[Cyclops08]

All the slaves are dead. All the masters are dead. Who do you pay?

With that said, how come reparations are only brought up when a Republican president is in office? Why was this NEVER brought up when Obama was there to sign the Bill?

[Klemper]

Don’t be silly.... Lets rob the ketchup industry (HEINZ) because all those tomatoes didn’t become ketchup (catsup) by themselves!!!

[Spktyr]

I’m fine with reparations - if a condition of getting the money is that the recipient and their entire family must return to Africa and never return to the US in perpetuity.

It would probably be cheaper than welfare.

[Blue Jays]

Perhaps a win-win deal can be negotiated?
Surrender of U.S. citizenship and passport in exchange for air travel to African country of ancestral origin and $500 cash upon landing.
Travel banned to the United States for 50 years for all repatriated people taking advantage of the one-time offer.

[FES0844]

They just love to stir the pot.

[dp0622]

Yeah it’s not like the Holocaust, where corporations that made a profit from it were still around and thriving.

Kinda hard to peg where profits from 200 years ago went.

That and the maybe 6 or 7 TRILLION spent on welfare covers the bill.

Now how about getting ####ing jobs?

[DoodleDawg]

With that said, how come reparations are only brought up when a Republican president is in office?

Conyers has introduced the same bill every year for the past 20 years, through Republican administrations and Democrat administrations. It's only because Trump is the president that the Examiner decided to report on it.

[stevem]

We have been slaves to Democrats most of my life. Do I get reparations?

[smileyface]

Of course. This could have been a done deal when Obama ran the show. These Dems should be called out on this. The political bent of this motion now is so obvious. Will Trump call them out on it? Should he?

[Brilliant]

The Democratic Party needs to pay slave reparations.

[smileyface]

Of course. This could have been a done deal when Obama ran the show. These Dems should be called out on this. The political bent of this motion now is so obvious. Will Trump call them out on it? Should he?

[Rock N Jones]

Who do you pay?

Top of the list Rep. John Conyers.

[NCDragon]

The loopy Democrooks pushing this can all go to Hell ! I never owned any slaves and neither did my ancestry. They were all dirt poor farmers barely making a living and could not afford such luxuries.

[nwrep]

If he has been doing it for 2 decades, it is hardly news. Lets quit falling for clickbait fake conservative news...

[doug from upland]

The article says Conyers introduced it at every new Congress for two decades.

[nobamanomore]

So my great great grandfather had slaves. Obama’s great grandfather probably sold them into slavery, as that was what African Muslims did at the time. Virtually all African slave traders were....Muslims. Does he have to pay?