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Have we talked reparations yet?
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that's funny to think the average tax payer owned 0 slaves the dems owned all slaves in the us but want the taxpayer to foot that bill . they should make the dems out of there own pocket pay if that's the case .
Paying to support those who refuse to support themselves is slavery. I demand my reparations.
Throwing money at the problem doesn’t fix the problem. It just gets you votes.
After the buyout, will kids get into college on merit? Can companies hire the best candidate regarless of race, once the working class have attoned for the sins of the few?
Distraction, pay attention to their real crimes and dont lose focus
There is no way (or reason) to implement an action like this. For example, how much would Barack Obama get? White Mom and Kenyan Dad = $0.00, but he's black so????? So, what about his kids? They grew up with way more white privilage than my poor white ass did, how much is their suffering worth? How about all the Irish that were enslaved or endentured? I don't see a lot of Americans of Chinese heritage clamoring for this.
This is a silky side show for the weak minded and lazy. Designed specifically to be able to call Trump (and anyone else who speaks up) a racist.
This is a silky side show for the weak minded and lazy. Designed specifically to be able to call Trump (and anyone else who speaks up) a racist.
I thought we were already paying reparations isn't that what welfare is?
I am willing to pay anyone born into slavery before 1861 their "reparations". Any heirs should have their families portion of the money reduced by the total of all welfare benefits paid to all the living descendants of former slave over the last 150 years we have been paying them to sit on their collective asses.
Or they can renounce their citizenship and accept a free one way ticket back to where ever they think they came from and a nice apology letter signed by Nancy Pelosi or Spike Lee.
Or they can renounce their citizenship and accept a free one way ticket back to where ever they think they came from and a nice apology letter signed by Nancy Pelosi or Spike Lee.
I'm already paying for the worthless bastards. They should send my a half dozen or so.
They should take up armed resistance and fight for what is rightfully theirs.
Giving handouts to lazy people is never a solution, all that is needed to succed is available but people have to out in the work, and thing doesn't work out as planned. go back at it and try again....Rich folks didn't raise be waiting for the Gov to give them Shit.
Congress has a long history of paying out money to correct presumed past wrongs. A lawsuit brought on behalf of 16,000 Black farmers in 1997 who may have been discriminated by the USDA for farm loans, paid out in 1999. Then Obama signed a bill in 2010 that paid out 1.25 billion dollars to approximately 40, 000 Black farmers or their estates in 2013.
In 2017 another 1 billion dollars for those that missed the deadlines on the earlier settlements started its way. Last I heard USDA was trying to block it.
Slavery reparations will be another endless round of payments and claims as new players find they can get something out of it. Both politically and financially.
My ancestors fled England to escape a tyrannical monarchy. Someone please call the Queen and tell her to hurry up and send my damn check.
My ancestors came from Ireland and they were drafted into the Union Army and fought to free the slaves. So, this must mean my family is excluded from paying reparations. Shit the Irish were treated worse than the slaves.
No one fought to free a damn soul from slavery.
No different than saying the US fought the Germans to free the Jews.
No different than saying the US fought the Germans to free the Jews.
I hear you. However, that's what they teach in schools; never mention states rights.
What about all the mulattos out there, is there going to be a certain amount of black blood necessary to qualify? What about all the wiggers out there with their pants hanging off them, if they identify as black, they should get paid too, right? Everyone is equal ya know...
I'll start a car dealership that specializes in catillacs and crysler 300's.
I’m practicing.
Yo muthafucka givs me ma money n free shitz cuz I b blak n u cracka muthafukas waz meen to maz great great great great great great gandzpappa n shitz bichez muh dick!
Yo muthafucka givs me ma money n free shitz cuz I b blak n u cracka muthafukas waz meen to maz great great great great great great gandzpappa n shitz bichez muh dick!
I care not the quibbles of lesser peoples.
Extolling effort into debating an idea that is a dead end, bores me.
Extolling effort into debating an idea that is a dead end, bores me.
Yes. Reparations will be prorated according to your DNA.
This is the REAL reason why DNA kits are so popular.
So, if reparations becomes law, buy stock in those companies!
Let's just say I was an evil overlord wanting to enhance my police state powers......
Tell everyone from a certain ethnic origin that might be considered "the usual suspects"... they can get "free" money for "past wrongs" done to people hundreds of years ago.....
But you know you have to just submit your DNA to prove you are part of the group getting the "free money"....
And just like that all the idiot sheeple turn over their DNA to the new "racially biased" government database....
Maybe it isn’t such a bad idea after all. Just think of all the cold cases that would be solved if all of them submitted dna.
What if your ancestors came to the US after slavery?...
Odd that this hasn't been brought up.
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Odd that this hasn't been brought up.
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Reparations - LOL
From the Socialist Worker Capitalism is dependant on racism as both a source of profiteering, but more importantly as a means to divide and rule. Racism is necessary to drive a wedge between workers who otherwise have everything in common and every reason to ally and organize together, but who are perpetually driven apart to the benefit of the ruling class......Marxists believe that the potential for that kind of unity is dependant on battles and struggles against racism today. Without a commitment by revolutionary organizations in the here and now to the fight against racism, working-class unity will never be achieved and the revolutionary potential of the working class will never be realized.
If I tell you a lie enough times......
On Communism:
From the Socialist Worker Capitalism is dependant on racism as both a source of profiteering, but more importantly as a means to divide and rule. Racism is necessary to drive a wedge between workers who otherwise have everything in common and every reason to ally and organize together, but who are perpetually driven apart to the benefit of the ruling class......Marxists believe that the potential for that kind of unity is dependant on battles and struggles against racism today. Without a commitment by revolutionary organizations in the here and now to the fight against racism, working-class unity will never be achieved and the revolutionary potential of the working class will never be realized.
If I tell you a lie enough times......
On Communism:
Reparations is 40 acres and a mule. To every man.
I'm sure this is some bullshit they are using to con people to vote for them, typical pandering, knowing it'll never pass. No way people here would be cool just giving every black man and only black men a jackpot. For one, we have NO SLAVES HERE. Enough time and changes have passed that they have the same equal rights now as everyone else, whether they wanna admit it or not. I could go on, but I'd be here all day. I've lost two GOOD jobs and got cut from advanced learning programs (which could have put me in college a lot earlier, thus completely changing how my life would have turned out) --just because I wasn't black.
If they DO follow through with this, well, then it's gonna be payday for me too. And I'll just take it however I can.
Fact is, most slave owners back then were what we'd today call the 1%. Sounds like yet ANOTHER bailout. No matter how you look at this, it's BAD. It's wrong. And what message does that send to everyone? There are zero living slaves nor children of slaves alive today. It's past history.
What about the natives? We owe them a fuckton more and they are still being treated like shit and living in ghettoes in some of the most inhospitable land in the US. Government was literally running around making promises they knew they weren't gonna keep in order to get compliance in the short term. They never intended to pay them, slaves or Indians.
There are a lot disenfranchised people here. There are also a lot of people that could really use help, right now, to help significantly change their lives. Regardless of color or history.
Now I bitched above, and I'm sure that's what they want us to do, meanwhile they'll get EVERY black vote there is for this promise, real or not, and any discussion against it will be used to automatically paint you as prejudiced, for racism.
Even if they get both houses and presidency, it still has to stand up to the Supreme Court. And if it does, I'll just figure out a way to get mine too. Done with this multi tier justice system where I'm expected to be on the bottom, always, because I'm a white male. Sick of racism and elitism and, well, caste systems in all forms.
I'm sure this is some bullshit they are using to con people to vote for them, typical pandering, knowing it'll never pass. No way people here would be cool just giving every black man and only black men a jackpot. For one, we have NO SLAVES HERE. Enough time and changes have passed that they have the same equal rights now as everyone else, whether they wanna admit it or not. I could go on, but I'd be here all day. I've lost two GOOD jobs and got cut from advanced learning programs (which could have put me in college a lot earlier, thus completely changing how my life would have turned out) --just because I wasn't black.
If they DO follow through with this, well, then it's gonna be payday for me too. And I'll just take it however I can.
Fact is, most slave owners back then were what we'd today call the 1%. Sounds like yet ANOTHER bailout. No matter how you look at this, it's BAD. It's wrong. And what message does that send to everyone? There are zero living slaves nor children of slaves alive today. It's past history.
What about the natives? We owe them a fuckton more and they are still being treated like shit and living in ghettoes in some of the most inhospitable land in the US. Government was literally running around making promises they knew they weren't gonna keep in order to get compliance in the short term. They never intended to pay them, slaves or Indians.
There are a lot disenfranchised people here. There are also a lot of people that could really use help, right now, to help significantly change their lives. Regardless of color or history.
Now I bitched above, and I'm sure that's what they want us to do, meanwhile they'll get EVERY black vote there is for this promise, real or not, and any discussion against it will be used to automatically paint you as prejudiced, for racism.
Even if they get both houses and presidency, it still has to stand up to the Supreme Court. And if it does, I'll just figure out a way to get mine too. Done with this multi tier justice system where I'm expected to be on the bottom, always, because I'm a white male. Sick of racism and elitism and, well, caste systems in all forms.
Goes back further....Monroe, hence Monrovia.
Lincoln was a a man of his times though and his writings in a modern view would be racist.
He speaks at being "sickened" at the sight of a black man and feared "miscegenation".
I think his anti slavery was less pure than a Quakers motivation part politics, part war tactic, part heart felt belief All men are Created Equal.
Should we rip down Lincoln statues, perhaps the Lincoln Monument has to go?
In order to convince people that the war was needed and have families killing families it could not have been hung on the real reason for the war, which was economics. Some over riding social value had to be used to justify the action.
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