Voice-over work.
Posted on 06/19/2019 9:55:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Steps away from the U.S. Capitol – a building built by slaves – the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is holding its first hearing in more than a decade on the hot-button topic of reparations for the descendants of Africans brought to America, enslaved and impacted by discriminatory policies including segregation.
The hearing, timed to coincide with "Juneteenth," a date when the last slaves in Texas learned they were free, brings to the forefront the centuries-old debate over what, if anything, is owed.
At the end of the Civil War formerly enslaved families were promised by Union leadership 40 acres and a mule -- an offer never fulfilled. Centuries later, the debate over reparations is playing out on the campaign trail as many 2020 presidential presidential candidates weigh in on the topic and lawmakers press the case with perennial legislative efforts.
The appearance actor Danny Glover and award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose 2014 essay "The Case for Reparations" thrust the divisive topic onto the national stage, are expected to testify, lending celebrity status to an issue that has been wending through Congress for decades.
Glover grew emotional as he spoke about his family's history as sharecroppers and as the descendants of slaves and stressed that America needs to acknowledge the impact of slavery and discrimination.
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RE: Hmm, what did I leave out???
You did not mention how much the reparations would be.
Two free weeks at an all - inclusive in the D.R.!
I’d like to find the person who thought that slavery would be a good idea and kick ‘em in the balls.
A good use for a time machine would be to go back before the first black was brought over and do exactly that, kick that person who first thought this up right in the sack.
Blacks will be complaining long after I AND my children have left this earth. Its just non stop bitching and whining.
Hmm, how about the current cash value of 40 acres and a mule? As long as the 40 acres is farmland in a medium cost state.
Bingo. If the reparations door is ever opened, it will be like flood gates. There will be more and more demands after that and we will never get the door closed again.
“Stonemason Collen Williamson trained enslaved people on the spot at the government’s quarry at Aquia, Virginia. Enslaved people quarried and cut the rough stone that was later dressed and laid by Scottish masons to erect the walls of the President’s House. The slaves joined a work force that included local white laborers and artisans from Maryland and Virginia, as well as immigrants from Ireland, Scotland, and other European nations.”
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/questions/did-slaves-build-the-white-house
Reparations paid: Civil war dead; segregation ended voters rights for blacks; 40 years of affirmative action; 50 years of funds for black communities for development and jobs training.
Blacks who want reparations now are trying to get back at “the man.”
add college scholarships
I shudder to think. Some things should just remain a secret.
Voice-over work.
Would you be surprised to know that blacks started slavery in the new world long before this nation was founded?
Anthony Johnson sued in the Virginia colony to enslave John Casor.
Would you also be surprised to know that by percentage blacks owned slaves at a higher rate than whites?
This nation was on good footing from its start. What would the solution be, absolve the USA then reconstitute it? That would seem retarded.
“I’m Asian.”
So? You’re human, yet you just separated yourself by claiming to be Asian as though that should someone change my perspective on your comments.
One thing civilized people do is forgive and forget then move on. Slavery ended 150 years ago. Time to stop acting like it was yesterday. Civilized people do that. We don’t go back to the beginning of time with retaliation in our minds like the savage nations do.
“And what about the MILLIONS of blacks here who are not descendants of slaves?”
Are American blacks descendants of blacks from Africa that captured and sold their fellow Africans into slavery?
We need to ask that question if we are talking reparations. This just became a court trial and we need to know the facts, right? Who did what to whom and who owes what to whom.
As long as the 40 acres are in Africa.
That would indeed be a surprise. Also deceptive. The millions of Black slaves owned no slaves, so the percentage of Blacks who owned slaves would have to be lower than the percentage of Whites who did.
Not deceptive. It goes to show those blacks that could own slaves did so at a higher rate. In fact, some black slaves did own their own slaves.
Your comment is deceptive because it includes impossibilities.
Statistics are statistics. If it is impossible for something to happen statistics reflect that. You're trying to force some kind of conclusion on people by denying what the numbers say.
x: "That would indeed be a surprise.
Also deceptive.
The millions of Black slaves owned no slaves, so the percentage of Blacks who owned slaves would have to be lower than the percentage of Whites who did."
I've never seen such numbers, and I doubt if Code Toad even understands what he posted.
But I'd predict that if he did understand, it would come down to something like the following:
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