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Is a call for slavery reparations coming in 2016?
American Thinker ^ | 04/19/2015 | Warren Beatty

Posted on 04/19/2015 7:31:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Charles Payne, host of Fox Business News' Making Money, said on Thursday:

I think that there's going to be an official apology from the White House to slavery in America and then a major push to get cash, and I'm talking lots of cash.

Many including those closest to President Obama will push him to make this happen.

About reparations, Scottie Nell Hughes, Tea Party News Network director and a frequent Making Money guest, said:

Sure, slavery was a horrible thing that happened, but this [reparations payments] is not going to help race relations in the United States today.

Payne, who is black, broached the subject after reporting that Chicago will offer compensation to people who can prove they were tortured during the reign of police commander Jon Burge, who "... used electrical shock, burning, and mock executions to elicit confessions from suspects, mostly African-American, from the early 1970s through the early 1990s."

So if Obama and the Progressive/Liberal/Democrat crowd get their way, who is to receive reparations, and how will they be determined?


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016issues; blackkk; blackvote; election2016; hillaryclinton; hitlery; redistribution; reparations; slavery; whiteprivilege
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To: Sequoyah101
That stupid fat bastard would say that. I can’t stand the guy.

Are you referring to Charles Payne? What's wrong with Charles Payne? He's a conservative.
61 posted on 04/19/2015 10:13:46 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

The estimated $17-20 TRILLION paid since 1964’s “Great Society” commie/socialist/marxist BS, is probably more than enough.


62 posted on 04/19/2015 10:26:20 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're just the bug.)
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To: Sequoyah101

He’s one of the good guys.


63 posted on 04/19/2015 10:28:52 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're just the bug.)
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To: Sequoyah101

Well, seeing as how you literally KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HIM and OBVIOUSLY DIDN’T EVEN READ THE ARTICLE, it seems like a really well informed and well thought out opinion on your part, NOT!


64 posted on 04/19/2015 10:31:08 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: SeekAndFind

You’ve really got to question the sanity of this.

The Democrat party already gets 90% of the Black vote.

Imagine the amount of money we’re talking about, and for what?

If they could get even 5% more votes from one tenth of the populace, how much would each of those votes have cost, and what would the overall benefit be?

If you gain 5% from the Black community, you lose 20% from the larger White community.

This is a fools idea of common sense. Admittedly, that never stopped the Democrats before.


65 posted on 04/19/2015 10:41:45 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question, Jeb Bush? The answer: NO! Rove, is a devious propagandist & enemy of Conservatives!)
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To: virgil

The absurdity of all this is the democrat party is run by people of white European ancestry, just how do they expect to come out on top in the long run? Look at Rhodesia, South Africa. This is all literal suicidal insanity.

A local cop stopped by for a visit, one of the topics was a race war possibility in this country. He sees it coming.

And when obama runs for a third term he will get reelected. As Rush said, the GOP would probably just let him run again, do nothing to stop him.

It’s Cruz or lose.


66 posted on 04/19/2015 11:19:54 AM PDT by redfreedom (All it takes for evil to win is for good people to do nothing - that's how the left took over.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
The population of the US was 31 million in 1860, so the death toll in the Civil War represents about 2% of the entire population--but about 8% of the adult men of military age.

If reparations are for slavery, then they should make any black person who claims reparations prove their ancestry back to actual slaves, and require white people to submit their family trees so that only those who had slaveholding ancestors will be required to pay. Of course they will widen the criteria to include Jim Crow and any racial discrimination so that any black person will be eligible, even those who immigrated within the past few years.

67 posted on 04/19/2015 11:28:35 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: DoughtyOne

If Obama is really going to make this an issue in 2016, the point will be to whip up emotions among African American voters so they will be motivated to vote for the Democrats. Actually getting the money is out of the question. Even the Radical Republicans when they had a veto-proof majority when Andrew Johnson was President did not try to implement the “forty acres and a mule” idea, and any Congress with a Republican majority, even with milquetoast leadership as we have now, is not going to vote to fund reparations.


68 posted on 04/19/2015 11:32:21 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: DoughtyOne

If Obama is really going to make this an issue in 2016, the point will be to whip up emotions among African American voters so they will be motivated to vote for the Democrats. Actually getting the money is out of the question. Even the Radical Republicans when they had a veto-proof majority when Andrew Johnson was President did not try to implement the “forty acres and a mule” idea, and any Congress with a Republican majority, even with milquetoast leadership as we have now, is not going to vote to fund reparations.


69 posted on 04/19/2015 11:32:21 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

I’m unconvinced that today’s Republican leadership (wink wink), would stand up to him on a strictly racial matter.

Your logic isn’t flawed, I just don’t think the Republicans would deny Blacks this. They’d be wetting themselves.


70 posted on 04/19/2015 11:53:48 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question, Jeb Bush? The answer: NO! Rove, is a devious propagandist & enemy of Conservatives!)
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To: DoughtyOne
The GOP leadership might be eager to submit, but the Congressional Black Caucus and the Civil Rights establishment will demand such an astronomical amount that the idea will fail because there would be no way to come up with the money demanded.

40 million or so African Americans in the country now. If each one was to be paid $25,000 a year, that would add $1 trillion a year to the government's expenditures, but I'm sure Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the others would dismiss $25,000 as grossly inadequate.

71 posted on 04/19/2015 12:15:57 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Well, lets hope you’re right.


72 posted on 04/19/2015 12:26:08 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question, Jeb Bush? The answer: NO! Rove, is a devious propagandist & enemy of Conservatives!)
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To: Sequoyah101
That stupid fat bastard would say that. I can’t stand the guy.

I could not disagree more. Charles is a decent, hard working American and a credit to the human race.

He is on the right side of all the issues.

73 posted on 04/19/2015 2:28:12 PM PDT by citizen (WalkeRubio RIGHT For You 2016)
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To: Sequoyah101
That stupid fat bastard would say that. I can’t stand the guy.

Did he advocate for it or merely report it? I've only seen him rarely, but had a generally favorable impression of the points of view he expressed when I did see him.

74 posted on 04/19/2015 2:52:45 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The greatest danger facing our world: the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.-Netanyahu)
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To: RoosterRedux
The war on poverty was reparations. How’d that work out?

We've already paid at least $779 billion, most probably a low-end estimate, since it was published during the Obama administration. Even that low figure is $20,000 for every A-A man, woman and child in America, including the large percentage of those who were actually born in Africa and recently migrated, or who were never descended from slavery; and given that the War on Poverty took place over many years, the buying power of many of those dollars would have been much higher earlier in the program, when there actually were persons who grew up under segregation.

Nor do those figures account for the sacrifices made by universities and employers who, either voluntarily or due to coercive regulation, have applied Affirmative Action programs. Establishing and maintaining the programs cost billions, both administratively and in productivity costs, and so did the many, many lawsuits under those rulings.

75 posted on 04/19/2015 3:08:36 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The greatest danger facing our world: the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.-Netanyahu)
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To: barmag25
What about all the white slaves from Ireland and Scotland?

Yep, I'm English and Celtic, so I'll have to write myself a check. Oh, wait, that would be too efficient. I'm forgetting that the elites want to line their pockets with 80% of any payouts.

76 posted on 04/19/2015 3:10:37 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The greatest danger facing our world: the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.-Netanyahu)
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To: NorthMountain

You are quite mistaken. Charles Payne reported a prediction of what the left will do. He is a conservatvie and is not advocating for it. Please do not smear one of our own.


77 posted on 04/19/2015 3:19:28 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The greatest danger facing our world: the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.-Netanyahu)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I agree with Dr. Walter E. Williams — every living American who ever owned a slave should pay reparations to every living American who ever was a slave.


78 posted on 04/19/2015 8:02:42 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Ben Affleck's Great3-Grandfather owned slaves. True Story
79 posted on 04/19/2015 11:21:42 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Television: Teacher, Mother, Secret Lover)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Has anyone stopped to think, once they get what they demand, they will continue to push until they call for white people to be slaves for 400 years as payback?


80 posted on 04/20/2015 9:46:58 AM PDT by Sensei Ern (I love 2015 most because the presidential campaigns mean we are almost done with Nobama.)
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