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Julian Castro considers direct payments to African-Americans over slavery
The Washington Times ^ | March 10, 2019 | Paul J. Weber

Posted on 03/10/2019 2:43:36 PM PDT by jazusamo

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro isn’t ruling out direct payments to African-Americans for the legacy of slavery – a stand separating him from his 2020 rivals.

“If under the Constitution we compensate people because we take their property, why wouldn’t you compensate people who actually were property,” the former Obama-era housing secretary and ex-San Antonio mayor said on Sunday.

Castro was among the last of a pack of 2020 candidates to speak at the South by Southwest Festival in Texas, in what amounted to one of the biggest gatherings of the Democratic field yet.

(Excerpt) Read more at outline.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2020primary; betoorourke; confiscation; democrats; juliancastro; redistribution; reparations; sanantonio; tedcruz; texas
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To: jazusamo

GERMAN FIRST REPARATIONS

Germans suffered more recent slavery,
so they are first in line for reparations.


61 posted on 03/10/2019 5:14:36 PM PDT by TheNext (Participation Award Winner = CoC)
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To: Jeff Chandler
The U.S. government is not the culprit and bears no liability in this case.

The democrat party, however...

62 posted on 03/10/2019 5:43:43 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: jazusamo

The democrat party should pay reparations. They were and are the party of slavery. The Republicans freed the slaves and gave them the rights that they now enjoy.


63 posted on 03/10/2019 6:11:14 PM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: jazusamo

Then the kids of 1990s Nigerian immigrants will get money from the grandkids of 1920s European immigrants ... in the name of fairness.


64 posted on 03/10/2019 6:36:01 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: PeteB570
You clearly missed his point - which was all the prior slaves are dead.

Uh ... that WAS my point.

65 posted on 03/10/2019 6:54:59 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: IronJack

Someone should ask this jerk about payments to all of us who lost family members fighting to free the slaves.

Tell him to sue the Confederacy for the money, then print a large sum of Confederate money to pay out.


66 posted on 03/10/2019 7:21:15 PM PDT by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

“The U.S. government is not the culprit and bears no liability in this case.”

It was always illegal to enslave someone in the United States, from its founding.

After the USA came into existence, new slaves were either born to existing slaves, or purchased from outside the country. 20 years after the Constitution of the United States went into effect, slaves could no longer be legally imported. So no one was ever enslaved (had their previous liberty taken from them) under the auspices of the USA.

Also, one alive in the United States would have standing to sue.

New Deal and Great Society social welfare programs, and public education, constitute almost a century of reparation for any residual economic effects.


67 posted on 03/10/2019 7:36:37 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: dp0622

I agree. And tax all the living slave owners at 99% to cover it.


68 posted on 03/10/2019 8:51:17 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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To: jazusamo

Cool. So how much is Julian going to give to the African Americans? All of his wealth?

putz.


69 posted on 03/10/2019 8:52:40 PM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: dp0622

Beat me to it...the only slaves in our country today are either slaves of the illegals the Dems love so much or of the Dem Party which has enslaved generations.


70 posted on 03/11/2019 3:38:04 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: dp0622

If he gave it to every relative of a slave in America he’d be talking a bunch of money.

If he gave it to every descendant of a slave down in the Caribbean or South America, he might be out $2,000.


71 posted on 03/11/2019 3:41:51 AM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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To: trebb

Yep.


72 posted on 03/11/2019 3:54:37 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: rfreedom4u

Yes! All LIVING slave owners should pay it.


73 posted on 03/11/2019 4:01:34 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: IronJack

satire is too deep for some.

Have a nice day.


74 posted on 03/11/2019 5:21:57 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: jazusamo

75 posted on 03/11/2019 5:26:17 AM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: jazusamo

By his logic, the only parties that should be compensated are the descendants of the slave owners. It was their ancestors’ property that was confiscated by the government.


76 posted on 03/11/2019 5:28:16 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: PIF
"One of the most unattractive men in the US nay the world, aka he’s butt ugly."

I don't know... He looks pretty much like your average dimocrap.... :)
Maybe better then most of them..

77 posted on 03/11/2019 5:38:31 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: RooRoobird20
These Rat morons must think reparations is a winning issue, LMAO!!!

If course some of them do! They figure that IF they can get enough black people fired up, thinking of all that money they're gonna get IF this certain candidate gets elected, then they blacks will turn out in droves on Election Day to elect them!

Too bad that they seem to have forgotten about all of US who will turn out in droves to make sure that candidate DOESN'T get elected.

(Not to mention the sheer idiocy of those who actually believe the candidate will actually KEEP their promise and fork over the money.)

78 posted on 03/11/2019 5:43:40 AM PDT by hoagy62 (America Supreme!)
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