Posted on 08/19/2019 8:32:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
HARTFORD, Conn. — When University of Connecticut professor Thomas Craemer first began researching reparations for slavery, most mainstream white politicians weren’t talking about the issue.
Now, more than a dozen years later, the idea that African Americans should receive restitution for the grievous legacy of enslavement and racial discrimination is sparking a political debate that is helping to shape the 2020 presidential race.
“I’m surprised by this myself,” said Craemer, an expert on racial bias and a professor of public policy at the University of Connecticut in Hartford.
At the most recent Democratic presidential debate in July, several candidates expressed support for legislation, currently pending in Congress, that would create a commission to study restitution, including financial compensation, for the descendants of slaves.
Marianne Williamson, an author and spiritual leader, went further, and has proposed creating a “reparations commission” that would disperse $200 billion to $500 billion over the next 10 years “to promote education, infrastructure, and projects dedicated to black communities.”
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Yes. It’s the gift taxpayers keep on giving.
Trump is situated better in 2019 than he was in 2015. Nevertheless, we can take nothing for granted. The coming contest will be every bit the nail-biter 2016 was.
VOTE!
Amen! In full!
Seeing as how Islam has slavery built in I suggest a special tax on Mozlems payable to the rest of us. Kind of like Jizya in reverse. How is that for a reparation?
“My ancestors were some of those who shed blood to free those slaves”
Then you should also get paid for his sacrifice
(Sarcasm)
Did you ever see such a meshuganah list of “issues” in your life, as those offered up by this year’s dummocrap candidates? The right to kill newborn babies, the right to violate the Constitution and grab guns, the cozying up to terrorist groups and globalists, the planted feet against securing our borders-—it is INSANE! There is no other reason they could be doing this except to destroy the country—and that is surely what following their insane policies would result in.
Unfortunately, you have a bunch of useful idiots on "our side" who insist that the civil war "had nuthin' to do with slavery" and repeat the myth that the Democrats were the "conservative" party back then and the Republicans were liberals, and the two parties magically "switched sides" sometime after JFK.
Dang. Those of us born in the South have no virtuous claims like yous.
Guess us (Southerners) and our offspring should be the first to volunteer for extermination.
any time I see Dem saying “my money” taxes are going to “education”, I know they mean 1 cent goes to ed and 99 lines some dem pocket- they have theft down to a science
Thank God Michael Jackson never ran for President.
Nope.
We can fly them back to beloved africa and dissolve their citizenship in our awful racist country.
Didn’t they all get 40 acres and a mule?
They’re all luftmensch.
My great-great grandfather died fighting in the Union Army to free the slaves. What am I going to get paid??
Sounds like funding of more Government Programs paying government wages.
I’ll consider their claims fir reparations when they promise to start tipping. Hint: Neither is ever going to happen.
Hoping this issue makes the platform trump will end up winning new jersey
My father got here in the 1920’s so I don’t owe the a #$#$ing thing.
But ALL LIVING one time slave owners should have to pay up BIG.
Ditto.
I now self identify as a former slave, woman of color. Show me the money.
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