Reparations: Who pays whom?
Larry Elder asks if Obama and Kamala, with slave-trading ancestors, should get a check or cut a check
|
| |
wnd.com ^
| 3/3/2021 1849 hrs est | Larry Elder
With reparations, there is the issue of who pays. Do
African countries owe reparations to black Americans? After all, Harvard's director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Henry Louis Gates, wrote that 90% of those enslaved and shipped to the New World were sold by Africans to European slavers. All whites? Only whites? Nonwhites? Are payments owed for the time before the United States became a country? Former University of California, Los Angeles, historian Roger McGrath writes: "The reparationists claim that the United States must compensate the descendants of slaves for 400 years of slavery. Since...
|
|
|
Obama Backs Reparations: Says Country Was ‘Built on the Backs Of Slaves,’ Blames Opposition on ‘White Resentment’
|
| |
MenRec ^
| 03/1/21 | Rusty
Former President Barack Obama believes reparations are “justified” and suggests one of the reasons he couldn’t get it through during his tenure was due to “white resentment.” Obama
made the racially divisive remarks during a podcast with musician Bruce Springsteen. ... “There’s not much question that the wealth of this country, the power of this country was built in significant part, not exclusively, maybe not even the majority of it, but a large portion of it was built on the backs of slaves,” he added.
|
|
|
Obama call for reparations for black Americans because the 'wealth of this country was built on the backs of slaves' - but says he couldn't get it done as president due to the 'politics of white resistance'
|
| |
UK Daily Mail ^
| February 25 2021 | ADAM SCHRADER
Former President Barack Obama claimed reparations for black Americans are 'justified' but explained in his podcast with Bruce Springsteen that it was a 'nonstarter' during his presidency because of 'white resistence'. During
his 2008 presidential campaign, Obama appeared to oppose reparations and argued that 'the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed.' Obama, 59, has launched an eight-episode podcast series called Renegades: Born in the USA with the 71-year-old rock legend, released through Spotify’s partnership with the Obama’s Higher Ground production company.
|
|
|
McConnell: I Have The Same Position As Obama On Reparations
|
| |
Townhall ^
| 7/10/19 | Timothy Meads
God bless, Cocaine Mitch. The Republican Senate majority leader had the perfect response to bogus questions on Tuesday about whether or not he would support reparations for African-Americans after an NBC News article pointed out that his great-great-grandfather owned slaves. In
short, he told the media that his position on the issue was no different than President Obama's. "You know, I find myself once again in the same position as President Obama," Sen. McConnell said to a reporter who asked the question. "We both oppose reparations, and we both are the descendants of slaveholders." The Washington Free Beacon's David Rutz...
|
|
|
Obama Taking "Symbolic Reparations" [semi-satire]
|
| |
Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^
| 30 Apr 2017 | John Semmens
Stung by critics who say that former President Barack Obama is showing inordinate greed by accepting fat payments from Wall Street for brief speeches, former Presidential Press Secretary Josh Earnest argued that "one of the President's greatest regrets during his time in office was his inability to establish a public program of
reparations for America's historic mistreatment of racial minorities. Rather than just shrug off his disappointment he has decided to individually extract payments to compensate for those injustices." "We mustn't overlook the fact that the $400,000 per speech fees are being paid by white men to a black man,"...
|
|
|
Obama Wanted To Go After Slavery Reparations, But It Wasn’t Politically Feasible ("White Tax")
|
| |
Brutalist ^
| 12-26-2016 | Helga Dagmar
“Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those gaps [between white and black people],” - Obama said in the interview. - “That those were wrongs done to the black community as a whole, and black families specifically, and
that in order to close that gap, a society has a moral obligation to make a large, aggressive investment, even if it’s not in the form of individual reparations checks, but in the form of a Marshall Plan, in order to close those gaps.”
|
|
|
Obama: I Can’t Pursue Reparations Because It’s Politically Infeasible
|
| |
The Daily Caller News Foundation ^
| December 22, 2016 | Amber Randall
President Barack Obama said in an interview published Wednesday that reparations payments for black Americans could be a good idea but simply aren’t politically feasible. Speaking
with The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates, Obama said that it’s easy to make an argument for reparations for black Americans because of past sins like slavery and Jim Crow laws. . . . A report released by the United Nations’ Working Group of Experts on African Descent accused the U.S. of having a racist history. The country’s history of slavery and current police shootings, the report argued, meant that America owes the black community reparations.
|
|
|
Obama Wants Americans To Pay Slavery Reparations, Says Fox Host
|
| |
The Huffington Post | ^
| 04/17/2015 1 | By Jackson Conno
The city of Chicago is proposing a $5.5 million reparations package for those who suffered under the ruthless rule of police commander Jon Burge from 1972 to 1991. Backed
by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the plan would supply victims with free college tuition, counseling for drug abuse and psychological issues, and include a formal apology from the city, according to the Chicago Tribune. While the plan appears to be an attempt to reckon with part of the city's less-than-spotless past, Thursday evening Fox Business Network's Charles Payne said he's afraid nationwide slavery reparations might be next. "The news in my mind...
|
|
|
Obama urged to appoint reparations commission
|
| |
The New Pittsburgh Courier ^
| July 18, 2015 | Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent
In the wake of the mass murder of nine Black church members in Charleston, S.C. and the rash of unsolved fires at Black churches in the South, a coalition of Black groups are calling on President Barack Obama to issue an executive order to establish a “reparatory justice” commission. “This
is a moment in which you have to act and we believe that from Ferguson to Baltimore to Charleston and obviously before that there is an urgent need to ask why this keeps happening and to definitely have the kind of conversation and action to move the nation forward,” said...
|
|
|
Obama Wants Americans To Pay Slavery Reparations, Says Fox Host
|
| |
The Huffington Post's Media Blog ^
| April 17, 2015 | Jackson Connor
(VIDEO-AT-LINK) The city of Chicago is proposing a $5.5 million reparations package for those who suffered under the ruthless rule of police commander Jon Burge from 1972 to 1991. Backed
by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the plan would supply victims with free college tuition, counseling for drug abuse and psychological issues, and include a formal apology from the city, according to the Chicago Tribune. While the plan appears to be an attempt to reckon with part of the city's less-than-spotless past, Thursday evening Fox Business Network's Charles Payne said he's afraid nationwide slavery reparations might be next. "The news in my...
|
|
|
FBN’s Charles Payne: Obama Will Make a Push for Slave Reparations
|
| |
breitbart.com ^
| April 17, 2015 | Jeff Poor
On Thursday’s broadcast of Fox Business Network’s “Making Money,” host Charles Payne made a bold prediction when he suggested that President Barack Obama would make a push for slavery reparations. “The
news is a glimpse of much bigger news that is going to come from the White House, next year, I’m leaning towards,” Payne said during his “Payne’s Passion” segment. “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...
|
|
|
Castro to Obama: Reparations, Gitmo, and cutoff from dissidents the price for normalized relations
|
| |
hotair ^
| Jan. 29, 2015 | Ed Morrissey
The good news: The discomfort over the embargo of Cuba has led to a good bargaining position in talks with the US. The bad news: Raul Castro’s the one that thinks so. Far
from being grateful for the diplomatic overture from Barack Obama, Castro wants the US to pay reparations for the economic damage that Castro says the embargo caused, plus the immediate return of control over Guantanamo Bay, as the opening ante for normalizing relations: Cuban President Raul Castro demanded on Wednesday that the United States return the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, lift the half-century trade embargo on...
|
|
|
Obama to Atone for Legacy of Racial Discrimination with Reparations Decree?
|
| |
Canada Free Press ^
| November 26, 2014 | John Lillpop
To anyone who has been paying attention, it should be obvious by now that America is hardly a family-nation of diverse people united by common values. In
fact, bitter divisions among the American people are the rule rather than the exception, with racial disharmony among the most divisive. In 2008, many liberal pundits hailed the election of Barack Obama as a positive sign that racial barriers between black and white Americas were finally starting to give way to a spirit of cooperation and healing. Unfortunately, those high hopes from six years ago have been dashed and replaced with even more...
|
|