'Poison of America': Bill on slavery reparations
gains backing from Sen. Chuck Schumer
USA Today,
by
Nicholas Wu
&
Deborah Barfield Berry
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
7/17/2019 8:51:43 AM
WASHINGTON – Calling racism the "poison of America," Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer gave his support Tuesday to a bill to set up a commission to study reparations. "The disparities in race affect everything, not just the obvious things, but the non-obvious things” like pollution and climate change, Schumer explained. The bill, proposed by Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee would form a commission to study ways to make an apology for slavery and make payments to the descendants of slaves. Booker and Jackson Lee introduced the measure in April 2019. “The legacy of
Reply 1 - Posted by:
David Key 7/17/2019 9:04:53 AM (No. 126102)
New Idea: special tax, we all know how the democrats love taxes, just on democrats to pay for reparations since they are the party of Slavery, Jim Crow, and the KKK, for a fund, do a genetic scan of all backs in america and if they can be traced back legitimately to slaves owned in America pay them a lump sum of the total amount divided by the total number of recipients. Presto Chango Racism and Racialism goes away.......not.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MickinPhoenix 7/17/2019 9:32:17 AM (No. 126140)
Chuck Schumer: Poison of the Senate.......Mick
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/17/2019 9:37:51 AM (No. 126143)
This will be a mess. I would be fine with legislation that addressed in an honest way real disparities, not manufactured problems. But the problem is that they will take a one size sledgehammer that wont actually fix anything, will cost a truckload and cause even more resentment.
I accept that many blacks are treated differently. How much of that is due to their behavior and hiw much is due to people being suspicious simply because a person is black. Unfortunately, we cant have an honest open dialog due to political correctness. Additionally, most of the civil rights groups justify their existence by defining down racism. Now, everything is racist, when its not and people if good faith are sick of it, dont want to hear it anymore or are afraid of talking about it.
Reparations is a non-starter. But if someone can actually figure out a fix for the inner city schools and actually educate the students, Im listening. Addressing the culture and an actual education will resolve most problems.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Wendybird 7/17/2019 9:49:19 AM (No. 126164)
I would be more convinced if the great scholar, Senator Schumer would give us a lecture or lesson about all the countries presently in the world and through history that have never experienced slavery, something like it, or worse.
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Let's talk about the black Africans who sold fellow black Africans to slavers.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 7/17/2019 10:19:01 AM (No. 126205)
Thanks for recognizing the loss and suffering of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who fought and died and sacrificed everything... to FREE the slaves. Oh wait... my mistake, that isn't what you said at all... is it Chuck!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 7/17/2019 10:44:50 AM (No. 126233)
How about all blacks be required to pay a special tax for reparations for all the victims of black violence. They are many times more likely to be a violent criminal, so let's get some reparations for THAT.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Historybuff 7/17/2019 10:52:58 AM (No. 126241)
Great idea - but lets get reparations from the people who sold them too!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
PChristopher 7/17/2019 11:03:58 AM (No. 126250)
Racism is the poison of America? You just go ahead and institute reparations to people who don't deserve it from people who shouldn't have to pay it...you won't know what hatred and racism are until you pass an idiotic bill like that.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Ben Around 7/17/2019 11:07:17 AM (No. 126253)
Are we supposed to be impressed because chuck thinks it's a good idea?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
vhs68 7/17/2019 11:13:17 AM (No. 126257)
They don't call Chuckie, Smuckie for nothing.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Geoman 7/17/2019 11:14:17 AM (No. 126258)
The "non-obvious things" Schumer references is democrat code language for substituting the highly subjective ideology and feelings of our 'DC betters' for observable data and facts. That's how the left comes up with the meme of Trump forcing immigrants to drink from toilets, the epitome of fake news. I(n a reparations free-for-all feeding frenzy, look for any legislation to be full of wholly unsubstantiated lies.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ginadee 7/17/2019 11:43:16 AM (No. 126289)
How much can we put you down for Chuckie?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 7/17/2019 11:59:23 AM (No. 126303)
If someone wants to experience real racism and resentment just start taking money from people who had nothing to do with slavery and start giving it to people who were never slaves. The Dems are getting worried that their lock on the black vote is slipping so they have started promising free stuff. Reparations would set back race relations for a hundred years.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MattMusson 7/17/2019 12:53:06 PM (No. 126380)
Standing by for riots.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Jiobaobubai 7/17/2019 1:35:49 PM (No. 126433)
Using this thought process then all the so-called "dreamer" kids need to be deported to pay for their parents' crimes.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 7/17/2019 2:47:13 PM (No. 126495)
They are already receiving reparations. It's call affirmative action.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
padiva 7/17/2019 4:10:30 PM (No. 126580)
How about addressing the slavery that exists in our world today? Sex traffic slavery? African slavery? Muslim women slavery? Kidnapping and other exploitation? Women forced to have abortions?
That's right those issues are not politically correct.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/17/2019 6:28:27 PM (No. 126698)
OK Chuckie, Prove ONE person was a slave and I'll give them $5 bucks!
Happy Now?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
rochow 7/17/2019 8:48:18 PM (No. 126796)
Schumer, let the dems pay for it out of their pockets, that includes you, who never held an honest job in your entire life. The North gave it's blood to set them free from you dems. Remember, you wanted to continue slavery!
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Lack of reparations causes climate change? Dems need to be locked up in a padded room.