Left-wing lawmakers press for federal
reparations for Black Americans: 'We're
here to demand it'
Fox News,
by
Elizabeth Elkind
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
5/17/2023 4:20:09 PM
A group of House progressives led by Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., have revived discussions at the federal level about giving reparations to Black Americans who descended from slaves and Americans of African descent.
Bush held a press conference on Wednesday unveiling her Reparations Now resolution, which declares "that the United States has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its massive harm on the lives of millions."
She spoke alongside fellow Squad members Reps. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., as well as Senate candidate Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., and freshman Rep. Summer Lee., D-Pa., and a host of activists from around the country.
While they are waiting for reparations, would it not be more expedient for blacks to get an education, learn a trade and find a good-paying job? Seems to me that would be a lot quicker. The beauty of this path is that it applies to all races.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Sceptic 5/17/2023 4:44:20 PM (No. 1471677)
I want all the money back that was spent on the "Great Society", then. Who would be the winner then?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Northcross 5/17/2023 4:45:47 PM (No. 1471678)
Pound sand, you race baiting scum. Reparations have already been paid. You will find them buried in Union Cemeteries, and in the trillions already paid into welfare which accomplished nothing but demands for more welfare, while destroying the black family.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Catherine 5/17/2023 4:46:29 PM (No. 1471679)
Obama is here to destroy white America and give it to other races. He did promise to fundamentally change America. Rush kept asking "to what?" Now we know.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 5/17/2023 4:49:07 PM (No. 1471685)
Demand away.
Not happening.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Alecto2 5/17/2023 4:56:57 PM (No. 1471696)
Money will be available from a Nigerian prince on arrival in Liberia.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
FormerDem 5/17/2023 5:03:04 PM (No. 1471698)
I am here to demand that the black community pay reparations for having taken jobs from which the Irish were excluded (No Irish Need Apply) when, notably, those exact same Irish had just saved the black community from slavery. On hte other hand, it was kind of good for the Irish to have to save themselves... Hm.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
seamusm 5/17/2023 5:20:30 PM (No. 1471714)
Sounds good - right after every slave descendant pays the heirs of those who died to free them.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 5/17/2023 5:21:03 PM (No. 1471715)
Blacks already got their reparations via trillions of taxpayer dollars spent on welfare ( &redundant) programs, food stamps, free school breakfast and lunch programs, subsidized public housing, AA programs, college scholarships, medical care, Obama phones, etc,, since the mid 60s.
Too bad they squandered them.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/17/2023 5:23:16 PM (No. 1471718)
I want pay related to my great-Grandfather's part in liberating said slaves.
Perhaps this will be a teaching moment for the wokies on EXACTLY how that "slavery thing" really worked, and who was affected by it, starting with the Irish followed by Danish, Portuguese, and French sailors captured by British warships. Then there's the "inconvenient truth" of Freed Blacks who owned their own Plantations worked by their very own "not-free" slaves.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
skacmar 5/17/2023 5:24:38 PM (No. 1471719)
Why doesn't the US go buy a bunch of land in Africa. We can then give out the "40 acres and a mule" to any person who wants their reparations as actual 40 acres of land in the Black's beloved Africa. If they want their reparations, they must move to their 40 acres in Africa and take care of their mule, and never come back. No cash, just the 40 acres and a mule as so many say was promised to them.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/17/2023 5:26:52 PM (No. 1471722)
Hey Commies, show us ONE person that WAS A SLAVE and we'll consider it.......NOT!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/17/2023 5:27:29 PM (No. 1471723)
2 Acres and a Mule + 60 years of the Welfare State = Reparations on Steroids
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
sciteach 5/17/2023 5:32:40 PM (No. 1471728)
Let them go to the black Africans who captured the slaves and then sold them through Arab middlemen. And to think this woman Lee could end up in the US Senate.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Indy8166 5/17/2023 5:45:37 PM (No. 1471743)
I demand they go back to African from whence they came. And leave us white golf alone.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
minuteman 5/17/2023 5:48:03 PM (No. 1471745)
From cotton field slavery to welfare slavery, all brought to you by democrats.
And don’t forget to wear your ultrawoke, virtue signaling, Nike wear, stitched together by modern slaves in China.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/17/2023 5:49:00 PM (No. 1471747)
What incredible foolishness on the part of our government, and the people that elected them.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/17/2023 5:51:37 PM (No. 1471750)
FTA ... She spoke alongside fellow Squad members Reps. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., as well as Senate candidate Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., and freshman Rep. Summer Lee., D-Pa., and a host of activists from around the country.
Rashida's slathering on the tanning oil trying to get as black as she can be.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
smokincol 5/17/2023 5:54:31 PM (No. 1471754)
The United States Supreme Court, in all its wisdom, declared that reparations are unconstitutional the demcommie federal government is trivializing matters of major importance and magnifying matters of lesser importance and the tactic is, to keep people involved in the latter and not focusing on the former, typical communist revisionist method of initiating "change"
the communists never sleep when it comes to initiating governmental change
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
leonardo 5/17/2023 5:55:37 PM (No. 1471755)
Demanding “reparations” from those who either never owned slaves or whose families immigrated to America long after slavery was over, shows an America-hating desperation unrelated to reality. Welcome to the radical Democrat bigotry at all costs.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/17/2023 6:15:13 PM (No. 1471764)
Say the the recipients of Black Privilege who make $200 Gs a year: Cori Bush D, Jamaal Bowman D, Rashida Tlaib D, Barbara Lee D & Summer Lee D.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
bkt23 5/17/2023 6:17:16 PM (No. 1471766)
I might be OK with this if the caveat was that everyone - and their progeny - who chose to receive "reparations" payouts were obliged to leave, and forever stay away from, the United States.
Those black Americans who did not opt in for the reparations thing are welcome to stay, of course.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 5/17/2023 6:25:39 PM (No. 1471774)
I recall Juan Williams stating he was against any reparations since it was likely going to be linked to cancellation of most of the programs that employ many African-Americans.
Wondering what the math is on this type of payment considering there would be drastic cuts to most government programs?
How much would be saved by not having such large expenses for Medicaid, EBT, unemployment, housing subsidies, etc...
In the long-run the Federal deficit would be cut quickly in a few years, and likely be balanced too.
Remember, all of those folks administering those programs would no longer have a job either. All of the companies selling supplies, phones, computers to those government agencies would see their sales decline accordingly too, I would suspect.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Kate318 5/17/2023 7:06:30 PM (No. 1471795)
Shut up.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/17/2023 7:27:36 PM (No. 1471806)
Big headline currently on Fox News. They want 14 trillion dollars for reparations. Make sure those printing presses are well maintained. They are about to get alot of use.
(this is when I wish we had an edit button so I could add to my previous remark)
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 5/17/2023 7:55:23 PM (No. 1471822)
I'm White, which by definition makes me the most colored of all. So I want my reparations first paid by those who lack color. ( White is composed of all the colors of the spectrum... Black is the absence of color... )
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Ruthless 5/17/2023 8:19:54 PM (No. 1471835)
How about the black thugs' massive harm on the tax-paying, law-abiding White community for the last half century? Who repays that MASSIVE debt??
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
NeonVortex 5/17/2023 8:29:40 PM (No. 1471842)
Can we deduct the cost of all of the welfare and the crime wave inflicted on this country for generations?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
edgar 5/17/2023 8:30:04 PM (No. 1471844)
(D)estroy whatever they touch. Enough, already!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/17/2023 8:37:18 PM (No. 1471845)
Just the usual suspects crying and moaning.
As usual what the usual suspects do.
The usualness of this is usually suspected.
Quote kamala.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/17/2023 8:40:03 PM (No. 1471848)
The leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrats have figured out that backing so-called “reparations” is a pretty sure way to “buy” the votes of a percentage of the Black minority population group who have been operating at an intelligence level somewhere between being politically low information and being completely stupid. One thing is for sure, one day a big majority of the Black population will figure out that the Democrats have been lying to them since the Lyndon Johnson era back in the mid 1960s and after that happens the Democrats are going to be in a serious hurting status.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
scottj 5/17/2023 8:50:28 PM (No. 1471855)
Left wing = stupid.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
paral04 5/17/2023 9:19:22 PM (No. 1471863)
First time I have heard any mention of limiting the reparations to descendants of salves. That let's Obama out. How many Blacks are not descendants of American slaves are there in the US?
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
paral04 5/17/2023 9:22:49 PM (No. 1471867)
To Replier 11, We did but the American Blacks land in Africa it is called Liberia and they didn't want to go there so I see no reason to consider reparations after all the preferential treatment they have been given since the Roosevelt Administration, Franklin not Teddy's.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
mustng66 5/17/2023 11:11:49 PM (No. 1471907)
Why is it they are so dead set upon getting a whole lot of people killed, mostly their own? Civil War 2.0 and they are not going to like the outcome of that.
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