[MitchellC]

Womble said that it's important for companies to own up to their history if they built wealth based on slave labor.

"It's more or less an educational thing," Womble said. "At least you can acknowledge, ‘Yes, we participated in slavery. Yes, we made a profit off slavery.'"

Rep. Earline Parmon, D-Forsyth, is also a primary sponsor of the bill, which was filed Thursday.

Critics said that the bill is well-intentioned but that it would be impractical and burdensome for companies to try to find records of ties to slavery more than 140 years ago.

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Another issue is the difficulty of defining the extent to which a company "participated in" or "profited from" slavery.

"It's a tangled web," said Anthony Parent, a history professor at Wake Forest University who studies slavery. "If you were engaged in business in the South before emancipation, you're going to have been somehow tied into the slave system."

Manufacturing companies, for instance, may have employed enslaved workers. Large banks helped finance the buying and selling of slaves.

For other companies, the link to slavery may have been more indirect.

Nonetheless, Parent said, it would be healthy for companies to examine and acknowledge their pasts.

"In terms of the psychological effect -- and just coming to terms with this past of ours -- I think this is fundamental," he said. "I think we all need to do this, if for no other reason than to understand how important slave production was for the economy and the society. It wasn't marginalized or minimal to the wealth being generated during this period."

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[rvoitier]

Womble should be psychologically evaluated.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Larry Womble

Race pimp second class.

[Jack Hammer]

Womble is full of cr*p.

[Caipirabob]

They figure they’ve got everything else, reparations is a cinch...

[MitchellC]

Womble (District 71) is getting a beautiful trashing in the comments section.

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[muir_redwoods]

I want reparations for being dipped in chocolate and thrown from the third-floor window.

It didn't happen to me and you didn't do it but I want my check

Just sayin..

[RushLake]

"Critics said that the bill is well-intentioned but that it would be impractical and burdensome for companies to try to find records of ties to slavery more than 140 years ago."

That's a laugh, they'll be looking for those long dead evil white people in 340 years. What I want is an accounting for all the reparations dollars already spent via the (not so)Great Society, Porkulus, and all other forms of reparations paid. Then, I want a big fat bag of gold for each of my four ancestors who wore the blue suit and were only paid about $13.00 per month, not nearly enough.

[Alia]

BS.

I'm from the West. I've already seen what bills like these are intended to accomplish in the long run.

NORTH CAROLINA COMPANIES -- JUST SAY "NO". And run that railroader Womble out of town.

[TYVets]

Revenge

[Madame Dufarge]

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.

So let me get this straight.

There will be no penalties except being penalized by not being able to contract with the state.

Through the Looking Glass.

[doodad]

Larry is a proponent of strong family values and having a sense of community commitment. Having been reared at a time when Black families maintained greater cohesiveness and solidarity, which some might call an "old fashioned" upbringing. Representative Womble has been recognized with numerous Honors and awards such as "Man of the Year" (WS-Chronicle), the NAACP Award, the Professional Business League Outstanding Award and the North Carolina Black Social Workers State Human Services Award.

From his site. Intresting gap in the late 60s as he stayed in school several times to the early 80s when he started sucking on the public teat. Which he has done to present day.

[Adder]

“In terms of the psychological effect — and just coming to terms with this past of ours — I think this is fundamental,” he said. “I think we all need to do this, if for no other reason than to understand how important slave production was for the economy and the society. It wasn’t marginalized or minimal to the wealth being generated during this period.”

Amazing! And this clown gets paid to come up with this garbage. “Come to terms..”what does THAT mean?After 140 years what terms are there?

This is complete bullsh$t.

[chainsaw]

(Guess that party!)

I have my eyes closed, but will guess he is a black democrat.

Flame me if I’m wrong.

[Stayingawayfromthedarkside]

I bet you, if this idiot was in congress, he would have voted for that volunteer er.. I mean mandatory service crap.

[rockinqsranch]

“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.”

Need that photoshopped picture of the actor saying “Not This Sh!t Again!”

[autumnraine]

Next up, lawsuit from descendants of slaves.

[sergeantdave]

Let’s reveal the names of all democrats who supported Stalin, Hitler, Mao and obama.

[Rebelbase]

Womble is entrenched in Winston politics via the stupidity of his electorate.

[RU88]

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.

[Vor Lady]

And how is the government going to handle the new slavery they started with the GIVE Act? Oh...but that will be different...