Posted on 10/06/2015 1:19:36 PM PDT by ColdOne
Several black leaders addressed Democratic state legislators Friday at the State Innovation Exchange in Washington, D.C.
"Thinking about decriminalization with reparations," Marbre Shahly-Butts, deputy director of racial justice at the Center for Popular Democracy, said. "The idea is we that have extracted literally millions of dollars from communities, we have destroyed families. Mass incarceration has led to the destruction of communities across the country. We can track which communities, like we have that data. And so if we're going to be decriminalizing things like marijuana, all of the profit from that should go back to the folks we've extracted it from." That comment received widespread applause from the crowd of Democratic state legislators. Shahly-Butts was referring to decriminalizing more than drug crimes, but also loitering, bans on saggy pants and thousands of other laws that disproportionately affect blacks.
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I will pay them when we get our 6 trillion back.
The denonrats are going to rue the day they started working with these thugs.
I prefer Civil War.
Indeed.
I would be happy to see reparations made to former slaves.
Locating them may be a bit of a problem,though.
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Mass incarceration lead to safer streets. Lock up people who commit crimes especially violent crimes and they won’t commit another crime at least until they get out and do it again
OK, a one-way boat trip to Africa.
You’ve had fifty-plus years of reparations, in the form of welfare and special treatment. The race card expired on 1/20/09 and in non-renewable.
IS non-renewable.
A$$-Butts is more like it.
The Democrats need to put this in their 2016 platform and see to it that their nominee makes it a major campaign issue.
Once again they have moved the attack level down to the states. Makes sense as they have no inherent defenses to a mindless mob, especially when they are wearing Black Armor...
Tie them up in court with countless endlessly funded lawsuits until someone caves to “just get it over with”
Called “Deep Pockets”, Lawyers count on it especially for nuisance suits...
Ground once lost is far more costly if not impossible top reclaim...
A fricking men.
Reparations are fine, although since slavery and Jim Crow are legacies of the democrat party, I think the party should pay them.
Last name Shahly-Butts..heh..heh..heh..
Ditto.
Reparations? OK. Then ALL taxpayer money transfers(welfare) for the ENTIRE black community stops. FOREVER.
Lest we forget it was the Democrats who fired on Fort Sumter in defense of slavery.
Our perpetual unassimilated aggrieved minority underclass...Union generals saw this coming as the Civil war drew to a close.
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