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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

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. "I’m 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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: maga; reparations; slaveryreparations; trump
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To: Zhang Fei

Make the africans and muslims in africa pay the reparations. They were the slave traders. They still do slavery there today.


61 posted on 02/21/2019 1:34:06 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Chad N. Freud

Can we have reparations for all of our money so obviously uselessly spent?


62 posted on 02/21/2019 1:37:28 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: Zhang Fei

Will Kamala Harris be paying reparations? Oh wait, her family owned slave plantations in Jamaica, not America, so that makes it okay?


63 posted on 02/21/2019 1:43:02 PM PST by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: BipolarBob

The dems always trot this stuff out. It’s nothing but pandering for the black vote. It will hurt them with other non black voters, if they pound it hard.


64 posted on 02/21/2019 1:44:40 PM PST by V V Camp Enari 67-68 (Viet Vet)
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To: Williams

The 0bamas should be paying double, his African ancestors sold the slaves, and his American ancestors owned them.


65 posted on 02/21/2019 1:45:46 PM PST by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Beagle8U

“How exactly will they determine if someone is “black”? “

Shaun “Talcum X” King and Rachel Dolezal can help with that.


66 posted on 02/21/2019 1:46:53 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: jospehm20

Great way to build up the govt DNA database...


67 posted on 02/21/2019 1:48:05 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: Beagle8U

Admit it this is bloody hilarious. The funny thing is they are serious and do not believe they are nuts.


68 posted on 02/21/2019 1:48:41 PM PST by genghis
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To: nascarnation

Folks who say it’s a crushing ordeal to get a govt ID to vote will come running for a DNA test that entitles them to reparation bucks.


69 posted on 02/21/2019 1:50:29 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: Zhang Fei

Why stop there. Let’s have reparations for all the families of the deceased that fought to end slavery.


70 posted on 02/21/2019 1:53:23 PM PST by Kudsman (Im trying to love the tolerant left. They make it very hard to do.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
I agree. Every person currently alive who was a slave before 1865 should be compensated.
There are very, very few people alive today whose Grandparents were alive in 1865.
71 posted on 02/21/2019 1:55:04 PM PST by ETCM
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To: Zhang Fei

Kamala alredy got her reparations in the form of white genes


72 posted on 02/21/2019 1:55:15 PM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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To: Zhang Fei

Black Americans alive today have been far more harmed by democrat programs still in place than the ghost of a long-dead stain on this country’s history.


73 posted on 02/21/2019 1:56:18 PM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( Wake me when a prominent democrat gets prosecuted. ))))
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To: SC DOC

That should be enough to drive her out of the Senate!

She sure is stupid!


74 posted on 02/21/2019 1:56:45 PM PST by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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To: gathersnomoss

Good on ‘ya. I’m invoking trans-racism to get a piece of the pie.


75 posted on 02/21/2019 2:02:58 PM PST by Rebelbase (If Trump walked on water the press headline would read, "TRUMP CAN'T SWIM".)
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To: Zhang Fei

Just deduct from every reparation payment the amount of welfare payments each person “affected by slavery” has received in his/her lifetime. Also deduct the value of the American lifestyle that each of these people has enjoyed.

In other words, the cash value of the difference between living in the USA and living in Africa should be deducted from the reparation payment.


76 posted on 02/21/2019 2:05:47 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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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”

That’s true but not just for Black Americans.

Most white people in this country weren’t born with a silver spoon in their mouths, either, and the depression years took care of any wealth they had managed to accumulate.

And then there were programs initiated to help make sure Black Americans had opportunities.

Didn’t any of that level the playing field? What will it take?


77 posted on 02/21/2019 2:11:47 PM PST by Heart of Georgia
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To: Heart of Georgia

Isn’t forcing me to pay “reparations” a form of slavery? This LIB asshat nitwits need to be exiled for the good of law-based, civil society. What lunatics.


78 posted on 02/21/2019 2:15:50 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: SkyDancer

Go after descendants of slave traders- or countries that sold the people into slavery.


79 posted on 02/21/2019 2:19:27 PM PST by Nailbiter
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To: Zhang Fei

Who are their slave masters? The Democrats?


80 posted on 02/21/2019 2:21:14 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft (What is earned is treasured, what is free is worth what you paid for it.)
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