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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: CFW

Everyone, no matter their skin color, has had slave ancestors from some point in history. Where’s my reparations?

Thought electing (100+ D votes in many precincts) a black POTUS twice repaid everything.


61 posted on 07/16/2023 9:12:14 AM PDT by bgill
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To: CFW

For people still lie enough to even consider the question the vote will be “yes”


62 posted on 07/16/2023 9:20:58 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: lizma2

“The fact that blacks in the US also owned slaves has been totally ignored.“

If I’m not mistaken the first slave owner WAS black.


63 posted on 07/16/2023 9:23:20 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: CFW

Only Repatriate those paid as dissatisfied with there fate in life to resume the good life in their homes country.
No deposit (free!)no return trips


64 posted on 07/16/2023 9:29:30 AM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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To: TalBlack

Your right! I forgot that.


65 posted on 07/16/2023 9:42:23 AM PDT by lizma2
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To: Recompennation

66 posted on 07/16/2023 9:47:24 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: CFW

The Murdoch Street Journal.


67 posted on 07/16/2023 9:53:16 AM PDT by vivenne
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To: SaveFerris

We think in the same circles.

God Bless you. My FRiend.


68 posted on 07/16/2023 10:18:05 AM PDT by sport
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To: cld51860

Many things going on that are planned to destroy, they want this great reset, in order for this to take place the old system needs to be destoryed


69 posted on 07/16/2023 12:35:05 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: CFW

...and when it all comes tumbling down, after all that money has been wasted, they’ll take no responsibility whatsoever, and there will be no consequences.

Come, Lord Jesus.


70 posted on 07/16/2023 5:09:29 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: sport

Thank you

The stupidity is off-the-charts these days

Hold on to your hats, FRiends

God bless you sport


71 posted on 07/16/2023 6:08:45 PM 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: TalBlack

Anthony Johnson was NOT the 1st slave owner in North America, but the actual history is even more interesting.

Anthony Johnson was bought to the Virginia Colony as a slave in 1621. By 1655, he had obtained his freedom, and by then he was a fairly successful planter and rancher.

His claim to a slave named John Casor was the first in the English colonies of North America to be validated by a Virginia court in 1655.

Johnson was defending his “right” to own Casor against a wealthy white planter who claimed that Casor actually belonged to him


72 posted on 07/21/2023 1:50:31 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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