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2018-12-31 Home Front: Politix
Congresswoman Hopes Reparations Bill is Path to ‘Repair Some of the Damage' Caused by Slavery
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Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-31 06:16|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top

#1 Stop committing crimes and go to school. Easy peasy.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-12-31 06:30||   2018-12-31 06:30|| Front Page Top

#2 How about you pay reparations for the cost of housing your feral father-less youts in prisons, the crime they commit, and the social costs of your broken culture?
Posted by Frank G 2018-12-31 07:07||   2018-12-31 07:07|| Front Page Top

#3 sheila lee A MORON in a suit of a OVER educated IDIOT, ALL BAD
Posted by ranture 2018-12-31 07:27||   2018-12-31 07:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Fine, anyone taking a payment forfeits their US citizenship and if found in the country again is summarily executed. You take a payment, you go back to Africa. Having worked with many Africans, let me tell you, you will not impress them.
Posted by Silentbrick 2018-12-31 07:28||   2018-12-31 07:28|| Front Page Top

#5 The #1 cause of urban blight is the urban population.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2018-12-31 07:44||   2018-12-31 07:44|| Front Page Top

#6 so sheila, 2000 years ago some of my ancestors were probably slaves. Waddaya gonna give me, Sweets? Better be more than you scarf for your own ugly self, 'cause, compound interest, you know?
Posted by Pholurong Bumble9017 2018-12-31 09:38||   2018-12-31 09:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Only descendants of US slaves? Or also of Caribbean slaves (like Gen. Powell?) And how will decendancy be documented? Would 'one drop' rule apply or would people get fractional shares? I have a counterproposal: grant one billion dollars in reparation to each former legal US slave, payable from the assets of all former legal US slaveholders.
Posted by Glenmore 2018-12-31 10:02||   2018-12-31 10:02|| Front Page Top

#8 More of what we don't need
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-12-31 10:45||   2018-12-31 10:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Just adding fuel to the tinderbox that has become American’s political trasheap. America’s urban shi*holes are that way in a very large part because of the Democrat party rule and entitlement slavery mindset. They own much of their own condition and I have no intention of subsidizing it further. A sense of kindred citizenship stopped years ago when race merchants made everything about guilt and extortion.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2018-12-31 11:48||   2018-12-31 11:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Deduct from the cost of reparations the value of the 280,000 or so Union soldiers who died in the Civil War. And the cost to the Union of the war. Adjusted for inflation of course.

And why should my wife, a descendant of immigrants from the UK in 1900 or so, have to pay reparations? They never owned slaves.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2018-12-31 12:21||   2018-12-31 12:21|| Front Page Top

#11 The SCOTUS will bomb this.
It is essentially punish a group for committing a crime, that was legal when they committed it.
The Constitution is very clear on Ex Post Facto laws.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-12-31 12:48||   2018-12-31 12:48|| Front Page Top

#12 The SCOTUS will bomb this.

Sock, I thought that about Kelo and O-care and was way wrong both times.

I don't know that there are enough folks that really believe in the Constitution anymore.
Posted by AlanC 2018-12-31 13:38||   2018-12-31 13:38|| Front Page Top

#13 She's still driving that nail? It's never going to happen. Go after the Dems, they own this.
Posted by JohnQC 2018-12-31 14:11||   2018-12-31 14:11|| Front Page Top

#14 bring it up at the 2020 Dem Pres Convention

make sure the P and VP nominees endorse it

you know you want to
Posted by lord garth 2018-12-31 14:17||   2018-12-31 14:17|| Front Page Top

#15 First get half of what you want from those who sold the slaves.
Posted by gorb 2018-12-31 16:24||   2018-12-31 16:24|| Front Page Top

#16 My ancestor's fought for the Union; I'll send the bill for services rendered. ~
Posted by Phonter Lover of the Welsh3256 2018-12-31 16:48||   2018-12-31 16:48|| Front Page Top

#17 
#2 How about you pay reparations for the cost of housing your feral father-less youts in prisons, the crime they commit, and the social costs of your broken culture?

#4 Fine, anyone taking a payment forfeits their US citizenship and if found in the country again is summarily executed. You take a payment, you go back to Africa. Having worked with many Africans, let me tell you, you will not impress them.

#10 Deduct from the cost of reparations the value of the 280,000 or so Union soldiers who died in the Civil War. And the cost to the Union of the war. Adjusted for inflation of course.

And why should my wife, a descendant of immigrants from the UK in 1900 or so, have to pay reparations? They never owned slaves.







^^^^^^^
All of these.
Posted by charger 2018-12-31 16:51||   2018-12-31 16:51|| Front Page Top

#18 Truth be known, we've been paying "reparations" of one sort or another for decades, at least since LBJ gained power.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-31 18:12||   2018-12-31 18:12|| Front Page Top

#19 'Forgive us, because we sold them,' says African ambassador on possible slave ship find
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-12-31 19:12||   2018-12-31 19:12|| Front Page Top

#20 I have a counterproposal: grant one billion dollars in reparation to each living former legal US slave, payable from the assets of all living former legal US slaveholders.

FIFY.
Posted by CrazyFool 2018-12-31 19:14||   2018-12-31 19:14|| Front Page Top

#21 Why should I pay? My ancestors came here fleeing the Communists and Nazis. They had nothing to do with slavery.
Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2018-12-31 22:43||   2018-12-31 22:43|| Front Page Top

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