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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: Jim Noble
I will happily support paying it, with one condition - that the bill gets marked “paid in full”.

Bwahahahahahahaha, yeah right. Next they will demand their own country, taken from the Southern States, and then it will be something else...It will never end.

Should have picked our own damned cotton.

41 posted on 06/13/2019 1:14:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: NorthMountain

1860


42 posted on 06/13/2019 1:15:10 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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This is fantastic news! Maybe Danny Glover can put an end to the Clinton Foundation’s slave trading.


43 posted on 06/13/2019 1:15:59 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: FreeReign

They also owe me for what Affirmative Action has done to me where I was physically beaten from 1st day in Kindergarten to 18 in High School by an the same individual. School didn’t want to do anything because he was the first minority in our school district.


44 posted on 06/13/2019 1:16:28 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Liberty7732

Two killed in the union cavalry on my mother’s side. Fathers side was busting sod in Minnesota. I don’t owe anybody jack-s**t.


45 posted on 06/13/2019 1:21:17 PM PDT by Spruce
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To: Red Badger

***”My ancestors were digging potatoes in Ireland and eating monkeys in the Philippines...”

My Patriarch was a Hessian Solider, taken from a field as a teen, rented to England and decided to stay in this Great New Country, married an English gal and was a wanted man back home (I have a copy of the Wanted Poster) All of his Families Possessions, Property etc were Confiscated.
All before Germany existed, Do I tell Germany that I want Reparations? Do I tell England? Do I jump in with Jessie and Al? Do I have to daily Bitch about what happened to my Ancestor?


46 posted on 06/13/2019 1:21:51 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!)
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To: Liberty7732

I completely agree with reparations. And every person who did not receive the opportunity to improve themselves at the time slavery was condoned that is still alive should receive it. That means that anyone born into slavery and mistreated in 1865 or before, the year that slavery was abolished, and being 139 years old or older, should receive reparations. Call your congressman immediately to start the paper work. And inform your CPA to protect it on your taxes. Can’t wait to see the turnout like the count of the million man march.

rwood


47 posted on 06/13/2019 1:25:08 PM PDT by Redwood71
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To: Liberty7732

HE HAD BETTER BE READY TO TALK REPATRIATION.

Start packing, Danny, and Sayonara.


48 posted on 06/13/2019 1:28:12 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: dfwgator
Next they will demand their own country

I would even go for that, as long as the divorce is final.

49 posted on 06/13/2019 1:28:48 PM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: Liberty7732

ESADDG


50 posted on 06/13/2019 1:28:51 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Liberty7732

The hearing will be held Wednesday in the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.


Oh, so now the democrats are doing oversight on the Constitution?


51 posted on 06/13/2019 1:29:11 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Liberty7732

Will Danny Glover being paying reparations to the white Yankee families who died to free the slaves?


52 posted on 06/13/2019 1:33:02 PM PDT by No Socialist
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To: Ciaphas Cain

AHA! Gotcha! You in a heap o trouble now! They will be coming for you!

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=SL002


53 posted on 06/13/2019 1:33:08 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: TexasM1A

I wouldn’t mind paying a little when they permanently got off the plane or boat back in their native ancestral land, never to return to the US. Payable in the local money.


54 posted on 06/13/2019 1:36:01 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Spruce

Reparations? Not a chance....Nobody alive today was or is responsible for what happened generations ago.. we had nothing to do with it! American taxpayers owe nothing.

Black people suffer today fron within their own communities: street gangs and crime, fatherless families, irresponsible ‘baby mamas’ getting pregnant outside of marriage, high school dropouts, etc. etc.


55 posted on 06/13/2019 1:43:08 PM PDT by caww
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To: Liberty7732

If not for the efforts and lives of over 600,000 Western white Christian men, you, Danny Boi, would be a slave today. But you aren’t one, right? As a matter of fact, you’ve done pretty well for yourself. Now pound sand or shine my shoes.


56 posted on 06/13/2019 1:44:32 PM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Liberty7732

Poor Glover is so strapped for cash.


57 posted on 06/13/2019 1:47:44 PM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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To: Liberty7732

Reparations?

58 posted on 06/13/2019 1:48:35 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Comey,Brennan and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: Liberty7732

Well let the ancestors of the slaves come out of their graves and testify before Congress if their want reparations...


59 posted on 06/13/2019 2:04:41 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Liberty7732

My third great-grandfather had a few slaves in Tennessee. My second great-grandfather served in an Illinois regiment for the entire Civil War, and went with Sherman to the sea. He married the slaveowner’s daughter on the way back to Illinois. I never received a dime’s worth of benefit from the old man’s slave money but, because the Union soldier and the Confederate daughter got together, eventually I got to be born.


60 posted on 06/13/2019 2:05:06 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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