Democrat congresswoman calls slave reparations
a 'bold effort that people want to not do'
JustTheNews,
by
Nicholas Ballasy
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
7/11/2020 5:04:37 AM
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee called on Democrats to mobilize together and advocate for passage of a bill to form a commission on slave reparations, calling it a "bold effort that people want to not do."
"You must as a community ensure that the Congress moves on H.R. 40 and that is call your members of Congress to ensure they are co-sponsors," she said on Friday during a virtual town hall on "Systemic Racism Beyond Policing."
"We're the provocative legislation that people want to think twice about being on because it clearly says that something must be done about the governmental action that was done to enslave Africans
Reply 1 - Posted by:
P51DMustang 7/11/2020 5:31:59 AM (No. 474276)
Just more Bull Schiff from the rat's party.
25 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
globalwarmer 7/11/2020 6:29:34 AM (No. 474293)
"People want to not do" is right.....and people will not do.
41 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 7/11/2020 6:36:05 AM (No. 474297)
Gimmie-dats tend to speak broken English.
35 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
JackBurton 7/11/2020 6:44:48 AM (No. 474304)
620,000 lives wasn't reparations enough?
40 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 7/11/2020 7:04:45 AM (No. 474316)
Loser says what..??
15 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
paral04 7/11/2020 7:19:58 AM (No. 474330)
Can she prove that the government enslaved her? I think with her policies, she is enslaving us.
28 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
philsner 7/11/2020 7:21:21 AM (No. 474333)
"Bold effort" = give me your money because I'm too lazy to earn my own.
30 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
FunOne 7/11/2020 7:33:28 AM (No. 474345)
For those who still have a grasp of history, "reparations" following WW I became, in essence, the reason for WW II. After "The Great War" the Allied Powers imposed severe economic penalties on Germany for starting the war. The severity of this so irritated the German population to the point that they found favor in the words of Adolph Hitler who convinced them that this penalty needed to be corrected,and Germany had a score to settle. They allowed him to assume leadership, and, well--you know the thing!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
franq 7/11/2020 7:44:59 AM (No. 474355)
Some people did some things!
22 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 7/11/2020 7:53:43 AM (No. 474360)
I say write each and every one of them a one time check on the condition that all welfare programs are cancelled.
17 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
franq 7/11/2020 8:01:10 AM (No. 474369)
...effort bold that people to do not want."
Yoda Jackson Lee
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Jebediah 7/11/2020 8:06:31 AM (No. 474379)
This woman is an idiot AND an egomaniac! WHY is she re-elected?
21 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
SamNJ 7/11/2020 8:12:32 AM (No. 474387)
And she splits her infinitives.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Manxsom Foe 7/11/2020 8:30:37 AM (No. 474406)
While we're talking about horrible things done by one group to another, why don't blacks owe reparations to Native Americans? After the Recent Unpleasantness black soldiers went out west in order to continue their military careers. The Buffalo Soldiers (blacks whose hair reminded the Native Americans of the hair on a Buffalo's hump) fought and killed many enemy in the Indian Wars. They enforced appropriation of land and the enslavement of the Native Americans into the Reservation System. BTW that's where Hitler got the idea for Concentration Camps.
If anyone owes reparations then the blacks owe a great deal to the Native Americans.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 7/11/2020 8:32:45 AM (No. 474411)
I'm really tired with this never ending (recurring) call for reparations. The principle of "Statute of Limitations" needs to apply. Since Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" trillions of dollars have been spent to benefit African-Americans, including decades of "affirmative action."
Since when in the United States is any individual or any government responsible for actions that occurred in the far distant past? No one is responsible for any actions of his or her great-great-great ancestors, especially having any such wrongs paid for by taxes.
Reparations are simply illogical attempts to grab huge sums of money.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/11/2020 8:36:54 AM (No. 474416)
We don't want to do it because stupid people like Sheila and Maxine already had their reparations. Where else can a moron wear a dress and speak in front of Congress? Where else can somebody call himself Reverend, collect millions of dollars for spewing vile hate speech and avoid paying taxes on it? Living in America is the best thing that ever happened to them.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 7/11/2020 8:38:33 AM (No. 474418)
Go ahead. Hand Trump 85% of the white vote. To say nothing of the votes of Asians, Latinos, Jews...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
janjan 7/11/2020 8:41:46 AM (No. 474420)
Reparations to black people need to be payed by the DNC who have held the whole race in economic slavery for decades. They started the KKK, they fought the Civil Rights Act, they tried to stop them from voting. The rest of us owe them nothing.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mizzmac 7/11/2020 8:47:22 AM (No. 474425)
Anyone from Texas, particularly Houston, knows what a joke She-Jack is. Before Obamacare passed I lived in her district. I attempted to reach her 37 times, via her website, phone, and actually knocking on the door of two of her five offices to no avail. But I am not Black. I attended a townhall meeting re: Obamacare where she arrived 25 minutes late, paraded down the center aisle of a community center behind the American flag, and proceeded to lie her (rather wide) six off. She planted a woman who pretended to be a physician to praise O-care. Turns out she was a graduate student in political science and an Obama delegate, not a medical doctor (or even a PhD). This woman represents everything that is wrong with politics. And if you get between her and a camera--in the words of Inigo Montoya--"Prepare to die."
18 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 7/11/2020 9:03:26 AM (No. 474442)
"Systemic Stupidity Beyond Policing" that I want to not do. You have that right you ugly baboon.
5 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/11/2020 9:03:42 AM (No. 474443)
She demeans the sacrifice of millions in the civil war and hundreds if not thousands of Blacks and Republicans murdered in the Jim Crow era.
Past sacrifices dont limit present GREED!!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/11/2020 9:21:55 AM (No. 474471)
We have been paying slave reparations since the income tax was passed in 1913. We just paid trillions for mail outs of printed money in one huge income redistribution in the last few months.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
cold porridge 7/11/2020 9:38:55 AM (No. 474494)
To those of the colored persuasion that think that I or anyone else today owes them reparations, I would say this: Those of us alive today did not enslave your ancestors, and many of us (myself included) did not have ancestors that were slave owners. If you think we owe you reparations, apparently you do not feel better off than if the slave traders would have left you in Africa. Therefore, we will not pay you one red cent, but we will pay for a one way ticket to the jungle,
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
moebellini3 7/11/2020 9:50:02 AM (No. 474514)
all B.S. Hundreds of thousands of white lives lost to free slaves under Lincoln. We've had quota systems in place to ensure hiring of blacks, they have their own colleges, their own TV and radio stations 70% of the NBA and the NFL are black and they are doctors, lawyers, dentists, news casters, actors and actresses, they have their own movies and broadway shows and they are members of congress. We even elected a black president. So what actually is the problem. I'll tell ya, there is not problem. They have been paid back and many have been supported by our tax dollars for generations. You see, that debt has been paid. There is no more. End it. Got it.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 7/11/2020 9:50:17 AM (No. 474515)
Craig Washington, black lib criminal defense attorney and perennial candidate for political office here in Texas, had a reputation for illegal drug use. SJL challenged him to take a drug test. Without missing a beat, Craig said sure. Just as soon as she took an IQ test. Game, set, and match... Mr. Washington.
3 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
red1066 7/11/2020 9:53:34 AM (No. 474521)
Reparations? For what? For whom? The American taxpayer? Hundreds of federal and state programs to help minorities. Trillions of dollars spent funding those programs, and a large portion of the black population in the inner cities still can't get their dung together and become productive citizens of this country. The failure to make one's life better falls squarely on the black inner city culture. A culture that from all appearances doesn't care about getting an education, or even making an attempt at trying to assimilate into what is considered a normal American life style. Their entire lives appear to be spent doing just the opposite of doing things that would make their lives better for them and their children. Easier to blame racism and whitey for their lot in life, then take advantage of the opportunities available to them to improve their lives. To do that, would take too much work.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
hershey 7/11/2020 10:01:16 AM (No. 474528)
Dang right we don't want to do it...no one alive was a slave, no one alive owned slaves...it's history...get over it cupcake..pull up your big girl panties and get on with your worthless life...or go and buy another stupid looking cowboy hat...
8 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
Venturer 7/11/2020 10:24:13 AM (No. 474581)
Number 12 you know why.
We all do.
Because the people who vote for her are even dumber than she is.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
sw penn 7/11/2020 10:26:26 AM (No. 474585)
'Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee called on Democrats to mobilize together and advocate for passage of a bill to form a commission on slave reparations, calling it a "bold effort that people want to not do." '
Democracy be damned when
privileged black supremacists
are on the march...
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
DVC 7/11/2020 10:58:22 AM (No. 474621)
Teh only living person with a negative IQ.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
czechlist 7/11/2020 11:34:18 AM (No. 474684)
Just an appeal for the gimmedat vote. Guaranteed to work in Houston, especially since Katrina. I live in a gerrymandered district and witness the pandering every election cycle.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 7/11/2020 11:37:20 AM (No. 474690)
What do you think Welfare has been Sheila? Or all the minority targeted programs that apparently blacks aren't using to get ahead in the world. Like AA, scholarships, admittance quotas and so on. Democrat problem for the DNC would be, these folks in large part can't even figure out who the baby daddy is, let alone ancestors who came from Africa. Especially the blacks who live in the North and whose ancestors were not slaves.
The inner city is a huge festering mess, thanks to people like this woman and the hustlers Sharpton and Jackson. Time to clean up your own messes like adults and stop expecting the rest of us to do it for you.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy 7/11/2020 12:45:46 PM (No. 474776)
#12 - a combination of stupid voters in her district and a ton of voter fraud via mail ballots. There are thousands of households in her district with 6+ registered voters, who primarily vote by mail.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
AlpineLace 7/11/2020 1:36:01 PM (No. 474838)
Yale Law School - how the hell did she ever get that JD, but a better question, how did she pass the bar.
4 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/11/2020 3:23:41 PM (No. 474939)
What about all the freed blacks who also owned slaves?
Do we make all blacks PROVE they are descended from actual slaves? Good luck with that when most of them today don't even know who their father is.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Italiano 7/11/2020 3:28:58 PM (No. 474944)
Sorry, Rep. Dingbat, but the Obama Family Travel & Entertainment Budget done cleaned out what was left in the reparations account.
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Just as I thought. HR 40 again. When Obola was elected, that's all they talked about.
We had better hope the President is re-elected. Do not relax. They are all working on registering as many as possible.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
paral04 7/12/2020 9:31:49 AM (No. 475537)
What about reparations for married women? They could not own anything once they were married. The husband had control of all bank accounts and property. She couldn't vote until an Amendment was passed in the early 1900's. It wasn't until the 1960's that she could have her own bank account and credit cars. Now that is real oppression.
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