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Reparations fight roars as some cities push million-dollar payments to Black Americans: 'Our civic obligation'
Fox News ^ | 05/22/2023 | Kassy Dillon , Teny Sahakian

Posted on 05/22/2023 9:32:08 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The battle over reparations is growing across the United States, as local, state and federal officials weigh everything up to seven-figure direct payments to Black Americans.

While some advocates call it a long-overdue policy addressing a history of oppression, its foes call it a misguided, divisive and harmful approach that exacerbates issues rather than solving them. Polls show it is broadly unpopular with Americans, but it nevertheless has received serious attention in both Washington and municipalities around the country.

Rep. Cori Bush D-Mo., alongside several other progressive lawmakers, unveiled the Reparations NOW resolution last week, calling for $14 trillion in reparations for Black Americans.

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KEYWORDS: americans; black; obligation; reparations
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Cori Bush is a pile of trash
1 posted on 05/22/2023 9:32:08 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Demonicrats are in a panic about regaining the black vote..
2 posted on 05/22/2023 9:34:31 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

One.Way.Ticket.

Time for a return trip. Seems fair.


3 posted on 05/22/2023 9:35:02 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Reparations is just another vote-buying scam.
Like welfare. EBT. Food stamps. Student loan forgiveness.
It will never end, as long as there are elections.


4 posted on 05/22/2023 9:35:54 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Even if they did make "reparations" to blacks, a few years later it won't be enough. There still will be a racial "stain" to "overcome".

Just like in 2008 when they told us that electing Obama would prove that we're no longer a racist nation. Rush was right when he said that Obama in the WH would make everything about race and they'd ratchet up the accusations of racism more than ever. Reparations is no different.

5 posted on 05/22/2023 9:36:53 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s gonna be a long hot summer


6 posted on 05/22/2023 9:37:11 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Used to be an idea from the fringe, now it’s gone mainstream. If you disagree, you’re a whitesupremacist . (No matter what the color of your skin)


7 posted on 05/22/2023 9:38:13 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
For direct descendants of slaves.
Imagine what would happen when some blacks get money and others don't.
8 posted on 05/22/2023 9:40:42 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This PROVES the rodents are losing Blacks and the Black vote for Trump as reported was a lie.
The Democrat/communists literally want to buy Black votes with our money.


9 posted on 05/22/2023 9:42:43 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

To make any reparations payment at all would be to acknowledge the legitimacy of demanding reparations, of which there is none. This has to be stopped everywhere.


10 posted on 05/22/2023 9:43:58 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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So fighting a Civil War, Civil Rights movement, decades of generational welfare, etc... Still wasn’t enough?

F*ck you. Leave the Country.


11 posted on 05/22/2023 9:44:23 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: lastchance

Half Way Ticket!! Get them half way across and make them swim the rest of the way.


12 posted on 05/22/2023 9:45:40 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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"Demonicrats are in a panic about regaining the black vote.."

That's the part I just don't understand... they're already getting 90% of that bloc and it's not like the GOP is going to take it away in huge numbers if they _don't_ pursue this. IMHO, they stand to lose a LOT more voters from those not cashing in, so why risk that?

13 posted on 05/22/2023 9:45:59 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra
For direct descendants of slaves. Imagine what would happen when some blacks get money and others don't.

And determining whose ancestors were and were not slaves is problematic, if not impossible, to ascertain. Slaves were considered property (and included on tax rolls) and not people (making the census useless).

And then there are the questions of freedmen who owned slaves themselves and descendants who are mixed blood.

So in short, these race baiting morons are really setting themselves up for a real administrative and legal mess in determining who and who is not a descendant, the 14th Amendment "Equal Protection" Constitutional issue aside.

14 posted on 05/22/2023 9:48:49 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Democrats owe white people reparations for demonizing them with racism and hate.


15 posted on 05/22/2023 9:50:10 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They will get their $ from city and move the hell out.


16 posted on 05/22/2023 9:51:35 AM PDT by inchworm (al )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If politicians want a mass-exodus of non-blacks from cities or a state, they merely need to start spouting reparations that will be paid from taxes or worst - reparation taxes targeted at non-blacks.


17 posted on 05/22/2023 10:00:01 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: OHPatriot

In the spirit of true caring make it 3/4 of the way.


18 posted on 05/22/2023 10:02:11 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: Qwapisking

This wouldn’t be happening unless the corporations figured out that they would wind up getting all the money in the end.


19 posted on 05/22/2023 10:03:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Media to black people now: “You’re going to get millions of dollars each.”

Media to black people next year: “Trump won’t let you have your millions.”


20 posted on 05/22/2023 10:08:54 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the cosmological implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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