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John Conyers: U.S. Owes Slavery Reparations
Newsmax ^ | 5/9/06

Posted on 05/09/2006 10:02:08 PM PDT by peggybac

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1 posted on 05/09/2006 10:02:10 PM PDT by peggybac
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This will become a reality if the Rats get in power again. Count on it. All it takes is $$$ and we'll be giving until it hurts.


2 posted on 05/09/2006 10:04:10 PM PDT by Peach
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Sure, I think they deserve 12 million each in Monopoly money.


3 posted on 05/09/2006 10:05:47 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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Yep, you guys just keep attacking the GOP and you'll get old Johnny where he wants to be.

Polls are looking good for that to happen this year.

Congratulations!


4 posted on 05/09/2006 10:05:53 PM PDT by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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John Conyers owes reparations to his babysitting staff-members...


5 posted on 05/09/2006 10:05:54 PM PDT by rock_lobsta
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That's further proof that Conyers is a racist.

I'm expected to pay him for something not done to him by someone other than me. And why is that? Because the villains in this situation were white, like me, and beneficiaries like him will be black, like the original victims.

Yet in all of that, due only to race, the innocent will pay the unharmed because of what the real villains did to the actual victims.

6 posted on 05/09/2006 10:05:56 PM PDT by Petronski (I just love that woman.)
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If repartitions are ever paid I'm claiming I'm part slave descendant.
7 posted on 05/09/2006 10:06:15 PM PDT by RHINO369
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Yeah and Conyers owes my daughter her for maternal great uncle cubed's sacrifice of a leg at the Battle of Bull Run.

How about some reparations for those descendants of civil war veterans? How about some Title IX protection?

That's right let's just forget that slavery ended all by itself.
8 posted on 05/09/2006 10:06:34 PM PDT by markedman (Islam means surrender, and I will NEVER surrender!)
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Sure John.
You go first.


9 posted on 05/09/2006 10:06:36 PM PDT by bordergal
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If reparations become an issue once the Democrats are running things, I'm claiming I want money because my relatives fought to free the slaves, and some of them lost their lives. Two can play that game.


10 posted on 05/09/2006 10:07:30 PM PDT by Peach
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shure, line up folks and git your stomach & pockets filled at the expense of John Q taxpayers under the guise of 'Reparations'.

As one article I read recently about the 'Entitlements' designed to help 'the poor' has now spent multiple TRILLIONS of dollars since it was established back to WW2 era and the percentage of poor still remains the same and yet the money could have bought EVERY single building, factory and asset in the entire country but now has nothing to show for it.

11 posted on 05/09/2006 10:07:30 PM PDT by prophetic
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Let's start by re-distributing the DNC's campaign cash.


12 posted on 05/09/2006 10:08:04 PM PDT by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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Reparations were paid in blood on a hundred battlefields of the Civil War.

250000 dead. Paid in full.


13 posted on 05/09/2006 10:08:15 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (ISLAM is STILL the religion of the criminally insane!)
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The really scary thing is that Alan Keyes agrees with him.


14 posted on 05/09/2006 10:08:32 PM PDT by Howlin
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The Japanese internees got reparations because many of them were still alive. None of the slaves are alive, none of the people that owned slaves are still alive, and nobody has any public interest in reverting to a slave system.

As for "but the blacks are still being enslaved by everyone else!", I shall quote David Eddings:

'"You've enslaved us!" someone bellowed.
'"Not me, old boy," Stragen drawled. "You couldn't *give* me a slave. You
have to feed them, you know - even when they're not working."'


15 posted on 05/09/2006 10:08:36 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Preach!


16 posted on 05/09/2006 10:08:52 PM PDT by Petronski (I just love that woman.)
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To: peggybac

You know what, John Conyers owes me money because parts of my family sponsored the abolisionist movement. Up yours John!


17 posted on 05/09/2006 10:08:55 PM PDT by John Geyer
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The Holocaust (of European Jews), Japanese Americans and immigrants, Amerindians, AND slavery have all been discussed.


18 posted on 05/09/2006 10:09:11 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu (Creationists/Evolutionists: peace)
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Another nightmare to look forward to this november if we lose!!!

I had all but forgotten it. Good thing these guys are more inept than our side when it comes to strategic politics.

This may just get enough conservatives to hold their noses and go out and vote this fall and keep the house republican.


19 posted on 05/09/2006 10:10:16 PM PDT by aquila48
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I think we could successfully start a movement that white people want reparations because we had family members who lost their lives freeing the slaves.

Alan Keyes, John Conyers, they can all stuff it.


20 posted on 05/09/2006 10:10:39 PM PDT by Peach
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