Posted on 02/20/2017 5:32:26 PM PST by TigerClaws
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus and other Democrats this week re-introduced legislation that would set up a commission to consider whether reparations should be paid to black Americans for slavery.
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has proposed the bill in each Congress for at least the last two decades.
A description of the bill said the legislation would set up a commission to both examine the possibility of reparations, but also an apology for the "racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans."
It's a response to the "fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States."
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Conyers' new bill wasn't released as of Wednesday, but the version of the bill proposed last year found that 4 million blacks were enslaved in the U.S. from 1619 to 1865. It said the commission would examine the entire history of slavery, and then make recommendations on whether the U.S. government should apologize for slavery, and whether reparation payments are warranted.
What about the thousands of blacks who owned slaves? What about the slave breeders who sold their own children into slavery?
If you were a slave in 1619 and died in 1620, who pays ?
No, I’m serious. I’m Irish and I’m looking for reparations.
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Is payment in lead allowed?
It was the Democrats who supported slavery, so they should be the ones to pay the reparations.
The election of Barack Obama was our reparations and national apology for the sins of slavery.
Playing the race card only makes the Democrats look venal.
Whites are still 78% of the population and you can’t win an election without them.
Democrats are forming a circular firing squad. This is not where a responsible opposition party wants to be.
As far as I’m concerned, they’re damned lucky to have been brought here as slaves. The progeny of those slaves are alive today as a result of it. Chances are, if they hadn’t been brought here, they’d be dead. Life itself is a gift and if that’s not good enough, that’s just too bad. Go be ungrateful some place else.
Actually, quite a few have picked cotton....
...on the prison farms.
(They really just hoe and chop cotton and leave the picking to the machines nowadays, according to the little brother of an old girlfriend. He spent four years in Huntsville for armed robbery.)
That’s what I say.
Ship their damn asses back to Africa if they don’t like it here.
When do the families of 600,000 dead Union soldiers get reparations?
These are the same morons who dress up in vagina suits and claim that PRESIDENT Trump is crazy.
I thought Obama took care of that.
Me too and that goes for my family that ever owned slaves too.....(which never happened)......so sick of this reparations crap!!!!
DEMOCRATS PRACTICED SLAVERY!!! THEY ARE THE ONES WHO NEED TO PAY, NOT AMERICA!!!
Frankly, the only endowment for slavery pay back would be to freeze the assets of the Clinton Democrat plantation and Sorros assets and use those as fund for reparations.
To this day gun control
intiatives target blacks just as in the days of slavery
I’m happy to pay reparations to all former slaves of US citizens.
The very idea is utter nonsense of the most childish variety.
Agree.
I’m glad Dems are stuck on stupid. Reparations. Pick a radical anti-Jew Muslim for head of the DNC.
Important we highlight their stupidity and continued effort to alienate the white working class.
Leaches wanting more handouts.
Obammy’s people.
They seem to be sensing they are losing a lot of Middle Class Blacks and are trying to bribe them back onto the plantation....
They still don’t know why they lost. That is a good thing.
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