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Black Lives Matter asks state Dems for 'reparations'
washintonexaminer.com ^ | 10/3/15 | Jason Russell

Posted on 10/06/2015 1:19:36 PM PDT by ColdOne

Several black leaders addressed Democratic state legislators Friday at the State Innovation Exchange in Washington, D.C.

"Thinking about decriminalization with reparations," Marbre Shahly-Butts, deputy director of racial justice at the Center for Popular Democracy, said. "The idea is we that have extracted literally millions of dollars from communities, we have destroyed families. Mass incarceration has led to the destruction of communities across the country. We can track which communities, like we have that data. And so if we're going to be decriminalizing things like marijuana, all of the profit from that should go back to the folks we've extracted it from." That comment received widespread applause from the crowd of Democratic state legislators. Shahly-Butts was referring to decriminalizing more than drug crimes, but also loitering, bans on saggy pants and thousands of other laws that disproportionately affect blacks.

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KEYWORDS: reparations
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1 posted on 10/06/2015 1:19:36 PM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

I will pay them when we get our 6 trillion back.


2 posted on 10/06/2015 1:22:32 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: ColdOne

The denonrats are going to rue the day they started working with these thugs.


3 posted on 10/06/2015 1:23:31 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: ColdOne

I prefer Civil War.


4 posted on 10/06/2015 1:23:37 PM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: ColdOne
Shahly-Butts

Indeed.

5 posted on 10/06/2015 1:24:00 PM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: ColdOne

I would be happy to see reparations made to former slaves.

Locating them may be a bit of a problem,though.

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6 posted on 10/06/2015 1:24:03 PM PDT by Mears
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To: ColdOne

Mass incarceration lead to safer streets. Lock up people who commit crimes especially violent crimes and they won’t commit another crime at least until they get out and do it again


7 posted on 10/06/2015 1:24:28 PM PDT by Stand W ("Gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is the WAR ROOM!")
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To: ColdOne

OK, a one-way boat trip to Africa.


8 posted on 10/06/2015 1:25:48 PM PDT by Duckdog (Just because your paranoid, doesn't mean people aren't out to get you.)
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To: ColdOne

You’ve had fifty-plus years of reparations, in the form of welfare and special treatment. The race card expired on 1/20/09 and in non-renewable.


9 posted on 10/06/2015 1:26:32 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

IS non-renewable.


10 posted on 10/06/2015 1:26:58 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: humblegunner

A$$-Butts is more like it.


11 posted on 10/06/2015 1:27:16 PM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: ColdOne

The Democrats need to put this in their 2016 platform and see to it that their nominee makes it a major campaign issue.


12 posted on 10/06/2015 1:27:41 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: ColdOne

Once again they have moved the attack level down to the states. Makes sense as they have no inherent defenses to a mindless mob, especially when they are wearing Black Armor...

Tie them up in court with countless endlessly funded lawsuits until someone caves to “just get it over with”

Called “Deep Pockets”, Lawyers count on it especially for nuisance suits...

Ground once lost is far more costly if not impossible top reclaim...


13 posted on 10/06/2015 1:27:46 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

A fricking men.


14 posted on 10/06/2015 1:27:54 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ColdOne

Reparations are fine, although since slavery and Jim Crow are legacies of the democrat party, I think the party should pay them.


15 posted on 10/06/2015 1:28:45 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: ColdOne
"Thinking about decriminalization with reparations," Marbre Shahly-Butts, deputy director of racial justice at the Center for Popular Democracy, said.

Last name Shahly-Butts..heh..heh..heh..


16 posted on 10/06/2015 1:33:47 PM PDT by BerniesFriend (I am BerniesFriend, however it's really Bernadette, NOT Bernie Sanders friend!!!!!!!)
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To: Salvavida

Ditto.


17 posted on 10/06/2015 1:36:01 PM PDT by Gator113 (~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz REMAINS the only true Conservative in this race. ~~ just livin' life~~)
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To: ColdOne

Reparations? OK. Then ALL taxpayer money transfers(welfare) for the ENTIRE black community stops. FOREVER.


18 posted on 10/06/2015 1:36:29 PM PDT by yadent
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To: Verginius Rufus
"The Democrats need to put this in their 2016 platform and see to it that their nominee makes it a major campaign issue."

Lest we forget it was the Democrats who fired on Fort Sumter in defense of slavery.

19 posted on 10/06/2015 1:38:03 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: ColdOne

Our perpetual unassimilated aggrieved minority underclass...Union generals saw this coming as the Civil war drew to a close.


20 posted on 10/06/2015 1:38:25 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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