Posted on 12/14/2019 9:18:44 AM PST by bgill
The country has been discussing reparations in one way or another since slavery officially ended in 1865. This year marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first slave, launching the violence afflicted on black people to prop up the Southern economy.
University of Buffalo senior Jeffrey Clinton said he thinks campuses should acknowledge historical ties to slavery but that the federal government should take the lead on an issue that reaches well beyond higher education.
“It doesn’t have to be trillions of dollars ... but at least address the inequities and attack the racial wealth gap between African Americans and white Americans and really everybody else, because this is an American-made institution. We didn’t immigrate here,” said Clinton, a descendant of slaves who lives in Bay Shore, New York.
A majority of Georgetown undergraduates voted in April for a nonbinding referendum to pay a $27.20-per-semester “Reconciliation Contribution” toward projects in underprivileged communities that are home to some descendants of 272 slaves who were sold in 1838 to help pay off the school’s debts.
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Ok, Jeffy, if you have the papers proving you were a slave who actually picked cotton then you have a grievance. Otherwise, shut up and be thankful you're in college and likely there on scholarship.
Another racial shakedown to guilt whitey. Git us mo’ green!
The colleges are getting so much money from parents and student loans and foreign governments and our own government, they literally don’t know what to do with it all.
[[University of Buffalo senior Jeffrey Clinton ]]
Grade school kids lecturing the world on climate change, a 16 year old screaming at adults about climate change, and now a senior in college lecturing the world on slavery-
Sad- Yeah, sure, let’s give 14 year olds and up the right to vote- they are so wise-
I thought Affirmative Action represented reparation.
Brand new and improved Soylent Green. Now with more people!
To the Progressives they are the ideal voter, they do as they are told.
More dumb ass idiots. I refuse to pay reparations. My family NEVER owned slaves and my great-great grandfather lost all 5 of his brothers and his right arm fighting to free slaves in the Civil War. They escaped from being serfs in Europe to come to America.
There are no slaves in America today, and no black is alive today who was a slave in the US.
And, show me ONE place in Africa where Blacks today would have been better off.
We aren’t in arrears to former slaves. There descendants are owed nothing.
Dumb S^^Ts!
$27.20-per-semester “Reconciliation Contribution” toward projects in underprivileged communities.
If I was black I’d be all like, “n....a, that ain’t gonna cover sh.t!! Yo parents got more money dan dat..ssheeiitt!
...Honkey”
Are the whiteys still going out to nice restaurants are buying booze or going to clubs or buying nice clothes or driving nice cars?
Cause then they don’t feel that ####ing guilty.
I left my reparations in the bathroom. I had a lot of angel hair pasta and meatballs last night so it’s a sizable donation.
Burning our own country to the ground from Kansas to Pennsylvania over this issue wasn't enough for these people apparently.
Slavery is wrong and totally evil.
So, I might consider this if someone can show me a Black who was a slave in America.
They can’t because there Aren’t any! This is all a racist play be the Democrat libs to drum up votes.
I think the best reparations would be re-patriotizing them to the african country of their ancesters for anyone who feels they are oppressed in this country. Add a 50k USD bonus to each of them.. 23 and me could determine which country they should be sent to. And they have to renou e their US citizenship.
Ok...some “Americans” are willing to do the hard work to rise above where they are in the world of “work”....others are unwilling to do even the basics to get ahead. It's not a “racial wealth gap” at all....it's who does or not the hard work and overcome the challenges they face.
It's not enough.
Welfare isn't enough.
Black privilege isn't enough.
Reparations won't be enough.
Nothing will ever be enough as long as Whitey has a thin dime left in his pocket.
There’s a cemetery 10 miles from my house where I can show you the graves of two direct ancestors who fought in the Civil War, in the Union’s NY 49th. They were at Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
I can give an address for the government to send me check for reparations.
.....”show me a Black who was a slave in America.
They can’t because there Aren’t any!”.....
A black culture norm that believes Goverment handouts as a lifestyle they are ‘owed’ will easily fall in line ‘for more’ via reperations.
.....”show me a Black who was a slave in America.
They can’t because there Aren’t any!”.....
A black culture norm that believes Goverment handouts as a lifestyle they are ‘owed’ will easily fall in line ‘for more’ via reperations.
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