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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Celebrate Juneteenth by Enacting Commission to Study Reparations
Breitbart ^ | June 19 2020 | HANNAH BLEAU

Posted on 06/19/2020 12:04:09 PM PDT by knighthawk

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Friday the United States should celebrate Juneteenth, the day commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., by enacting Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s (D-TX) legislation forming a commission to study proposals for issuing reparations.

“Happy #Juneteenth!” the New York lawmaker said on social media. “To celebrate, let’s pass legislation that makes Juneteenth a national holiday and enact H.R. 40, Rep @JacksonLeeTX18’s Commission on Reparations”:

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KEYWORDS: aoc; juneteenth; ocasiocortez; reparations
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1 posted on 06/19/2020 12:04:10 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

Yay, reparations for me, reparations for me!

Descendant of a Union soldier killed fighting slavery.

I get reparations!


2 posted on 06/19/2020 12:07:13 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: knighthawk

thats where all this is headed...theyll stick their toe in the water, see what the response is. Poll today said 73% are AGAINST reparations...


3 posted on 06/19/2020 12:07:36 PM PDT by basalt (w.h.)
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To: knighthawk
No can do.

George Washington is on the dollar bill.

4 posted on 06/19/2020 12:08:26 PM PDT by red-dawg (Climate change caused the end of the Ice Age. Did man play a part in it?)
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To: knighthawk

Pandering beeotch. She doesn’t count the amount of blood spilled to free the slaves in the civil war? There’s the reparations.


5 posted on 06/19/2020 12:08:32 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: knighthawk

their reparations are the billions spent on social programs and inner cities

give those up and then we can talk about reparations


6 posted on 06/19/2020 12:08:33 PM PDT by RummyChick (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYXYfdsaHxg)
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To: knighthawk

Lipstick on a PSYCHOPATH. 1) Face 2) Words 3) Deeds

https://www.google.com/search?q=aoc&client=safari&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihieaHyo7qAhXXWc0KHd6eBAUQ_AUoAnoECCQQBA&biw=1724&bih=914

Look at this subhuman. How much more do you need?


7 posted on 06/19/2020 12:09:24 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: kaehurowing

whoa!!....never thought of that before...maybe im a descendant too!!!..


8 posted on 06/19/2020 12:09:59 PM PDT by basalt (w.h.)
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To: knighthawk

Maybe Amazon will help her fund this.


9 posted on 06/19/2020 12:10:58 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: kaehurowing

Reparations in the form of a one-way ticket to the African paradise of their dreams. Heck, we can add $50,000 for each one that wants to leave. Thats far less than our cost in welfare and other social reparations we pay now.


10 posted on 06/19/2020 12:13:10 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: kaehurowing

Reparations in the form of a one-way ticket to the African paradise of their dreams. Heck, we can add $50,000 for each one that wants to leave. Thats far less than our cost in welfare and other social reparations we pay now.


11 posted on 06/19/2020 12:13:38 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: knighthawk

I’m 1/32 cherokee - what do I get?


12 posted on 06/19/2020 12:16:10 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: knighthawk

I’m for making Juneteenth a Federal Holiday.

Reparations?...not so much.

People like to talk about it, but NO ONE knows what it really means. Of course, it’s always open-ended, meaning if American are made to pay reparations, there is no end to it. Who gets reparations? Only descendants of slaves or all black citizens? What about people who are half, quarter, or only a small fraction African American? Do wealthy black people also qualify? Who pays? Everyone or only white Americans? What about recent immigrants?

No one has ANY answers.


13 posted on 06/19/2020 12:16:11 PM PDT by trublu
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To: knighthawk

[[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Celebrate Juneteenth by Enacting Commission to Study Reparations]]

Ohhhh goody ‘free money’ for white folks because white Christian ancestors were made slaves

No? Only black folks get ‘free money’ because black folks many moons ago were slaves? descendants of White slave don’t count? How racist!


14 posted on 06/19/2020 12:22:25 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: knighthawk
The publication I have before me is "The Historical Atlas of the United States" published by the society in 1988. It is an atlas sized book of 285 pages with full color maps and extensive documentation, charts, graphs, etc.

The total number of Africans brought to colonial America as slaves was 399,000. Page 40 under "African immigration in chains". The height of the slave population in this country was in 1830. The population of slaves had grown to 2,000,000 individuals. Same page and story.

Here is the eye opener. The Total number of Africans imported into Spanish America:

(Cuba, Mexico, Central America and South America) was 1,552,100.

British Caribbean (Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Jamaica, Honduras) was 1,665,000.

Danish Caribbean Leeward Islands) 28,000.

French Caribbean Surinam, Guyana) 1,600,200.

Dutch Caribbean (Aruba and Leeward Islands) 500,000.

Brazil imported a total of 3,646,800 Africans into their country as slaves.

About 6% of the total slavery into the western hemisphere ostensibly ended up in the United States and of course slavery as an institution was still carried on in the eastern hemisphere by Africans themselves.....yet when one is reminded of this terrible Scourge on the history of mankind we somehow seem to only be reminded of the evilness of the slave trade in the U.S.A. This also dispels the notion, promulgated by some, that slavery was somehow responsible for the economic success of this nation. If that is the case why isn't Brazil such an economic dynamo.....or Aruba.....or....you get my meaning.

This information should probably be presented when discussing reparations! I originally wrote this about ten years ago and I see this stupid idea is beginning to crop up once more.

15 posted on 06/19/2020 12:23:54 PM PDT by Diego1618 (Put "Donald" on the Rock!)
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To: knighthawk

By the way- who do descendants of white folks who fought and died to free the black slaves send the bill to?

White folks fought and died to free black folks- White folks paid a huge price for it too, and didn’t charge for it either- Shall descendants now make out a bill since certain folks on the left want to impose fines on white folks??


16 posted on 06/19/2020 12:25:36 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Diego1618
That's the National Geographic Society!
17 posted on 06/19/2020 12:28:51 PM PDT by Diego1618 (Put "Donald" on the Rock!)
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To: knighthawk

No reparations, only repatriation...to the African countries that captured and sold your ancestors into slavery.


18 posted on 06/19/2020 1:03:33 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: knighthawk
AOC knows all about reparations, she was proficient at repatriating coworkers tips to her pockets.

i would call AOC an attention whore but she has an attention deficit.

19 posted on 06/19/2020 1:05:19 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: kaehurowing

I am also a direct descendant of Quaker abolitionists and union soldiers. They received no reparations, or appreciation from those they fought and died for. If they want reparations, then first go to the party of slavery, the KKK, etc. Demand direct payment from the democrat party. If they don’t want to pay then piss off.


20 posted on 06/19/2020 1:08:28 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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