Posted on 04/01/2009 7:26:29 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery in the U.S. and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865, and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendation to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.
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They should call this H.R. 40: The Rev. Wright Act
I thought we already had that? It’s called ‘welfare’. /s
Excuse me while I PUKE!
Paid in full — at Gettysburg etc.
It will never be ‘enough,’ anyway. Just like electing Obama was not ‘enough.’
Just add it to the other budgetary debts that we can’t pay.
Isn’t this just John Conyers’ annual ritual?
At that point, they should tax the African nations that sold their own people into slavery. This would pay for it.
Will the descendants of the white soldiers who were killed in the civil war get money?
How will the bill handle the descendants of black slave owners?
These idiots are begging for a 2nd civil war.
You think banning guns is a toxic threat to Democrats? They know that if this was taken to the floor and pushed hard for the resulting loss of seats would be breathtaking, especially in hard times like now.
Obama will wait until reelection before he pulls this out of his racist hat, he knows that to do it before will guarantee he loses in 2012.
Same game from Conyers, but Obama is president now, and there are more Dems in charge of Congress. Most likely this bill will pass now. God help us.
Wrong. Until the claimant can specifically prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that (1) s/he served as a slave and that (2) the payer (i.e. you and me) specifically owned slaves, there is no legitimate claim. Game over.
I think there should be reparations. All living slave owners must be called to accounts and pay the people who were enslaved under them. Every living freed slave should get a sizeable check. ... Oh, wait! The democrat party has enslaved blacks to social welfare checks and entitlement programs. So, that won’t work will it! The democraps just send money out with federal IOU’s backing them up. Nothing is getting paid as it is!
I’m all for it!
Give each of them $1 million upon the condition that they accept a 1-way ticket to return to the African nation of their choice and forfeit their American passports at the boarding gate.
Works for me.
Don’t be too sure.
This better be April’s Fool!
How should I be responsible for reparations done by none of my ancestors? My grandparents moved from Germany to the US circa 1920. They, and by extension all of their progeny going forward, have zippo to do with this.
How about when blacks had whites as slaves and demand money from President Washington to return them.
I hope it passes and here is my reasoning. Pass the bill with reparations for slavery and let buckwheat sign it. There will be a backlash never seen before. There will be politicians swinging from every lamp post in Washington and blood will run in the streets of the nation. Someone needs to take out the trash and this just might be the means to get it to the curb...........red
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