Posted on 02/21/2019 12:51:02 PM PST by Zhang Fei
Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris (Calif.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), who are both running for president, have reportedly said they support reparations for black Americans affected by slavery.
The New York Times reported Thursday that Harris affirmed her support for reparations in a statement after agreeing last week with a radio host that reparations are necessary.
"We have to be honest that people in this country do not start from the same place or have access to the same opportunities," Harris said in the statement. "Im serious about taking an approach that would change policies and structures and make real investments in black communities."
Warren has also said that she supports reparations, according to the Times, though her campaign declined to provide further details to the newspaper.
The Hill has reached out to both campaigns for comment.
Warren and Harris are both pursuing the Democratic nomination for president in 2020 and the Times noted that previous Democratic presidential candidates have not supported reparations.
Among those who have not backed the policy are former President Obama, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her Democratic rival that year, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the Times noted. Sanders is running for president again in 2020.
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And any descendant of a Union Army soldier has paid any reparation IN FULL. As a matter of fact they are OWED.
Next question...
A hoax in every pot.
Reparations: The belief that a white person not yet born, is somehow responsible for something that was abolished in 1865.
Question 1: Will white descendants of Union Civil War veterans, who fought and often times gave their lives in the fight against slavery, be exempt from paying into reparations?
Question 2: Will blacks who’s descendants arrived to the USA after the Civil War be entitled to reparations?
Question 3: Will reparations be demanded of the African tribes that captured and sold said slaves to the European slave traders?
Curious people want to know.
how about a reparations ticket back to Africa ?
Because BILLIONS in welfare.....EBT/housing/medical/etc., hasn’t been enough reparation.
I want to see an accounting for reparations already paid, first.
Show me the good in the hood, that my tax dollars have done, to fix whatever problem these two race baiting hacks are saying must be fixed.
What, exactly, is the measurement....to determine when enough ‘reparations’ have been paid.....since all time low black unemployment is not enough.
A few years too late to compensate slaves.
How about compensating victims of MAGA hate crimes? Are they for that?
How about compensating girls who lose athletic scholarships because trans beat them at what is supposed to be an all girls sport?
Didn’t think so.
How would we determine who is black? Genetic test everyone.
These people are both insane & evil.
1988 called , #Karamela, Jessie Jackson lost. Bigly.
Seems like a lot of freepers are pretty much thinking along the same lines with this. LOL
Move aside, black victims — I want reparations for what happened to MY ancestors when Willian the Conqueror invaded England and made serfs of them. If this hadn’t happened, the generational benefits surely would have landed me further up the food chain. Why, I might have ended up another Bill Gates.
No reparations. Yes on repatriation.
The same place AOC’s program funding. Print it!
As a white male I was repeatedly passed over for employment because I am a white male. It’s called Affirmative Action.
IF someone can prove they are not descendants of slave owners are exempt.
IF people who emigrated after slavery ended would be exempt.
IF someone can prove they are dirrect descendants of slaves then give them 50,000.
Also, affirmative action type programs and race related programs end.
Then i am for it.
Walt Disney. He’s cryogenic-ally preserved, and nobody knew he was a “high-toned” slave with remarkable longevity.
” . . . people in this country do not start from the same place or have access to the same opportunities”
Therefore, they are admitting that liberals have been both lying and inept since the days of Lincoln when they have annually appropriated millions and billions of taxpayers’ dollars for programs to solve this problem.
And the best news? They already have those
. . . or would, if not for the cultural rejection of education and of the institution of responsible/respected fatherhood by too many people, and among too many blacks in particular.That is not a legacy of slavery, it is the legacy of LBJ.
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