Posted on 01/20/2016 11:35:14 AM PST by C19fan
Last week Bernie Sanders was asked whether he was in favor of “reparations for slavery.†It is worth considering Sanders’s response in full:
No, I don’t think so. First of all, its likelihood of getting through Congress is nil. Second of all, I think it would be very divisive. The real issue is when we look at the poverty rate among the African American community, when we look at the high unemployment rate within the African American community, we have a lot of work to do.
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Coates lives better than 99% of the planet and still finds a reason to whine.
Thank you!
Reparations will be Obama’s Last Gift to the World
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a racialist, who wants whites to be subjugated to blacks as revenge for their historical crimes.
Sanders is a socialism for socialism's sake.
Coates sees socialism as a weapon that can be used to destroy and humiliate whites, not as something to be used for its own sake.
He’s a best-selling author and media darling. He’s in the 1% of the US, let alone the planet’s 1%.
Would Obama’s white half have to pay reparations to his black half?
Or would Obama, who is not descended from any U.S. slave (but who is descended from a slave owner on his white mother’s side and may be descended from Arab slave traders on his black father’s side), have to pay reparations to anyone who is descended from a U.S. slave?
I’d give blacks 20 American states, if conservatives could get just one. Each could operate under the Constituion as each understands its application. Stir gently and wait five years to see what happens.
My “reparations” come in two sizes: 5.56 and .45 ACP. Your choice, Coates.
BIG mistake by Bernie, but one that shows that he is more sensible than Hillary, who will say anything.
I hope we also have reparations for those whose ancestors died in the Civil War fighting against slavery.
Neblaska?? That was from Howard Stern take from my youth.
Sanders is too stupid to realize that Marxism has changed since his heyday, It’s not enough to want to force equality at the point of a gun, you now have to force black lesbian Muslim supremacy at the point of a gun.
Slavery reparations would bankrupt the Democratic Party.
Who should receive reparations - only the descendants of slaves? How would this descent be proven? Would there be part shares for those who are only partly descended from slaveholders?
Or would reparations be paid to all non-whites?
Presumably these reparations would come from taxes. Would special taxes be levied on the descendants of slaveholders? Or just the descendants of white slaveholders? Or whites in general, including those whose families came to the US after slavery? Will there be a white registry?
If someone is 50% slaveholder descended and 50% slave descended, is it canceled out, or does that person get to count for the reparations?
Global warming. Reparations world wide.
The funny thing is they have never been there and going off a limb saying this but most the natives would not even accept them but would look at them like idiots, but I do agree with giving the ones who can’t “get right” money and a one way ticket to some nation with citizenship being forever revoked.
As for me, it would a cold day in hell before I considered that, the trash can leave however.
cuz he’s gonna need that money to pay for health care
The first slaves in America were called Indentured servants.
WTF is a “Ta-Nehisi”?
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