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Danny Glover heading to Capitol Hill to talk reparations
Washington Examiner ^ | 06/13/19

Posted on 06/13/2019 12:36:51 PM PDT by Liberty7732

Actor Danny Glover and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates are heading to Congress to testify about reparations for the ancestors of slaves.

Glover, 72, is the star of the “Lethal Weapon” film series among other movies and shows. Coates, 43, is an author and journalist who penned the “The Case for Reparations,” a 2014 essay in The Atlantic. The piece became a touchstone for the cause and helped push the matter into the national discourse.

The hearing will be held Wednesday in the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. The goal of the hearing is to “examine, through open and constructive discourse, the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, its continuing impact on the community and the path to restorative justice.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackkk; dannyglover; reparations; slavery; tanehisicoates; waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
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To: dfwgator

All slave owners who owned slaves, who are still alive

can negotiate

with all owned slaves, who are still alive.


21 posted on 06/13/2019 12:50:23 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Liberty7732

We’ve already paid reparations. Generations of welfare and affirmative action.

While their relatives are still living in grass huts and dying of ebola back in the home country, these people were given free housing and priority admission to higher education.

Just because they refused to take advantage of it is no reason for us to continue paying.

(BTW my family came over here in the 1900’s I don’t owe anyone a dime!)


22 posted on 06/13/2019 12:50:25 PM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: LeonardFMason

“Is he a star?”
_________________
Yes, but falling fast.


23 posted on 06/13/2019 12:50:43 PM PDT by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: AU72

Don’t bill me my kin were fighting johnny reb for your freedom. Then again, if danny’s kin folks hadn’t been brought here he probably wouldn’t be alive. Pestilence, disease, tribal warfare.


24 posted on 06/13/2019 12:51:20 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Liberty7732

Pandering season is here again, I see.


25 posted on 06/13/2019 12:51:55 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Liberty7732

Trying to buy back the black vote after all the pandering to illegals.


26 posted on 06/13/2019 12:54:14 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Liberty7732

The Democrat Party owes me a LOT of money.


27 posted on 06/13/2019 12:54:41 PM PDT by TonytheTiger7777
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To: Liberty7732

Among the numerous problems with “reparations” is deciding “who pays” and “who receives” and by what formulation. Is Danny Glover some sort of high-powered actuary? No. He’s an actor who pretty much hasn’t worked in the last 25 years. So I’m supposed to listen to him... because... why?

I hate it when Congress puts on these dog & pony shows!


28 posted on 06/13/2019 12:55:12 PM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!)
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To: Liberty7732

“examine, through open and constructive discourse, the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, its continuing impact on the community and the path to restorative justice.”

Translation: FREE MONEY!!!!


29 posted on 06/13/2019 12:59:55 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Liberty7732

Somebody needs to tell Danny Glover about the Civil War.

That was more than is measurable.


30 posted on 06/13/2019 1:02:07 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (eWFight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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To: Liberty7732

“I’m too old for this shit...”


31 posted on 06/13/2019 1:02:52 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Liberty7732
My ancestors were removed to Oklahoma Territory before sneaking back east and settling in the southern Virginia mountains.

Me want promised wampum, and five buffalo hide.

32 posted on 06/13/2019 1:04:31 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain ("You will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension." -- Tesla)
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To: Liberty7732

So he is going to go after the African countries that sold his family into slavery?
Or maybe the Majority Muslim countries in the middle east that played a role in it?
Oh, I see he is going to claim that the US was built and prospered because of his ancestors, and that America would not be as wealthy and powerful if it weren’t for them.
Even though there is NO wealthy and powerful majority black country anywhere on this rock.
Guy is a drool bucket.


33 posted on 06/13/2019 1:05:55 PM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: Liberty7732

Danny already got his reps

Affirmative action’d his entire career


34 posted on 06/13/2019 1:06:04 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Pussie Smollett, Mizzou, campus fake nooses, fake "protests" FAKE EVERYTHING Hey CNN? lol)
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To: goodnesswins

and me - my grandparents were basically indentured servants in Denmark.


35 posted on 06/13/2019 1:07:58 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: Liberty7732

Why isn’t he going to Venezuela?


36 posted on 06/13/2019 1:10:48 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!)
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To: Liberty7732

Reparations were already paid: in blood! No one alive today is a slave, was a slave, or had anything to do with slavery.


37 posted on 06/13/2019 1:11:03 PM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: AU72
Don’t bill me. My ancestors were digging potatoes in Ireland.

Irrelevant. Even if all of your ancestors of military age in 1960 fought for the Confederacy …

YOU DON'T OWE DANNY GLOVER, OR ANY OTHER LIVING BLACK PERSON, ANY AMOUNT OF "REPARATIONS".

The whole business is BS.

This is America, land of opportunity. The Danny Glovers of the world need to man up and quit blaming other people for their lack of success.

38 posted on 06/13/2019 1:12:37 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Liberty7732

It doesn’t matter how much it costs, I will happily support paying it, with one condition - that the bill gets marked “paid in full”.


39 posted on 06/13/2019 1:13:42 PM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: Liberty7732

Just a new way to give money to non-working blacks so they can stay that way.


40 posted on 06/13/2019 1:14:42 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (yawn)
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