are being repratraited to. Or they cstfu and start kissing some white ass for the freedom the whites in U.S. give them.
Nope, not in the Fed... She got door #3
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