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(NC Rep.) Womble bill calls for slavery disclosure (Guess that party!)
Winston-Salem Journal ^
| March 21, 2009
| James Romoser
Posted on 03/24/2009 2:32:45 AM PDT by MitchellC
RALEIGH
A state legislator from Winston-Salem wants to require companies that do business with the state to disclose their historical ties to slavery.
Under a bill sponsored by Rep. Larry Womble, companies entering into contracts with the state would have to search their corporate records for evidence that they participated in slavery or profited from it.
A company would have to publicly disclose any records of ties to slavery, including the names of any enslaved workers or slaveholders contained in the records.
"History gives a true reflection of how our country got started," Womble said.
His bill deals only with public disclosure -- it does not call for any penalties against companies that once benefited from slavery. But if a company did not comply with the disclosure requirements, it could lose its contract with the state.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: earlineparmon; larrywomble; slavery; winstonsalem
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To: MitchellC
This is racially motivated intimidation. On the on other hand, I would have no problems with this act if it added a line about “if any of the directors, owners or operators of said businesses are still alive and involved in company business.”
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posted on
03/24/2009 4:36:56 AM PDT
by
Lee'sGhost
(Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
To: rvoitier
Just another idiot with too much time on his hands...
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posted on
03/24/2009 4:50:50 AM PDT
by
Stayfree
((HELP US EXPOSE THE "REAL" BIRTH CERTIFICATE @ REWARD FOR OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE.COM!))
To: MitchellC
Let’s reveal the names of all democrats who supported Stalin, Hitler, Mao and obama.
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posted on
03/24/2009 4:55:11 AM PDT
by
sergeantdave
(obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
To: MitchellC
Womble is entrenched in Winston politics via the stupidity of his electorate.
To: chainsaw
Wow, you must be brilliant or have ESP!!!
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posted on
03/24/2009 5:07:08 AM PDT
by
DeLaine
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: Rebelbase
Yeah, so long as that district is drawn like it is, he isn’t going anywhere. Not in the general, anyway.
Dist. 71
% D 64.72%
White % of D 28.85%
Black % of D 69.65%
AI % of D 0.12%
Other % of D 0.85%
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posted on
03/24/2009 5:12:34 AM PDT
by
MitchellC
("I can no more renounce Rush, than I can my own grandmother...")
To: MitchellC
A federal law ought to be passed to give any surviving slave reparations. Considering there are zero people in this category, Rep. Womble can hold his hand on his ass.
This issue will never go away because it really isn't about the principle of it, it's all about the money generated by the cottage industry of race hustlers who have victimized their own people and are now their new overlords.
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posted on
03/24/2009 5:24:01 AM PDT
by
RU88
(The false messiah can not change water into wine any more than he can get unity from diversity.)
To: Stayfree
Sort of sad that taxpayers pay salaries for these kind of people, isn’t it?
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posted on
03/24/2009 5:24:26 AM PDT
by
Quickgun
To: MitchellC
And how is the government going to handle the new slavery they started with the GIVE Act? Oh...but that will be different...
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posted on
03/24/2009 5:32:07 AM PDT
by
Vor Lady
(This tag line extinct due to gorebull warming.)
To: MitchellC
With a name like Womble I don’t think I would propose any legislation.
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posted on
03/24/2009 5:32:46 AM PDT
by
Rappini
("Pro deo et Patria.)
To: MitchellC; All; Jack Black
....White folks, pay attention!.....people like Womble are not going to go away....their chorus will only swell....tribal warfare is a global reality....in time it will come here too.
See: Thomas Chittum’s “Civil War Two: The Coming Breakup of America” ISBN 0-929408-17-9
To: DeLaine
Wow, you must be brilliant or have ESP!!!
Aw shucks. You don’t have to say those nice things.
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posted on
03/24/2009 5:47:32 AM PDT
by
chainsaw
(If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
To: MitchellC
A company would have to publicly disclose any records of ties to slavery, including the names of any enslaved workers or slaveholders contained in the records. How long before hordes protesters and cameras show up at the homes of the descendants of the long passed slaveholders?
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posted on
03/24/2009 5:49:48 AM PDT
by
gdc314
To: rockinqsranch
Here you are :
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posted on
03/24/2009 6:02:31 AM PDT
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: MitchellC
We all know the problem here. This man is a racist bigot and he knows what his constituents want. More Gubmint handouts.
There isnt any sugar coating to be put on this. Those are the facts.
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posted on
03/24/2009 6:10:05 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: Venturer
The man is also ignorant.
There were thousands of blacks who were slave owners. There were black slave breeders who sold their own children.
I wonder if *his* ancestors were slave owners?
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posted on
03/24/2009 6:18:21 AM PDT
by
ladyjane
To: ladyjane
There were thousands of blacks who were slave owners. There were black slave breeders who sold their own children.
Though there were free blacks who owned slaves, and some of them had large operations, the number who owned more than one or two didn't reach into the thousands. The concept of "slave breeders," of whichever race, and of babies being torn from their mothers' sweet embrace, was a product of abolitionist literature. Most slaves were married and living in single family dwellings. The average age of first birth was a little over 20 years of age. When "children" were sold, it was nearly always when they were at an age they would be leaving the household anyway. For families with minor children, if they were sold it was as a family unit, unless there was a capital offense involved, in which case the offender, rather than being put to death, was sold to someone in a far off location.
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posted on
03/24/2009 6:26:52 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Robe
Thank you. Appreciate your effort. The picture, and the caption states it all on this matter.
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posted on
03/24/2009 6:37:35 AM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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