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Eric Adams supports controversial bill which decides whether black New Yorkers deserve reparations for slavery
UK Daily Mail ^ | October 7 2023 | FIONA CONNOR

Posted on 10/07/2023 3:54:54 PM PDT by knighthawk

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To: knighthawk

It is a task force to study the matter. We already know the conclusions and we also know the outcome - zero, nada, zilch.

It is simply a campaign bone thrown to blacks to help in upcoming elections. And they will almost all fall for it, hook, line and sinker.


21 posted on 10/07/2023 5:00:35 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: shadeaud
New York abolished slavery two centuries ago. Thousands of New York soldiers died in a war to free the slaves. A majority of the white population of the state had forbears that arrived after 1865: almost all the Italians ad East Europeans, most of the Jews, some of the Irish and the Germans. The last former slave died about 60 years ago. In the first half of the last century, hundreds of thousands of black moved to New York and other Northern states to escape poverty and Jim Crow laws in the South.

Talk of reparations is nothing less than a leftist plot to divide people by race in order to destroy America.

22 posted on 10/07/2023 5:01:06 PM PDT by Wallace T. ( )
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To: knighthawk

Blacks are stealing it daily. Why would the voters GIVE them more money?


23 posted on 10/07/2023 5:02:16 PM PDT by Singermom
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To: Wallace T.

Oh come on man ….. how we gonna get them to vote democrat if we don’t say we will give them money ?


24 posted on 10/07/2023 5:04:21 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: knighthawk

I work hard so that welfare recipients can live free.

Who’s the slave now.


25 posted on 10/07/2023 5:05:05 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: knighthawk

Hey Adams! Give to the Irish first. They were the first slaves in America.


26 posted on 10/07/2023 5:26:00 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop ( ~~ TRUMP is right about EVERYTHING ! ~~ )
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To: I want the USA back
Hell I'm a white slave...working for the white and black man.

But why am I paying for all these rule breaking illegal immigrants?

27 posted on 10/07/2023 5:33:04 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I miss Rush)
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To: knighthawk

“The bill, which was created by Councilwoman Farah Louis to launch a task force to study the effects of racial discrimination on the city could potentially lead to payments being issued”

Outstanding!!! My dad was NYPD for 23 years- he was twice bypassed for promotion to Captain, despite having twice as much on the job experience and getting twice the score on the Captain’s exam as those who were promoted. Of course the reason my dad was bypassed for promotion by those less qualified was simply because he was white- in other words racial discrimination in NY!!!


28 posted on 10/07/2023 5:44:23 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: gibsonguy

New York did have slaves!

Heck .. The family that owned the New York Times were slaveholders!

As a matter of fact New York was named after the great Trader of African Slaves, the head of The Royal African Company ... King James II, also known as the Duke of York

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/the-forgotten-history-of-slavery-in-new-york/


29 posted on 10/07/2023 5:53:03 PM PDT by justme4now (Our Right's are God given and I don't need permission from politicians or courts to exercise them!)
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To: knighthawk

Here’s my idea for reparations: a free one way ticket 🎟 back to Africa!


30 posted on 10/07/2023 5:53:44 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: knighthawk

RE: said the controversial bill should be tweaked to avoid overlapping with two comparable state bills.

So much extra tax money floating around you just have to grab for some and it’s yours. But don’t overlap the loot disbursement?

What happened to cash strapped cities are too broke to house and take care of any border crossers?


31 posted on 10/07/2023 5:57:34 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: knighthawk

Democrats always seem to decide to spend money before the determine if they can afford it.


32 posted on 10/07/2023 5:58:13 PM PDT by beekay (Missing Trump yet? )
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To: gibsonguy

RE: Money from people who never owned slaves to people who never were slaves in a state that never had slaves. what’s the problem?

Perfectly said.


33 posted on 10/07/2023 5:58:25 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: knighthawk

34 posted on 10/07/2023 6:20:56 PM PDT by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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To: knighthawk

If North American slavery had not existed, none of the descendants of those slaves would ever have been born. Their ancestors never would have met and procreated. Descendants of slaves owe their very lives to the existence of slavery.

Not a defense of or an apology for slavery, just An inconvenient truth.


35 posted on 10/07/2023 6:29:37 PM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: knighthawk

Reparations = Bill of Attainder = UnConstitutional


36 posted on 10/07/2023 6:43:33 PM PDT by Tzimisce ( )
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To: justme4now

Thank you, l never mind being corrected. My mistake l just assumed NY was never a slave area since they were a northern state. As reparations we should give the NYT to Thomas Sowell.


37 posted on 10/07/2023 6:54:50 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: knighthawk

This is going to be a real hoot until WHITE AMERICA decides that they want “reparations” too. After all, we built, fought and died for this country.


38 posted on 10/07/2023 6:59:01 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Prosecutors say Trump may have broken the law admiring gun in South Carolina" ROTFLMAO!)
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To: knighthawk

The military Jo Jo the RAT is leaving them isn’t going to work against the American militia.


39 posted on 10/07/2023 7:00:22 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Prosecutors say Trump may have broken the law admiring gun in South Carolina" ROTFLMAO!)
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To: knighthawk

Keep sending the bus loads.


40 posted on 10/07/2023 7:11:42 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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