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Conyers Reintroduces Reparations Effort
pjmedia.com ^ | 1/4/13 | Bridget Johnson

Posted on 01/04/2013 11:56:41 AM PST by ColdOne

Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) introduced two reparations resolutions on the first day of the 113th Congress.

The first, H.R. 40, is “to acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.”

The second, H.R. 98, is “to provide a remedy for survivors and descendants of the victims of the Tulsa, Oklahoma Race Riot of 1921.”

Neither has been received by the GPO yet for the full text to be available.

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1 posted on 01/04/2013 11:56:46 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Yes, Conyer’s wife Monica has been moved to a half-way house waiting to get out of federal prison for bribery.


2 posted on 01/04/2013 12:02:31 PM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: ColdOne

All former slaves who are still alive should be paid reparations by their former owners.


3 posted on 01/04/2013 12:03:28 PM PST by DManA
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To: ColdOne

Sorry, Conyers.

We’re broke.

We’re bankrupt from spending too much on sosh security, welfare, disability and Obamaphones.


4 posted on 01/04/2013 12:04:16 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: ColdOne

What about slavery currently occuring in his home country of the Congo???

Democrats have a new form of Slavery!


5 posted on 01/04/2013 12:04:40 PM PST by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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To: ColdOne

I think your “reparations” are eight years of our current occupant of the Whitehouse....


6 posted on 01/04/2013 12:05:54 PM PST by apillar
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To: ColdOne

Don’t anyone try to tell me that the government and its wacky politicians and bureaucrats aren’t completely out of control. This country is done. Finished. I just don’t see any way for us to get out of this. Too many crazies and idiots in Washington and the U.S. Government.


7 posted on 01/04/2013 12:05:54 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Where can I pick up a 2013 Mayan calendar?)
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To: ColdOne

One way tickets back to the Motherland I could go for.


8 posted on 01/04/2013 12:06:13 PM PST by Kozak (The Republic is dead. I do not owe what we have any loyalty, wealth or sympathy.)
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To: ColdOne

Let’s put the pencil to the trillions of tax dollars spent in welfare, the wasted education money, the justice system and the incarceration of Blacks since 1960. I’d say that is more than enough “reparation” (i.e.: shakedown money) for a group who has been in the USA for almost 300 years and still can’t make it.

Maybe these whiners should check out the Vietnamese and Chinese for some clues as to how to succeed in America. For starters, ALL government subsidies to this dependent group should be eliminated. With the USA dead broke, it should be sink-or-swim time for the Takers.


9 posted on 01/04/2013 12:06:46 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: ColdOne
This year is the 150th year of the Battle of Chancellorsville where one g-g-Uncle got dead (Confederate side), another g-grandfather was fighting on the Union side and later ended up in Andersonville, and many others were heavily involved in all the fighting and had various fates up until Appomattox...where my other g-g-uncle ended up with 3 men left out of a company of 115.

Reparations? Our family already paid. Nobody in Conyer's downline was even in the fight.

10 posted on 01/04/2013 12:08:09 PM PST by Regulator
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To: ColdOne

Sure - it would be okay to pay reparations to any actual living former slaves.

At least to those who didn’t already get their 40 acres and a mule.


11 posted on 01/04/2013 12:08:25 PM PST by Iron Munro (I Miss America !!!!)
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To: ColdOne

This is a stick-up. Hand over the wallet.

SnakeDoc


12 posted on 01/04/2013 12:09:16 PM PST by SnakeDoctor (Come and take it.)
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To: ColdOne

So, when do us tax slaves get our reparations?


13 posted on 01/04/2013 12:09:57 PM PST by meyer (Proud member of the 53%.)
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To: ColdOne

I will happily pay reparations to every slave I have ever owned. OK? That’s it, problem solved.


14 posted on 01/04/2013 12:10:09 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: ColdOne

The country is ruined as it is, therefore the debt MUST have already been paid.


15 posted on 01/04/2013 12:10:45 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: ColdOne

300,000 dead (nearly all white) Union soldiers already paid this debt.

This race hustler needs to find a new line of work.


16 posted on 01/04/2013 12:14:55 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: ColdOne

Give them an acre of land, a mule and let them homestead on all of the vacant lots here in Detroit. Trouble with this solution is most of the blacks wouldn’t apply for this due to being lazy and being on the Government Dole. Working the land would constitute having a job and same would negate their Welfare Monies?


17 posted on 01/04/2013 12:15:15 PM PST by zbogwan2
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To: SnakeDoctor

Ya got that right.

This is the Django legislation.

At this point it just becomes robbery.


18 posted on 01/04/2013 12:16:27 PM PST by Delta Dawn (The whole truth.)
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To: ColdOne

As long as they hand them their checks on the gangplank in Africa after signing a pledge never to return and renouncing citizenship.


19 posted on 01/04/2013 12:17:41 PM PST by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: ColdOne; Revolting cat!
What's better than an Obamaphone? OBAMACASH!!!


20 posted on 01/04/2013 12:19:19 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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