Beto O'Rourke says white Americans
don't know the full story of slavery,
continues to support reparations
Fox News,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
6/16/2019 4:31:59 AM
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke took an unconventional approach to reaching out to African-American voters Friday, meeting with a small group representing a community of slave descendants in South Carolina and saying white Americans do not know the full story of slavery.
O'Rourke spent Friday at a Baptist church in Beaufort, S.C., where the former Texas congressman met with leaders of the Gullah/Geechee Nation, a culture of coastal slave descendants whose separation from the mainland allowed them to retain much of their African heritage, including a unique dialect and skills such as cast-net fishing and basket weaving.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PChristopher 6/16/2019 5:00:29 AM (No. 99103)
Oh, I see; but 'Robby' O'Rourke, who is about as black, and as exciting, as vanilla ice cream, knows all about slavery and is going to presume to lecture me all about it, huh? Lead by example, big mouth. Give all your money to Al Sharpton and make due on minimum wage....if you can find a real job that you qualify for.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Wetenschapper 6/16/2019 5:00:55 AM (No. 99104)
Since when is pandering and 'unconventional approach' for a Democrat? White folks may not know the 'full story of slavery', but they know what a clumsy attempt at vote-buying looks like.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/16/2019 6:56:06 AM (No. 99118)
I smell desperation and flop sweat....
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/16/2019 7:16:03 AM (No. 99130)
Why would blacks vote for the Irish Robert O'Rourke when they have Camela Harris and Cory Bookem? O'Rourke's strategy will not work, but he has never been successful in the first place.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
franq 6/16/2019 7:17:25 AM (No. 99131)
We sure don't know the true history. Start by revealing how the African slave traders sold members of their own tribes to the honky.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 6/16/2019 7:19:20 AM (No. 99133)
It ought to be painful to be this vacuous.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
John Farson 6/16/2019 7:39:36 AM (No. 99143)
I think we should make it right. Therefore I say $100,000 to any slave born before 1865.
Simple?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
sw penn 6/16/2019 7:57:37 AM (No. 99149)
Blacks in America pushing for reparations
are as bad as the slavers they claim are so terrible.
Both are are perfectly willing to live
off the labor of others
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Faithfully 6/16/2019 8:07:23 AM (No. 99159)
Have any of them heard of Anthony Johnson?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/16/2019 8:14:15 AM (No. 99166)
Beeto, are you ok, pal?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
PostAway 6/16/2019 8:18:10 AM (No. 99172)
Given the time that has passed, the evolution of American demographics and the distribution of money and power to black Americans through affirmative action in schools, welfare, bussing, preference in hiring, etc., the word reparations is misleading. It’s appeal lays entirely on emotions, a poor understanding of history and theory and not on facts. Users will always find marks whether black or white and the user O’Rourke decries his own life of privilege and yet, rather than forswearing it, he wants even more goodies under the guise of sainthood. And in Chicago slang circa 1960, he’s a spaz.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mobyclik 6/16/2019 8:22:08 AM (No. 99176)
More inane pandering heard from the trunk of the Clown Car.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 6/16/2019 8:59:39 AM (No. 99195)
Since table dancing and arm flapping didn't work I guess pretend you support a black cause and hope it works. Problem is O'Rouke is white Irish and apparently he doesn't need whites to support him. Captain Skateboard hit the curb with his head one too many times doing 'axle grinds in the street.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
HotRod 6/16/2019 9:07:17 AM (No. 99200)
There are no living slaves, so how can any black people know the ''full story of slavery?'' They know about slavery from the same sources as anyone else.
Shameful pandering! Beto wouldn't last 5 minutes with a tough foreign leader.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
chance_232 6/16/2019 9:14:36 AM (No. 99207)
This tactic may or may not turn out the black vote. I haven't really seen any clamoring for reparations aside from the activists and from the welfare set. I imagine the black working class may have a dimmer view on the subject, knowing that reparations will come out of their paychecks.
Reparations, if passed and upheld will be the final nail in the coffin of the late great United States. A clear majority of those polled oppose reparations. I'm already onboard for secession. Pass reparations and I will demand it. I live in a state that has been "paying" for slavery for the past 150 years. Enough,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
little guy 6/16/2019 10:15:38 AM (No. 99245)
As soon as Queen Elizabeth and the British government give me reparations for screwing my mom's Irish ancestors and the Italian government pays me for feeding my dad's ancestors to the lions, I'll gladly pay money to any child of a slave. Maybe even a grandchild. After that ... sorry. Grow up.
And exactly how does Beto (a nickname given to him by his Hispanic nanny, who called him "Roberto") intend to pay Bill Cosby and Morgan Freeman, Spike Lee, Oprah, Al Sharpton and Lebron James, etc.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 6/16/2019 10:16:32 AM (No. 99248)
I am a direct decedent of a Native American slave owner and his slave. Why isn't Beto ragging on my Native American slave owning ancestors?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Rama41 6/16/2019 10:22:52 AM (No. 99251)
This is another hand grenade issue they'll throw at the president in the debates. I hope he'll have an answer prepared, but I'll be holding my breath.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
red1066 6/16/2019 10:31:47 AM (No. 99258)
I dare say no one knows the real story of slavery because everyone involved with that era has been dead for over a half century. The current story of slavery has been so manipulated so that reparations could be paid to relatives of slaves. Were slaves beaten and whipped? Sure, some were, but an injured slave was no use to anyone. Slaves were expensive. Which is why only the wealthy had them. A typical slave cost about $3000 dollars. Older slaves cost less as did children, while a healthy slave cost a bit more. A slave costing as much as 3 grand was major investment back in 1830. Beating your slave cost one money and reduced productivity, and blacks also owned slaves. A woman in Charleston S.C. owned a shipping company and had a number of slaves. She made so much money with her shipping business when her two sons got married, she gave each son $500,000 as a present. That woman was black and lived about a block away from where slaves were bought and sold in Charleston.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/16/2019 10:39:46 AM (No. 99266)
Does "Beto" know there was "white slavery" in this land before the blacks were brought over? Does "Beto" know that freed blacks owned slave blacks also? I didn't think so...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
JrSample 6/16/2019 10:51:17 AM (No. 99276)
So, beta claims some sort of special knowledge that is not available to the rest of us? In fact, I've read quite a bit of the subject: 95% of the Atlantic slave trade went to South America and the West Indies, to colonies of Spain and Portugal (Brazil). A relatively small amount went to North America. The descendants of slaves did not suffer any damages from slavery. In fact, if it had not been for slavery they never would have been born. The very idea that the same 16 sets of Great Great Grandparents would have met, married, and had the very same children only in West Africa instead of the US is ridiculous. That is how genealogy works if any of those 16 couples had not met, then the entire family tree would be altered and the person(s) living today who are their descendants would have never been born. If not for slavery those particular people would not have been "born in Africa", they never would have been born at all.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Tusker 6/16/2019 10:57:16 AM (No. 99279)
How about reparations for burning The South and initiating the Civil War?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Omen55 6/16/2019 11:28:05 AM (No. 99299)
If there were real reporters one would ask.
"Beto. There were blacks who owned black slaves.
Shouldn't their descendants have to pay up?"
Indeed a real reporter with a knowledge of the subject of slavery could make dem sweat real hard.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/16/2019 11:33:07 AM (No. 99304)
Any blacks today that feel they're oppressed have only themselves to blame.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
EaglePaul 6/16/2019 11:44:34 AM (No. 99311)
Reparations were paid in full between April 1861 and April 1865
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
garyhope 6/16/2019 11:46:16 AM (No. 99313)
What an arrogant narcissistic bozo this guy is.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
garyhope 6/16/2019 11:58:09 AM (No. 99322)
Slavery ended over 150 years ago and now we're going to give billions of dollars to a group of people who most likely can't tell you when or where the Civil War was fought and on whose behalf it was fought.
I think the Germans should give me a new BMW, Mercedes or Porsche as "reparation" for family killed in Europe during WW II and likewise the Japanese should give me a new Toyota SUV or Lexus as reparation for Pearl Harbor etc.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/16/2019 12:18:10 PM (No. 99348)
Atta boy, Beto…. Talk down to the voters. Tell them how smart you are. Lift that repulsively uptilted nose just a bit higher. There, that’s it.
(Now crash, you fool.)
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
winnie1 6/16/2019 12:28:36 PM (No. 99359)
Ya, like Beto knows.....Was he there in another lifetime picking cotton? Beto go get you hair trimmed in your nose and ears I think that hair is growing in your brain.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 6/16/2019 12:38:28 PM (No. 99364)
Once again the definition of reparations is...'taking money from me, a person who has never owned a slave, giving it to you, a person who has never been a slave, so you will vote for democrats.
Also, do Blacks think if they get enough votes for reparations they will see one single dime of the money? The money will be given to 'community activists' like al sharpton and jesse jackson and after they've skimmed ten or twenty percent off the top, the rest will go right back to the 'rat party coffers and used to get more 'rat politicians into office.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
web 6/16/2019 1:58:49 PM (No. 99432)
Black Americans can demand all the reparations they want, from those who actually ran the slave trade. Arabs raided African villages and bought slaves from tribal chiefs for centuries, and marched their booty to the African coast to be sold.
All those arabs living in gold palaces made their billions from oil and the slave trade. Demand your reparations from them. They can afford it, and it was they who were responsible. Leave White American alone, as we had nothing to do with it, and it was we who fought and died by the hundreds of thousands to free your ancestors. If anything, you owe us.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 6/16/2019 2:06:15 PM (No. 99438)
Evidently he doesn't either, or he would not be a democrat. Democrats are not only the party of death, but they are the enemy of minorities who want to think for themselves too. So please do not tell us Captain Skateboard how you know all about it, and we do not.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/16/2019 2:47:46 PM (No. 99461)
Nobody has worked harder at trying to prove he is too stupid to be president but Beto O'Rourke. I'll help him make it come true. Trump in 2020! MAGA
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I guess having Quaker and N. EEngland ancestors who never owned slaves, a gggrandfather who fought for the North and released because of an injury, our church in PA that was firebombed because invited of Antislavery speakers, maintaining a cemetery that had both whites and blacks buried when most were segregated, a WWII father and father in law and Vietnam veteran husband doesn't count.
Why don't schools teach real history?
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 6/16/2019 4:13:16 PM (No. 99495)
No Reparations Without Repatriation!"
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
DVC 6/16/2019 5:16:50 PM (No. 99516)
And YOU, a 87 IQ, immature skateboarder DO understand it all?
Give me a break, you freaking moron.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
smcchk 6/16/2019 6:37:54 PM (No. 99552)
How about reparations made to descendants of any Union soldier killed or injured in the War to End Slavery?
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