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Controversial proposal to make black votes count for more than white votes as form of reparations
BizPac Review ^ | August 24, 2015 | Michael Dorstewitz

Posted on 08/24/2015 6:33:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

A former White House fellow has a unique proposal to take affirmative action to a whole new level. He wants to give votes cast by African-Americans a greater weight than those cast by non-blacks.

So much for “one man, one vote.”

“Racial reconciliation is impossible without some kind of broad-based, systemic reparations,” career Naval officer and PhD candidate Theodore R. Johnson wrote in The Washington Post. “But if a pecuniary answer can’t fix the structural disadvantage — and it can’t — what can?”

Johnson proposes that each black vote count as five-thirds of a vote, flipping around the old constitutional provision that counted slaves as three-fifths of a person.

Johnson thinks this is going to bring the races together?

“A five-thirds compromise would imbue African Americans with a larger political voice that could be used to fight the structural discrimination expressed in housing, education, criminal justice and employment,” he wrote. “Allowing black votes to count for 167 percent of everyone else’s would mean that 30 million African American votes would count as 50 million, substituting super-votes for the implausible idea of cash payments.”(continued)

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blacks; obama; payuphonky; reparations; shakedown; showusdamoney; voting
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

IOW, “Blacks are the only group we can deliver consistently, so let’s give them super-votes! Well, college kids, but they don’t vote half the time so they don’t really count.”


41 posted on 08/24/2015 7:46:18 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!Just read)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, I guess I’ll be exempt from that law. A member of my family died in the Civil War, and my great grandfather rescued some former slaves after he fought to free them and brought a former couple home with him , got them a home right across the street from him and also got him a job. Twenty years later they were still their neighbors.


42 posted on 08/24/2015 7:46:29 PM PDT by MondoQueen (ii)
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To: rockinqsranch

If brain-eating amoebae had nothing to live on but liberals, they’d starve to death.


43 posted on 08/24/2015 7:49:34 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!Just read)
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To: UCANSEE2

Hey I am 1% black, really. I now claim my vote in the next election is 1.66. ;)


44 posted on 08/24/2015 7:50:35 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: USMCPOP

I didn’t even have to click the link to know it was Chappell.

Sprint’s stock is up because 2,000,000 delinquent accounts have been paid.

Eight thousand record labels were created in the last hour...


45 posted on 08/24/2015 7:53:10 PM PDT by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In this case, controversial means stupid...as it so often does.


46 posted on 08/24/2015 7:54:09 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: blackdog

...Reparations in the form of exemption from all federal withholding tax from wages and income for 50 years is fair...

Exemption from withholding tax for 50 years. I like that. Don’t take anything out of the paychecks. That way all that would have been normally withheld toward prospective income tax payments and normally taken out toward income tax each paycheck is payable instead as a lump sum on every April 15th


47 posted on 08/24/2015 7:55:50 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Still Thinking

Very good point.


48 posted on 08/24/2015 7:57:23 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Civil war II anyone?


49 posted on 08/24/2015 8:49:11 PM PDT by matt1234 (Note to GOPe lurkers: I and thousands like me will NEVER vote for Jeb Bush)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

““But if a pecuniary answer can’t fix the structural disadvantage — and it can’t — what can?””

General rule: anyone who uses a word like pecuniary instead of a simpler word (say, monetary in this case) is not trying to get their ideas across clearly. Instead, they are trying to hide their ideas behind big words. Baffling with BS, as it were.

Ignore anyone who does this. If you cannot then restate what they said in as few syllables possible. Nothing makes a self-important jackass like this windbag more aggravated than to hear their puffed up words reduced to:

“You think money isn’t enough to fully repay slavery so you want black votes to count for more than white votes, right”?

They hate it when you do that. So do that.


50 posted on 08/24/2015 9:04:55 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Trump campaign ad: Trump, in his Apprentice chair, saying "America, you're hired")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wadda ya think the “no voter ID” scam is about??!!

They already got it!!!


51 posted on 08/24/2015 9:05:03 PM PDT by G Larry (Obama is replicating the instruments of the fall of Rome)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’ll never happen ....


52 posted on 08/24/2015 9:06:44 PM PDT by GOPJ (Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The difference between a Citizen and a Civilian.
The Citizen has EARNED THE FRANCHISE BY DEMONSTRATING HIS OR HER WILLINGNESS TO PUT THEIR LIVES IN HARMS WAY TO PROTECT THE BODY POLITIC.
Not to many gimmeedats would ever earn the franchise, I paid for mine 67 to 72.


53 posted on 08/24/2015 10:55:03 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: UCANSEE2

Indians, 10 to 1 vote.

Blacks, 7 to 3 vote.

Latinos, 2.5 to 1 vote.

Women, 6 to 5 vote.

Midgets, 5 to 2 vote.

Any member of the Washington Redskins 3 to 2 vote.

Icelandic heritage US citizens, 3 to 2 vote.

Dead people, 7 to 6 vote.

Clint Eastwood, 99,999 to 1 vote.


54 posted on 08/24/2015 11:14:04 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

this isn’t “controversial.” It’s an obvious ornament to da Cause.

It’s easy to see what else will be coming with it. Just play pretend and figure it all out. Then write about it and spread the joy.

For pity’s sake, “Keep watching the skies; tell everybody to keep watching the skies!”


55 posted on 08/25/2015 12:04:14 AM PDT by Reverend Saltine (Don't say, "the administration," or "the EPA"--say "OBAMA." Give him full credit)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No. Fuch reparations of any form.


56 posted on 08/25/2015 12:07:15 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Racial reconciliation is impossible without some kind of broad-based, systemic

As things are going, IMO.
Two irreconcilable cultures with the gap between them growing every day.

57 posted on 08/25/2015 2:35:13 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: GraceG

Slavery was indefensible, but it was a role nonetheless; today too many have none but as pawns for new socialist masters. Slaves had value.


58 posted on 08/25/2015 3:10:26 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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