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U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism,’ says U.N. panel
www.washingtonpost.com ^ | September 27 | Ishaan Tharoor

Posted on 09/28/2016 2:10:04 AM PDT by kimtom

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; africa; modernslaveryafrica; reparations; slavery; slaverymiddleeast; usa
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To: kimtom

My ancestors came from Sweden and Czechoslovakia at the turn of the century.

Many Americans came well after the Emancipation Proclamation.

This idea is ridiculous.


61 posted on 09/28/2016 5:01:24 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the United States of America)
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To: exnavy

Wow! What an amazing family history! Have you seen Ancestry.com? It is quite interesting.


62 posted on 09/28/2016 5:05:44 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the United States of America)
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To: proud American in Canada

We are on there.


63 posted on 09/28/2016 5:07:09 AM PDT by exnavy ( psalm 27: 4 ...dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life...)
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To: RC one

Excellent post!


64 posted on 09/28/2016 5:08:24 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the United States of America)
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To: exnavy

I did my family history last summer. My ancestors came here as indentured servants in the early 1700’s. Came over as “planters” and indentured for 7 years. Went on to be recognized as providing both financial support to the Continental army and 2 sons out of a regimen in Virginia. One later named his own son George Washington Bentley. Later the other son moved to Kentucky and his son’s, sons fought in the Civil War on the Union side.

Like your family, mine also has a very, very long history are military service and I agree, we owe nothing in reparations to anyone.

I highly suggest the UN Panel look to current day trade in human trafficking and the horrors of current day slavery taking place around the globe. From South America to the Chinese to the Middle East and out of Africa itself.

Human enslavement has been with world for thousands of years. Some races go on to overcome it and generations later find themselves again enslaved by some new overlord. America has come a long way away from slavery or ‘racial terrorism.’ Notice how they are changing the language again too, from slavery to ‘racial terrorism,’ so it includes groups like the KKK.


65 posted on 09/28/2016 5:10:25 AM PDT by EBH (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: kimtom

The UN needs to relocate to Lagos—not the fancy capital of Nigeria designed for the plutocrats—but the real Nigeria—Lagos.

Then we will be hearing less and less from them...


66 posted on 09/28/2016 5:10:59 AM PDT by cgbg (Warning: This post has not been fact-checked by the Democratic National Committee.)
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To: exnavy

:)


67 posted on 09/28/2016 5:13:54 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the United States of America)
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To: Bullish

If I am 20% darker pigment, can I cash in 20%?


68 posted on 09/28/2016 5:16:46 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: sten

A lot of people today are enslaved to that EBT card.


69 posted on 09/28/2016 5:20:57 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: exnavy

Quote:

“My ancestors came on the Mayflower, we have have had an ancestor serve in every major military engagement the US has ever had. We owe no one anything.”

I just watched the head of the NAACP blame the horrendous murder rate in Chicago on the Chicago police. Instead of being laughed derisively off the TV set Maria Bartiromo and company sat there listened to the Marxist, racist lunatic.

You’re white, you owe. Your money or your life. That’s where this country is going. Be prepared.


70 posted on 09/28/2016 5:24:08 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: kimtom
A fact that all the foremost historians of slavery agree upon is that only 5% of the Black African slaves brought to the Western Hemisphere, came to the region that is now United States. *

Central And South America along with the Caribean received 95% of those slaves .

How about reparations from Cuba, Mexico**, or other countries of Central & South America. It may be justifiable to exempt Black led countries like Jamaica or Haiti - but Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, and the rest never had even one Black President (like the US’s Obama).

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71 posted on 09/28/2016 5:26:40 AM PDT by drpix
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To: EBH

My mother’s bloodline, mainly Irish, is what I am referring to. My father’s family mainly Scandinavian got here in the late 1700’s. No one in either side have served since I left active duty in 1981.


72 posted on 09/28/2016 5:27:40 AM PDT by exnavy ( psalm 27: 4 ...dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life...)
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To: TTFlyer

I only invest in precious metals, lead,copper, and brass.


73 posted on 09/28/2016 5:29:21 AM PDT by exnavy ( psalm 27: 4 ...dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life...)
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To: kimtom

I will gladly pay reparations to any slaves I have ever owned. I can be generous, I’ll pay reparations to any living slaves my Father or Grandfathers owned too. That will come to exactly $0.00. Done.


74 posted on 09/28/2016 5:45:37 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Mjreagan
Well that settles it, I’m convinced.

I'm convinced too - convinced that the UN should be thrown out of the US. If the world were a sane place, the UN should be dissolved. It has turned into an utterly useless body of fools.

75 posted on 09/28/2016 5:47:00 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: kimtom

Here it comes...
The final Executive Order designed to push Hillary over the top.
Paul Ryan I’m sure will block it....not.


76 posted on 09/28/2016 5:54:15 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: kimtom

‘eff the UN.

A waste of prime Manhattan real estate.


77 posted on 09/28/2016 6:21:14 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (You can't spell TRIUMPH without TRUMP)
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To: kimtom

You are right, it us the hate mongers on the left that are provoking violence.


78 posted on 09/28/2016 6:22:09 AM PDT by JTHomes (Government is force.)
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To: exnavy

I heard that.


79 posted on 09/28/2016 6:39:07 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: JTHomes

“..You are right, it us the hate mongers on the left that are provoking violence....”

huh? admission????

:)


80 posted on 09/28/2016 6:40:17 AM PDT by kimtom (USA ; Freedom is not Free)
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