Booker announces legislation to pave path for slavery reparations
Washington Times,
by
Stephen Dinan
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
4/8/2019 3:59:17 PM
Sen. Cory Booker announced a bill Monday to form a commission to recommend reparations for slavery, taking the reins of one of the most intriguing and controversial agenda items from the 2020 campaign. Mr. Booker becomes the highest-profile lawmaker to sign onto reparations legislation. He said it could solve persistent racism and discrimination that have been built into the system for decades, leading to disparate outcomes for all black Americans. “This bill is a way of addressing head-on the persistence of racism, white supremacy, and implicit racial bias in our country,” he said. “It will bring together the best
Reply 1 - Posted by:
aasilver 4/8/2019 4:07:57 PM (No. 27459)
This ´Bill´ will exacerbate the Racism issues that he wants to address.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
cor-vet 4/8/2019 4:09:32 PM (No. 27490)
So Booker believes that this will solve the persistent racism that blacks hold toward whites? (S/O) We have many, many black politicians, most entertainment media and sports venues are predominantly black and we just rid ourselves of a black president and his angry wife and yet this country discriminates. It seems to discriminate against white men.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 4/8/2019 4:10:15 PM (No. 27450)
Another racist demagogue looking to gain money and power by dividing the country.
Booker is an evil man.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Eagle4ever 4/8/2019 4:10:38 PM (No. 27477)
We´re already paying, it´s called WELFARE.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
tsquare 4/8/2019 4:10:57 PM (No. 27469)
There is nothing good that can come from this
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Pandering 101
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 4/8/2019 4:17:05 PM (No. 27466)
Only Democrats ever owned slaves in the US, so only Democrats should foot the bill-out of their own pockets, not taxpayer dollars. My folks emigrated to the US in the 1950s, never owned a slave so why should I pay anything?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 4/8/2019 4:17:35 PM (No. 27493)
Where do I sign up? I want reparations for being born with the stigma of the Great Society programs tearing apart American culture.
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Two dozen major cities are no-go war zones. Retail spaces, offices/skyscrapers, historical sites, theaters, museums, etc. stand empty or in ruins thanks to the armies of ´victims´ living in the immediate area.
Where are the reparations for that?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
NeverVoteDem 4/8/2019 4:20:08 PM (No. 27460)
We were all slaves in europe. That´s why we came here. Many white people arrived indentured. Where are our reparations?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
flutepilot 4/8/2019 4:22:36 PM (No. 27491)
I guess over 250,000 lives lost on the Union side in the Civil War weren´t reparations enough...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
His_Highness 4/8/2019 4:23:52 PM (No. 27487)
Another bribe, as if LBJ´s Great Society were not bribe enough, to a small segment of the Black population which chooses not to fend for itself, is only going to require another bribe down the road, and another, and another.
Not one Black person in the USA today was ever a slave. Not one.
That there are many more Black people today who are not self-sufficient than there were back in 1960 testifies that giving money to people does not help them.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
happywarrior 4/8/2019 4:26:02 PM (No. 27472)
My spouse and I both have Great-Grandfathers that fought for the Union to end slavery. Will my family be exempt??
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mattinak 4/8/2019 4:27:50 PM (No. 27499)
Pretty cruel, actually. Booker knows that the reparation "free money" carrot he is dangling in front of black voters will never happen.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Pearson365 4/8/2019 4:28:32 PM (No. 27457)
Have to agree with Booker. If you’re still a slave on a plantation 153 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, you deserve reparations.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
droopydog 4/8/2019 4:28:58 PM (No. 27465)
My sister did one of those DNA tests that showed she was 1% sub saharan African. Do we get a piece of the action?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
JL80863 4/8/2019 4:30:28 PM (No. 27462)
Thanks #12. It´s important to remember what LBJ had to say about the bill. "If we pass this the n......s will vote for us for a hundred years".
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Spyder 4/8/2019 4:35:56 PM (No. 27481)
It’s called buying votes .... plain and simple.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
panther361 4/8/2019 4:38:42 PM (No. 27483)
Continualy looking for the easy way out or a free handout does not show much character or resolve, not to mention acceptance as a fellow modern day US citizen.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
trackman999 4/8/2019 4:39:57 PM (No. 27480)
Cory Booker, so desperate to get some press, hops,skips, jumps on the reparations? band wagon.If he had any worth he would be screaming about the black Christian slaves in the Sudan that are currently owned by muslims.
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The #walkaway movement must have the left really scared. They´re resorting to outright bribery of their once reliable base ethnic group to keep from losing them.
In the process, they will no doubt alienate even more whites, which they see as no problem since whites have never done anything that wasn´t evil to begin with.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
qr4j 4/8/2019 4:42:40 PM (No. 27451)
I don´t see how taking money from one group -- by force essentially -- and giving it to another group will improve race relations.
So . . . let´s say the Feds do slavery reparations. Some of my money (in the form of taxes cuz I´m a white guy) gets taken away to give to African-Americans. Which African-Americans get the money? What about mixed-race African-Americans? Do they get only part of what non-mixed-race African-Americans get? What about black folks who came to the the United States AFTER the Civil War?
Let´s say I have relatives who fought on the side of the Union (which I do). Do I get a discount on my taxes because my ancestors fought to stop slavery?
What I have be on guard against so often is resentment. I see a lot of freebies handed out to minorities. White guys take an awful lot of guff. How do slavery reparations make me want to be better about race relations in America? Will they help African-Americans treat white folk better?
Race baiting is SO unattractive and SO useless if you are trying to improve things. It´s all about power, NOT equality.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
raspberry 4/8/2019 4:44:27 PM (No. 27453)
My great great grandfather was lynched because he was a white abolitionist. Do I get reparations?
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Will the descendants of the 596,670 killed and wounded Union soldiers receive reparations?
After all, they died so others can be free?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Krause 4/8/2019 4:51:03 PM (No. 27474)
Penny-ante dem dealing with penny-ante issues.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Newtsche 4/8/2019 4:58:27 PM (No. 27486)
Everyone supporting this is an albatross around the country´s neck, it´s stupid, indefensible and destructive. A pox on its proponents.
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lakerman1 4/8/2019 5:06:29 PM (No. 27500)
Will more white guys make it into the NBA? Nooker is talking about equal outcomes, so...
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
tnorling 4/8/2019 5:08:27 PM (No. 27470)
The new face of the Democrat Party. Just like the old face. Buying votes, except this cynical ploy is going nowhere.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Highlander 4/8/2019 5:09:29 PM (No. 27467)
One good way to improve race relations: one-way tickets for all blacks back to Africa. Abe should have forced immigration to Liberia when there weren’t so many blacks. Blacks cannot live with non-blacks.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
jar 4/8/2019 5:12:05 PM (No. 27478)
What about white people living below the poverty line? What´s their status? Do they have to pay rich blacks like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farakhan, athletes, comics, Hollywood actors making millions?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Banjo Willy 4/8/2019 5:13:11 PM (No. 27492)
It´s a dishonest ploy forcing a vote in which rational thinking people will all vote NO.
Then they can say blah..blah ... blah .......and tittle the irrational base.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
TLCary 4/8/2019 5:27:24 PM (No. 27488)
Bring on 2020! I’ve never been so optimistic in all my life.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Mother of AL 4/8/2019 5:30:12 PM (No. 27504)
Here is one big thing to consider.....the black side of 0 came from Africa. His father never lived under slavery in America.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Nimby 4/8/2019 5:31:06 PM (No. 27473)
i want proof with paperwork. Skin color is not enough
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What kind of offsets does my family get for being the descendants of men who were gravely injured in battle as Union soldiers during the Civil War and held in Andersonville prison?
Also, my progeny is part black and Native American ... so between that and the offset above, do I cut myself a check or wait for a government voucher? Clearly we’re not paying anything, right?
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
jacksin5 4/8/2019 5:34:03 PM (No. 27443)
Reparations will not go through. What the attempt will do, is increase animosity and attacks from entitlement Blacks against their so-called oppressors, namely Whites and Jews.
What does the Left think it will gain by spurring on a Race/Civil War? Are Booker and Warren planning on manning the barricades?
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Quigley 4/8/2019 5:45:42 PM (No. 27444)
The Dimokkkraps started the Civil War in order to perpetuate slavery, 80% of northern dimokkkraps voted against abolishing slavery (the southern dimokkkraps had formed the confederacy by the time that vote took place), they formed the KKK to terrorize black people, and they passed laws and conducted themselves in such manner as to create what is known as “southern racism” in order to maintain poltical power.
What is spurtacus doing being associated with this organization?
The Dimokkkraps should have all their assets applied towards reparations.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
toddh 4/8/2019 5:49:48 PM (No. 27489)
The paths to see the reparations are already paved!
They´re called "highways" and they can take you to Civil War monuments.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
cartcart 4/8/2019 5:55:10 PM (No. 27455)
There are no slaves left and no slave owners left to charge for this. We cannot ding the native American communities for the money to pay for slave reparations.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
DVC 4/8/2019 6:09:48 PM (No. 27441)
Desperate to keep blacks "on the plantation", in thrall to Dems for at least one more election cycle. This Bull Manure cynical reparations scam is just the latest attempt to literally BUY their votes, with taxpayer money.
Too many black citizens are seeing that not only have Dems not helped them for decades, including our previous half-black President, but that Trump HAS greatly helped them via a huge improvement in the economy, and trying to keep illegals from stealing their jobs.
The Dems are frightened, grasping at any racist straws, doubling down on their cynical deception, trying to buy votes.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
ginadee 4/8/2019 6:11:44 PM (No. 27438)
I´m all for paying reparations to any slave still living.
*****
If blacks want more money than welfare, free housing, food stamps, etc., then they need to get off their backsides and get a job. It will guarantee an earned income, a few benefits and some pride. If it works for the white folks it can work for them. See, that´s equality. And they can give up their Obama phones and get on a plan of their choosing....more equality.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
planetgeo 4/8/2019 6:17:45 PM (No. 27437)
Seriously, what do they think the trillions spent on welfare, affirmative action, etc. over the last 60 years have been if not a "reparations" program? Too bad they have been such a failure. It´s time to end all such programs and simply treat all our citizens equally.
Our black community may want to ask their Democrat plantation owners why they instead want to force THEM to pay for all the free services for Mexican and Central American illegal immigrants.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Historybuff 4/8/2019 6:21:04 PM (No. 27484)
So, tell us how it will be administered.
e.g. Obama was half black, but his ancestors never experienced US Slavery – he gets nothing.
His wife can probably trace her self back to owners. She gets a share.
His daughters get a half share.
Now if you are to get reparations you have to prove that you are:
1.) All black, traceable to slaves, with no white blood. (You are looking kinda light skinned Corey)
2.) No Native American – First Nation blood.
3.) No later entry after 1865 black from Africa, Brazil, or any of the islands.
4.) Can you prove your lineage? Can’t tell who your father is/was ? Thanks for playing, but no.
5.) Will the terms Mulatto, Octaroon, and Quadroon come back into fashion?
6.) Who gets to decide? And is this a one off, never to be mentioned again deal?
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
tsquare 4/8/2019 6:28:59 PM (No. 27452)
Yep. Reparations to Oprah.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Buzzman 4/8/2019 6:46:26 PM (No. 27497)
I know my post is late in coming but you should look deeper at this. If we give them some money they will no longer have any reason to think we owe them something.
After reparations we can call and treat them as they really are. They will no longer have an excuse why they can´t get a job, need to collect welfare or get ahead solely by affirmative action.
I´d pay big money to take all of their lame excuses away from them. Reparations will do the trick. Take away their excuses.
Law of unintended circumstances couldn´t be sweeter.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 4/8/2019 7:07:05 PM (No. 27502)
This will be a new lifelong entitlement program. $2000 a month if you are black. Boom. Top that Republicans. .
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/8/2019 7:26:32 PM (No. 27449)
Hey Booknuts, I want MY reparations for being a slave in the Army by being drafted...
This won´t go anywhere, all REAL slaves died many years ago!
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/8/2019 7:31:31 PM (No. 27471)
Won’t work, #46. Each new generation will demand their own reparations checks as in, “My mama got a check but where’s mine? I’m descended from slaves too”.
Since it was the Republicans who freed the slaves, I say that the demonrats owe us reparations too.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/8/2019 7:36:42 PM (No. 27495)
The hardcore anti-American left is going to love Cory Booker. If there is ever a vote, there will be a backlash regardless of outcome. If there isn´t a vote, there will be a backlash. The bill is totally divisive, and the only reason Cory Booker is doing this is to pander for votes. The hate-America crowd is for anything that divides the country.
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And anyone who opposes reparations will of course be branded a racist. Any conservative or Republican politician who opposes will be branded a racist. Any reporter or columnist who writes or broadcasts in opposition will be branded a racist. Of course.
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
Daisy Mae 4/8/2019 7:57:38 PM (No. 27468)
Ok, reparations. I think we should tell the African American Citizens, that if they are unhappy with the results of their ancestors being slaves, i.e. their standard of living, we will do one of the following, (1) We will give them and their family a ticket to Africa, all expenses paid. (2) we won´t demand repayment of their education, their welfare, their subsidized housing (3) We will demand that they pay the families of the Union Soldiers killed freeing their ancestors, and the federal government for the cost of the war to free them.
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The day "slavery" reparations are paid is the day my family will no longer pay Federal taxes!!
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 4/8/2019 8:09:18 PM (No. 27463)
Next will be reparations for Indians. Then Mexicans. Then for Homosexual. Then women, Then legal emigrants. Then illegal immigrants. Then transgenders. Then gender confused. Chinese. The list of groups of which the Democrats can buy votes is endless.
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
DVC 4/8/2019 8:13:48 PM (No. 27479)
The books were closed on this 150 years ago.
End of story.
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
Butch 4/8/2019 9:26:54 PM (No. 27456)
I wonder how many shares in Ancestry.com Cory owns. They´d make out like bandits because everyone would be forced to investigate his or her ancestry.
This entire topic is shameful and repellent. There are a lot of race baiters who are hell-bent on starting another race war in America. I´ve already been through one of those in the 1960s, thanks, so I´m not buying.
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
Geoman 4/8/2019 9:42:34 PM (No. 27482)
Unlike the Union argument, my g-grandfather, a Cherokee escapee from the Trail of Tears was living in Rapides Parish, in the no-mans-land along the Texas-Louisiana border when the war broke out. He and his brothers enlisted in the 18th Louisiana Infantry, not to protect slavery but because that was the first time a white man (a recruiter who came calling on the farm in 1861) had actually asked him kindly to do anything and he felt like he had to oblige that kindness. So because my ancestors fought for their home state, does that mean I am morally or duty bound to pay reparations? I think not but I´m willing to make a deal: Booker can apply my share of the reparations money for the Trail of Tears to descendants of slaves.
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
NYbob 4/8/2019 9:57:14 PM (No. 27447)
Oh Cory, here is your ´reparations´ for the first time in 50 years a non uniparty President has created an economy with more jobs than workers. The point of this country is the OPPORTUNITY for personal improvement. Not the guarantee of it.
For some reason you choose to belong to the political party that not only fought a Civil War to preserve slavery, but for many decades after they did everything they could to keep former slaves from improving their lives. NO American today has to suffer under the rat party´s Jim Crow laws. If you or your party had an intelligence, honesty or manners, you would say, ´on second thought, I want to thank the Republican Party of Lincoln for ending slavery at a cost of hundreds of thousands of lives. I also want to thank this Republican President for providing the most opportunity in years for anyone who wants to work to improve their lives.´ But being a pandering, race hustler who utterly failed to improve anything in Newark, you won´t.
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
bobn.t 4/8/2019 10:21:59 PM (No. 27475)
Begging for votes.
I got a vote for him: flipping the birdie to him.
Booker is a pathetic rabid high yellow. White blood in his lineage.
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
sw penn 4/8/2019 11:03:17 PM (No. 27503)
Molon Labe
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Reply 60 - Posted by:
beca 4/9/2019 1:18:05 AM (No. 27485)
Booker is just one more loser in this whole field of useless idiots....
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
PChristopher 4/9/2019 2:16:47 AM (No. 27442)
22 TRILLION dollars in welfare since its inception!! THERE´s your reparations!
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Reply 62 - Posted by:
DVC 4/9/2019 3:21:27 AM (No. 27445)
Another with Union soldiers in my history, will not pay.
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Well Cory, here´s the deal. I am not a slave owner and you have never been a slave. But, if you try it, I am going to need a long form so I can deduct housing, clothing, food, education of slaves and then I am billing for horses, equipment and uniforms for those in the Colored Army that had our name. I am not going to write the bad words with two letters for you.
The not so Civil War wasn´t about slavery.
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Reply 64 - Posted by:
Trigger2 4/9/2019 3:51:34 AM (No. 27446)
Booker: All you blacks vote for me. I´ll give you free money. If elected, he´ll pull a Barry and stab them in the back just like Barry did.
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Faithfully 4/9/2019 10:07:52 AM (No. 27494)
He said he wants to set up a commission to look into reparations. This means hundreds of cronies will be paid tax dollars to sit around a table (catered lunch) and run out the clock until the next election. News coverage 24/7 and whatever is being done by the central government will go unreported. Cavanaugh redux.
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kiwinews 4/9/2019 10:35:23 AM (No. 27440)
Not one red cent for a debt paid in blood over a hundred fifty years ago. Not. one. NOT. ONE.
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NotaBene 4/9/2019 7:13:25 PM (No. 27439)
I will be excepted because no one in my family ever owned a Back or Mexican or LGBTQXYZ.
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I thought welfare, affirmative action, and tearing down all Confederate monuments was supposed to achieve this aim. Next will be the problem that white people live in nicer neighborhoods, have better jobs, etc.