[2ndDivisionVet]

Sure, why not?

[BigCinBigD]

Here’s 20, 000.00 there’s the boat. Get on it.

[sickoflibs]

Maybe any living slaves deserve reparations, of course they might be too old to enjoy them by now.

Speaking of reparations, when do they pay us back for decades of government handouts and racial preferences?

[Darteaus94025]

Shouldn’t full reparations include relocation to one’s continent of abduction?

[Cyman]

As long as they pay back the trillions of welfare dollars , I am all for it.

[Eagles6]

You already got 'em. The Great Society, welfare, affirmative action. With Piggord I & II any black man that picked up a ho got a check.

Never has so much been given to so few and they have done so little.

[cardinal4]

Why should I pay anything? I wasn’t even there!

[tbpiper]

Pastors Urge Kirk To Support Slave Reparations Bill

I couldn't understand why the story was talking about Chicago gangs when the headline was about the Church of Scotland. An obvious sign of critically low caffeine levels in the early morning reader.

[Rum Tum Tugger]

Blacks have clearly become their own worst enemy.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I’m all for giving Rev Williams $200.00 per day that he spent in slavery.

[castlegreyskull]

I distinctly remember in history class, that they received 40 acres and a mule following the Civil War. I would be extremely happy if I was given this today.

So where does reparations start and stop? Seems like they have already got them several times and several different forms, 40 acres, AA, 600,0000 dead Americans, and now obamacare. If I go onto a genealgy website and find my great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather was a slave, would I be eligible?

Another question I have about this, what does slavery have to do with them today. I am sure some of my ancestors worked in coal mines and other sweat shops for meager wages just enough to pay the company for the house provided and to get food at the company store.

[Heart of Georgia]

“a way for him to redeem himself”

I’ve never heard shakedown described exactly that way. Or can we just call it what it is...old-fashioned blackmail?

[Islander7]

Vicksburg National Military Park

The price has already been paid for these ingrates.

The Civil War was America's bloodiest conflict. The unprecedented violence of battles such as Shiloh, Antietam, Stones River, and Gettysburg shocked citizens and international observers alike. Nearly as many men died in captivity during the Civil War as were killed in the whole of the Vietnam War. Hundreds of thousands died of disease. Roughly 2% of the population, an estimated 620,000 men, lost their lives in the line of duty. Taken as a percentage of today's population, the toll would have risen as high as 6 million souls.

[Old Yeller]

If there are any slaves still living then sure repair them. Good luck finding any still living after 150 years.

[jespasinthru]

If they passed a reparations law and decided to cut every black American a big, fat check, do you know what would happen? Half the white people in this country would be digging through old birth records and taking DNA tests to “prove” that they had at least one black ancestor, just so they could jump on that gravy train. Not to mention Haitians, Jamaicans, South Americans and everybody else who could scam their way into the treasure chest. And what about the forty acres and the mule they promised us? You can keep the mule, but for my forty acres I’ll take a couple of Vegas casinos, thank you very much.

[Graybeard58]

Jews got their reparations from the Holocaust

When did that happen and who paid?

[Graybeard58]

Well, for sure, he’s hitting up the right “republican” senator. Mr liberal, himself.

[KeyLargo]

Meanwhile Rahm went on a Chicago Police 'Ride Along' this weekend through one of the neighborhoods.

Via: http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/

[DoodleDawg]

“Jews got their reparations from the Holocaust, Japanese got their reparations from the internment. It is time for us to get our reparations,” said. Rev. Williams.

Those getting the reparations were those who actually suffered as a result of the Holocaust and the internment. Trot out a former slave and I'll support reparations for them.

[liberalh8ter]

Reparations for whom? The slaves that have been having their wages stolen to support multigenerational families who can't even point in the direction of Africa?

[Altura Ct.]

Senator Mark Kirk ruffled a lot of feathers with his recent plan to round up 18,000 gang members but a group of South Side pastors say they have a way for him to redeem himself: Help pass legislation to give African Americans reparation.

But I'm not a racist!?!?!?