Billionaire Steyer shakes up primary
with slavery reparations plan
Agence France-Presse,
by
Leila Macor
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
2/29/2020 10:46:23 AM
Myrtle Beach (United States) - For centuries, South Carolina's Charleston was the largest port of entry for the transatlantic slave trade. Now, a billionaire activist named Tom Steyer is shaking up the state's Democratic primary by advocating slavery reparations for African Americans. A California financier turned philanthropist and environmental campaigner, Steyer has poured tens of millions of dollars into the state ahead of Saturday's vote -- with a single-minded focus on the black voters who make up 60 percent of its Democratic electorate. How South Carolina's African Americans vote in the White House primaries is traditionally a key indicator of which contender
Reply 1 - Posted by:
planetgeo 2/29/2020 10:55:30 AM (No. 332821)
I would submit that welfare programs and affirmative action laws and job preferences are in fact "reparations". How much longer are we going to have to keep this up?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 2/29/2020 10:57:22 AM (No. 332824)
Pandering in South Carolina. Why would anybody trust this guy?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
HotRod 2/29/2020 10:58:01 AM (No. 332826)
Steyer is trying to buy the election with other people's money. I suppose he would allow a tax exemption for African-Americans. There would be a lot of White African -Americans if that happened. After all, there are a lot of White people in Africa...
What a losing proposition. Reparations is desperations...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DeplorableVet 2/29/2020 11:00:18 AM (No. 332829)
Biden has gone into overdrive pandering to black voters in SC. He even said that SC with their 60% black democrats is what America really looks like. Sorry Joe, but the black population in America is about 16%, and going down due to illegal immigration.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 2/29/2020 11:08:51 AM (No. 332836)
What's really sad is one of these ingrates will eventually get the 2020 Democratic nomination for President. None of them deserve it. None of them will govern. Anyone that thinks pandering is actually governing is badly mistaken.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 2/29/2020 11:16:34 AM (No. 332843)
How the Democrats have treated blacks throughout the history of America is a genocidal crime. First they didn't want to lose control of their slaves so they fought a Civil War, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands....then enacted Jim Crow to maintain segregation with the KKK as their enforcers (a role now enjoyed by Antifa)....then voted against the Civil Rights Act....then Johnson's Great Society rewarding black mothers for not having husbands, destroying the black nuclear family....Margaret Sanger with Planned Parenthood's mission of aborting as many black babies as possible....
Is this not genocide? Isn't it? And think of all the willing minions the Dems have in academia, sports, the media, politics....evil lives today, and nowhere is it better represented by the Democratic Party, the most successful crime syndicate in the history of the world.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 2/29/2020 11:21:49 AM (No. 332853)
"Shakes up" is coming it a bit high, don't you think?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
kar120c 2/29/2020 11:21:52 AM (No. 332854)
Obviously, funding for such reparations should come exclusively from Democrats. After all, they were the party that insisted on supporting and maintaining Slavery. And while we are at it, I let's start a reparations fund for Republicans, underwritten by Hollywood, since it was one of their performers (actor John Wilkes Booth) who killed the man who was one of the original founders of the Republican Party, and who emancipated the slaves, President Abraham Lincoln.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bgarrett 2/29/2020 11:39:24 AM (No. 332876)
"for centuries..."??? wiki says slavery was in the United States of America from the beginning of the nation in 1776 until passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. thats 89 years, not centuries
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bgarrett 2/29/2020 11:40:49 AM (No. 332879)
#3 Is Obamas white half gonna pay his black half?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 2/29/2020 11:43:34 AM (No. 332883)
Sure, let's give reparations to any "black" citizen who can trace all of his ancestors on both sides of his family back and prove that all were slaves and that none of them actually held slaves. An average 20 yo "black" person would have at least 20 or 40 ancestors who lived
during the 1850s, many of whom were probably white and many of whom possibly owned slaves, themselves. How do you separate out the genes in your body that came from slaves from those that came from slave owners? You are equally related to both ancestors, assuming you have the same number of genes from both. In fact many blacks in this country have no ancestors at all who were slaves and I would expect that a majority of white people have no ancestors at all who held slaves. Immediately after the civil war, it would have made sense to force all slave holders to hand over everything they owned over to their former slaves. And if a Democrat hadn't murdered Lincoln, he would have arranged for actual former slaves to receive property and other reparations. But 200 years after the fact, everyone actually involved in slavery is dead and long gone, along with any reasonable requirement for "reparations."
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
StormCnter 2/29/2020 11:55:29 AM (No. 332896)
I've listened to Steyer discuss reparations. He continually references "four hundred years of slavery". I'm not clear on what is his beginning date and what is his ending date. My impression is that it hasn't ended yet. When he is asked what kind of reparations, at what cost, and from whom would they be paid and who would receive them, he says we're going to have to figure that out and discuss it.
It would seem to me that somewhere, somehow, a value would have to be placed on what is owed before any plans or discussions can take place. How to do that? How to place a value on "400 years of slavery". Do we include inflation? It's all so crazy that it's hard to believe Steyer wants to be taken seriously. This seems to be his major reason for running for president, to create, install and execute a method of making reparations.
What about the Indians? Aren't they owed something too? It would never end and the value would never be assessed and the cost would burden the nation til the end of time.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Historybuff 2/29/2020 12:00:37 PM (No. 332904)
If you penalize the buyers, you should penalize the sellers.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 2/29/2020 12:11:28 PM (No. 332912)
Tom Steyer, show me that you mean it. Please send me a check for $10,000. I'm sure I have some ancestors that were slaves. By the way, don't you have more money than you need?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
hershey 2/29/2020 12:22:08 PM (No. 332932)
What a fool...maybe HE can pay reparations out of his little piggybank, but there is not a soul alive, not probably even a grandparent alive, who was ever a slave...this is just another socialist concocted give away of taxpayer money to those who are already living on the taxpayer dole....
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
cor-vet 2/29/2020 12:25:07 PM (No. 332936)
Steyers has billions, that would go a long way toward repaying all the blacks his white ancestors owned. My ancestors arrived here from Austria around 1895-1905, so I'm exempt from paying.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/29/2020 12:31:21 PM (No. 332944)
This gimmick will serve to detract from the Bernie vote. Go Steyer!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
red1066 2/29/2020 12:42:04 PM (No. 332955)
As I've stated many times on here. Go to Arlington National Cemetery and read about why and how it was started. There's your reparations.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Quigley 2/29/2020 12:47:08 PM (No. 332959)
Does it have the dimoKKKraps paying all of the reparations for their role in the travesty?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Newtsche 2/29/2020 12:58:02 PM (No. 332965)
A disqualifer for serious human beings much less candidates for POTUS.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 2/29/2020 12:59:59 PM (No. 332967)
And 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.
And even if in a moment of insanity, Americans voted to give Blacks reparations, do they actually think they would see even a single dime of that money? The money would go to 'community activists' AKA democratic operatives and right back into the 'rat party coffers.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Ditto1958 2/29/2020 1:17:56 PM (No. 332984)
This is not just ridiculous but is downright dangerous. Liberals, for
political gain, won’t let us move forward in America. Legal slavery ended her in 1863. My ancestors didn’t come to America until well after the end of the Civil War. No one alive today in America was a slave in the South. No former slave owners are alive. Slavery was a terrible thing, but it’s been over for more than 150 years. Slavery was not unique to America back then. It still exists in places in the world today. So libtards- stop trying to put us on guilt trip. None of us alive today are responsible for slavery. Even if we were, no one is alive to be paid for it. When slaves were alive, thousands of Union troops fought and many died fighting for Union and freedom.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
stablemoney 2/29/2020 1:31:07 PM (No. 332992)
Why hasn't Steyer spent his millions on slavery reparations. He has the money, and we don't.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 2/29/2020 2:19:47 PM (No. 333028)
What does he think welfare benefits are? We have paid Billions to the black community since LBJ signed the bill. They would be better off going after the Arabs, for it was they who were the slave traders back then, not the US government. Besides, who decides who qualifies? That is the big question. Most of the ones who would qualify in my opinion died long ago. Today's black community has never been a slave, unless you count the democrat mental slavery practiced in their party.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 2/29/2020 6:41:01 PM (No. 333157)
No person in the USA has been a slave for 155 years. If a person was born a slave and freed at the age of one years, and lived to be 100 years old, those "last possible" slaves died over HALF A CENTURY ago, after living 99% of their lives as free men and women.
And yet, somehow, the current people, three or four generations removed from all of this ancient history need to "pay reparations" to people who never were slaves, never even MET a real slave, many totally unrelated to anyone who was ever a slave, even 155 yeats ago?
Drop dead, this is a load of BS that most of us are not buying.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
rochow 2/29/2020 8:00:17 PM (No. 333213)
We are paying 'reparations' every day with food stamps, welfare something or other, people sleeping until noon to get up and get drugged up. I have yet to see a starving black person, all I see is overfed people who want free Mercedes and free 10 room houses with 5 servants. A private plane would not hurt.
Never owned a black slave and I don't plan to pay any further reparations than what I am taxed with now!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/29/2020 10:07:59 PM (No. 333254)
I want mine, I was drafted into the Army...Involuntary Servitude...I was paid like a slave, treated like one and could NOT leave the Olive Drab Green Plantation...
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
4Justice 3/2/2020 12:42:50 AM (No. 334074)
Why didn't he just divide up the tens of millions, he wasted on his stupid campaign, among the blacks in the country. It would have done a lot more good than any stupid reparations plan and it wouldn't have cost taxpayers a dime!!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
4Justice 3/2/2020 1:01:16 AM (No. 334082)
One more question...so, does this mean that rich successful blacks are also owed "reparations" from poor whites today, simply because of skin color? Do poor white people, struggling daily to make ends meet, have to pay "reparations" to people like Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan too??
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Idiotic. Who would pay for the reparations, and to whom would they be given?