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White Tucker Carlson Guest (Mark Steyn) Says African-Americans ‘Need to Move on’ From Slavery
The Wrap ^ | February 22, 2019 | Jon Levine

Posted on 02/22/2019 3:47:46 PM PST by EveningStar

White Tucker Carlson Guest Says African-Americans ‘Need to Move on’ From Slavery (Video)

Tucker Carlson guest Mark Steyn offered his thoughts and slavery and the issue of reparations to the descendants of U.S. slaves, telling viewers of Carlson’s Fox News show Thursday that nobody living today knew anyone who had been a slave and that people just needed to move on from the whole issue.

“Slavery was abolished a century and a half ago. Nobody alive today had a grandparent who was a slave and in that sense I think you reach a point where, you know, you need to move on,” said, Steyn, a Canadian author and culture commentator who is white. “The reparations thing eventually, as the decades go by, becomes ridiculous.” ...

The moment comes as Carlson faces a months long advertiser boycott after a segment on his show in December in which he said illegal immigration made the United States “poorer” and “dirtier.” Since that episode, major brands like Pacific Life, Red Lobster, SmileDirectClub and dozens of others have pulled ads from the show...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: marksteyn; reparations; slavery; tuckercarlson
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To: xrmusn
Well, I am glad the author of the headline gave me the ultra vital information that Tucker Carlson is White.

The author was talking about Tucker Carlson's guest, Mark Steyn. :)

21 posted on 02/22/2019 4:01:36 PM PST by EveningStar (I am a Non-Cultist Trump Supporter.)
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To: EveningStar
and that people just needed to move on from the whole issue.

There's too much money, too much moral superiority, and too many votes to be had to ever "move on" from the non-slaves bashing the never-slave-holders over some institution defunct since the 1860s.

22 posted on 02/22/2019 4:01:40 PM PST by bkopto
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To: EveningStar

They had moved on. 40 years ago it was no longer an issue.


23 posted on 02/22/2019 4:01:54 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ealgeone

Red Lobster is still a major chain?
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Haven’t been to one in 30 years. They were overpriced way back then. Are they still around?


24 posted on 02/22/2019 4:02:38 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: DoughtyOne

Because our country is rich.


25 posted on 02/22/2019 4:02:44 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: bray

It’s unfortunate but Steyn is probably going to get crucified for this remark. Truth is the enemy of Political Correctness


26 posted on 02/22/2019 4:03:00 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: stubernx98

India has 18 million modern slaves—at least five times more than any other country in the world

By Manu BalachandranMay 31, 2016

India is home to the largest number of enslaved people in the world.

A little over 18 million people—equal to the entire population of Chile—are victims of modern slavery in Asia’s third-largest economy, according to the Global Slavery Index (pdf), published by Australia-based human rights group Walk Free Foundation. Such persons are often engaged in domestic work, construction, farming, fishing, manual labour, forced begging, and in the sex industry.

https://qz.com/india/695565/india-has-18-million-modern-slaves-at-least-five-times-more-than-any-other-country-in-the-world/


27 posted on 02/22/2019 4:03:07 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: BenLurkin

Bingo. All these rights movements are recycled from 50 years ago.


28 posted on 02/22/2019 4:03:38 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

By Native American do you mean Indian? I’m a Native American... Born in dc. If I’m not a Native American, what am I native to?


29 posted on 02/22/2019 4:03:51 PM PST by Cassius Flavia Agrippa
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To: EveningStar

30 posted on 02/22/2019 4:04:12 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: shelterguy
I ate at one about 15 years ago....wow...what a disappointment from my earlier memories of the place.

Growing up in a small town eating in the big city at Red Lobster was a big deal!

Sad to see it decline like it has.

31 posted on 02/22/2019 4:04:27 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: Hojczyk

In Texas in the fifties it was like WW says. Blacks owned their own businesses, not relying on Koreans or other outsiders like today. As far as being like ‘any immigrant community,’ I don’t know what that means. It was separate but equal and they had everything we did, including the culture, near as I could tell.


32 posted on 02/22/2019 4:05:18 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: EveningStar

The great irony now is with the millions worldwide involved in sex-trafficking and continued involuntary servitude utterly common in the Muslim world....estimates are THERE ARE MORE IN SLAVERY TODAY THAN AT ANY TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY!!!!!


33 posted on 02/22/2019 4:06:17 PM PST by AnalogReigns (Pr)
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To: Cassius Flavia Agrippa

I’m tempted to retort with a line from a cinema classic: Repo Man,

“You’re a white suburban punk, just like me.”


34 posted on 02/22/2019 4:06:18 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: EveningStar
They don't need to move away from slavery. History moved it for them long ago.

They need to move away from victim-hood and using the color of their skin to get what they want.

35 posted on 02/22/2019 4:06:32 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: EveningStar
White Tucker Carlson Guest (Mark Steyn) Says African-Americans ‘Need to Move on’ From Slavery

The headline is misleading, and incendiary. The subject was reparations. He was saying that we should move on from reparations.

And of course, he's right.

Nobody alive today has owned slaves or were slaves.

36 posted on 02/22/2019 4:06:52 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: RinaseaofDs

I am a Native American, but not an Indian.


37 posted on 02/22/2019 4:07:44 PM PST by Cassius Flavia Agrippa
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To: butlerweave

No. He broached the issue about returning ex-slaves to Africa with Frederick Douglass, and it was entirely unfeasible by then. The slaves were generations removed from Africa and were totally alien to the mother continent, and add to that, there was no way to move millions of them back to Africa.

The Liberia colony, which predated Lincoln, wasn’t exactly a rousing success. The American Blacks who returned were aliens to the natives and neither group assimilated into a single, unified country.


38 posted on 02/22/2019 4:07:50 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: xrmusn

Judge Judy regularly has litigants who are on SSI and disability, who are perfectly capable of holding down jobs.

She gives them an earful about it, too.


39 posted on 02/22/2019 4:08:36 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Cassius Flavia Agrippa

So are you an indigenous dude, Yakima Tribe, or Skagit.


40 posted on 02/22/2019 4:09:12 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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