This will become a reality if the Rats get in power again. Count on it. All it takes is $$$ and we'll be giving until it hurts.
Sure, I think they deserve 12 million each in Monopoly money.
Yep, you guys just keep attacking the GOP and you'll get old Johnny where he wants to be.
Polls are looking good for that to happen this year.
Congratulations!
John Conyers owes reparations to his babysitting staff-members...
I'm expected to pay him for something not done to him by someone other than me. And why is that? Because the villains in this situation were white, like me, and beneficiaries like him will be black, like the original victims.
Yet in all of that, due only to race, the innocent will pay the unharmed because of what the real villains did to the actual victims.
Sure John.
You go first.
As one article I read recently about the 'Entitlements' designed to help 'the poor' has now spent multiple TRILLIONS of dollars since it was established back to WW2 era and the percentage of poor still remains the same and yet the money could have bought EVERY single building, factory and asset in the entire country but now has nothing to show for it.
Let's start by re-distributing the DNC's campaign cash.
Reparations were paid in blood on a hundred battlefields of the Civil War.
250000 dead. Paid in full.
The Japanese internees got reparations because many of them were still alive. None of the slaves are alive, none of the people that owned slaves are still alive, and nobody has any public interest in reverting to a slave system.
As for "but the blacks are still being enslaved by everyone else!", I shall quote David Eddings:
'"You've enslaved us!" someone bellowed.
'"Not me, old boy," Stragen drawled. "You couldn't *give* me a slave. You
have to feed them, you know - even when they're not working."'
You know what, John Conyers owes me money because parts of my family sponsored the abolisionist movement. Up yours John!
The Holocaust (of European Jews), Japanese Americans and immigrants, Amerindians, AND slavery have all been discussed.
Another nightmare to look forward to this november if we lose!!!
I had all but forgotten it. Good thing these guys are more inept than our side when it comes to strategic politics.
This may just get enough conservatives to hold their noses and go out and vote this fall and keep the house republican.
You can make this a reality!!
< /sarcasm >
Of all the problems we currently have that the Congress doesn't want or have the time to work on and this nutcase Conyers is talking about reparations. He's an idiot.
And better that you do it in highly visible places before the elections.
How anout my reparations for that rathole called the Great Society?
Some really bad things were done to my ancestors - in fact one of my ancestors was completely and forcibly dispossessed of what would have been a very valuable estate today..... it happened in 1755 and I think I am owed reparations, damnit!!
There's no "statute of limitations" on the venal idiocy of John Conyers.