Posted on 03/18/2021 5:35:52 PM PDT by MtnClimber
A White House aide wants the president “to start acting now” on reparations without congressional approval. But not even the consent of the House and Senate would legitimize reparations. It’s a policy so divisive, and so impossible to implement, that the idea, which is an ugly societal wedge of its own, needs to be dropped and never brought up again.
While decent Americans have moved past racial politics and are starving for genuine unity, senior adviser Cedric Richmond “sees first-term progress on reparations,” reports Axios, which recently interviewed the director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
“We have to start breaking down systemic racism and barriers that have held people of color back and especially African Americans,” Richmond said. “We have to do stuff now.”
The U.S. House is considering a bill with 169 cosponsors that “establishes the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans.” The panel would “examine slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies.” A companion bill has also been introduced in the Senate.
Biden, according to his press secretary, “certainly would support a study of reparations,” and Vice President Kamala Harris has publicly endorsed a committee that would explore reparations. Neither of which is a surprise. Just as they can never let a crisis go to waste, Democrats are unable to resist virtue-signaling, and in some cases outright punitive measures against their countrymen, whether warranted or not.
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I have been a slave to the state my entire working life. Where are my reparations from government employees who lived off my work?
Reparations = Money Laundering
It’s because of greed. As long as they think they will get more than taken, they will vote for it.
Its easy to be a liberal. You just have a lobotomy and proceed from there.
This reparations bill to study reparations will pass. They will placate us opponents by saying it’s just a bill to study the issue, and Congress studies issues and holds hearings all the time.
I can just hear the soothing voice of Chuck Schumer now, telling us it’s just a study of our history.
Does anyone doubt, that after study of reparations for slavery, that there would be a conclusion that we should not do reparations?
Excellent point!!!
What will happen with Colin Kaepernick, Barack Obama, and Ben Jealous?
If we ID as black can we get free money? Can we be Rachel Dolezal?
I am wondering about Harris her family owned slaved she should be paying
The Lord giveth, The Government taketh away. Preen and crow about ‘stimulus’ money, then get it snatched back several-fold by tax hikes and ‘pity me’ payments to a group of people who were never slaves, never knew a slave, and have already had billions of federal dollars doled out in affirmative action, special allowances, and set-asides. I’ve only advocated ‘reparations’ if the recipients vow to leave this continent and never befoul it with their prescence again.
If we ID as black can we get free money? Can we be Rachel Dolezal?
I think I'll identify as a black lesbian from now on. That should put me at the top of the victim list.
“...I’ve only advocated ‘reparations’ if the recipients vow to leave this continent and never befoul it with their prescence again....”
“Reparations” were paid by the millions that died or were wounded during the Civil War. Nobody owes em anything.
IF anything, just give em a loin cloth, a spear and a one-way, slow boat trip back to the motherland....never to return.
I was trying to be diplomatic, but your poison arrow hits closer to the mark.
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