Posted on 02/10/2009 6:31:26 AM PST by pabianice
Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act (Introduced in House) HR 40 IH
111th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 40 To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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“We just spent one trillion dollars on “stimulus”. Where are we going to get the money to “remedy” the problems of African-Americans?”
Let’s just give them the state of Michigan and be done with it. They can have all the homes they want, they can have all the cars they want and they can own the Pistons, LIons and Tigers.
Just get the Wings out of there.
A chicken in every pot, a Cadillac in every driveway, and if you don’t have the driveway, we’ll cover that too, in perpetuity.
What do you think they’ve been doing for 40 years?
We’ve had at least that much “reparations” in the socialist spending programs.
Porkulus, inherently, is a reparations bill.
One thing you’ll never see is an actual “reparations” bill, for the reason you stated, and more importantly, because they won’t be able to go to that well again once they call something “reparations”.
Can’t find bulk 7.62x39 ANYWHERE locally or online.
That bodes something.
Yes, Trillions it is then.
Generous,regular monthly payments to tens of millions over 40+ years does add up, doesn’t it?
Estimates are in the $40 trillion range.
And I don’t think this includes loss of productivity due to crime and economic opportunity cost (a dollar spent on welfare is a dollar that can’t be spent on wealth building).
There's not any question that this is true. American blacks have the highest standard of living of any blacks on earth, and they wouldn't enjoy that if they hadn't been brought here as slaves. No nation in sub-Saharan Africa has ever had a comparable standard of living. The only ones close were South Africa and Rhodesia, pre-"liberation".
Every day, blacks throughout the world, but especially in America, enjoy the fruits of Western innovation. Cars, planes, TV, computers, stereos, microwave ovens, refrigerators, clocks, and countless other things they never came close to creating in their homelands. Should we charge them CIVILIZATIONAL ROYALTIES for using these things? Normally, we should be happy to share these innovations with everyone (well, except enemy nations in certain cases) but if whites have to pay reparations for slavery, then whites should be able to charge royalties whenever blacks use white inventions.
Are we to be punished by some ancestor that lived 160-350 years ago?
Frankly I think I have some family that did own slaves..and I have family that were most probably slaves themselves. I am part Potawatomi Indian.
This whole thing..is freaking crazy.
I guess Britain gets to throw in on this reparation bill since it goes way back to 1619. What about children who came from mixed race marriages, do they get a reduction on their reparation payments? This is a joke. Though I do believe that slavery was an atrocity, none of us are to blame. Why should we pay for something that happened when not even our great great grandparents were alive? Ok lets say we do this, does this mean no NAACP, no affirmative action, no special treatment for anyone who is African American? I’m ignoring the fact that all of these people have better lives because of being brought to America since they were brought here under the worst conditions. The worst part about this bill is that I’m not surprised.
Its going to require much more than tar and feathers!
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WTF???????????
Now, if we want to talk reparations for that, fine. I say make those who instituted that "slavery" pay reparations. That means the 'Rats. Empty the DNC coffers to pay reparations to those whose were and still are enslaved by the 'Rat-instituted and perpetuated "welfare" programs.
how about reparations for victims of Affirmative Action???
Great idea — “reverse secession.” Let’s kick out MI as a reparations payment. While we’re at it, let’s carve out and give the heave-ho to the “city states” like NYC, LA, Wash DC, Seattle, Portland, Chi, et al and reserve the rest for the believers in freedom and liberty. On a land-area basis, something like 75% of the country voted R and 25% voted D.
Conyers has submitted this bill every year since at least 1989. And every year it goes to committee. And every year it dies. This year will be no different.
say it with me...
“No reparations without repatriation!”
give them a check, in exchange for their passport and a ticket back to where ever they “came from”. If that’s not what “they” want, then “they” can sit down and earn their own money.
“I was correcting your statement so you do not appear ignorant of the facts.”
There’s no point in allowing this to escalate.
I am aware that there was slavery in the world prior to 1619. Europeans held other Europeans in slavery, American Indians practiced slavery. The Arabs had (have) been practicing black slavery since antiquity.
However, the mantra of “four hundred years of bondage” has no applicability to black slavery in the region that is now the United States, and I’m getting pretty tired of hearing it.
“I am of the opinion that the worst “enslavement” that black Americans have suffered is the enslavement to a government check.”
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True, but blacks CHOSE to accept those checks.
What happened to pride and self-reliance?
They could just have easily have said “No, I’d rather work to support my own family.”
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