House confronts the "inheritance of slavery" in panel on reparations

MSN News ^ | 6/19/2019 | Grace Segers

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Sen. Cory Booker said in a panel that the U.S. needs to address "persistent inequalities" experienced by African Americans by discussing reparations, the idea that the descendants of slaves should be compensated for the injustices and cruelty their ancestors experienced.

Booker said that the nation has "yet to truly acknowledge and grapple with the racism and white supremacy that tainted this country's founding and continues to cause persistent and deep racial disparities and inequality. These disparities don't just harm black communities, they harm all communities."

A House Judiciary subcommittee debated H.R. 40, a bill that would study how the U.S. would implement reparations to black Americans, amid a national conversation about what the federal government owes descendants of slaves. Booker, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover were among the witnesses who testified before the panel.

[i_robot73]

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In 30 years, will a reparations bill be introduced on behalf of the people who were made slaves by this bill? I mean, forcing someone to work and give their product to another IS slavery.
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THIS bill?? Methinks you meant the illegal, economic enslavement via the ‘Great Society’ welfare state, no?

EVERY paycheck (and ‘winnings’ and ‘dividends’ and ‘wind-falls’ and inheritance and...) since able to work has had a chunk stolen to be given to another (slavery by any other name).

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I always say: If you’re a minority in the US and you don’t have a better home than I do... a better education, a better job, better health care, favored status in the courts, favored status in lending, etc., then, you have been asleep for a VERY long time!

[RatRipper]

There is certainly a Southern resilience and determination that is the basis for the ingenuity and work ethic that has remade the South into the economic power that it is. Near the beginning of my Dad’s life (he was born in 1922, our family was economically destitute. I am not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but I make a pretty good income and I will pass along to my sons enough assets to where they will never be as fearful of doing without as I was growing up. My parents being children of the Great Depression and part of the Greatest Generation, they taught us that prosperity could fade quickly. Some of the biggest problems of this country involve the leftist mentality of the northeast, the elites taking advantage of everyone, and the seditious socialists and commies. All those make me seethe with anger and make me want to puke because they live to take away what little we have managed to accumulate.