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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“Yes lets talk about my refund for the last movie I seen with him in it!”
Classic!!
President Lincoln should have gone through with his idea and shipped them all to Liberia.
Too bad he thought it was too expensive.
My g-grandfather fought for the Union during the Civil War (181st Ohio Infantry),that ought to exempt me from paying any slavery reparations
Glover’s all tied up with the UN....for years.
Now, now... A fair and just payment for reparations would be the immediate shut down of the Dummycrat party, the party of the slave trade
He is the Cheese Royale guy from Pulp Fiction....
Are they looking to start charging the descendants of owners of the slave ships and slave markets first?
“”to testify about reparations for the ancestors of slaves.””
And as soon as they find one or two of those ancestors, they will accompany them to the hearing with authentic paperwork as proof. Can hardly wait!
So, will Danny be getting some of Whitey’s money? Barrack and the Wookie? Who gets what and who decides? Cummings and his crooked wife? Felons? Inmates?
This is just a bullshit publicity stunt because the democrats are bleeding black voters.
Baby gets nothing...
He thinks he's a star. He's an arrogant narcissistic anti-White racist. He got onto a commuter flight I was on and strutted up and down the aisle half a dozen times expecting people to faint in his exalted presence. He's a third-rate actor and a jerk.
Nobody alive today was a slave in this country. Talk of Reparations are maddening for those of us who lost ancestors in the civil war on the Union side. Even on the Confederate side there were those who were not involved in slavery and disagreed with it. Is it fair to ask all these people to have their taxes raised to supply Reparations to people who were never slaves?
Get a numerical figure for ancestors.
Subtract government handouts for the last decades.
Subtract value of all the Affirmative Action giveaways.
Guaranteed to be a negative figure.
Then shut up and never bring the subject up again.
No more’Whoa is me’ , world owes me.Ever!
“...to testify about reparations for the ancestors of slaves.”
Reparations want do any good for the ancestors of slaves, seeing they were in Africa and not slaves.
Reparations are another civil war trigger.
The house will do anything to get headlines.
I think it is about time for the Black community to make reparations for the $billions if not $trillions squandered on decades of failedhousing and welfare
To all those white slave owners that Liberated their slaves, we award compensation.
This will be symbolically done by having every black kid pay $100 to a white kid.
How one of the greatest achievements of WHITE civilization, the end of slavery , has turned around as something bad is beyond me. Blacks in Africa still enslave blacks (Boko Haram?) and Muslims still deal in the slave and sex slave trade.
We got rid of that horrible human scourge, and should be recognized, and THANKED!!
Now... who is going to give me my first $100?
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