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5 Reasons Reparations For Slavery Are A Bad Idea
Townhall ^ | July 26, 2014 | John Hawkins

Posted on 07/25/2014 10:12:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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I WANT REPARATIONS FROM BLACK AMERICA FOR (WHAT EVER PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULACE IT IS) DESTROYING OUR LANGUAGE AND CULTURE, RUINING OUR CITIES...FOR THE KILLINGS, RAPINGS, BEATINGS, AND OVERALL GENERAL LOWER QUALITY OF LIFE IN AMERICA...

How's that?

21 posted on 07/26/2014 1:43:57 AM PDT by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Always the victim.
Blacks worldwide Always are the put upon instead of doing well in school and bettering themselves they play race games.
And obammy is great at that role.
Quota boy is pathetic.


22 posted on 07/26/2014 3:24:08 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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To: TigerClaws

Another way to break America’s bank, cloward and Piven agenda, overwhelm the system into collapse


23 posted on 07/26/2014 3:38:37 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Each and every former slave alive today deserves reparations ....

It’s the least we can do....

Must be hell to be that old....


24 posted on 07/26/2014 3:50:05 AM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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Each and every former slave alive today deserves reparations ....

I agree.

25 posted on 07/26/2014 3:51:45 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bflr


26 posted on 07/26/2014 4:19:07 AM PDT by 4Liberty (Obama is O'Bryan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUoPNpa9Rrw)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Only two reasons required.
No one getting the money owned slaves and no one receiving the money was a slave.
This is a non issue.........


27 posted on 07/26/2014 4:34:27 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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Only two reasons required. No one getting the money owned slaves and no one receiving the money was a slave.

You missed typed. You meant:

Only two reasons required. No one paying the money owned slaves and no one receiving the money was a slave.

And you are right.

28 posted on 07/26/2014 4:51:18 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reparations are a hundred years too late.

As I was recently driving across the country, I was wondering how things would have been different if we had opened the west and given the slave s forty acres and a mule.


29 posted on 07/26/2014 4:54:38 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reparations for slavery are a very bad idea on so many levels.


30 posted on 07/26/2014 5:02:03 AM PDT by windsorknot
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Specifically, who enslaved the blacks originally in Africa? It was not white slave traders! It was other blacks of different tribes that captured and sold their BROTHERS into slavery. So, it follows that we should seek reparations from the blacks in Africa? People are so pathetically stupid today and do not even want to know history.


31 posted on 07/26/2014 5:16:26 AM PDT by Machavelli (True God)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because the first $5 trillion we’ve already spent has been a big waste of taxpayer money?


32 posted on 07/26/2014 5:20:02 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: Vermont Lt

The slaves and their descendants have already received their reparations, much of which provided from men, women, children and families who were in no way involved in their slavery. I have read, though I can not cite, that the United States was the only country to go to all out war to free slaves.

330,000 WHITE UNION military knowingly went to their deaths to free the African American slaves during the Civil War, they FOLLOWED the directives and emancipation orders of their government, a government THEY ELECTED. I have never heard an establishment, professional, progressive/ African-American, or White Progressive ever ACKNOWLEDGE, much less “thank” these dead men for their sacrifices, nor recognize the 260,000 White Union military who were wounded and/or grievously disabled, nor the widows, nor the children, nor the families of the military who also suffered.
I BELIEVE OBAMA WOULD NOT TRAVEL TO GETTYSBURG TO COMMERATE THE 150 YEAR ANNIVERSARY BECAUSE IT WOULD HAVE HIGHLIGHTED THE SACRFICES AND THE REASONS THE MEN FOUGHT AND DIED.


33 posted on 07/26/2014 5:20:18 AM PDT by BilLies ( it isn't the color of the skin, but culture that is embraced that degrades.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“I provided reparations and all I got was a Kenyan-American president who hates America and most Christians and Whites.”


34 posted on 07/26/2014 5:25:06 AM PDT by BilLies ( it isn't the color of the skin, but culture that is embraced that degrades.)
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How do you make any of those determinations with reparations?

In a corrupt manner. Like the Pigford Farmers settlement. You give the money to anyone who can show he's a favored political client. /S

35 posted on 07/26/2014 5:31:49 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

None of the descendants of slaves would b alive if it were not for slavery. Somewhere along the line their ancestors would not have met or come together to procreate. Some would have not even lived to child-bearing age.
So, they actually owe their very lives to slavery.


36 posted on 07/26/2014 5:33:55 AM PDT by all the best
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To: Machavelli

We live in the “it’s all about me” times, spoken about in the Word.

“For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!”

2 Timothy 3:2-5


37 posted on 07/26/2014 5:52:17 AM PDT by mothball
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Some are also missing the funny part of this all. If everyone goes insane and this twisted program ever takes shape, how will it be administered? Even under the most optimistic reparations plan, no blacks would get any money directly from the gubmint. Plans are that the money would be overseen by Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and other similar annoying people. I wish I was making that up.


38 posted on 07/26/2014 5:54:25 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reparations for slavery? Let’s start with Obama. His Arab ancestors were the slave sellers.


39 posted on 07/26/2014 6:15:55 AM PDT by abclily (every)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reparations have been paid check the body count of the ones who freed them they are the ones who should pay reparations.


40 posted on 07/26/2014 7:12:15 AM PDT by Vaduz
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