Posted on 12/22/2016 4:50:52 PM PST by kevcol
President Barack Obama said in an interview published Wednesday that reparations payments for black Americans could be a good idea but simply aren’t politically feasible.
Speaking with The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates, Obama said that it’s easy to make an argument for reparations for black Americans because of past sins like slavery and Jim Crow laws.
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A report released by the United Nations’ Working Group of Experts on African Descent accused the U.S. of having a racist history. The country’s history of slavery and current police shootings, the report argued, meant that America owes the black community reparations.
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As long as we net out all the government payments paid over the last 100 years; then I’m in.
Of course then I would be owed a bunch of money.
Sue the organization responsible, the democrat party.
How much should my family pay? Came here after slavery was long gone. Settled in the North which sacrificed lives in our deadliest war, to end slavery. Reparations my ass.
Well I guess I’d have to pay myself 10-15% based on my family lineage. Damn the bad luck.
We are closer to this madness than people think. Shift the votes in a few states, or keep letting in one million LEGAL immigrants a year who vote 80% democratic & this will happen.
You can collect from the current citizens who are descendents of the people who SOLD YOU into slavery.
You know, Africans.
How much do the people get paid enslaved by Muslims?
And just what kind of money are we talking about here??????
If its Meheecan Pesos I say yeah give them all about 50 pesos each. Make Meeheeco pay for that and the Wall.
Sounds like a plan
Plus the fact that no slaves or slave owners are alive might have something to do with it...
give every descendant of slaves a bottle of Thunderbird and a pack of Kools.
There! you is paid back in fool.
If dems had one coice.
Fund eliminating global warming or reperation which would they choose?
Any possible debt that could have remained was more than paid by eight years of Obama and Hillary was given the “Paid In Full” receipt.
I am totally for it....if we have a truth and reconciliation panel FIRST!
Make the hidden truth of the Democrat party come to the light of day.
I demand reparations based on Hussein’s 8 year Rule.
O’Grifter and his Wookie et up all yo repartation money on two dozen multi-million dollar vacas, suckas.
Over seven hundred thousand dead. Tens of thousands of lost limbs, eyes,destroyed homes and families.
Reparations have been paid in full with blood.
Obama’s gibsmedats never have enough freesheet!
I once had a discussion with a black academic who talked about wanting reparations. I said that blacks are killing off a third of their own race through abortion, so don’t you dare talk to me about reparations. He didn’t have too much to say after that.
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