Conyers Reintroduces Reparations Effort

pjmedia.com ^ | 1/4/13 | Bridget Johnson

[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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"Chairman of the Judiciary Committee" Jon Conyers speaks about the good and welfare clause in the Constitution.

[Lucky9teen]

[henkster]

I agree with Conyers notion of reparations. In fact, I welcome his payment to me of the reparations I am due. You see, my great-great grandfather came to this country from Prussia in 1848, settled in Wisconsin, and never owned a slave. In fact, he voluntarily left his family for four years and risked his life on the bloodiest battlefields of the Civil War to make Conyer’s ancestors free.

Conyers, you owe me. You owe me a lot. Pay up, you cheap bastard.

[patriotsblood]

The first thing that Holder’s people should learn is that there are consequences for spreading your legs.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Bring it, b*******

[kidd]

Let’s go back in time.

My relatives were from Massachussetts. Tell them that they will need to leave their families for several years and risk dying from disease or warfare to fight the South and free the slaves.

Then tell them that your decendents will have to pay reparations to former slaves anyway.

Do you think they will be so enthusiastic to sacrafice so much, Mr. Conyers? The desertion rate would go through the roof.

Come back to the present. Will my decendents have to pay reparations to future Iranian-Americans or NorthKorean-Americans?

[MondoQueen]

Two of my great-grandfathers, that I’m sure of, fought for the north in the Civil war, maybe all four of them. One great uncle died in the war, and my great grandfather was walking home to the north from Mississippi when he found a former slave family sitting by the side of the road. He gathered them up and took them home with him and got the man a job and a house. This is not made up. I proved it by looking them up in the 1870 census, and the former slaves were living right next door to my relatives. I think many of us have paid our reparations.

[Elsiejay]

Socialist Autocrat and Restorer of Racial/Ethnic Justice Barack Obama will deal with this injustice by means of an Executive Order, while the Congress in part applauds and in part observes with mouths agape in feckless inactivity.

[LowTaxesEqualsProsperity]

We could compare how much the average African-American has with how much the average African has in Africa.

And African-Americans would owe the U.S. a check, not the other way around.

[Honor above all]

My family moved here from Ireland in the late 1800’s. Dirt poor, routinely discriminated against, had to fight to eat, etc. etc. None of them ever owned a slave though many worked like slaves to get their crust of bread. How does that make me culpable for past transgressions against the black folk? Who is going to pay me or my family for harms done to us (well, not me personally but you get my drift)? Why do we continue to suffer these fools and their verbal diarrhea?

[Williams]

The US government freed the slaves at great cost and great loss of life.

My relatives came here after the civil war, where are my reparations for all the welfare, affirmative action, etc.?

I would agree to a one time payment if all programs that discriminate against whites and males can be eliminated after that.

[soycd]

boner will be happy to pass this racist bill. The POS may even shed a tear in the process.

[VanDeKoik]

Slave owners:

Used people against their will in order to make a profit.

21st century blacks:

Use long dead people against their will in order to make a profit.

So the difference is what???

[Osage Orange]

Nobody in Conyer's downline was even in the fight.

We don't know that...and probably neither does Conyers.

That all said...I agree with you.

I've recently found out...I've direct relatives that were Governor's and Executive Officer's in the Confederate States, and Army.

I'm quite sure many of my relatives were aligned with the North too.

The fact is hundreds of thousands of American's died....and partly they died for the freedom of blacks.

[Jane Long]

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

AKA reparations.

Someone should total all the welfare, SS, disability, 0phones, Section 8 housing we've spent to date and send that figure to Conyers. Then, ask him: Exactly what amount is enough?

[GeronL]

those former slaves should be paid by those former slave owners. period.

:p

[Chode]

hey, Humpty...

[ColdOne]

that photo is one of my favs!!!!! The exact way I feel these days. Some days more than others!!!LOL!!!

[fishtank]

Yep.

Yep.

Yep.