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BET founder Robert Johnson calls for $14 trillion of reparations for slavery
CNBC ^ | June 1, 2020 | Matthew J. Belvedere

Posted on 06/01/2020 9:23:49 AM PDT by C19fan

Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, told CNBC on Monday the U.S. government should provide $14 trillion of reparations for slavery to help reduce racial inequality. The wealth divide and police brutality against blacks are at the heart of protests that have erupted across the nation following last week’s killing of George Floyd during an arrest in Minneapolis.

“Now is the time to go big” to keep America from dividing into two separate and unequal societies, Johnson said on “Squawk Box.”

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: raparations; slavery
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

And then tell me what I had to do with slavery. My ancestors came to North Dakota from Norway in the late 1800’s.

No slaves up there....EVER.


21 posted on 06/01/2020 9:32:34 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: C19fan

He can shove it up his Obamahole.


22 posted on 06/01/2020 9:32:56 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: C19fan

Then as a white guy I demand $100 trillion in reparations to be paid by blacks for the crimes committed by blacks against whites.


23 posted on 06/01/2020 9:33:02 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: C19fan

Give us money and (maybe) we will stop destroying stuff.


24 posted on 06/01/2020 9:33:03 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: C19fan
GIBSMEDAT

(n.)

1.) Annuities, in the form of wealth transfer (welfare/EBT), given predominantly to blacks, in exchange for their tacit agreement to reciprocate by not burning down America's cities.

Ex.: "Yo, Trayvon, who you vote for?"
"I gots to go wif Obama, baby - Democrats be givin' out mo' betta' gibsmedat."

Synonyms: Danegeld, tribute, baksheesh, reparations

25 posted on 06/01/2020 9:33:24 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Quando omni flunkus moritati)
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To: C19fan

So assume he’s voting for Biden then... Because if he ain’t voting for Biden... He ain’t you know what, and then he gets no reparation money.


26 posted on 06/01/2020 9:33:25 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: lee martell

How about the many religious groups who fled persecution to come to the Americas?


27 posted on 06/01/2020 9:34:24 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: C19fan

There will never be enough money. They want infinity and then they want whoever is left as a taxpayer to become their slaves.


28 posted on 06/01/2020 9:34:26 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: C19fan

I’m all for reparations for former slaves from former slave owners.


29 posted on 06/01/2020 9:34:49 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: C19fan

You want to create a bigger racial divide?

Pass a black slaves reparations bill.

You want to see much bigger violent protests?

Pass a black slaves reparations bill.

Want to bring on a civil war?

Pass a black slaves reparations bill.


30 posted on 06/01/2020 9:35:40 AM PDT by adorno
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To: C19fan

We treat blacks like spoiled indulged children

The paternalistic system in place in my youth yielded more productive results segregated or not

Integration has brought everyone down a few notches

Now doubt


31 posted on 06/01/2020 9:35:47 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you run the tra)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Anyone calling for reparations is publicly acknowledging that blacks will never assimilate into a Western society; we’ve been paying de facto reparations for half a century, and most of them are still passed on the socio-economic ladder very quickly by imported foreigners who don’t even speak English.

I appreciate the candor of people endorsing this; it is panhandling in perpetuity.


32 posted on 06/01/2020 9:36:16 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: C19fan

Pay all you want, Bob.

My family never owned slaves.


33 posted on 06/01/2020 9:36:50 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: C19fan
Please someone post BET address so I can send them my part of reparations I owe.

Will the post office send .01 penny in an envelope to them. ?

I expect a paid in full statement returned to me for future requests.

My family came to this county in the late 1880. I had no part of slavery

34 posted on 06/01/2020 9:36:58 AM PDT by Popman
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Or all the malcontents could be shipped to Hong Kong and replaced by the HK Chinese. In 10 years they could turn Oakland and Detroit into major economic centres with no government assistance and low crime.


35 posted on 06/01/2020 9:36:58 AM PDT by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: C19fan

$14 Trillion to blow on hookers, booze, gold teeth and crack so they can come back and demand another $20 Trillion in 10 years?


36 posted on 06/01/2020 9:37:38 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: C19fan

We’ve had Affirmative Action for three decades, we’ve had preferences in schooling and work and we’ve had lowered standards and what has all that accomplished? Next to nothing. And why is that? Is it because most Blacks are incapable of actually constructively participating and contributing in a society that actually works? Or is it that their culture doesn’t allow them to be part of the “white man’s world.” Or is it because the black family no longer exists and the young are brought up on the streets by gangs? Or is it because their black Democrat leaders hold their power by keeping them on the plantation? Or, is it that they see themselves as victims who though they have chances fail to take those chances because they have been taught that they are owed? Who knows, but apparently Robert Johnson is in the camp of them being victims and are owed everything. Racism in this country is more on the side of the Black community than it is on the side of the white — though it exists in both.


37 posted on 06/01/2020 9:37:54 AM PDT by falcon99 (qu)
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To: C19fan

The US does not negotiate with terrorists.


38 posted on 06/01/2020 9:38:13 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: C19fan

If you Southern boys would have paid a higher wage and picked your own damn cotton we would not be going through all of this crap right now.


39 posted on 06/01/2020 9:38:25 AM PDT by setter
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To: C19fan

Bet, if given, would be the first payment with annual payments to follow


40 posted on 06/01/2020 9:38:39 AM PDT by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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