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Elizabeth Warren Calls for a ‘Full-Blown National Conversation About Reparations’
Breitbart ^ | 11/22/19 | Hannah Bleau

Posted on 11/22/2019 4:53:29 PM PST by david1292

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Thursday delivered a speech at Clark Atlanta University, and declared that it is time to adopt Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s (D-TX) legislation on reparations.

Warren delivered a speech at the historically black university Thursday evening and stressed the need to pass Lee’s reparations legislation, which “establishes the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans.”

“Let’s be clear: It’s time for our government to have a full-blown national conversation about reparations,” Warren wrote in a tweet containing a video of her remarks:

“America was founded on principles of liberty and built on the backs of enslaved people. [It’s] time to adopt H.R. 40, Sheila Jackson Lee’s reparations plan. [It’s] time to do what’s right, so that our nation can begin to heal,” Warren stated.

The commission, according to the summary, would examine slavery and discrimination from 1619 to the modern era and “recommend appropriate remedies.”

While Warren said that would be a “big step,” she suggested that more must be done.

“This is a big step but slavery is not the only history we must confront. Jim Crow was the lived reality in American up through the 1960s,” Warren said.

She continued:

Government redlining meant that too often, toxic waste dumps and polluting factories were located far away from white communities and right next to black communities. The 1994 crime bill exacerbated the mass incarceration that locked up millions of black men and women. So don’t talk about race-neutral laws. The federal government helped create the racial divide in this country through decades of active state-sponsored discrimination, and that means the federal government has a responsibility to fix it.

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This woman is going to bankrupt this country and everyone in it with her giveaways.
1 posted on 11/22/2019 4:53:29 PM PST by david1292
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Just another psychotic shrieking lunatic lib.


2 posted on 11/22/2019 4:56:25 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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Everything is free. Wins votes.


4 posted on 11/22/2019 4:58:18 PM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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Warren is throwing everything she can find at the wall but nothing is sticking ,LOL


5 posted on 11/22/2019 4:58:22 PM PST by butlerweave
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Not only NO, go f your shelf you pathetic fascist wanna be


6 posted on 11/22/2019 4:58:34 PM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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Reparations: paying to negroes the profits the North made from the war.
I love it LOL!

So stupid.


7 posted on 11/22/2019 4:58:49 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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Reparations: paying to negroes the profits the North made from the war.
I love it LOL!

So stupid.


8 posted on 11/22/2019 4:58:49 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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Yep, screeching every outlandish thing she can think up to get a headline, she is angling for the VP slot.

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9 posted on 11/22/2019 4:59:05 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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If you really, really want a Civil War, then tax people for reparations for something that happened 150 years ago by people who may or may not have taken part.


10 posted on 11/22/2019 5:00:38 PM PST by libertylover (Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
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Yep, I think Trump should announce that the first act of his next term will be to give every black American and illegal alien a million dollars tax free. He should leave out that it is to be paid in Zimbabwe dollars.


11 posted on 11/22/2019 5:00:46 PM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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How insulting. A fake Indian pandering to the black vote and spending our money for something I didn’t do. I can only wish the worst for that dingbat.


12 posted on 11/22/2019 5:02:21 PM PST by HighSierra5
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How many trillions are we up to now, Lieawatha?


13 posted on 11/22/2019 5:02:24 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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All she does is pander. Even “her own tribe”, the Indians, don’t like her. I’m sure the Black folks don’t like her, either.


14 posted on 11/22/2019 5:02:42 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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Warren makes Hillary seem sane.


15 posted on 11/22/2019 5:03:09 PM PST by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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Putin recently said the Dollar would lose it’s reserve currency standard. Perhaps this is how she will help him do it.


16 posted on 11/22/2019 5:03:29 PM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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Sad commentary.


17 posted on 11/22/2019 5:03:36 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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18 posted on 11/22/2019 5:04:39 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord!)
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Chief Commie Wannabe, needs to shut her lying mouth.


19 posted on 11/22/2019 5:05:26 PM PST by madison10
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Reparations = desperation.


20 posted on 11/22/2019 5:08:50 PM PST by bramps (Chik Fil A Sucks!)
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