'We're not asking, we're telling you:'
Business owner demands black people receive
$350,000 Each in reparations since 'we
worked for free' during slavery - at public
hearing of California reparations committee
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Paul Farrell
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
12/15/2022 9:40:14 AM
A black California businessman demanded $600,000 from California taxpayers during the first meeting of the state's reparations task force on Wednesday. Deliberations began on how to quantify how financial compensation might be calculated and what might be required to prove eligibility. One of those who spoke at the public hearing was 35-year-old entrepreneur and the first black professional tri-athlete, Max Fennell who said that every person should get $350,000 in compensation to close the racial wealth gap and Black-owned businesses should receive $250,000, which would help them to flourish. Fennell added: 'It's a debt that's owed, we worked for free,'
Reply 1 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 12/15/2022 9:44:41 AM (No. 1357127)
Ah, nice to hear from the mo free money crowd right before Christmas.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
columba 12/15/2022 9:46:22 AM (No. 1357129)
I demand that God provide for us appropriate clothing, since "WE" tilled his garden for free.
15 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
downnout 12/15/2022 9:47:40 AM (No. 1357131)
If we give you $350,00 will you move back to your alleged home country of Africa and leave us alone? And BTW, also give up your citizenship?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
woodenleg 12/15/2022 9:54:08 AM (No. 1357144)
Nothing like a little extortion to convince me? /s
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
PChristopher 12/15/2022 9:55:26 AM (No. 1357147)
"We"? Who is "We"? Funny, you don't look like you're 160 years old!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
chance_232 12/15/2022 9:59:11 AM (No. 1357154)
I predicted that the 230,000 that California was proposing wouldn't be enough. And I'll predict right now that 350,000 won't be enough. For some, no amount will ever be enough.
For the tax payers, any amount will be too much.
Is California trying to start a civil war??
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
singermom9 12/15/2022 10:01:41 AM (No. 1357158)
Back then people only made abt $5 a week. So let's first make sure they WERE descended from slaves and then pay them the average wage starting back then. Also take BACK the money they would have been charged for room and board. Also take BACK the money in the last few years they have STOLEN and LOOTED. (There really is no white supremacist committing violence-joey just says that).Those clothes and bags cost money. ALSO, charge then for the trillions Americans have paid for AFIRMATIVE ACTION and FOOD STAMPS and WELFARE and COLLEGE and MEDICAIRE.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
cor-vet 12/15/2022 10:02:43 AM (No. 1357159)
Can we deduct years of welfare compensation? What's the value of Affirmative Action, and all the freebies over the past many years. It's only fair to include all those freebies, if the calculations include all those years of free labor.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jntsrgn 12/15/2022 10:03:00 AM (No. 1357161)
We? What a clown. He’s never suffered a day in his life.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
spacer 12/15/2022 10:03:14 AM (No. 1357162)
700,000 dead white men to include a sitting white President Abraham Lincoln in 4 short years 1861 1864. Est. 25 trillion American dollars in social black mail just over the last 65 years. Also you and you entire class of grifters and assorted thugs are still here living large and eating jelly rolls. I say any debt you think is owed is paid in full...many times over.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Italiano 12/15/2022 10:04:24 AM (No. 1357165)
And i'm telling you to KMA, so we're even.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
volksford 12/15/2022 10:06:21 AM (No. 1357171)
We cannot be held responsible for poor decisions made by your ancestors. An offer of free passage and repatriation to Liberia was made { and since you are here } was obviously declined .
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Sanchin 12/15/2022 10:09:21 AM (No. 1357179)
The destruction of this country continues at high speed!!!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 12/15/2022 10:12:34 AM (No. 1357181)
DEMANDING that people who never owned a slave pay money to people who never were a slave.
NO! None of my ancestors owned slaves.
None of you "demanders" ever MET a slave, let alone were one.
Go to Hades.
Or equally crazy.....
I demand that the Chinese government pay me because Genghis Khan's army raped, pillaged and murdered some of my ancestors in ancient Europe.
PAY UP!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Safari Man 12/15/2022 10:13:51 AM (No. 1357187)
My ancestors were murdered in Haiti by his ancestors. That crime was never paid for. Perhaps all descendants of African slaves should be punished for that…
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Reparations will really help the economy. Al those black folk will immediately turn that money into productive businesses that employ millions, or they will spend it on drugs, booze and guns.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
sw penn 12/15/2022 10:22:51 AM (No. 1357209)
$10 TRILLION in welfare
No amount you give them will ever satiate human greed.
Stop giving mice cookies.
The only way to win is not to play!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
joew9 12/15/2022 10:28:07 AM (No. 1357216)
Perhaps we need to make reparations for everyone whose ancestors were cheated in history.
Except for the one line I am descended from the rest of my aunts and uncles were murdered by Sherman. So I need reparations. None of them owned slaves(or shoes) but all grew cotton and picked it themselves only to be cheated by the yankees every year manipulating the price way below any semblance of market value. Then when the Brits offered more money for cotton than the yankees, Lincoln and others put on a tariff that made them buy their cotton from India and left the South at the mercy of the yankee cheaters. My ancestors fought in the "civil" war not for the right to own slaves but rather for the right to eventually own shoes. But Lincoln was loyal to the rich yankee industrialists who wanted below market price cotton. And then after the "civil" war the carpet baggers came in and stole the little bit of land left in the hands of the poor Southerners. More reparations. My family history shows that the last theft of our land was in about 1940.
I think everyone in the world can make cases for enough reparation monies to exceed the value of the entire Earth.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
sanspeur 12/15/2022 10:32:47 AM (No. 1357222)
what’s a professional black tri athlete ? professionally black ? like a me-again markle when $ are involved? lots of steroid rage here from a guy who plays gym games full time ?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
tivey6301 12/15/2022 10:45:44 AM (No. 1357240)
Reparations - Forcing those who have never owned slaves to give money to those that have never been slaves.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Safari Man 12/15/2022 10:54:06 AM (No. 1357253)
If we deduct the cost of the Great Society and all the other freebies they have gotten in the last 60 years, they will each owe about $500,000. Send them the bill.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
ThreeBadCats3 12/15/2022 10:54:15 AM (No. 1357254)
Kind of like giving unlimited free ice creme and “soda pop” to a 350# diabetic. Minorities who recognize that they are as individuals free, independent and self sufficient are embarrassed at this offer. They recognize that white on black recialism is practically extinct in this country. The reverse, perhaps not so much.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
felixcat 12/15/2022 10:56:27 AM (No. 1357258)
So when was California a slave state?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
southernboy 12/15/2022 10:56:33 AM (No. 1357259)
They didn't "work for free!" They got room & board...! s/
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
paral04 12/15/2022 11:36:04 AM (No. 1357320)
Well, they need to deduct their housing, food and any other costs incurred while they were lodged and add for inflation. Those slaves descendants who were given land by their owners will have to deed it back. Also, no every Black in this country is a descendant of slaves so that has to be established also.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Rich323 12/15/2022 11:38:56 AM (No. 1357328)
Charge the British Crown their fair share since England introduced slavery. The revolution created Americans, who in their founding documents, introduced the first language in the world to identify and work to resolve slavery. The American founders realized, as any intelligent person can, that you couldn’t stop a three thousand year old practice on a dime. If it was so easy why are their still concerns today and why didn’t Barack Obama do anything for “his kind” during his eight year reign??? Trump did more in four than Obama did in eight!!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
runningdoc 12/15/2022 11:51:52 AM (No. 1357346)
But wait a minute! California never was a slave state. California never had slaves. Why should Californians then pay reparations?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
coldborezero 12/15/2022 11:56:39 AM (No. 1357352)
People of Color: Reparations now.
Colorless People: No.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 12/15/2022 12:35:24 PM (No. 1357392)
Interestingly, some have found they didn't descend from slaves, but that their ancestors arrived as freemen.
Just watch some of the Finding your Roots on PBS channels.
So, how do you adjust for that variable?
And, the longest tenure for slavery was during the English, French and Spanish rule, prior to the Founding of the United States of America. Shortly after the Constitution was established, we outlawed the slave trade. Then, it ended roughly 60 years later.
Now, you want to talk about getting $350,000 in a lump sum payment? Will that also follow the end of the multitude of Social Welfare programs too?
The whole topic is more complicated than simply paying some sort of reparations.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/15/2022 1:05:27 PM (No. 1357422)
Free? IIRC, your ancestors were given a roof over their heads, home furnishings, food, medical care and clothing. I’m not defending slavery; I’m just making a point. And since the last slave died decades ago how does this idiot use the word “we”?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/15/2022 1:15:25 PM (No. 1357430)
"We, Kemo Saby"??
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
SALady 12/15/2022 2:11:30 PM (No. 1357470)
OK, I have a reasonable compromise:
Any living black person that was a slave prior to the Emancipation Proclamation being issued should be paid $500,000 each by their living former slave owner.
Sounds fair to me... Of course, since all the former slaves and slave owners have been dead for 50 - 100 years or longer, the line for those payouts should be exactly zero people.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
skacmar 12/15/2022 2:26:32 PM (No. 1357480)
So can I go into Max Fennell's business and demand, not ask, for free stuff from his business as reparations to me for the current Black crime spree and years of welfare and other social benefits that have cost the country billions? Bet that wouldn't go over too well...
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
mifla 12/16/2022 5:28:51 AM (No. 1357916)
"We worked for free?" You weren't even born yet dummy.
Even if you get the money, as soon as you spend it, you will be back looking for more.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/16/2022 9:56:05 AM (No. 1358135)
You got your reparations long ago, Pound Sand.
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