Slavery reparations could carry a $17 trillion price tag

[IM2]

Oh goody goody gumdrops! Yet another Racist Race Baiting Thread by a Racist Race Baiting Race Baiter.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

It is beginning.

Now watch how the trolling starts.

A new bill would calculate potential costs of reparations — and by Yahoo Finance estimates, these could reach as high as $17.1 trillion.

Last week, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held the first hearing in a decade on H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. The bill was first introduced in 1989 by former Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). Conyers reintroduced the bill each year until his retirement in 2017 — and each year, the bill languished in Congress.

The bill’s focus was not to pass reparations, but to research the impact slavery had on black Americans and develop proposals for redress.

Payments are not the focus of H.R. 40’

The subject of reparations has remained a political hot potato, with presidential candidates Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Beto O’Rourke and Julian Castro supporting some form of reparations. But while the Democratic-controlled House is willing to hear the bill, it seems likely that a bill on reparations will die in the Senate where Republicans have a majority. When asked about the hearing, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he opposed the measure, given that “not one of us currently living are responsible” for slavery.

McConnell continued, adding: "We've tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation. We elected an African-American president.”

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), a sponsor of H.R. 40 — named after the 40 acres and a mule promised to freed slaves — responded to McConnell’s comments in a statement to Yahoo Finance.

“Payments are not the focus of H.R. 40,” the congresswoman said. “Knowledge is the focus of H.R. 40.”

“The Majority Leader may want to deny this bill a hearing, but he cannot deny the horror and the denial of freedom that human bondage represents,” she said. “The Majority Leader can't deny the free labor that slavery brought; he can't deny the people who died in transit; and he can't deny that this is the 400th anniversary of the beginning of the slave trade.”

The case for reparations

Activists have been calling for reparations for years, and in 2016, a UN panel declared that the U.S. owed black Americans reparations because of slavery and its link to injustices today in America.

“In particular, the legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality in the United States remains a serious challenge, as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent,” the report states.

“Contemporary police killings and the trauma that they create are reminiscent of the past racial terror of lynching. Impunity for State violence has resulted in the current human rights crisis and must be addressed as a matter of urgency.”

Slavery reparations could carry a $17 trillion price tag

Nobody is getting reparations. It’s just an electioneering slogan for stupid people

If you are Japanese you have nothing to say about this issue.

Why not?

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Pay you for what?

Dying...civil war deaths

 

[IM2]

It hasn't been divisive for whites to take things from us.

How do you black supremacists explain the superiority of your race at the same time when demanding that whites pay your way? Almost seems like you believe that the black skin color is a handicap.

There are no black supremacists here and whites owe us money. Apparently your white skin is a handicap since whites made laws denying us the same thing whites got.

So if your dad raped and murdered some poor white girl you should be held responsible......got it.

If my dad had done that and died, if the family sues us for wrongful death and the court ruled in their favor, I would be required to pay. These whitebread excuses you racists keep crying are without merit when you understand that white descendants of confederate soldiers got paid reparations beginning 95 years after the war ended until at least 2017. So take your little temper tantrum and shove it up your ass wb... Got it?

If you don't believe me do the research yourself.

 

[IM2]

It is beginning.

Now watch how the trolling starts.

A new bill would calculate potential costs of reparations — and by Yahoo Finance estimates, these could reach as high as $17.1 trillion.

Last week, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held the first hearing in a decade on H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. The bill was first introduced in 1989 by former Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). Conyers reintroduced the bill each year until his retirement in 2017 — and each year, the bill languished in Congress.

The bill’s focus was not to pass reparations, but to research the impact slavery had on black Americans and develop proposals for redress.

Payments are not the focus of H.R. 40’

The subject of reparations has remained a political hot potato, with presidential candidates Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Beto O’Rourke and Julian Castro supporting some form of reparations. But while the Democratic-controlled House is willing to hear the bill, it seems likely that a bill on reparations will die in the Senate where Republicans have a majority. When asked about the hearing, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he opposed the measure, given that “not one of us currently living are responsible” for slavery.

McConnell continued, adding: "We've tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation. We elected an African-American president.”

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), a sponsor of H.R. 40 — named after the 40 acres and a mule promised to freed slaves — responded to McConnell’s comments in a statement to Yahoo Finance.

“Payments are not the focus of H.R. 40,” the congresswoman said. “Knowledge is the focus of H.R. 40.”

“The Majority Leader may want to deny this bill a hearing, but he cannot deny the horror and the denial of freedom that human bondage represents,” she said. “The Majority Leader can't deny the free labor that slavery brought; he can't deny the people who died in transit; and he can't deny that this is the 400th anniversary of the beginning of the slave trade.”

The case for reparations

Activists have been calling for reparations for years, and in 2016, a UN panel declared that the U.S. owed black Americans reparations because of slavery and its link to injustices today in America.

“In particular, the legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality in the United States remains a serious challenge, as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent,” the report states.

“Contemporary police killings and the trauma that they create are reminiscent of the past racial terror of lynching. Impunity for State violence has resulted in the current human rights crisis and must be addressed as a matter of urgency.”

Slavery reparations could carry a $17 trillion price tag

Nobody is getting reparations. It’s just an electioneering slogan for stupid people

If you are Japanese you have nothing to say about this issue.

Why not?

Because they got reparations.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

How do you black supremacists explain the superiority of your race at the same time when demanding that whites pay your way? Almost seems like you believe that the black skin color is a handicap.

There are no black supremacists here and whites owe us money. Apparently your white skin is a handicap since whites made laws denying us the same thing whites got.

So if your dad raped and murdered some poor white girl you should be held responsible......got it.

If my dad had done that and died, if the family sues us for wrongful death and the court ruled in their favor, I would be required to pay. These whitebread excuses you racists keep crying are without merit when you understand that white descendants of confederate soldiers got paid reparations beginning 95 years after the war ended until at least 2017. So take your little temper tantrum and shove it up your ass wb... Got it?

If you don't believe me do the research yourself.

So in other words you made it all up. What a surprise.

 

[IM2]

Pay you for what?

Dying...civil war deaths

Well civil war soldiers got theirs and they were free men who had full rights.

 

[IM2]

There are no black supremacists here and whites owe us money. Apparently your white skin is a handicap since whites made laws denying us the same thing whites got.

So if your dad raped and murdered some poor white girl you should be held responsible......got it.

If my dad had done that and died, if the family sues us for wrongful death and the court ruled in their favor, I would be required to pay. These whitebread excuses you racists keep crying are without merit when you understand that white descendants of confederate soldiers got paid reparations beginning 95 years after the war ended until at least 2017. So take your little temper tantrum and shove it up your ass wb... Got it?

If you don't believe me do the research yourself.

So in other words you made it all up. What a surprise.

Nope. You are just too lazy and shiftless to do the research.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

So if your dad raped and murdered some poor white girl you should be held responsible......got it.

If my dad had done that and died, if the family sues us for wrongful death and the court ruled in their favor, I would be required to pay. These whitebread excuses you racists keep crying are without merit when you understand that white descendants of confederate soldiers got paid reparations beginning 95 years after the war ended until at least 2017. So take your little temper tantrum and shove it up your ass wb... Got it?

If you don't believe me do the research yourself.

So in other words you made it all up. What a surprise.

Nope. You are just too lazy and shiftless to do the research.

I"m lazy?

In political discourse, when you make a claim somebody challenges, you provide the proof. That's the way it works. You can't make a claim, and when challenged, say "find my evidence of my claim for me." You made the claim--you provide your sources.

Now if you don't have sources, or well aware your source are not credible, then simply don't make the claim.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

You asking for reparations is like the Germans asking the jews for reparations.

No, that's left wing pretzel logic, you asking for reparations is like the families of holocaust survivors demanding the allies who fought, died and freed them pay up [of course they have never done such a thing] and my demand would be like the families of dead ally soldiers demanding their cut for paying the ultimate price, of course white liberals would be like the germans who were/are at fault but not being required to pay up like the germans were...by demanding the reparations it gets white liberals off the hook while they share their guilt and blame...you want reparartions? get it from them and I will go along, good luck with that, they never own up.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Well civil war soldiers got theirs and they were free men who had full rights.

Yeah, they got theirs alright

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

This is a divisive topic-when people are pleading for unity. Never get it this way. But the idea of illegals having to pay a special tax for it does have appeal.

It hasn't been divisive for whites to take things from us.

How do you black supremacists explain the superiority of your race at the same time when demanding that whites pay your way? Almost seems like you believe that the black skin color is a handicap.

There are no black supremacists here and whites owe us money. Apparently your white skin is a handicap since whites made laws denying us the same thing whites got.

So if your dad raped and murdered some poor white girl you should be held responsible......got it.

If my dad had done that and died, if the family sues us for wrongful death and the court ruled in their favor, I would be required to pay. These whitebread excuses you racists keep crying are without merit when you understand that white descendants of confederate soldiers got paid reparations beginning 95 years after the war ended until at least 2017. So take your little temper tantrum and shove it up your ass wb... Got it?

No you wouldnt be held responsible ya dumbshit.
Your fathers estate might be but we all know he's worth a dime bag and four malt liquors.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Your fathers estate might be but we all know he's worth a dime bag and four malt liquors.

Could I ask you to please refrain, not to do that when I'm in the thread talking to the same poster...please, thank you

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Your fathers estate might be but we all know he's worth a dime bag and four malt liquors.

Could I ask you to please refrain, not to do that when I'm in the thread talking to the same poster...please, thank you

NO!

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

It is beginning.

Now watch how the trolling starts.

A new bill would calculate potential costs of reparations — and by Yahoo Finance estimates, these could reach as high as $17.1 trillion.

Last week, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held the first hearing in a decade on H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. The bill was first introduced in 1989 by former Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). Conyers reintroduced the bill each year until his retirement in 2017 — and each year, the bill languished in Congress.

The bill’s focus was not to pass reparations, but to research the impact slavery had on black Americans and develop proposals for redress.

Payments are not the focus of H.R. 40’

The subject of reparations has remained a political hot potato, with presidential candidates Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Beto O’Rourke and Julian Castro supporting some form of reparations. But while the Democratic-controlled House is willing to hear the bill, it seems likely that a bill on reparations will die in the Senate where Republicans have a majority. When asked about the hearing, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he opposed the measure, given that “not one of us currently living are responsible” for slavery.

McConnell continued, adding: "We've tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation. We elected an African-American president.”

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), a sponsor of H.R. 40 — named after the 40 acres and a mule promised to freed slaves — responded to McConnell’s comments in a statement to Yahoo Finance.

“Payments are not the focus of H.R. 40,” the congresswoman said. “Knowledge is the focus of H.R. 40.”

“The Majority Leader may want to deny this bill a hearing, but he cannot deny the horror and the denial of freedom that human bondage represents,” she said. “The Majority Leader can't deny the free labor that slavery brought; he can't deny the people who died in transit; and he can't deny that this is the 400th anniversary of the beginning of the slave trade.”

The case for reparations

Activists have been calling for reparations for years, and in 2016, a UN panel declared that the U.S. owed black Americans reparations because of slavery and its link to injustices today in America.

“In particular, the legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality in the United States remains a serious challenge, as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent,” the report states.

“Contemporary police killings and the trauma that they create are reminiscent of the past racial terror of lynching. Impunity for State violence has resulted in the current human rights crisis and must be addressed as a matter of urgency.”

Slavery reparations could carry a $17 trillion price tag

Nobody is getting reparations. It’s just an electioneering slogan for stupid people

If you are Japanese you have nothing to say about this issue.

You’ll get nothing and like it

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

It is beginning.

Now watch how the trolling starts.

A new bill would calculate potential costs of reparations — and by Yahoo Finance estimates, these could reach as high as $17.1 trillion.

Last week, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held the first hearing in a decade on H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. The bill was first introduced in 1989 by former Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). Conyers reintroduced the bill each year until his retirement in 2017 — and each year, the bill languished in Congress.

The bill’s focus was not to pass reparations, but to research the impact slavery had on black Americans and develop proposals for redress.

Payments are not the focus of H.R. 40’

The subject of reparations has remained a political hot potato, with presidential candidates Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Beto O’Rourke and Julian Castro supporting some form of reparations. But while the Democratic-controlled House is willing to hear the bill, it seems likely that a bill on reparations will die in the Senate where Republicans have a majority. When asked about the hearing, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he opposed the measure, given that “not one of us currently living are responsible” for slavery.

McConnell continued, adding: "We've tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation. We elected an African-American president.”

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), a sponsor of H.R. 40 — named after the 40 acres and a mule promised to freed slaves — responded to McConnell’s comments in a statement to Yahoo Finance.

“Payments are not the focus of H.R. 40,” the congresswoman said. “Knowledge is the focus of H.R. 40.”

“The Majority Leader may want to deny this bill a hearing, but he cannot deny the horror and the denial of freedom that human bondage represents,” she said. “The Majority Leader can't deny the free labor that slavery brought; he can't deny the people who died in transit; and he can't deny that this is the 400th anniversary of the beginning of the slave trade.”

The case for reparations

Activists have been calling for reparations for years, and in 2016, a UN panel declared that the U.S. owed black Americans reparations because of slavery and its link to injustices today in America.

“In particular, the legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality in the United States remains a serious challenge, as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent,” the report states.

“Contemporary police killings and the trauma that they create are reminiscent of the past racial terror of lynching. Impunity for State violence has resulted in the current human rights crisis and must be addressed as a matter of urgency.”

Slavery reparations could carry a $17 trillion price tag

Still begging? Actually, I might go for reparations on the condition those who choose to accept be returned to Africa. That would be fair.

They could got to Liberia but they refuse because they could not play victim there...

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Your fathers estate might be but we all know he's worth a dime bag and four malt liquors.

Could I ask you to please refrain, not to do that when I'm in the thread talking to the same poster...please, thank you

NO!

k

 

[Kondor3]

It is beginning.

Now watch how the trolling starts.

A new bill would calculate potential costs of reparations — and by Yahoo Finance estimates, these could reach as high as $17.1 trillion.

Last week, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held the first hearing in a decade on H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. The bill was first introduced in 1989 by former Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). Conyers reintroduced the bill each year until his retirement in 2017 — and each year, the bill languished in Congress.

The bill’s focus was not to pass reparations, but to research the impact slavery had on black Americans and develop proposals for redress.

Payments are not the focus of H.R. 40’

The subject of reparations has remained a political hot potato, with presidential candidates Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Beto O’Rourke and Julian Castro supporting some form of reparations. But while the Democratic-controlled House is willing to hear the bill, it seems likely that a bill on reparations will die in the Senate where Republicans have a majority. When asked about the hearing, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he opposed the measure, given that “not one of us currently living are responsible” for slavery.

McConnell continued, adding: "We've tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation. We elected an African-American president.”

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), a sponsor of H.R. 40 — named after the 40 acres and a mule promised to freed slaves — responded to McConnell’s comments in a statement to Yahoo Finance.

“Payments are not the focus of H.R. 40,” the congresswoman said. “Knowledge is the focus of H.R. 40.”

“The Majority Leader may want to deny this bill a hearing, but he cannot deny the horror and the denial of freedom that human bondage represents,” she said. “The Majority Leader can't deny the free labor that slavery brought; he can't deny the people who died in transit; and he can't deny that this is the 400th anniversary of the beginning of the slave trade.”

The case for reparations

Activists have been calling for reparations for years, and in 2016, a UN panel declared that the U.S. owed black Americans reparations because of slavery and its link to injustices today in America.

“In particular, the legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality in the United States remains a serious challenge, as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent,” the report states.

“Contemporary police killings and the trauma that they create are reminiscent of the past racial terror of lynching. Impunity for State violence has resulted in the current human rights crisis and must be addressed as a matter of urgency.”

Slavery reparations could carry a $17 trillion price tag

Herd 'em onto a reservation, liquor 'em up, and give 'em a couple of casinos and a pat on the head...

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

If my dad had done that and died, if the family sues us for wrongful death and the court ruled in their favor, I would be required to pay. These whitebread excuses you racists keep crying are without merit when you understand that white descendants of confederate soldiers got paid reparations beginning 95 years after the war ended until at least 2017. So take your little temper tantrum and shove it up your ass wb... Got it?

If you don't believe me do the research yourself.

So in other words you made it all up. What a surprise.

Nope. You are just too lazy and shiftless to do the research.

I"m lazy?

In political discourse, when you make a claim somebody challenges, you provide the proof. That's the way it works. You can't make a claim, and when challenged, say "find my evidence of my claim for me." You made the claim--you provide your sources.

Now if you don't have sources, or well aware your source are not credible, then simply don't make the claim.

The idiot thinks a military pension is reparations.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

It hasn't been divisive for whites to take things from us.

How do you black supremacists explain the superiority of your race at the same time when demanding that whites pay your way? Almost seems like you believe that the black skin color is a handicap.

There are no black supremacists here and whites owe us money. Apparently your white skin is a handicap since whites made laws denying us the same thing whites got.

So if your dad raped and murdered some poor white girl you should be held responsible......got it.

If my dad had done that and died, if the family sues us for wrongful death and the court ruled in their favor, I would be required to pay. These whitebread excuses you racists keep crying are without merit when you understand that white descendants of confederate soldiers got paid reparations beginning 95 years after the war ended until at least 2017. So take your little temper tantrum and shove it up your ass wb... Got it?

No you wouldnt be held responsible ya dumbshit.
Your fathers estate might be but we all know he's worth a dime bag and four malt liquors.

Don't forget the box of Swisher Sweets.