Zone1 Why can't we be friends?

[BidenBeHiden]

Some people in society and these forums won't be happy until they take everything that you own. If you give them an inch, they'll want a foot, yard, mile and etc afterwards. Until you have nothing left to give and even at that point, they'll still want more. Why can't you just be happy with what you have?

 

[sealybobo]

Some people in society and these forums won't be happy until they take everything that you own. If you give them an inch, they'll want a foot, yard, mile and etc afterwards. Until you have nothing left to give and even at that point, they'll still want more. Why can't you just be happy with what you have?

If you aren't happy with your lot in life, seek a better lot. There are better lots to be had. But let's support a government that is pro worker. Not just pro corporations. And a government that is pro union. I love regulations that protect workers. I love tax breaks that go to workers. I love wage increases that go to workers.

It's expensive to live in America.

I've done alright for myself DESPITE the fact from Reagan to Trump, Republicans haven't been very nice to workers. I survived the Bush 2000's. Those sucked. The Clinton years were great. Obama got us out of Bush's horrible decade and handed Trump a good economy. He supersized it with his tax break. He made some mistakes like the trade war in China he lost. Then he totally shit the bed on covid. Served him right he was a habitual line crosser. He even admits it himself. Claims he should have immunity "like every other president".

Reminds me of his NY fraud case. Now he's saying all the real estate giants do it. Trump is so quick to throw everyone else under the bus. Anyone who supports him is a fool or wacko.

 

[MarcATL]

lol

 

[Leweman]

If you aren't happy with your lot in life, seek a better lot. There are better lots to be had. But let's support a government that is pro worker. Not just pro corporations. And a government that is pro union. I love regulations that protect workers. I love tax breaks that go to workers. I love wage increases that go to workers.

It's expensive to live in America.

I've done alright for myself DESPITE the fact from Reagan to Trump, Republicans haven't been very nice to workers. I survived the Bush 2000's. Those sucked. The Clinton years were great. Obama got us out of Bush's horrible decade and handed Trump a good economy. He supersized it with his tax break. He made some mistakes like the trade war in China he lost. Then he totally shit the bed on covid. Served him right he was a habitual line crosser. He even admits it himself. Claims he should have immunity "like every other president".

Reminds me of his NY fraud case. Now he's saying all the real estate giants do it. Trump is so quick to throw everyone else under the bus. Anyone who supports him is a fool or wacko.

You are so full of shit.

 

[IM2]

Some people in society and these forums won't be happy until they take everything that you own. If you give them an inch, they'll want a foot, yard, mile and etc afterwards. Until you have nothing left to give and even at that point, they'll still want more. Why can't you just be happy with what you have?

And exactly what dies this video have to do with yourr comment?

Whites took what blacks owned.

A New Front in Reparations: Seeking the Return of Lost Family Land

Black families lost millions in wealth when their lands were seized through eminent domain. Now some are trying to get it back.

www.nytimes.com

After a stranger tried to take a Black family's land, they spent 12 years fighting to get it back

The Ely-Robinson family fought to protect the 127 acres of farmland that had been a part of their family since 1941.

www.businessinsider.com

California seized land from a Black family 98 years ago. Officials just voted to return it.

Bruce's Beach was a thriving resort community for Black families when the state took the land under the guise of eminent domain in 1924. It will now return to the Bruce family.

www.nbcnews.com

Opinion | Black People’s Land Was Stolen (Published 2019)

Any discussion of reparations must include how this happened, who did it, and the laws, policies and practices that allowed it.

www.nytimes.com

The Great Land Robbery

The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms

www.theatlantic.com

 

[sealybobo]

You are so full of shit.

All I want, is my social security and medicare dummy. I made my money. I did what you told me to do. Just don't fuck it up by privatizing social security and medicare until after I'm dead, okay? Dummy? I'm 53 right now. I need another 40 years. That's all.

In 10 years Republicans are going to say you and me have to take a 25% cut in social security. That's $500 a month you're going to give up dummy.

 

[IM2]

But in addition to invoking the 40 acres black people never got, the reparations movement today should be talking about the approximately 11 million acres black people had but lost, in many cases through fraud, deception and outright theft, much of it taken in the past 50 years.

These property holdings could have provided a foundation for black wealth-building in post-Jim Crow America. Instead, they became a source of riches for others. Rather than helping to close the racial wealth gap, blacks’ landholdings became a key force in widening it. Black land-taking has been as instrumental as the denial of opportunities to acquire property in creating today’s racial wealth inequality and offers a more telling indicator of the barriers to upward mobility black people faced — and continue to face — in America.

Opinion | Black People’s Land Was Stolen (Published 2019)

Any discussion of reparations must include how this happened, who did it, and the laws, policies and practices that allowed it.

www.nytimes.com