Posted on 04/02/2019 11:28:55 AM PDT by jazusamo
The democrats are very willing to split the country into warring factions. The idea of “reparations” is the issue that will cleave the country into two radically opposed camps. That’s what they want.
That's just where the complications start. To whom would reparations be owed? Millions of black Americans are recent immigrants or the children of those immigrants, and have no family link to slavery. Are they entitled to compensation for what slaves endured? How about whites whose ancestors were slaves? Or blacks descended from slaveholders? What of the 1.8 million biracial people who identified themselves in the last Census as both black and white? Should they expect to collect reparations, or to pay them?
David Clarke is a great American.
Yep, should it ever happen it’ll be a real can of worms.
Amen to that.
I demand a rebate. My great great grandfather’s slaves were lazy and of no account.
“If a Democrat doesn’t agree with the call for reparations, they know they will not get the nomination. Therefore, every candidate has to play along”
I guess they hope to get more than the usual 95% of black votes.
Reparations is a bad idea. Of course I would gladly accept free money, if it were offered, bit would settle for 40 acres and a John Deere
Tractor.
Agreed. At worst, it should only be democrats who pay, since they were the ones who passed the Jim Crow laws and were slaveowners. Interesting tidbit I learned yesterday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_debt_of_Haiti “After the slaves declared themselves free and the country independent in 1804, France, with the complicity of its allies, demanded that the newly formed country pay the French government and French slaveholders the modern equivalent of US $21 billion dollars for the “theft” of the slaves’ own lives and the land that they had turned into profitable sugar and coffee-producing plantations. This independence debt was financed by French banks and the American Citibank, and finally paid off in 1947.” So maybe .... nah. Let’s call it even.
I wonder if Booker or Harris will get the majority black vote in the primary.
The mistake is in accepting any premise of the "Reparations" demands. There is no need to argue about details of who should get what. The entire proposal must be kicked to the curb.
It is simple extortion, and the people supporting it are thieves swindlers, and thugs. Politicians who support this in any manner (even hypocritically) are declaring themselves unfit for public office and should be removed from such positions.
Wait until they get a bill from me since my kin folks fought on the Union side to free them.
And lets not forget the 22 TRILLION DOLLARS in reparations that has already been paid in the last 50 years....
Most of the Great Society was designed to fight LBJ’s War on Poverty, the total cost of which has been the sum of $22 trillion in current dollars, as reckoned by the Heritage Foundation.May 21, 2014
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/21/editorial-the-not-so-great-society/
First, how much reparation was paid since 1968. That seems to have done no good. Why more?
A 19 year old Jewish kid who worked for me back in 2000 at an investment bank (fastest thing on a computer you ever saw) told me he was getting reparations from Germany of 1,000 a month.
I do not remember if it was passed onto him by his grandmother or she put it under his name or he was directly getting it.
But WWII was only 55 years old at the time. The companies that made a fortune were still very much around in doing very well.
Both perpetrators and victims were still alive.
Different situation.
NOBODY is alive for this. Nobody’s KID is a live for this.
MAYBE there’s a few great great grandkids around. If the person was 1 years old and had a child at 40 and then their child had a child at 40 and that person is living a long life!!
It’s too absurd.
Let it go.
The concise absurdity of “reparations”:
Kamala Harris’s family owned slaves.
Why, then, is it argued that the descendants of those who _freed_ those slaves would be compelled to pay _her_?
I tell blacks, who want reparations, three things.
1. God has claimed exclusive right to vengeance. So anybody wanting vengeance is stealing from God.
2. A persons wrongs end at their death. To charge a person’s descendants is to simply inflict fresh wrongs that will.then be judged by God.
3. God has forbidden blood binds.
They are getting their reparations/revenge... they were taught by obama.... to fundamentally transform the country.... by riots, by ‘black only situations’ by letting the guilty off free... by taking to the streets... by making the white supremecy a word to use and mock.. .dividing the nation asunder. And NONE of these were slaves....
basketball players, football players, baseball players, actors, rap music bands, you name it... they are making very good money and how many are thankful for living in this country that gives them the opportunity
The ones who are guilty of keeping the black race back for voting.... are the dems! They did all they could to keep them needy and voters. Why they continue to vote them in, is beyond my understanding.
But they’re going after their riches, in the wrong places.. and being angry at the wrong party...
The dems should have kept them in school....not encouraged single women to have children... made welfare as a last resort.... kept their housing up instead of letting it and the area go to pot.. build them up instead of making fake excuses why they are in need and are victims..
It’s a lousy trick the dems play to keep their power... and today it’s aimed at Trump and his really ignorant voters. We are in their way!
I say keep teasing and leading them on. Maybe in another 150 years they’ll figure out they are being played. In the meantime the democrats don’t have to worry about getting their vote one way or the other.
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