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‘It’s Going to Rip Us Apart’: Georgia County Plans Reparations Study, Can’t Fund Basic Infrastructure
Breitbart ^ | 7/15/23 | ELAINE MALLON

Posted on 07/16/2023 6:27:50 AM PDT by CFW

Fulton County, Georgia, is the latest to move forward with a $210,000 taxpayer-funded study to evaluate if reparations for residents who are descendants of slaves are practical.

The Fulton County Board of Commissioners voted four to two in favor of the measure to fund the study led by the Atlanta University Center and county leadership, Fox 5 Atlanta reported.

Commissioner Khadijah Abdur-Rahman, who voted in favor of the measure, said this study will bring on five researchers who will explore if reparations are warranted.

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“The study specifically excludes initiatives after 1980 because that data would reveal that the taxpayers of Fulton County have invested billions of dollars in supporting its most marginalized populations,” Thorne told Fox News. “With that view in mind, many would question the need to provide handouts to people who have never been enslaved, paid for by people who never enslaved anyone.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: atlanta; democrats; fultoncounty; progressives; reparations
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To: cld51860

My bond broker bought my AA Fulton co munis. Said in a few years we will we defaults through corruption


21 posted on 07/16/2023 6:49:45 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Das dicke Ende kommt noc!)
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To: rktman

You don’t count. Wrong color.


22 posted on 07/16/2023 6:50:46 AM PDT by sport
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To: CFW

Foolton County . . .


23 posted on 07/16/2023 6:50:54 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: CFW

This is nothing but a way to buy the black vote, promise cash


24 posted on 07/16/2023 6:51:18 AM PDT by stockpirate (Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins...Repression Breeds Violence)
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To: GingisK

And go WHERE?

???


25 posted on 07/16/2023 6:51:38 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: DCBryan1

Surprises me they lasted this long.


26 posted on 07/16/2023 6:52:54 AM PDT by sport
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To: FlingWingFlyer

And just reported in the Fargo Forum: From the article [Fargo Police Chief] Zibolski named the suspect, who was shot during the incident and later died at a hospital, as 37-year-old Mohamad Barakat of Fargo.

“We don’t have any additional background on him,” Zibolski said.

Most likely Somali and will be identified as a person with serious mental issues listed as the motive


27 posted on 07/16/2023 6:52:57 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: GaltAdonis

That is the toughie of questions. Where, indeed.


28 posted on 07/16/2023 6:58:25 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: CFW

Reparations WILL happen in Fulton county, GA. Bet on it.


29 posted on 07/16/2023 6:58:36 AM PDT by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: CFW

the lameystream media is going all in for a civil war. Must be each generation is destine to Abort each other if the politicians and the lameystream media have History their way. Guess the obama purchased body bags will be used. Where will be the spark ?


30 posted on 07/16/2023 7:02:48 AM PDT by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

“Taxpayer funding of studies...”

I often wonder how many billions have been spent studying Bullet Trains or High-Speed rail? It rears its head every couple years all over the country and local Govs keep funneling money to these “Studies.”


31 posted on 07/16/2023 7:02:48 AM PDT by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: CFW

See.
This is the kind of chit that just makes me want to go home and recount my ammunition!


32 posted on 07/16/2023 7:09:00 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: CFW

What are the odds, that they perform this study,and the conclusions of the study arr that we should NOT pay reparations for slavery?

It seems pre ordained they will conclude that we should pay reparations for slavery.

Then you go through the whole routine about how much should be paid. Whatever amount is proposed, some activist types will say it’s just not enough, and it’s just a starting point.


33 posted on 07/16/2023 7:13:59 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: CFW

General Sherman needs to burn Atlanta down again...for good measure...


34 posted on 07/16/2023 7:15:54 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: cld51860
[This idiocy is flat out going to destroy this country.]

Maybe that's the plan. /shiny side out

Once more, today.


35 posted on 07/16/2023 7:18:20 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: CFW
[Commissioner Khadijah Abdur-Rahman]



Well, I guess the study will determine if gubmint money should be paid out.
36 posted on 07/16/2023 7:22:50 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: All

WSJ's front-page is full of praise for Fani Willis' efforts to take out President Trump.

37 posted on 07/16/2023 7:26:24 AM PDT by Liz (Vox Populi, Vox Dei (voice of the people is the voice of God))
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To: CFW
"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits." -- Plutarch

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." -- Aristotle

"The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so." -- Plato

"Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music." -- Diogenes

"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true." -- Socrates

38 posted on 07/16/2023 7:27:02 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: FlingWingFlyer

[America is in a heap of trouble.]

Frankly, I see no way that it can be rescued.

Since 2008, ever stupid thing that can be done, will be done.

The only pro-America, pro-American President was savagely-attacked, 24/7.

In my wildest tinfoil scenarios, I could not have imagined what we have seen these past 15 years.


39 posted on 07/16/2023 7:27:13 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: GaltAdonis

50 years ago I always thought Canada or Australia would be good backups.

But Canada, sadly, has Trudeau. Australia keeps on surprising me and not in a good way.

Which I guess, is a long way of saying, every single nation seems to be going Leftist / Liberal and has pretty much bought into the COVID-19(84) hysteria.

double sigh


40 posted on 07/16/2023 7:31:04 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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