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H.R. 40: Commission To Study Reparation Proposals For African-Americans Act (Reparations For Slavery
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Posted on 04/01/2009 7:26:29 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: roaddog727
Gee, you are thinking rationally here. My sense is most people in the US are descendants from Europeans and Asians who arrived here subsequent to the War Between the States.
How would anyone go about deciding or proving whom is a slave descendant or who is not. How many Egyptians would consider themselves Africans if that was the basis of payments?
Somewhere in law IMO there is a doctrine about not being held accountable for acts committed by your forebearors. To accommodate such an action now would require changing the constitution IMO and I don't believe enough states would go along with this crap to do so.
If our government is desirous of a race war here, passage of such a pile of crap like reparations may just do it.
Vince
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posted on
04/01/2009 7:44:29 AM PDT
by
Mouton
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
They should all be dead by now. There have been no slaves since 1865. Seeing as the human life span is not 150+ years I think all those that were effected by slavery should be pretty much dead.
So now we don't only support the lazy good for nothing descendants they want us to give money to dead people too.
Just like a Democrat.
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posted on
04/01/2009 7:46:51 AM PDT
by
sniper63
(Silent and stealthy - one shot - one kill)
To: DCBryan1
To: Westbrook
ROTFLMAO! I love the idea!
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
We’ll see a ton of non-blacks cross party lines in future elections if this disaster passes
To: rednek
I hope it passes and here is my reasoning. Pass the bill with reparations for slavery and let buckwheat sign it. There will be a backlash never seen before. There will be politicians swinging from every lamp post in Washington and blood will run in the streets of the nation. Someone needs to take out the trash and this just might be the means to get it to the curb...........red I really doubt it. If what Obama and the house RATS have already done didn't bring people into the streets, nothing will.
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
The Left said to give Obama a pass cause when Ayers was doing his thing Obama was only 8 yrs old....
So I want a pass as well cause when slavery happened I wasn’t even born yet!
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posted on
04/01/2009 7:51:24 AM PDT
by
OL Hickory
(Where is the America I knew as a boy?)
To: ryan71
Yes, seriously,
if you look at who is “giving” and who is “receiving”,
you’ll see that all of the spending bills so far are de facto reparations.
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posted on
04/01/2009 7:51:45 AM PDT
by
MrB
(Are you going Galt or Bowman?)
To: Bitsy
To: rfreedom4u
"If reparations were paid do the states that were not states have to pay them? What about the states that didnt hold slaves? I strongly believe that any American living today that took part in slavery should pay." I'd just want to know what their secret was for living so long.
To: roaddog727
How should I be responsible for reparations done by none of my ancestors? My grandparents moved from Germany to the US circa 1920. They, and by extension all of their progeny going forward, have zippo to do with this. By contrast, almost all African-Americans have some white ancestors that were slave owners.
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posted on
04/01/2009 7:57:05 AM PDT
by
Polybius
To: Mouton
Hm, I think the claimants SHOULD be paid, as the demand... though in lead and copper (esp hollow-point).
I do believe that it’s legal (at least in my state) to defend your property; this bill would be merely an excuse for larceny.
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posted on
04/01/2009 7:58:39 AM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: Mouton
My sense is most people in the US are descendants from Europeans and Asians who arrived here subsequent to the War Between the States. How would anyone go about deciding or proving whom is a slave descendant or who is not. Easy. See Post 51.
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posted on
04/01/2009 8:00:53 AM PDT
by
Polybius
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
This looks like it's going to be inevitable so if it must be then I think this is how it should happen.
Descendants of slave owners and the descendants of those in power, government officials, who were in charge of the institutions that made slavery systemic should pay the reparations if anything.
Also, the recipients of reparations should only be descendants of slaves not immigrants from Kenya that came after the fact.
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posted on
04/01/2009 8:01:48 AM PDT
by
SQUID
To: sniper63
So now we don't only support the lazy good for nothing descendants they want us to give money to dead people too.
Just like a Democrat.Of course. Remember, they are still voters....
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posted on
04/01/2009 8:02:24 AM PDT
by
rock_lobsta
(Atypical Crustacean)
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
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posted on
04/01/2009 8:08:22 AM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
To: roaddog727
Ah, but the argument will be that because of slavery, and the consequent discrimination against african-americans, their descendents of today were at a disadvantage vis a vis everyone else, in that their families were less able to build up wealth, time etc to bring their children up as well. Further, if modern african-americans are disadvantaged, it follows by definition that non-african americans have an advantage. Even if you and yours never had anything to do with slavery, you are still beneficaries of that priviliged position.
So, how do you counter that argument?
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posted on
04/01/2009 8:12:23 AM PDT
by
Vanders9
To: Vanders9
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posted on
04/01/2009 8:14:05 AM PDT
by
Vanders9
To: Vanders9
That’s if you buy the argument that their current descendents are disadvantaged through an influence other than the current ilk of democrats and black folks who perpetuate the myth of disadvantage. QED, look at who our president is.
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posted on
04/01/2009 8:37:02 AM PDT
by
roaddog727
(Obama lied - the Economy died)
To: Westbrook
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