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Chicago looting proves Black America deserves reparations — here's why
NBC News ^ | August 30, 2020 | Carlos Ballesteros

Posted on 08/30/2020 1:55:17 PM PDT by Belteshazzar

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To: Belteshazzar

So criminal activity proves that people deserve things they’ve stolen?
What next, rapists deserve free access to whomever they desire to rape?
Is that really what they mean to say?


21 posted on 08/30/2020 2:18:39 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Belteshazzar

“Deserve” reparations? Isn’t there a doctrine of “clean hands” when it comes to making your case before any tribunal?

Thugs and thieves do not deserve any reward for THEIR lawless behavior. In looting and wanton destruction of the property of others who are in no way responsible for their circumstances, they have set themselves outside any interpretation of redress for any past wrongs, real or imagined.

Any systemic racism that exists in this country may be found almost exclusively in those venues where Democrat rule has been the normal set of circumstances for DECADES. No Republicans are to be found anywhere, and self-reform is apparently not an option for any of these one-party towns.


22 posted on 08/30/2020 2:19:40 PM PDT by alloysteel ("The Best Is Yet to Come "- theme of 2020 RNC)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Ill give you reparations on one condition, Those who support reparations should be sent with those who get, send them all back to Africa they lose their citizenship and are never to return


23 posted on 08/30/2020 2:20:16 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: a fool in paradise

“Tell them to blame Oprah. She’s from Chicago and is a billionaire. She got their share, no doubt.”

Actually Oprah is an wonderful example that a black person born in poverty to a single mother, as many blacks are today, can through hard work and determination rise above adversity to become a billionaire. Is this possible in any African country?

Despite her circumstances, she made good choices. She stayed in school, despite being pregnant at 14 and having her son die in infancy. She found a job in radio at age 19. She developed an audience and built that audience into a media empire.

Whether you agree with her politics or not, Opah wasn’t given her wealth and fame. She owes poor black Chicagoans no more than any successful person and is no more to blame for the lifestyle those who made bad choices lead.

If we want to have an honest discussion on race we need to address the issue of personal responsibility. A third generation single teen mother who hangs out with the gang bangers, and doesn’t get a high school diploma has almost no future. It doesn’t matter if she was born black and raised on the south side of Chicago or born white in a redneck trailer park in rural Georgia. A teen who rejects education and expects to hit it big as a pimp, drug dealer, rapper, or basketball star is almost certainly going to be disappointed for his lot in life.


24 posted on 08/30/2020 2:26:26 PM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: Belteshazzar
For decades, reparations have been in place for the descendants of Americans harmed by all sorts of societal inequality and negligence. There is no longer a need for discussion on reparations, except of course for Rats engaging in class warfare.
25 posted on 08/30/2020 2:27:48 PM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal that can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground--Mencken)
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To: Belteshazzar
"not our city". Geez. You start a business, provide employment, goods that people want, taxes to the government...and you, somehow, are a pariah.

Enjoy the third world, Chicago!

26 posted on 08/30/2020 2:27:58 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: ronnie raygun

You know...It has seemed like for several years blacks and whites got along much better and race relations had improved quite a bit ...That is, until Obama was elected and things started going down hill...Used to be, you didn’t hear very much the old ‘40’s-’50’s saying “Send ‘em back to Africa...”

Now, since Obama and the recent actions of the BLM and many young blacks, it has started again...


27 posted on 08/30/2020 2:29:11 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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NBC is Comcast

Comcast reported giving $150 to BLM

Comcast is the nation’s #3 telecom provider

Should monopolized & federally licensed telecom be allowed to force-feed its helpless subscribers with Marxism?


28 posted on 08/30/2020 2:32:14 PM PDT by Gene Eric (On Don't be a statist!)
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To: MCEscherHammer

I threw out our TV in 1988 and have not had one in the house since. I have experienced exactly no nostalgia for it. My wife and kids got over it in about a week. The kids started reading books for entertainment and discovered the value of history and biographies and none of the four grew up to be mushy headed Liberals.


29 posted on 08/30/2020 2:35:34 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe|.g|ru)
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To: Belteshazzar

Looters deserve to be shot.


30 posted on 08/30/2020 2:37:28 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Belteshazzar

I hope the Democrats make this argument the centerpieces of their election campaign.


31 posted on 08/30/2020 2:40:09 PM PDT by djpg
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To: Belteshazzar

32 posted on 08/30/2020 2:40:26 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Chode

Bttt


33 posted on 08/30/2020 2:42:53 PM PDT by combat_boots (Hi God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her. Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: Belteshazzar

How can the looting be the result of “paid Trump plants”....and at the same time be “necessary and legitimate reparations”.


34 posted on 08/30/2020 2:45:28 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: BenLurkin

I am not confused. I know a criminal when I see one.


35 posted on 08/30/2020 2:46:27 PM PDT by LateBoomer
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To: Chode

Well done....


36 posted on 08/30/2020 2:47:47 PM PDT by RedEyeJack (What was the basis for the restriction?)
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To: Belteshazzar

This article is even more valid than the excerpt suggests. Yet another leftist equates lending someone money with stealing from him.


37 posted on 08/30/2020 2:50:21 PM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: Belteshazzar

Tired of the incessant talk of reparations, period. Totally not going to happen...unless of course, the Leftist DEM BidenIdiot gets elected......


38 posted on 08/30/2020 2:50:55 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Belteshazzar

What they DESERVE is being kicked in the ass so hard their Grandchildren will limp!


39 posted on 08/30/2020 2:51:10 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Slo-Joe Biden... puts the DEM in Dementia.)
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To: The Pack Knight

I hate autocorrect. “Valid”=vapid


40 posted on 08/30/2020 2:51:17 PM PDT by The Pack Knight
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