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H.R. 40: To address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology
U.S. Congress ^ | January 9, 2023 | Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee

Posted on 01/14/2023 12:31:24 PM PST by Perseverando

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To: Perseverando

Yep about race. Yep, to be used as a political tool against all the unfeeling, mean, bad orange-man clones voting in the latest Congress in future elections.


61 posted on 01/14/2023 1:59:55 PM PST by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: lurk
Let’s also run a commission to pay the families of 700,000 men who died setting the slaves free.

They didn't die for that reason. They died to secure the power of corrupt Washington DC to control the economic power of all the states, even against their will.

They died for tyranny, not for freedom.

62 posted on 01/14/2023 2:08:24 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Perseverando

Why didn’t she do this when the Dems were in control?


63 posted on 01/14/2023 2:13:13 PM PST by Twotone
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To: Bshaw

True

About a year ago, I watched on documentary on pirates of the time. What you described was reflected in the doc.


64 posted on 01/14/2023 2:18:14 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Perseverando
To address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619...

Not that the crazy lady had much credibility to begin with, but invoking the fictional "1619 Report" makes this a total piece of trash.

Hopefully, McCarthy will place this in the "Round File" post haste.

65 posted on 01/14/2023 2:18:51 PM PST by Ratman0823 (COVID Vaccines? We don't need no stinking COVID Vaccines!)
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To: Perseverando

I’d say the Civil War suffices.


66 posted on 01/14/2023 2:19:09 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: rovenstinez

Tell your other 63% to fork over the damn money to your 37%.


67 posted on 01/14/2023 2:23:51 PM PST by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: Perseverando

The USA did not exist in 1619..

WTF


68 posted on 01/14/2023 2:28:26 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Perseverando

Behind all the hoopla is a craving for $$$.


69 posted on 01/14/2023 2:38:16 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama....

True.

We gave at the office. The Oval Office.
True white supremacist racists would never have voted him there for two terms. Not guilty.


70 posted on 01/14/2023 2:46:41 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Bshaw

That’s exactly right.

The United States should not pay reparations on behalf of the King of England. These reparations should be paid by Britain herself.


71 posted on 01/14/2023 2:51:23 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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To: Perseverando

Ok. Reparations will be charged from all living slave dealers and slave holders from the era.

Kamala Harris will be exempt because it was her great grandparents who dealt slaves from Africa through Jamaica. Not her.

“In 2018, Donald Harris, a Stanford University emeritus professor of economics, detailed his family’s history in Jamaica in an essay in Jamaica Global Online.”

“There is no mention in his essay of having Indian ancestry, and he makes clear his family has been in Jamaica for generations. The elder Harris does write that his paternal grandmother descended from a slave owner.”
By Jude Joffe-Block and Beatrice Dupuy, AP News,
September 22, 2020


72 posted on 01/14/2023 2:52:19 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Perseverando
Apologize to whom for what?

No slaves or slave holders from America are living.

According to many online sources, I-phones are slave-produced goods.

Perhaps a national apology to the Uyghurs might be in order.

73 posted on 01/14/2023 2:54:52 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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To: Perseverando

Oh, trust me, Sheila, at this point pretty much everybody down here in the South wishes we’d picked our own damn cotton.

GFY.

}:-)4


74 posted on 01/14/2023 2:58:07 PM PST by Moose4 (Oderint dum metuant. Let them hate, as long as they fear.)
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To: Perseverando

So we can we go back and unfight the Civil War and get our 600,000 honored dead back if this passes?
And how about the trillions in social welfare spending?
Can we get that back as well?
Ungrateful ba$tards


75 posted on 01/14/2023 3:03:20 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: Perseverando

How about slapping some sanctions on China for enslaving, raping, slaughtering and organ-harvesting Uighers. Too busy playing footsy with Xi Jinpig for that?


76 posted on 01/14/2023 3:13:13 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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To: Perseverando
white88
77 posted on 01/14/2023 3:18:49 PM PST by SimpleJack
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To: SimpleJack

What happens when you have no guilt?


78 posted on 01/14/2023 3:19:33 PM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: Perseverando

Wonder how many black slave owners will be listed.


79 posted on 01/14/2023 3:26:20 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: DiogenesLamp
They died for tyranny, not for freedom.

Hard to believe you haven't been challenged yet. I think I am more inclined to believe your viewpoint even tho my Great Grandfather who survived the Civil war as a Union Officer would probably be disappointed in me.

80 posted on 01/14/2023 3:28:01 PM PST by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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