Poll: Support for slavery
reparations still low, but rising
United Press International,
by
Nicholas Sakelaris
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
7/30/2019 9:12:51 AM
The issue of paying reparations to black Americans -- to atone for the United States' history of exploiting slaves -- has gained support in recent months, but a new survey Monday said most Americans oppose the idea. Gallup said new research shows nearly 70 percent of respondents oppose paying descendants of slaves. The results follow a House subcommittee hearing last month that called for a study to "develop reparation proposals for African-Americans" and an apology from the U.S. government for "gross human rights violations." A total of 29 percent favor making payments to descendants, Gallup said. Nearly three-quarters of black Americans, 73
And the people in favor of this think they'll get something for nothing...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Evocatus 7/30/2019 9:42:31 AM (No. 137859)
There were two million military casualties; dead, wounded, missing in the Civil War, which freed two million slaves. There's your reparations, right there. Additionally, almost everyone was Presidentially Pardoned by President Andrew Johnson, shortly after the Civil War. It's done. It's over. The Civil War has been over for more than one hundred and fifty years.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 7/30/2019 9:49:00 AM (No. 137864)
A completely insane idea.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Pinkpanther 7/30/2019 9:51:50 AM (No. 137871)
I’m all for this but on two conditions: 1) they renounce their citizenship and 2) go back to Africa permanently.
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If it happens, that's the day I stop paying income taxes!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/30/2019 9:58:18 AM (No. 137882)
Re #5.... Tax credits mean that you get back more than you paid. A Tax Deduction is what your looking for.
Tax credits are a favorite tool for the democrats to give away tax payer money.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 7/30/2019 9:58:34 AM (No. 137884)
No payments, no new programs a la what's-her-name Harris, and no apologies. I recall the young black woman who was interviewed just after Obama took office. The inane little sweetheart said that Obama was going to get her a new apartment and a new car. When the interviewer asked where the money would come from, she said, "I don't know----wherever the Presidents get they money."
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
HotRod 7/30/2019 10:04:03 AM (No. 137894)
That would be great for the top 1% folks. Reparations would take money from the working class taxpayers and give it to blacks. The blacks would then buy new cars, tennis shoes, clothes, IPhones, and the rest, until all the money was gone- to big business! Then the inner-city plantations would return to normal...
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Their reparation is that they get to live in the freest, most prosperous, and most accepting country in the world. All they need do is forget all the grievance BS and take advantage of the numerous opportunities that are open to all who are willing to work for them.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
tech10171968 7/30/2019 10:17:03 AM (No. 137913)
Speaking as an African-American:
I WANT NO REPARATIONS. THIS IS *STUPID*.
Reparations are a form of handout, regardless of what some on the left may want to argue. Do you know what happens when you accept handouts? (1) Everyone ends up wondering whether you got what you have because you EARNED it, or because it was given to you; and (2) the people who gave you the handout end up OWNING your butt like a second-hand government mule.
Of course, everyone knows that reparations aren't going to happen. But, by even broaching the subject, Democrats hope to bribe a minority vote it is in danger of losing due to increased Black employment numbers under the so-called "racist" Trump; it should come as no surprise that no one even mentioned this until right before the 2020 campaign season. Their pandering is so pathetic that even Ray Charles could see through it and, frankly, I'm just a little insulted that the left apparently think any of us are this gullible. I'd love to tell the left just where they can stick their reparations but I would probably be censored by this web site over my choice of words.
And people wonder why I'm a Conservative...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 7/30/2019 10:25:55 AM (No. 137924)
~360,000 Northerners died fighting to free the slaves and the South was decimated in the process. When is enough payback for something that ended long before anyone alive today was even born??
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
David Key 7/30/2019 10:58:41 AM (No. 137942)
7 out of 10 is not most it is almost all. As usual the leftist media slants the polls to their taste even when losing. Look up the facts 750000 dead on both sides to decide the issue of slavery. Adjusted for inflation in today's dollars roughly 832 billion was spent on the war on both sides. I believe enough was spent in blood and the treasure of the nation to wipe out the debt of slavery we owe to any actual descendents of slaves today. If you really want to pay out you need to start with the Democratic party as they were the slavery party, the jim crow laws party, the stand in the way of racial equality party. Next you would have to find the actual owners of slaves. What debt does anyone who never owned slaves owe? What would you do with the Native american and black slave owners historically. Would you go after the Muslim and Black slave traders who sold the slaves to Europeans and continue to this day in some area's of the world to practice slavery. The history of the world is complex and often confusing interaction of positive and negative actions by many different people groups. When you start appropriating blame for deeds hundreds of years ago where do you stop. At some point nearly every ethnic group has held slaves and been held as slaves in history. In reality black slavery in the USA was neither any better or worse than any other form of slavery practiced by every nation/state/city/empire in history.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
watlines 7/30/2019 11:01:57 AM (No. 137944)
How about figuring out how much in federal and state funds were given to inner city residents and black minority communities over the past 50 plus years, starting with LBJ's Great Society.
Where has it all gone? Start by asking Elijah Cummings to account for his district's share of the pie.
Break it all down - city by city and call it Reparations, because that's what it is. Too bad the Democrat leadership in these cities squandered it, and continue to do so.
President Trump is on the verge of an historic, paradigm shift in perception of who really cares about lifting minorities out of poverty.
Baltimore may turn out to be the turning point that will be remembered and written about in tomorrow's K-12 American History books.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
hershey 7/30/2019 11:08:14 AM (No. 137952)
We are already making payments to descendents of slaves....
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 7/30/2019 11:20:13 AM (No. 137959)
I should also be paid for never having had nor wanted slaves. There's some monetizable value in that, right?
SO PAY ME!!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
hershey 7/30/2019 11:55:14 AM (No. 137980)
Had another thought about the reparations we are paying to all the 'ex slaves' in the form of EBT cards, racial hiring prefrences, dumbing down school grades and all the rest...what about all those Obamaphones they were handing out? Who is paying the ongoing cell phone fees for them??? Does anyone know HOW much is being paid to keep them working??? I read a bit some time ago about an honest citizen who tried to turn in a Obamaphone from someone who died in their family...He couldn't...there was NO means to return the phone to the issuing company...
https://www.newsmax.com/us/obama-phone-costs-billions/2013/02/12/id/490022/
https://www.obamaphone.com/obama-phone-faqs
Bottom line is everyone else pays a nominal fee PER MONTH that goes into the 'LIfeline' fund that pays the costs...so, just more reparations on us nasty working class citizens...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/30/2019 12:17:31 PM (No. 138000)
I would calculate that support grows for each new black baby that is born and not aborted. Reparations will not stop with one payment, they would soon be giving away our houses, our cars and our children to use as their slaves. Stop this nonsense now before it gets started. Food stamps, EBT cards, Affirmative Action, a lower bar for college admission, classes dumbed down to child level, how much more will it take to civilize them?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
cartcart 7/30/2019 12:47:11 PM (No. 138017)
Now think. Show me a slave owner and a slave and those two alone can work it out. The rest of us who had no slaves should not have to pay for those who were not slaves.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
His_Highness 7/30/2019 2:35:24 PM (No. 138150)
Were I Black, I suspect I would support Black Reparations. Just saying.
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