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40 Acres and a Mule: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Danny Glover join renewed debate over reparations
ABC News ^ | 06/19/2019 | By BEATRICE PETERSON and MATTHEW VANN

Posted on 06/19/2019 9:55:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: rjsimmon
....and a steerage class ticket on a freighter headed to Somalia...... ---- Minnesota? Just couldn't resist. 😃
41 posted on 06/19/2019 10:57:42 AM PDT by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m fine with reparations, IF and ONLY IF those who want to receive them will sign off on a document permanently giving up their US citizenship and then depart the country never to return.

We will be getting off cheap in the long run.


42 posted on 06/19/2019 10:58:27 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Lee25

“I view this slavery thing as cancer of this nation.”

This continent was like a paradise, and slavery was our “original sin”.


43 posted on 06/19/2019 11:00:57 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Responsibility2nd

ABSOLUTELY!!
After all, they are the party of Jim Crow laws and the KKK.
But most of today’s “idiotcated” snowflakes think the Republicans were that party.


44 posted on 06/19/2019 11:03:50 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: SeekAndFind

If the reparations door is opened it will never close. There will always be another “reason” for more handouts.


45 posted on 06/19/2019 11:08:33 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: SeekAndFind

They need to seek their reparations from the Dutch, British, Spanish, French and Arabs..

WE didn’t start slavery over here, THEY did.

We were the ones who ENDED it.

Learn your history, Danny!


46 posted on 06/19/2019 11:16:16 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: Boogieman

And their descendants must never come either. If the descendants of the owners remain responsible for the crimes of their progenitors, then so do they.


47 posted on 06/19/2019 11:40:04 AM PDT by ferret_airlift
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To: SeekAndFind

The black Marxist extortionist and crybaby gang in action.


48 posted on 06/19/2019 11:41:03 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: SeekAndFind

How is the government going to determine who is a descendent of a slave?


49 posted on 06/19/2019 11:41:57 AM PDT by marajade (Skywalker)
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To: SeekAndFind

More vote buying.


50 posted on 06/19/2019 12:06:10 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Would it not be a hoot to see these multimillionaires justify this nonsense to the poor whites of Appalachia who mine the coal that provides the electricity that these fools use?


51 posted on 06/19/2019 12:06:10 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The 40 Acres and mule were to be provided in Liberia.


52 posted on 06/19/2019 12:16:28 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: dfwgator

America inherited the institution of slavery from England, a leftover from Colonial times. Although our founding documents declared all men to be equal, the problem of slavery was deferred; it might have been impossible to unite the states in revolt against England if the immediate ban of slavery was insisted on.


53 posted on 06/19/2019 12:18:13 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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To: Lee25

They were no slaves in the Asian countries?


54 posted on 06/19/2019 12:26:49 PM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country! Now)
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To: dfwgator

The entire world thought slavery was a good idea since it had been practiced world wide for thousands of years. The Hebrews in Egypt were not the first slaves or the beginning of slavery


55 posted on 06/19/2019 12:29:11 PM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country! Now)
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To: SeekAndFind

If it were not for Lincoln, Glover would never had made a dime making movies.


56 posted on 06/19/2019 12:49:27 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Squantos

AGREE FULLY.


57 posted on 06/19/2019 12:51:42 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: SeekAndFind

If this were to even be considered, it would have to come with conditions:

1) There can be no further preferential treatment for any race. Period. No Affirmative Action, no preferred enrollment in colleges and universities, no preferences in hiring, all of it must stop immediately.

2) Whites may never be accused of racism again and all pejorative references to whites (honkey, cracker, whitey, etc.) must be treated with the same disdain as similar words for blacks are now. In addition, all movies, television shows, and music that contain derogatory references to whites must be erased from history and all of the actors and musicians may never be able to work again. Anyone who refers to a white in this manner in the future will be prosecuted for a “hate crime”

3) Any person who receives reparations, regardless of where they were born, must immediately lose their US citizenship and be removed to an African country of their choice. They may apply, like any other citizen of a foreign country, for a visa and reenter the US on a merit basis if they choose, but again, no preferential treatment will be given for those who take this deal.

Hmm, what did I leave out???

Feel free to add your conditions as needed.


58 posted on 06/19/2019 12:56:59 PM PDT by Have Ruck - Will Travel (It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Slaves did not build the US Capital.


59 posted on 06/19/2019 12:59:54 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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RE: Slaves did not build the US Capital.

How do you respond to this Smithsonian Article:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/white-house-was-fact-built-slaves-180959916/

TITLE: The White House Was, in Fact, Built by Slaves
Along with the Capitol and other iconic buildings in Washington, D.C.


60 posted on 06/19/2019 1:26:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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