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Obama: I Can’t Pursue Reparations Because It’s Politically Infeasible
The Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | December 22, 2016 | Amber Randall

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: africanamericans; blacks; congress; obama; reparations; slavery; un
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To: kevcol

620,000 died in the war between the states. The bill has been paid.


61 posted on 12/22/2016 6:31:08 PM PST by lurk (TEat)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

That’s what I wonder as well.
Millions of Christians were enslved by the Barbary Pirates.
“Where ma chek b at?”


62 posted on 12/22/2016 6:47:20 PM PST by BigpapaBo (If it don't kill you it'll make you _________!)
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To: Leep
If dems had one coice. Fund eliminating global warming or reperation which would they choose?


Good one! You and I both know their answer.
63 posted on 12/22/2016 7:03:21 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( Agenda driven news is fake news.)
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To: kevcol

Some of us have ancestors on both sides of the plantation fence. Has Obama ever figured out whether we pay, or get paid? Maybe both?

That man is the biggest idiot ever elected to the presidency.


64 posted on 12/22/2016 7:12:03 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: ronnie raygun

Don’t forget the personal injury law firms/settlement mills. 90% of their clients are the African-american/negro.


65 posted on 12/22/2016 7:20:32 PM PST by gatorhead
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To: kevcol

Paid in full 150 years ago. And you are welcome.

66 posted on 12/22/2016 7:23:29 PM PST by Petrosius
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To: ronnie raygun

“Dont let this bull sh## fool you, reparations are alive and well and running under the carpet of America in the form of entitlements, frivolous mulit million dollar law suits in the prison system, welfare, disability, food stamps, social security, housing, low interest government loans funneled to black churches used as community low interest bank loans, low interest tax payer funded government loans given to immigrants to start up businesses not afforded to Americans. This dirtbag clown has created an underground feeding trough while making idiotic lying statements to throw you off of the trail “

And unfortunately, THESE reparations show no sign of stopping! Enough is never enough.


67 posted on 12/23/2016 5:24:38 AM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: kevcol

Proggies don’t want to pay federal income tax now.

They can instead give what they owe to an African-American as reparation.
Directly with no overhead, very efficient.


68 posted on 02/15/2017 12:47:55 PM PST by polymuser
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