John Conyers
Four Trillion in welfare since LBJ and they just want more, more, more.
OK, so here's my plan for slavery reparations. Every Senator and congressman gives up 40% of their salary to cover whatever they decide is fair for reparations....AND they are not allowed to even consider raising their pay until AFTER those reparations are paid off. Deal?
• It acknowledges the fundamental injustice and inhumanity of slavery. (Then Conyers should fight to send troops to Sudan, the only place on earth where slavery still exists. Black muslims are enslaving Black Christians).
• "It establishes a commission to study slavery, its subsequent racial and economic discrimination against freed slaves".
(Are there any freed slaves in America?)
• "It studies the impact of those forces on today's living African Americans."
(The "forces" of slavery were removed 143 years ago, that's six generations. Any impact of slavery still remaining on today's black American community is a chosen one. This situation makes me think of the brutal Russian pogroms against the Jews in the early 1900's, followed by the genocidal slaughter of the Jews by the Nazis a few years later. As soon as the Nazis were defeated the Jews picked themselves up and quickly returned to prosperity, inspite of the unprecedented brutality they had been subjected to, and inspite of the prejudice against them that still remained afterwards.
Every race and nationality has a story of brutality against them to tell; history is replete with man's brutality to man. The slavery issue in America was a short lived one in historical context. In any case, it is absolutely absurd, and totally divisive, that anybody would demand monetary 'reparations' more than six generations after the fact. I would say in fact, that the call for 'reparations' only serves to keep the sense of black persecution alive. This is just another liberal plan to keep America divided and weak).
• "The commission would then make recommendations to Congress on appropriate remedies to redress the harm inflicted on living African Americans."
(Sounds like Mr. Conyers has already made the 'study' and has arrived at a pre-determined conclusion. Also sounds like this bottom-dwelling, sleazeball politician is trying to buy Black votes with taxpayer dollars at the expense of a united America. His plan is to keep the blacks roiling in the slavery issue, keep them angry and resentful at whites. I'm beginning to loath all politicians, they're sleazier and more self-serving than tort lawyers.
That should be a plank in the RATS 2006 platform. A sure winner.
Anyway they can get their reparations from the Illegals.
called 40 after the 40 acres and a mule promised...
Well if it is jackasses they want lets give each of them a congressman or senator or staff member of same.
Conyers/Keyes: the Reparations Party candidates, 2008
heck they already got all the cities
I've studied slavery. My conclusion is: There is a greater chance that Conyers' ancestors, back in Africa, owned Jesse Jackass' ancestors than did any of mine. Ergo, STFU.
What I find ironic is that Conyers own Democratic Party was responsible for keeping slavery in place from the Party's inception until slavery ended. And the Republicans had to fight the Democrats tooth and nail to end it. So it appears to me that the reparations should be paid by the Democratic Party.
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I keep wondering why reparations are such a big deal to blacks? No black alive today was ever a slave to start with. I look at the minorities in the United States today.
Japanese, Chinese, and asians in general come here, work hard, and make something of themselves.
Mexicans and central/south americans, for the most part, work hard and support their families.
Europeans work hard and assimilate.
Blacks, those that are born here, are whiny. They cry about racism against their ancestors 160 years ago and how it affects them now. They are born in a country that is the land of opportunity, the greatest nation on the face of the earth, and all they can do is look to the past, sit down on their asses and cry their eyes out.
That is the problem. While everyone else looks to the future, blacks in the United States look to Africa and the past. Until they overcome this, they will be nothing more than they are now.
But but but, I thought we already spend billions on this. It's called public education.
Every single Democrat congressional candidate should be required to go on record on the reparations issue.
Yeah right. I think you named it after "North Dallas 40". Can't believe that each freed slave was promised a democrat (donkey). To bad that plan fell thru, we'd be much better off now.
The Republican party was founded to fight slavery. The democrat party is the party who kept slavery alive.