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Rep. Keith Ellison: ‘We Were Held In Slavery Longer Than We’ve Been Free’
News One For Black America ^ | May 22, 2012 | Kirsten West Savali

Posted on 06/16/2012 11:54:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Yes, I think we need to study reparations. When there’s injury there should be redress, right?"

Fine, I'll agree to reparations - as long as it's stipulated that they can only be disbursed to those who were slaves.


41 posted on 06/17/2012 5:28:15 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Worst. President. Ever.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Keith Maurice Ellison (born August 4, 1963)

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Thats 1963 not 1863 so you do not qualify for victimhood payments, nor will I feel guilt for a practice that ended 102 years before your birth.


42 posted on 06/17/2012 5:32:17 AM PDT by JohnD9207 (Mitt better grow a pair or this thing will be over soon.)
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To: wardaddy
And the life of a North American slave versus the tropical Negroes left behind Does anyone even bother to examine this?
And how many whites gave their lives to end slavery in the Civil War? And does the reparations crowd plan to share their spoils with the descendents of the families who lost all those soldiers?
43 posted on 06/17/2012 5:33:13 AM PDT by samtheman (If we want Obamugabe out, we must vote him out.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

However, Ellison wasn’t there.


44 posted on 06/17/2012 5:36:54 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Socialism isn't going to work this time, either.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The historical wrong Mr.Ellison, would have been allowing
a beguiler like yourself ever be accorded the recognition as a member of Congress. IMO No Muslim ought qualify for Congress as they fundamentally lack the necessary allegiance to this
Country and our way of life. We were established by Christians to be a nation among the Christian nations of the Western
Civilization. But as Mr.Lincoln said in 1863 Fast day proclamation “We have forgotten God.”Perhaps Ellison ought be sent back to school under Mr. Thomas Sowell to correct the
Congressman’s understanding of what he claims is a historical wrong.


45 posted on 06/17/2012 5:42:50 AM PDT by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: Absolutely Nobama

Minnesota is home to CPUSA.org

Communist Party of the USA.


46 posted on 06/17/2012 6:01:43 AM PDT by opbuzz (Right way, wrong way, Marine way)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
‘We Were Held In Slavery Longer Than We’ve Been Free’

So go sue your democrat party. If your sense of the Confederacy is so acute it allows you to mock those who fought under the Stars and Bars as traitors you should also understand it was your democrat party who worked so diligently to maintain de facto enslavement after the Civil war.

And that faith you embrace, you're the ones who sold the blacks into slavery in the first place and still believe in slavery.

Ellison, yer a putz.

47 posted on 06/17/2012 6:06:47 AM PDT by MurrietaMadman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is this coming from the man whose prophet married little girls?


48 posted on 06/17/2012 6:07:00 AM PDT by Woodsman27
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It simply doesn’t register anymore. Other than to remind me to buy more ammo.


49 posted on 06/17/2012 6:10:32 AM PDT by Caipirabob (I say we take off and Newt the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...)
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To: fella
I’ll bet this guy also claims that the Egyptians were black. If so I’ll give him that but then he has to give me this: his people held my people in slavery for over 400 years and it took a number of acts of God to set us free and even then his people tried to chase us down to re-enslave us. So his people need to pay us reparations with 4,000 years worth of compound interest to boot. Or his people could just call it even and get off of their “Give-Me” fat butts and go about the business of fending for themselves

More likely, like Obama and Rev. Wright, he believes Jesus and his followers were black. However slavery is the reason that, as far back as Alexander, Egypt hasn't pursued their various nonsensical lawsuits, most recently an issue in 2003. Some threads. For the suit in Alexander's court see Sanhedrin 91a.

Egypt, Arabia, et. al. v. the Jews

In defense of Moses-Egyptians may sue Jews over the Exodus.

Egyptian Jurists Sue 'The Jews' for Compensation...of Gold Allegedly Stolen During Exodus from Egypt

Sue the Jews!

Group of Egyptians to Sue 'All Worldwide Jews' Over "Theft of Pharoah's Gold" (No Joke)

50 posted on 06/17/2012 6:16:35 AM PDT by SJackson (As a black man, you know, Barack could get shot going to the gas station, M Obama)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
American slaved were enslave by black Africans in Ghana, Gambia, Senegal ,

If they really wanted reparations, wouldn't make sense to go to the original perpetrators??? Have you ever heard of anyone asking for reparations from Ghana, Gambia, Senegal???

51 posted on 06/17/2012 6:17:47 AM PDT by Bulwinkle (Alec, a.k.a. Daffy Duck)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Let Barry pay him, he's got slave traders on one side of the family, slave owners on the other.

Census records, genealogical research show forebears of Obama’s mother owned slaves

52 posted on 06/17/2012 6:20:15 AM PDT by SJackson (As a black man, you know, Barack could get shot going to the gas station, M Obama)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you want to know how Reparations payments would go simply study the Pigford shakedown.


53 posted on 06/17/2012 6:20:27 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
NewsOne: Do you agree that reparations should be awarded to the African-American community for the economic and psychological impact of slavery, Reconstruction, Jim and Jane Crow, the Civil Rights Era, and the Reagan Era when drugs flooded our communities?

I guess a case can be made (a very weak one) for all these things listed as reasons for reparations....except...

But how in the world can the black community hold Reagan from the 1980's WAY PAST the civil rights era is responsible for black people killing their own communities by selling, abusing and using the drug "crack"...

Black people sold it, black people used it, black people abused it, black people profited from it...

and these morons want us to pay them for their own immoral behavior...

Sorry...I forgot they are liberals

54 posted on 06/17/2012 6:32:03 AM PDT by Popman (When you elect a clown: expect a circus...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And most inner-city blacks are still living under slavery today. They get their rent paid by section 8, food stamps, free medical care paid for in exchange for “staying on the democrat plantation”.


55 posted on 06/17/2012 6:33:41 AM PDT by Cyclone59 (Obama is like Ron Burgundy - he will read ANYTHING that is on the teleprompter)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’’ll bet that if his ancestors weren’t held as slaves in America he’d be a slave in Africa right now. Or he’d be living in poverty.


56 posted on 06/17/2012 6:36:54 AM PDT by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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To: Absolutely Nobama
The very fact that this libtard is in Congress is a sure sign of our decline. Again, I’m forced to ask: What happened to Minnesota

Along with Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, Tierney, Waxman, Leahy, Boxer, John "F'n" Kerry, Al "Fool" Franken, Sheila Jackson Lee, etc.....

A few key members of the Libtard Rogues Gallery...

57 posted on 06/17/2012 6:40:26 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: Cyclone59

The Great Society worked well didn’t it?

Destroyed the black family structure in just two generations.

Illegitimacy went from 19 to 75%.


58 posted on 06/17/2012 6:41:18 AM PDT by nascarnation (t)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When both the perpetrator and the victim are dead, in this case for many years, the statute of limitations has expired. Both the bible and secular law forbids visiting the sins of the father on the child.

Get over it Keith, if you want to address slavery talk to Islam which still practices and condones that practice and pedophilia.


59 posted on 06/17/2012 7:24:35 AM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Maybe the horse (RNC) will learn to sing)
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To: Fresh Wind

Give them the reparations on condition that all affirmative action programs for blacks immediately end.

Or that any who take the reparation have to leave the country for Liberia.


60 posted on 06/17/2012 7:29:21 AM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Maybe the horse (RNC) will learn to sing)
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