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Congressman to push again for reparations legislation (John Conyers of Michigan)
The Florida Courier ^ | May 1, 2014 | Frederick H. Lowe, The Trice Edney News Wire

Posted on 05/02/2014 11:06:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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What about the 850,000 deaths in the civil war and the several trillion dollars spent on welfare programs just since 1964?
1 posted on 05/02/2014 11:06:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Dude, that was like 150 years ago. What possible difference does it make at this point?


2 posted on 05/02/2014 11:08:57 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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Perfect response.


3 posted on 05/02/2014 11:11:04 PM PDT by funfan
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3 of my ancestors fought in the union army. My family’s debt is paid threefold.


4 posted on 05/02/2014 11:13:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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Good timing Conyers. . Obama feeling some heat? Did they call you?
5 posted on 05/02/2014 11:13:53 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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Conyers first was elected to the House in 1964.
He needs to go he is 85 and living in the past.

Get out of my house!


6 posted on 05/02/2014 11:17:42 PM PDT by funfan
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Did he ever mow his grass? Is he going to pay reparations for being a slum lord? Treating ‘his people’ poorly? Didn’t think so. Blood sucking scum.


7 posted on 05/02/2014 11:18:16 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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slavery ended in 1865, so, the question is, what difference does it make at this point?


8 posted on 05/02/2014 11:22:33 PM PDT by willywill
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Do you think they really want this to pass? Maybe they should let them pass it and see where it gets them?


9 posted on 05/02/2014 11:34:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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3 of my ancestors fought in the union army. My family’s debt is paid threefold.

Well my family is a late comer having arrived on these shores starting in 1951, but I have to say that I agree with Conyers. I agree with him that is as long as he is seeking reparations from the tribal chiefs in Africa that first sold their people into slavery and the MUSLIMS who first bought them!

Otherwise I believe that Americans have paid plenty with blood,limbs and lives and decades of forced reparations through socialist programs.

10 posted on 05/02/2014 11:36:49 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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Welfareism was the liberal reparation for slavery and separatism. Blacks who couldn’t overcome the legacy of slavery got the consolation prize. No amount of money will help blacks beat the legacy of welfarism. Jobs would help, but the Obamaconomy doesn’t do jobs.


11 posted on 05/02/2014 11:36:54 PM PDT by pallis
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Where the Negroes Are Masters

Police in Nigeria have appealed to parents of more than 200 abducted schoolgirls to come forward with photographs of their daughters.

12 posted on 05/02/2014 11:56:05 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Land of the Free and the home of the Brave!)
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I demand reparations from every African country. They and the tribes within Africa aided in the enslavement of my ancestors.
13 posted on 05/03/2014 12:35:16 AM PDT by RginTN
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... as long as he is seeking reparations from the tribal chiefs in Africa that first sold their people into slavery and the MUSLIMS who first bought them!
Otherwise I believe that Americans have paid plenty with blood,limbs and lives and decades of forced reparations through socialist programs.
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A really great posting!!


14 posted on 05/03/2014 1:54:42 AM PDT by octex
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So.

Events that occur 2 years ago are 'old news' and 'what difference, at this point, does it make'.

But events that occur 150 years ago are crucial and require immediate action.

Eff off, Conyers, you nagger.

15 posted on 05/03/2014 1:59:15 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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Paid in full during the War on Poverty and similar total failures.


16 posted on 05/03/2014 2:29:10 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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We punish drug dealers more severely than drug users. Therefore seek reparations from the slave dealers; North African muslims.


17 posted on 05/03/2014 2:31:23 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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I demand reparations for whites because the DO”J”
has directed attacks on whites, hispanics, Jews,
and Christians by blacks.

REPARATIONS NOW. TO BE PAID BY ALL BLACKS and DNC.


18 posted on 05/03/2014 3:30:42 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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As long as it includes a form to renounce US citizenship and a one-way ticket to Affica.....

One time offer, take it or leave it to include future offspring.

19 posted on 05/03/2014 3:32:51 AM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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Put him on that island thats tipping over


20 posted on 05/03/2014 3:35:49 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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