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Warren, Harris back reparations for black Americans affected by slavery
The Hill ^ | 02/21/19 03:15 PM EST | Michael Burke

Posted on 02/21/2019 12:51:02 PM PST by Zhang Fei

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To: Bubba_Leroy

And any descendant of a Union Army soldier has paid any reparation IN FULL. As a matter of fact they are OWED.
Next question...


41 posted on 02/21/2019 1:13:39 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: Zhang Fei

A hoax in every pot.


42 posted on 02/21/2019 1:13:41 PM PST by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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To: Zhang Fei
We have to be honest that people in this country do not start from the same place or have access to the same opportunities

As a white male, I've sure never gotten the advantages in hiring, promotion, college admittance, scholarship, etc.
43 posted on 02/21/2019 1:14:12 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Zhang Fei

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.


44 posted on 02/21/2019 1:14:45 PM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Sans-Culotte

how about a reparations ticket back to Africa ?


45 posted on 02/21/2019 1:15:16 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: Zhang Fei

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.


46 posted on 02/21/2019 1:15:48 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Zhang Fei

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.


47 posted on 02/21/2019 1:17:13 PM PST by LouisianaJoanof Arc (The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets. Ronald Reagan 1984)
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To: Zhang Fei

How would we determine who is black? Genetic test everyone.

These people are both insane & evil.


48 posted on 02/21/2019 1:17:20 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Zhang Fei

1988 called , #Karamela, Jessie Jackson lost. Bigly.


49 posted on 02/21/2019 1:17:28 PM PST by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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To: Zhang Fei
I agree with them. Everyone who has been a slave is certainly entitled to reparations. Should be a really short line for anyone not named Methusala
50 posted on 02/21/2019 1:17:51 PM PST by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: zeugma

Seems like a lot of freepers are pretty much thinking along the same lines with this. LOL


51 posted on 02/21/2019 1:19:44 PM PST by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: Zhang Fei

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.


52 posted on 02/21/2019 1:19:52 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: Zhang Fei

No reparations. Yes on repatriation.


53 posted on 02/21/2019 1:20:55 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: al_c

The same place AOC’s program funding. Print it!


54 posted on 02/21/2019 1:21:14 PM PST by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: Old Yeller

As a white male I was repeatedly passed over for employment because I am a white male. It’s called Affirmative Action.


55 posted on 02/21/2019 1:23:37 PM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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56 posted on 02/21/2019 1:24:35 PM PST by SC DOC
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To: Zhang Fei

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.


57 posted on 02/21/2019 1:24:51 PM PST by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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To: BipolarBob

Walt Disney. He’s cryogenic-ally preserved, and nobody knew he was a “high-toned” slave with remarkable longevity.


58 posted on 02/21/2019 1:30:23 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Zhang Fei

” . . . 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.


59 posted on 02/21/2019 1:33:04 PM PST by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: Seaplaner
Reparations? The most valuable ones would be a free education through high school and the freedoms and equality of opportunity enumerated in our Constitution (including the Bill of Rights.)

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.


60 posted on 02/21/2019 1:33:57 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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