Obama Wants Americans To Pay Slavery Reparations, Says Fox Host

The Huffington Post | ^ | 04/17/2015 1 | By Jackson Conno

[bob_denard]

The city of Chicago is proposing a $5.5 million reparations package for those who suffered under the ruthless rule of police commander Jon Burge from 1972 to 1991. Backed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the plan would supply victims with free college tuition, counseling for drug abuse and psychological issues, and include a formal apology from the city, according to the Chicago Tribune.

While the plan appears to be an attempt to reckon with part of the city's less-than-spotless past, Thursday evening Fox Business Network's Charles Payne said he's afraid nationwide slavery reparations might be next.

"The news in my mind is a glimpse of really much bigger news that is going to come from the White House," he said. "I think that there’s going to be an official apology from the White House for slavery in America and then there's going to be a major push to get cash. And I’m talking lots of cash.”

[A CA Guy]

Good, I want all the over paid government employees and social program users not retired to pay me my reparations as a slave for paying the taxes that pay for their bullsh!t.

[Westbrook]

To “president” 0bamao,

Reparations were paid in blood 155 years ago. Over 600,000 American dead, and whole states laid to ruin.

Go pound sand, racist.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Over my dead body. Although I would be receptive to a one-time payment of $400,000 (tax-free) and a one-way plane ticket to anyone who will renounce their citizenship on the tarmac.

[Organic Panic]

Too late.

We crackuhs have paid trillions in reparations.

[Organic Panic]

I demands mah reparations...

My fambly was in Bilatok when the red army invaded Poland. Then we came to Chicago. There, we met up with my grand-pappy who had been expelled from Scotland during the Highland genocide.

Where my gibs. Gimmedat. I ain’t done nuthin for my gibs but ginnedat. My fambly done worked slave servant to get to USA. Gimme dat free stuff. Section 8 be mine. Gimme gimme gimme dat.

OH WAIT. I have pale pink skin. Guess I don’t get me no gibs. I’m gonna declare myself transracial and pretend I’m black and join BLM. Shaun King be duh gimmedat king.

[antceecee]

Americans have been paying slavery reparations for many years... since the war on poverty was instituted by Lyndon.

[canuck_conservative]

Who pays?

Who gets?

That’s the part that the leftists never explain, the argument always stalls at the “well somebody owes us, bigtime” stage ...

[TexasFreeper2009]

Good God, get that moron out of the White Hut fast!

The next year cant go by quick enough!

[nathanbedford]

Let's see, if the descendents of slave holders (or merely white people?) had to pay reparations to descendents of slaves then Obama himself would have to pay but would not receive reparations bounty.

His daughters, would have a neutral account or would more likely have to pay more than they receive depending on the slave ancestry and the slave holding ancestry of their mother. They would have to pay as the children of Obama but they might receive something as the children of Michelle, but only that part of Michelle which descends from slaves and not that part of Michelle which might have descended from slaveholding whites-that part would have to pay a proportional amount.

It is apparent that we are going to need both genealogists to determine both the sanguinity of people like Barak, Michelle, and the two kids as well as on the ground historians to determine who was naughty and who was nice.

Now we have the problem of quasi-slaves like indentured servants who might have been white and some who were black. Do they get or do they pay reparations? And we have another problem of slaves who became emancipated and then held slaves. And yellow people pose a real problem too because many of them were held in virtual slavery in mines in the American West so the question arises whether they are entitled to reparations as well. What about the American Indians who held black slaves? Don't you think Indians who were oppressed and ejected from their lands ought to get reparations as well as the descendents of slaves?

This is getting more complicated than I thought. Maybe we should just pass a law making white people give their money to black people.

[tet68]

Well, before you know it, there will be a Ministry
Of Racial Heritage to sort this kind of thing out.
It’s happened before.

The Office of Planned Parenthood and Racial Registration.
Sign up now. or else.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I want reparations for my psychological issues caused by lazy welfare bums using government raiding my wallet for fifty years. The strain of having to constantly pay those bastards sickens me because it limits my ability to care for MY family.

[Smokin' Joe]

I think every person who has been a slave in the United States in their lifetime should be compensated for their productive labor by those who owned them. (With exception for those whose labors were part of serving their sentences for crimes for which they have been found guilty.)

If the sum total of those people isn't zero, it is very close.

[nuconvert]

This isn’t the 1st time Charles has talked about Obama wanting reparations payments. He’s pretty accurate on his stock picks - I hope he’s wrong on this.

[liberalh8ter]

And that would mean an end to slavery, correct? Boy, things are looking up, LOL

[Arm_Bears]

Well, I want a date with Michelle Malkin, and that ain’t happening either.

[ETL]

The Price in Blood
Casualties in the Civil War

At least 618,000 Americans died in the Civil War, and some experts say the toll reached 700,000.

The number that is most often quoted is 620,000. At any rate, these casualties exceed the nation’s loss in all its other wars, from the Revolution through Vietnam.

The Union armies had from 2,500,000 to 2,750,000 men. Their losses, by the best estimates:
Battle deaths: 110,070
Disease, etc: 250,152
Total 360,222

The Confederate strength, known less accurately because of missing records, was from 750,000 to 1,250,000. Its estimated losses:
Battle deaths: 94,000
Disease, etc: 164,000
Total: 258,000

http://civilwarhome.com/casualties.htm

[ETL]

When will his comrades pay reparations for all the deaths and devastation they caused?

"'The Black Book of Communism,'; a scholarly accounting of communism’s crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."

Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100711090651/http://article.nationalreview.com/365528/forgetting-the-evils-of-communism/jonah-goldberg

[ETL]

And when will these African nations ever apologize or pay "reparations" for slavery? Better yet, when will they end the practice?

Slavery in modern Africa

Slavery in Africa continues today. Slavery existed in Africa before the arrival of Europeans - as did a slave trade that exported millions of sub-Saharan Africans to North Africa, the Middle East, and the Persian Gulf.[1] However, slavery and bondage are still African realities. Hundreds of thousands of Africans still suffer in silence in slave-like situations of forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation from which they cannot free themselves.

Modern-day enslavers also exploit lack of political will at the highest levels of some African governments to effectively tackle trafficking and its root causes. Weak interagency co-ordination and low funding levels for ministries tasked with prosecuting traffickers, preventing trafficking and protecting victims also enable traffickers to continue their operations. The transnational criminal nature of trafficking also overwhelms many countries’ law enforcement agencies, which are not equipped to fight organised criminal gangs that operate across national boundaries with impunity.

Slavery by African country

Chad
IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks) of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports children being sold to Arab herdsmen in Chad. As part of a new identity imposed on them the herdsman "...change their name, forbid them to speak in their native dialect, ban them from conversing with people from their own ethnic group and make them adopt Islam as their religion."[2]

Mali
The Malian government denies that slavery exists, however, the slavery in Timbuktu is obvious. Slavery still continues with some Tuaregs holding Bella people.[3]

Mauritania
A system exists now by which Arab Muslims -- the bidanes -- own black slaves, the haratines.[4] An estimated 90,000 black Mauritanians remain essentially enslaved to Arab/Berber owners.[5] The ruling bidanes (the name means literally white-skinned people) are descendants of the Sanhaja Berbers and Beni Hassan Arab tribes who emigrated to northwest Africa and present-day Western Sahara and Mauritania during the Middle Ages.[6] According to some estimates, up to 600,000 black Mauritanians, or 20% of the population, are still enslaved, many of them used as bonded labour.[7] Slavery in Mauritania was finally criminalized in August 2007.[8] Malouma Messoud, a former Muslim slave has explained her enslavement to a religious leader:

"We didn't learn this history in school; we simply grew up within this social hierarchy and lived it. Slaves believe that if they do not obey their masters, they will not go to paradise. They are raised in a social and religious system that everyday reinforces this idea.[9]"

In Mauritania, despite slave ownership having been banned by law in 1981, hereditary slavery continues.[10] Moreover, according to Amnesty International:

"Not only has the government denied the existence of slavery and failed to respond to cases brought to its attention, it has hampered the activities of organisations which are working on the issue, including by refusing to grant them official recognition".[11]

Imam El Hassan Ould Benyamin of Tayarat in 1997 expressed his views about earlier proclamations ending slavery in his country as follows:

"[it] is contrary to the teachings of the fundamental text of Islamic law, the Quran ... [and] amounts to the expropriation from muslims of their goods; goods that were acquired legally. The state, if it is Islamic, does not have the right to seize my house, my wife or my slave."[12]

Niger
In Niger, where the practice of slavery was outlawed in 2003, a study found that almost 8% of the population are still slaves.[13] Slavery dates back for centuries in Niger and was finally criminalised in 2003, after five years of lobbying by Anti-Slavery International and Nigerian human-rights group, Timidria.[14] More than 870,000 people still live in conditions of forced labour, according to Timidria, a local human rights group.[15][16]

Descent-based slavery, where generations of the same family are born into bondage, is traditionally practised by at least four of Niger’s eight ethnic groups. The slave masters are mostly from the nomadic tribes — the Tuareg, Fulani, Toubou and Arabs.[17] It is especially rife among the warlike Tuareg, in the wild deserts of north and west Niger, who roam near the borders with Mali and Algeria.[18] In the region of Say on the right bank of the river Niger, it is estimated that three-quarters of the population around 1904-1905 was composed of slaves.[19]

Historically, the Tuareg swelled the ranks of their slaves during war raids into other peoples’ lands. War was then the main source of supply of slaves, although many were bought at slave markets, run mostly by indigenous peoples.[20][21]

Sudan
Francis Bok, former Sudanese slave. At the age of seven, he was captured during a raid in Southern Sudan, and enslaved for ten years.(Courtesy Unitarian Universalist Association/Jeanette Leardi)

There has been a recrudescence of jihad slavery since 1983 in the Sudan.[23][24]

Slavery in the Sudan predates Islam, but continued under Islamic rulers and has never completely died out in Sudan. In the Sudan, Christian and animist captives in the civil war are often enslaved, and female prisoners are often used sexually, with their Muslim captors claiming that Islamic law grants them permission.[25] According to CBS news, slaves have been sold for $50 apiece. [1] In 2001 CNN reported the Bush administration was under pressure from Congress, including conservative Christians concerned about religious oppression and slavery, to address issues involved in the Sudanese conflict.[26] CNN has also quoted the U.S. State Department's allegations: "The [Sudanese] government's support of slavery and its continued military action which has resulted in numerous deaths are due in part to the victims' religious beliefs." [2]

Jok Madut Jok, professor of History at Loyola Marymount University, states that the abduction of women and children of the south by north is slavery by any definition. The government of Sudan insists that the whole matter is no more than the traditional tribal feuding over resources.[27]

It is estimated that as many as 200,000 people had been taken into slavery during the Second Sudanese Civil War. The slaves are mostly Dinka people.[28][29]

South Africa
Despite significant efforts made by the South African Government to combat trafficking in persons the country has been placed on the “Tier 2 Watch List” by the US Department of Trafficking in Persons,for the past four years.[47] South Africa shares borders with Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique and Swaziland. It has 72 official ports of entry "and a number of unofficial ports of entry where people come in and out without being detected" along its 5 000 km-long land borderline. The problem of porous borders is compounded by the lack of adequately trained employees, resulting in few police officials controlling large portions of the country's coastline.

Child slave trade
The trading of children has been reported in modern Nigeria and Benin.[30] The children are kidnapped or purchased for $20 - $70 each by slavers in poorer states, such as Benin and Togo, and sold into slavery in sex dens or as unpaid domestic servants for $350.00 each in wealthier oil-rich states, such as Nigeria and Gabon.[31] [32]

Ghana, Togo, Benin
In parts of Ghana, a family may be punished for an offense by having to turn over a virgin female to serve as a sex slave within the offended family.[33] In this instance, the woman does not gain the title of "wife". In parts of Ghana, Togo, and Benin, shrine slavery persists, despite being illegal in Ghana since 1998. In this system of slavery, sometimes called trokosi (in Ghana) or voodoosi in Togo and Benin, or ritual servitude, young virgin girls are given as slaves in traditional shrines and are used sexually by the priests in addition to providing free labor for the shrine.[34]

Ethiopia
Mahider Bitew, Children's Rights and Protection expert at the Ministry of Women's Affairs, says that some isolated studies conducted in Dire Dawa, Shashemene, Awassa and three other towns of the country indicate that the problem of child trafficking is very serious. According to a 2003 study about one thousand children were trafficked via Dire Dawa to countries of the Middle East. The majority of those children were girls, most of whom were forced to be sex workers after leaving the country. The International Labor Organization (ILO) has identified prostitution as the Worst Form of Child Labor.[35]

In Ethiopia, children are trafficked into prostitution, to provide cheap or unpaid labor and to work as domestic servants or beggars. The ages of these children are usually between 10 and 18 and their trafficking is from the country to urban centers and from cities to the country. Boys are often expected to work in activities such as herding cattle in rural areas and in the weaving industry in Addis Ababa, and other major towns. Girls are expected to take responsibilities for domestic chores, childcare and looking after the sick and to work as prostitutes.[35]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_modern_Africa

[ballplayer]

I agree,on ONE condition,Reparation checks will go out,after every government social program is shut down,every government worker in those programs are laid off,so there is no effect on taxpayers since the money saved from the closure of all the programs will be used for the reparations,the following year taxpayers are given all their tax payments back,since reparations have been paid and those trillions the government no longer needs,everyone wins! Just think the government will be out of the PROGRAM business