Posted on 06/19/2019 8:13:37 PM PDT by montag813
by Sheri Urban
A congressional hearing erupted when black Quillette writer Coleman Hughes trashed a bill to study slavery reparations as a “moral and political mistake,” forcing the chair of the hearing to tell the audience to “chill” several times.
The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties held a hearing Wednesday entitled “H.R. 40 and the Path to Restorative Justice,” at which witnesses testified about reparations for slavery. HR 40 is a bill which proposes a commission to study reparations.
Hughes testified for the minority and delivered a lengthy opening statement against the bill in question. After noting that “nothing I’m about to say is meant to minimize the horror and brutality of slavery and Jim Crow” and that he considers “our failure to pay reparations directly to freed slaves after the civil war to be one of the greatest injustices ever perpetrated by the US government,” he went in on the bill for four solid minutes.
The audience at the hearing booed Hughes after he said, “Black people don’t need another apology. We need safer neighborhoods and better schools. We need a less punitive criminal justice system. We need affordable health care. And none of these things can be achieved through reparations for slavery.”
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Where’s my check?
How about anyone who accepts reparations also must head back to the motherland?
Congressman must have taken a course in Eubonics.
And our culture has been debased to the point where there is no amount of money that the debasers could pay that would adequately compensate us for our losses.
It’s called vote buying. Dimocrats sure will have some interesting campaign platforms. Curing Cancer. Curing Racism with Reparations. Nuking anyone that won’t turn in their guns. I can’t wait.
I have paid big time, many times over.
For starters: a certain segment of the population does not produce. It takes money from the citizens who work. My taxes are high because they go to the indolent slackers.
Cory Booker received his reparations in the form OF white genes
Compare the living standards of blacks in the US with the living standards of blacks still in Africa.
There’s your reparations right there.
Let’s set up a commission to create even more rhetoric about reparations in the lead-up to the election. Our demographic base will then cast their votes in our favor, keeping us in power.
Once that election is over, the commission will continue but the rhetoric will decline. The needs of our voters will go unheeded.
In the inner-cities, VOTES are the “coin of the realm”.
Chicken boy doesn’t even handle his second language, ‘english’ well. He chided a witness for being ‘presumptive’ instead of presumptuous. One problem the democrats have is that they are represented by idiots like chicken boy and occasional cortez.
Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty has also said he picked cotton as a teenager.
Speaking as a person who loves fabrics, I hate the stuff being produced today—almost entirely overseas, as NAFTA has destroyed our once-thriving textile industry. You pay exorbitant prices for inferior cotton fabric mixed with polyester fillers, whether the label says so or not. You cannot buy cotton socks without a major search effort. The designs printed on cotton calico are produced in the Far East and often do not reflect the iconography of our cultural traditions in the U.S. Even the color palettes have veered away from the tones derived from natural dyes into the frankly artificial, giving the eye no rest. I have several pieces of long-fiber cotton clothing and quilts from my great grandmother, born in the 19th century; but so-called cotton clothing I have bought in the U.S. in the past few years (but made in Asia) falls apart quickly.
Bottom line, it is a terrible shame that cotton as an industry is having to bear the punishment for the wealthy planters of the past who relied on enslaved workers, while the poor, hard-scrabbling and sharecropping whites of the same era and their descendents also must bear the blame, and none of us can buy a sturdy all-cotton shirt at a reasonable price.
And bearing the name of the priestly caste. Wonder when is the last time he atoned for anything instead of blaming Republicans.
They’ve already dredged up the equal pay issue again, so women will climb back on board.
They offer illegal aliens amnesty.
To the rest of us in the middle class, they offer to raise our taxes.
Presumptive = uppity black man.
-PJ
I’ll admit it - I fully support reparations to any and all former U.S. slaves who are still living and residing in the United States.
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