Posted on 04/18/2015 8:53:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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The city of Chicago is proposing a $5.5 million reparations package for those who suffered under the ruthless rule of police commander Jon Burge from 1972 to 1991. Backed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the plan would supply victims with free college tuition, counseling for drug abuse and psychological issues, and include a formal apology from the city, according to the Chicago Tribune.
While the plan appears to be an attempt to reckon with part of the city's less-than-spotless past, Thursday evening Fox Business Network's Charles Payne said he's afraid nationwide slavery reparations might be next.
"The news in my mind is a glimpse of really much bigger news that is going to come from the White House," he said. "I think that theres going to be an official apology from the White House for slavery in America and then there's going to be a major push to get cash. And Im talking lots of cash.
Payne, who is black, argued that it would be counterproductive to dwell on the tragedies of the past. He speculated that President Obama would make his push for slavery reparations next year.
I actually think it would be a major mistake," Payne said. "Instead, Obama should really discuss and focus on all of the progress we have made and how all Americans need to move forward for better days for all of our kids.
A panel of guests joined Payne, and seemed to echo his views.
"Sure, slavery was a horrible thing that happened, but this is not going to help race relations in the United States today, Tea Party News Network's Scottie Nell Hughes said....
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Done or not done, 0bama could inflict some massive turmoil on the nation just by bringing this up and rattling the room over it for a month or so. And such, it’s the perfect community organizer type of infection he loves to inflict upon the American psyche. The man is a walking irritation.
Next year, timed for the election. Keep those folks voting democrat.
And make a lot of people switch over and vote Republican.
Obama wants a divided country and this would really stir the pot.
when is someone going to ask when every other country on the face of the earth are going to pay their reparations for slavery?
Thanks for the warning, Charles Payne. He knows something.
It would not surprise me for Obama to try such an outrageous stunt in an election year. Anyone who opposed could be quickly branded as racist. If this is the method Obama uses, he may wait until mid-summertime of 2016 to bring it up. That way, the topic will still be a red hot potato that nobody on our side wants to be seen holding or tolerating.
Maybe right after the second convention, whoever holds it.
I’ll get a good tan, dye my hair black and apply as a Mulatto. Such idiocy. Really. We’ve already given away enough free stuff working an extra 1/3 of our workdays just to pay taxes for crap like this. Time to take them off the bottle...
“Reparations is the start of a never-ending saga.”
That saga started long ago.
- The Civil War / Emancipation Proclamation / ~600,000 dead
- “40 acres and a mule”
- Liberia
- _Trillions_ of dollars
- Affirmative Action
- and continuing proposals for vague & limitless “reparations”.
If you show up at your new digs and find a steaming bag of stink there, it’s the prior occupant’s fault.
If it’s still there a year / decade / century later, and more such bags, it’s not.
Italians were lynched in New Orleans? I’ll have to look that one up. Whatever sympathy the Japanese may garner for WW2 internment, a large portion of that sympathy is lost due to what is now known about the live vivisection surgery ‘experiments’ that were done on our Amercian men (without any anesthesia!).
Considering the taxes we pay we are all slaves for at least 4 months out of the year. I would concede some of that goes to necessary services such as the military, cops, firemen, highway maintainence etc. but a great deal of those taxes go towards things that benefit absolutely nobody, that money is wasted and/or abused. So the amount of time we have to work to make that money that is wasted is slavery in every sense of the word. If you resist the master IRS punishes you and puts you in chains. The people who are enslaving me are still alive so I should get reparations from these people because of the 13th Amendment.
“...President Obama would make his push for slavery reparations next year.” That’s a given. 0scumbag has 18-19mos to go, and will wreak havoc, chaos and hell upon us all. The past 6½yrs were relatively “mild”, in comparison to what’s coming.
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That’s for sure. He’s going to some things that will make his past actions look tame.
I was just being facetious. Am I using that word correctly lol. Yeah, I’m American of Italian descent and my grandfather told me that story. Christopher Walken was in a movie about it. They were probably mafia and deserved it lol. The Japanese were SICK. Flipping people’s arms around and putting them in the cold. And vivisection of soldiers!!! Disgusting. Unbroken was descent movie but didn’t finish with his conversion and made it seem like the cruel jap was an anomaly and not the norm.
We Armenians have been picked on my just about everyone; I got some cash coming!
To Do List: Demand reparations from...the Romans, Persians, Greeks, Assyrians, Babylonians, Mongols, Hittites, and Ottomans.
I don't think the Japanese-Americans -- who collected the reparations -- had anything to do with that.
Isn’t 0dungo being president punishment enough?
For every three slaves freed there was one casualty in the war, fighting whether backs should be free or not. KIAs, loss of arms or legs, eyes, disease. ONE white casualty for three slaves.
For every 5 slaves, one white man gave his life.
Reparations were paid in blood and lives.
That is brilliant. I would hammer the sh*t out of a Democrat nominee with that question. Unfortunately none of us have cameras and microphones with access to the news streams and the Democrat propaganda agents who run the media won't allow such a question to receive any air time.
I hope some day we all wake up to the fact that the Socialist propaganda agents have always been those smiling faces we see on television "news".
I think what they really need are more liquor stores, more gun stores, and decriminalization of crack.
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