Activists descend on Atlanta warning of
'serious consequences' if lawmakers don't
back $80 Billion reparations push, despite
cash crunch in Georgia's hospital and
prison systems
Daily Mail (UK),
by
James Reinl
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
2/29/2024 3:05:28 PM
Anti-racism activists descended on Atlanta on Thursday to push lawmakers to back their $80 billion reparations package, warning of 'serious political consequences' if they don't greenlight the plan. Anqous Cosby with ReparationsPush and others want House politicians to create the Georgia Equity and Fairness Commission, which would devise a compensation package for the descendants of slaves. Republicans oppose the plan, saying it's not fair to single out one group for payments — especially when Georgia's cash-strapped hospitals are shuttering and the state's overcrowded prisons need more space. 'Georgia could be looking at, with economic compensation, policies and laws to protect us
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
curious1 2/29/2024 3:07:32 PM (No. 1667747)
Must be an insurrection! Get biteme, piglousey and meritless garland on it right away!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
singermom9 2/29/2024 3:19:20 PM (No. 1667754)
Reparations are being given to dems newest best friends ILLEGALS. $30,000 in 2 yrs in Boston. Chicago $10,000 IMMEDIATELY. Plus 1,000 per child. $5,000 when crossing border and SO much more goodies. TY TAXPAYER SUCKERS. Keep working fools.
BTW on CSPAN there are 64 MILLION more illegals signed up on the new ap Mayorkas developed.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Highlander 2/29/2024 3:28:34 PM (No. 1667760)
This is nothing more than barbaric extortion. Time to bring back the fire hoses and police dogs. Rioters should be shot dead. Period.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 2/29/2024 3:48:42 PM (No. 1667771)
Gimmie dat, gimmie dat, gimmie, gimmie, gimmie dat!
34 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 2/29/2024 4:16:16 PM (No. 1667784)
These people aren't anti-racism activists they are race hustlers working to incite race wars.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
FleetUSA 2/29/2024 4:21:10 PM (No. 1667786)
Antifa advance party
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Subsuburban 2/29/2024 4:23:04 PM (No. 1667788)
These misfits claim to have been economically disadvantaged, but have enough time and money to travel across the country "demonstrating" (a/k/a "rioting") in favor of "reparations" (a/k/a "stealing whitey's stuff").
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JimBob 2/29/2024 4:23:09 PM (No. 1667789)
I DEMAND REPARATIONS!
My entire working life, from the late 1970's to 2012, I had to contend with 'Affirmative Action'. I had to outwork and outperform at my job because I was not a member of a 'favored group'. Had I BEEN a member of a 'favored group', I would have been promoted faster, paid more, and would be receiving a better retirement.
I DEMAND REPARATIONS for being dumped on for 33+ years of my working life!
-also- I DEMAND REPARATIONS for having to pay excess taxes!
A well-defined THREE PERCENT of the population causes more than SIXTY PERCENT of the VIOLENT CRIME in the USA! But us LAW ABIDING TAXPAYERS have to pay the police, pay the whole Government and Legal System to keep this THREE PERCENT under control, and to house them in jails (at what, $80,000 per year, each?) as they are being punished.... the ones who didn't get away with their crimes.
I DEMAND REPARATIONS for the excess taxes I had to pay, the excess Insurance I had to pay for, and the additional healthcare costs imposed as a result of 65 years of stress and worry about my and my family's safety. This has resulted in substantial additional healthcare time, effort, and cost.
I DEMAND TO BE COMPENSATED!
There! That's the other side of the coin!
As I heard someone from the Deep South say one day, _
"If I'd known how much trouble this would cause, I'd have picked my OWN dang cotton!"
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
valinva 2/29/2024 4:26:03 PM (No. 1667791)
A plane ticket back to the African Country of their choice and a bill for every cent that they received in public assistance while they lived here in the US going back to their birth.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jalo1951 2/29/2024 4:32:10 PM (No. 1667795)
Find me a slave and I shall set him free. Find me a slave owner and I shall prosecute him. Otherwise get on with your life. What happened to your ancestors has nothing to do with you and the choices you make. States cannot print money so good luck with that. I suggest you travel to Mexico and sneak openly over the border and collect all the goodies. Sounds like an insurrection to me.
38 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 2/29/2024 4:32:59 PM (No. 1667796)
Go straight to hell, you insane, vicious racists. Any reparations that MIGHT have been due were long ago paid in blood during the Civil War, and in cash for the last 50 years of welfare handouts.
Drop dead. Not one penny.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jasmine 2/29/2024 4:38:51 PM (No. 1667807)
If this organization wants to help African Americans, it would be wise to get behind putting American citizens FIRST on their own soil.
Biden and the Democrats started prioritizing illegal aliens on his first day in office. His idiotic "invitation" has brought at least ten million new arrivals into the US, without our government having the means to properly vet them. And make no mistake, Democrats and RINOs do NOT care about keeping Americans safe in their communities. The only thing that motivates them is self interest. African Americans have been thrown under the bus again by corrupt "leaders."
Reparations will always be a tough sell. But when we have politicians putting American citizens at the back of the line so they can cozy up to Biden's entitled illegal aliens, it's clear reparations are a lost cause. Democrats can take the black underclass for granted. The last thing those corrupt politicians need are millions of American citizens who EXPECT to come first on their own soil. Dems could always take poor Americans for granted. Lavishing luxury on illegal aliens has gone a long way toward unmasking how corrupt Dems and RINOs have become.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
red1066 2/29/2024 4:40:07 PM (No. 1667811)
They can have the 80 billion after they resurrect the 400 thousand union soldiers who died fighting to unite the country and free the slaves.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
marbles 2/29/2024 4:44:41 PM (No. 1667815)
" Anti racism activists" ? Nope , they're racist. Through and through. And what's this with threatening consequences?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 2/29/2024 4:46:31 PM (No. 1667818)
Kyle Rittenhouse type folks are urgently needed for Atlanta, it would seem.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 2/29/2024 4:54:56 PM (No. 1667831)
40 acres and a mule would hold no interest for them, OP. That would mean productive hard work on their part.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 2/29/2024 5:03:18 PM (No. 1667838)
Go ahead, start paying reparations. Watch me go to work the next day.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Scribelus 2/29/2024 5:31:32 PM (No. 1667847)
Thank you, #14. Racist activists, Biden’s invaders, the Thieves Guild gummint and Democrat thugs portend a particularly interesting election season - something like that of 1860.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
padiva 2/29/2024 5:44:17 PM (No. 1667852)
The ReparationsPush group should start their own non-profit. They can ask for donations that will be shared for reparations.
The US Treasury and state treasuries are not piggy banks for specific people.
(My great-great-grandfather fought with the Conn Heavy Artillery during the Civil War. I insist that I be included.)
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mc squared 2/29/2024 6:43:16 PM (No. 1667890)
This regime has been trying very hard to disarm us. Some states have promised the sun, moon and reparations. What do you think will happen when they don't come through?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
judy 2/29/2024 6:50:12 PM (No. 1667900)
It’s Georgia anything can happen .,,after all they gave us Fani……
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
chumley 2/29/2024 7:49:23 PM (No. 1667921)
I've met a few Georgians over the years. I suspect they are loading their magazines with reparations as we speak.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/29/2024 8:17:33 PM (No. 1667933)
The activists should define what they mean by serious consequences?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
snakeoil 2/29/2024 8:19:57 PM (No. 1667935)
Something doesn't add up. Georgia has a record state surplus. Yet there are budget problems?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
skacmar 2/29/2024 8:31:55 PM (No. 1667941)
According to the activists :"But it's not just a check. This is about us being independent as a people again". Nope! Nothing is stopping Black people from being independent as a people right now except for current Black culture and lifestyles. There are currently plenty of successful Black people who somehow manage to be "independent" everyday by functioning as a normal person without a chip on their shoulder. Blacks were doing just fine a taking care of themselves until the 60's when the government stepped in and decided to "help". The Great Society, welfare, racial preferences in hiring, the breakdown of the Black family, out of wedlock births, Black crime..... You made yourselves dependent people. Other people from other races come to this country with far less than native born Black's and managed to achieve wealth and success in American society. Just one group with a big chip on their shoulder always using the excuse of slavery for every failure seems to have issues. Maybe the problem is not us. Maybe it is YOU! Reparations will fix nothing until you fix yourselves!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
FormerDem 2/29/2024 8:34:26 PM (No. 1667943)
I am against reparations because my forebears deserve a thank you not a bill. even more than that, I am against giving way one millimeter to demands backed up by violence. Ab So Lutely Not.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
paral04 2/29/2024 9:22:32 PM (No. 1667965)
Maybe they need to get proof that thee applicants are descended from slaves, then determine if the are descended from slave owners, and then take DNA tests for more than 25 % white genes. Then if it looks like they might have a case, deduct any welfare payments they received from any compensation which shall be taxed.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
danu 2/29/2024 11:09:00 PM (No. 1668002)
the devil commutes to georgia. he's got plenty of dosh. practically giving it away. sign ups underway
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
ronniethek 3/1/2024 1:31:14 AM (No. 1668038)
Go ahead make my day!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
kono 3/1/2024 1:54:56 AM (No. 1668043)
Loosely paraphrased - "Nice state you got here. it'd be a shame if something should happen to it..."
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Trigger2 3/1/2024 3:26:05 AM (No. 1668052)
Seems to me all the welfare giving out freely is enough reparations.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
anniebc 3/1/2024 5:33:12 AM (No. 1668086)
The strangest thing is a lot of the reparations crowd hate the democrats that they're begging for reparations. A lot of them are Independent and plan to vote from the couch this election. So don't be too hard on them; let them be useful idiots. Heck, everybody should demand reparations; we're all overtaxed. The demons are taking our money from US to destroy US. We pay so much money in taxes here, taxes there that it's a miracle we're able to have enough to own anything. At least for now.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
5 handicap 3/1/2024 5:36:11 AM (No. 1668088)
I think it's time to go after the BLACK Community for reparations, The PARASITIC scum who've been on welfare for generations have depleted the treasury and the patience of all taxpayers! Moreover the level of criminal activity among the Black community is 10 times that of any other, creating a devastating expense to Americans as well. As proof, Baltimore did a study in the early 70s which concluded that 50% of all Black Males in Baltimore were somehow involved with the Justice system! FIFTY PERCENT!
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
mifla 3/1/2024 5:48:45 AM (No. 1668092)
Sorry, we would like to help, but we only have enough money for the illegals. Have you tried asking California?
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
NamVet70 3/1/2024 8:00:57 AM (No. 1668131)
That sounds like an insurrection by the left.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/1/2024 8:01:34 AM (No. 1668132)
Quick, call Terminex! It's an infestation of Gimmedats. I love the way that every one of Biteme's campaign tricks backfires and costs him thousands of votes.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 3/1/2024 8:43:31 AM (No. 1668154)
Ah, com'on folks ! EIGHTY BILLION ? Piece o' cake. Just print it. That's what they've been doing
for three years now. What do you think is causing inflation ?? Three percent my sweet backside !
Try mid teens, 14% to 18% for starters. Add the price increases of fuels and groceries, which are
currently NOT included for obvious reasons and the REAL numbers start to bubble out !!
In fact, I think we should just print another EIGHTY BILLION DOLLARS and DOUBLE the
'reparations' !! What'a'ya say ??
/so
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
MickTurn 3/1/2024 11:55:45 AM (No. 1668276)
I Demand Reparations for being a Slave in the Military, I was Drafted and put into Involuntary Servitude!
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
cold porridge 3/1/2024 12:29:25 PM (No. 1668297)
They need to go ask the leaders of the African nations that sold them into slavery for reparations. None of the blacks today have been harmed, and no whites alive today had anything to do with slavery. Besides, they have had decades of affirmative action giving them preferential treatment. No one in my genealogy had slaves, and there were black slaveholders in the south also. Many blacks in America are not even descended from slaves as there were many freemen in the pre-civil war day. Many whites were indentured servants. The whole idea of reparations is another example of freeloaders wanting something for nothing.
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