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Reparations Would Help Close Wealth Gap in America
The Huffington Post's Black Voices' The Blog ^ | June 4, 2015 | Eric Cooper

Posted on 06/04/2015 11:01:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Progressives want to create a new urban reservation system for the Blacks. Maybe they can let them have Casinosand their own legal system as well.

They could let the Central Americans live on their reservations like the tribes do. They could have their choice.


21 posted on 06/04/2015 11:49:38 PM PDT by Eva
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reparations would only serve to strengthen the resolve of blacks to rely on whites to pay for them to live...I am beginning to hate this world passionately...


22 posted on 06/04/2015 11:51:52 PM PDT by EnigmaticAnomaly ("With the demonrats in charge, we find ourselves living in an ineptocracy.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sorry but the article had too many mistakes. Harding was not 28th President, Coolidge was not 29th.

I don’t object to the idea that white Americans are part black more than has been known. I found out that is the case for me as well from Ancestry.com.

But this author I don’t think can be believed to be competent.


23 posted on 06/04/2015 11:51:55 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: ifinnegan
"I don’t object to the idea that white Americans are part black"

I have gotten to the point where I hate the color black...

24 posted on 06/04/2015 11:53:51 PM PDT by EnigmaticAnomaly ("With the demonrats in charge, we find ourselves living in an ineptocracy.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why reparations won't work..Yearrrrrrme
25 posted on 06/05/2015 12:07:39 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

nah, all the money would be gone in under 4 months. Its what happened to most who won money from the Black farmers case.


26 posted on 06/05/2015 12:12:29 AM PDT by RginTN
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To: SatinDoll

One of my ancestors was listed as a mulatto whatever that was. Someone said it meant Black while another one said Indian. We know my mom’s grandmother was Indian. She and her kids were offered land in Indian Territory which is now Oklahoma. None accepted the offer. When are the Indians going to be paid for everything done to them? I mean 100% Indian not people like my family.


27 posted on 06/05/2015 12:15:46 AM PDT by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: EnigmaticAnomaly
...I am beginning to hate this world passionately...

Don't do that! Try listening to Spa. It shortens car trips, I can attest.

28 posted on 06/05/2015 12:17:57 AM PDT by dr_lew
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To: Dallas59

I watched that $#*+, you hear me? And he’s right, New Orleans is pretty much Hell on Earth, you hear me? I went through Katrina in Biloxi and got next to no assistance, but you know what? I didn’t expect it. I was a 45 year old man, what assistance did I need? I moved to Dallas (Ferris, actually) and found a job.


29 posted on 06/05/2015 12:27:00 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How about requiring reparations to be paid by racial and ethnic groups with a high rate of criminality?


30 posted on 06/05/2015 12:28:04 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have to think of an old Reader’s Digest bit, supposedly from Communist Poland, about a Party Commissar trying to bring around a reluctant farmer. “Suppose you had two houses,” he says, “wouldn’t you be willing to share one of them?” “I guess so,” says the farmer. “And suppose you had two tractors? Wouldn’t you be willing to share one of them?” continues the commissar. The farmer is more doubtful, but agrees. “Then suppose you had two horses? What then?” “No definitely not!” says the farmer. “But if you are willing to share a house or tractor, why not a horse?” says the commissar. “I HAVE two horses!” says the farmer.


31 posted on 06/05/2015 12:34:21 AM PDT by dr_lew
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I was wondering when talk of reparations would rear its ugly head. Reparations would be like every black winning a lotto ticket. Like so many who get big winnings, their poor money management habits would cause them to end up where they started: broke.


32 posted on 06/05/2015 12:47:23 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental deficiency: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: MamaB

Yeah, same for me.

It could mean Indians not on Reservations were designated Mulatto on the census.

Or, they could be mulatto and the family story was Indian, when in fact it was black.

Or it could be they were an mix of any or all white, Indian and black.

Whatever the case they got designated mulatto because there were three categories, white, black and mulatto and one had to be chosen.


33 posted on 06/05/2015 1:02:32 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: sparklite2

Reparations were paid in blood by U.S. Soldiers from 1861-1865.


34 posted on 06/05/2015 1:06:03 AM PDT by 22202NOVA (Tagline? I don't need no stinking tagline!)
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To: All

good thing we didn’t elect....


35 posted on 06/05/2015 1:09:09 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: ansel12
I would prefer stiffer sentences for wilding, and premeditated racial attacks, and race crimes involving groups.

What, for Pete's sake, is wilding?

Regards,

36 posted on 06/05/2015 1:11:05 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Reparations to close the wealth gap, eh? Well there is the problem, they do not know the difference between money and wealth


37 posted on 06/05/2015 1:23:41 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: ifinnegan

I have a picture of my great grandmother and she was an Indian. I have a cousin who does not want to hear the word Indian. There is nothing he can do about it.


38 posted on 06/05/2015 1:24:11 AM PDT by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: alexander_busek

“Wilding” is when a group, usually teens, usually black teens will go and get wild. Might be obnoxious hassling of people at the mall. Often going into a gas station mini-mart and stealing all sorts of stuff.

Not much the store keeper can do with 40 people in his store flying around stealing stuff. Unless he is armed of course. Although in today’s world that would cause him a big hassle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYT18NOECqA


39 posted on 06/05/2015 1:31:19 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: MamaB

Descendants of Indians who live on reservations have been totally enfeebled by government aid and support. The last thing they need is more of it.


40 posted on 06/05/2015 1:32:15 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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