Reparations Poll - vote for or against

[progressive hunter]

it should only be paid by the democrats that held them as slaves

 

[Lesh]

So now after screaming "SOCIALISM" for a couple weeks...the new meme id "REPARATIONS"!

No one is proposing that we cut checks to descendents of slaves.

Nice dishonesty

But hey...what better way to stir up racial animus...right?

Rile that racist base....

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Sure. We'll just need their tribe card. There's likely still some around who actually are ancestors.

But most blacks in modern America have more in common with a white guy from Flagstaff than an African. The term African-American is one of the most misused terms around.

Blacks are not Africans and are not from Africa so the term is stupid.

 

[Taz]

They can have reparations for repairing my fence.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

This ridiculous shit is nothing more than a ploy to buy the votes of really stupid people.

 

[Rustic]

Sure. We'll just need their tribe card. There's likely still some around who actually are ancestors.

But most blacks in modern America have more in common with a white guy from Flagstaff than an African. The term African-American is one of the most misused terms around.

Much like “Native American” it’s the white mans term... Political correctness is for pussies

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Dems should voluntarily do this. It's the least they could do considering how much work they got for free. And there's that word again....free. They're always wanting something for free. It's just uncanny .

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Dems should voluntarily do this. It's the least they could do considering how much work they got for free. And there's that word again....free. They're always wanting something for free. It's just uncanny .

I am not saying it is free, I am saying that anyone registered as a Democrat, they need to pay the reparations, as it was their fault for having slaves.

 

[buckeye45_73]

So now after screaming "SOCIALISM" for a couple weeks...the new meme id "REPARATIONS"!

No one is proposing that we cut checks to descendents of slaves.

Nice dishonesty

But hey...what better way to stir up racial animus...right?

Rile that racist base....

So what did Warren and Harris propose then?

and yes it is connected to socialism, you have to be a socialist to think thos is a good idea

 

[Lesh]

So what did Warren and Harris propose then?

You tell us. It's your claim.

I'm willing to bey it ain't what you say it is

 

[Lesh]

So now after screaming "SOCIALISM" for a couple weeks...the new meme id "REPARATIONS"!

No one is proposing that we cut checks to descendents of slaves.

Nice dishonesty

But hey...what better way to stir up racial animus...right?

Rile that racist base....

 

[kyzr]

Please see the link below. It documents attempts to promote reparations since 2001, I didn't research it before 2001, but lets say from 2000 to 2020 qualifies as "every". If you prefer, I could say "every since 2000"?
Reparations for slavery debate in the United States - Wikipedia

Let's just say the following:

In living memory, no national presidential candidate ventured to do so much as bring reparations up as a policy proposal, and no national party so much as mentioned reparations in their campaign platform. Sure, there were civil society organizations advocating for reparations, even books and articles written about the matter, but that had nothing whatsoever to do with election cycles. Democrats, up to this year, stayed well clear of the issue, or rejected it. When Ta-Nehisi Coates's article in the Atlantic was published, in 2014, you could almost hear a needle drop amidst the frenetic Democratic applause.

And that's why this...

Every election cycle we have some democrats trotting out the "free money" promise to supporters via "reparations".​

... is misleading, at best. I would guess, you know better.

Nice try, but you seem to be overlooking John Conyers. He has been pushing for reparations since 1989. I take your point that the presidential candidates have been steering clear of that issue until this year, but IMHO Conyers using it in "election cycles" keeps my OP claim of "some democrats" using it as not very misleading.

Advocates still pushing for reparations to descendants of slaves
"In 2017, 150 years later, then-Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, as he had done since 1989, reintroduced bill H.R. 40, calling for the establishment of the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act to "examine slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies."

 

[buckeye45_73]

So what did Warren and Harris propose then?

You tell us. It's your claim.

I'm willing to bey it ain't what you say it is

Sorry bro Indidnt start the thread, but Indo know what reparations are. You're the one that lied about what they are.....proof is on you.

ps he stated what they were in the question.....maybe if you weren't retarded, I wouldn't have to rhetorically kick your ass in such a public place

 

[william the wie]

First pay off for stolen land and attempted genocide then if there is any money left for reparations and other D crimes then tax the Ds even more.

 

[theHawk]

Blacks should pay reparations to whites for fighting and dying for their freedom, as well as for all the white privileges and rights bestowed upon them.

 

[JWBooth]

Reparations are nonsense

 

[Natural Citizen]

Africa is a group of states, right? Is that what it is? Ot a group of countries? I forget.

Either way, they're gonna have to start there to find out where great, great, great great granny was from.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

So now after screaming "SOCIALISM" for a couple weeks...the new meme id "REPARATIONS"!

No one is proposing that we cut checks to descendents of slaves.

Nice dishonesty

But hey...what better way to stir up racial animus...right?

Rile that racist base....

Talk to the Democrats. They brought it up.

 

[Lesh]

Please see the link below. It documents attempts to promote reparations since 2001, I didn't research it before 2001, but lets say from 2000 to 2020 qualifies as "every". If you prefer, I could say "every since 2000"?
Reparations for slavery debate in the United States - Wikipedia

Let's just say the following:

In living memory, no national presidential candidate ventured to do so much as bring reparations up as a policy proposal, and no national party so much as mentioned reparations in their campaign platform. Sure, there were civil society organizations advocating for reparations, even books and articles written about the matter, but that had nothing whatsoever to do with election cycles. Democrats, up to this year, stayed well clear of the issue, or rejected it. When Ta-Nehisi Coates's article in the Atlantic was published, in 2014, you could almost hear a needle drop amidst the frenetic Democratic applause.

And that's why this...

Every election cycle we have some democrats trotting out the "free money" promise to supporters via "reparations".​

... is misleading, at best. I would guess, you know better.

Nice try, but you seem to be overlooking John Conyers. He has been pushing for reparations since 1989. I take your point that the presidential candidates have been steering clear of that issue until this year, but IMHO Conyers using it in "election cycles" keeps my OP claim of "some democrats" using it as not very misleading.

Advocates still pushing for reparations to descendants of slaves
"In 2017, 150 years later, then-Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, as he had done since 1989, reintroduced bill H.R. 40, calling for the establishment of the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act to "examine slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies."

That's it? John Conyers?

How many times has he proposed that and where did those proposals go?

I wasn't aware that Conyers was running for President.

The CLAIM my idiot friend...was that Warren and Harris were calling for reparations.

You folks are lying?

Who'd thunk it huh?

 

[Auld Phart]

Please see the link below. It documents attempts to promote reparations since 2001, I didn't research it before 2001, but lets say from 2000 to 2020 qualifies as "every". If you prefer, I could say "every since 2000"?
Reparations for slavery debate in the United States - Wikipedia

Let's just say the following:

In living memory, no national presidential candidate ventured to do so much as bring reparations up as a policy proposal, and no national party so much as mentioned reparations in their campaign platform. Sure, there were civil society organizations advocating for reparations, even books and articles written about the matter, but that had nothing whatsoever to do with election cycles. Democrats, up to this year, stayed well clear of the issue, or rejected it. When Ta-Nehisi Coates's article in the Atlantic was published, in 2014, you could almost hear a needle drop amidst the frenetic Democratic applause.

And that's why this...

Every election cycle we have some democrats trotting out the "free money" promise to supporters via "reparations".​

... is misleading, at best. I would guess, you know better.

Nice try, but you seem to be overlooking John Conyers. He has been pushing for reparations since 1989. I take your point that the presidential candidates have been steering clear of that issue until this year, but IMHO Conyers using it in "election cycles" keeps my OP claim of "some democrats" using it as not very misleading.

Advocates still pushing for reparations to descendants of slaves
"In 2017, 150 years later, then-Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, as he had done since 1989, reintroduced bill H.R. 40, calling for the establishment of the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act to "examine slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies."

That's it? John Conyers?

How many times has he proposed that and where did those proposals go?

I wasn't aware that Conyers was running for President.

The CLAIM my idiot friend...was that Warren and Harris were calling for reparations.

You folks are lying?

Who'd thunk it huh?

You should read more.

"Senators Kamala Harris of California and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, both 2020 presidential candidates, have said they support reparations for black Americans to redress the legacy of slavery"

Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren signal support for reparations for slavery