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WATCH: BET Founder Worth $550M Wants $14T in Reparations for Slavery
NewsBusters ^ | 6/3/2020 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 06/03/2020 9:16:31 AM PDT by JV3MRC

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To: JV3MRC

I have never owned slaves and this guy has never picked any cotton - although if he changes his name to Toby, I might send a dollar.


21 posted on 06/03/2020 9:38:00 AM PDT by dainbramaged (That information is classified. Request denied.)
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To: JV3MRC

That would be one heckava stimulus. 99% of it would be squirted away within 3 months.


22 posted on 06/03/2020 9:40:43 AM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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How about a few bucks and a one way ticket back to Africa


23 posted on 06/03/2020 9:41:10 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Assange)
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To: JV3MRC

If Robert Johnson gives $540 million to the Mojave nation, first!


24 posted on 06/03/2020 9:41:31 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

Just give ‘em all a priinter and blueprints. In the end, it’ll never be enough. As a side note, is he nominating himself to be the escrow and distribution point?


25 posted on 06/03/2020 9:57:23 AM PDT by DPMD (uo)
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To: davius

99% would likely not even find its way to the street, if you get my drift.


26 posted on 06/03/2020 10:00:20 AM PDT by DPMD (uo)
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To: JV3MRC

It’s been estimated that 675,000 slaves were brought to the U.S. during our slave trade; and that our American Civil War deaths stood at 660,000, almost one for one between slaves and Civil War deaths.

I think that should be enough to placate these filthy racists that want to give money to people who were never slaves and take the money from those who never owned slaves.


27 posted on 06/03/2020 10:07:35 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: JV3MRC

Thought experiment, if blacks were offered their own country, African Diaspora America, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, rich farmland, long growing season, gas and oil, a seaport, fisheries, beaches, tourism, existing infrastructure, their own laws, their own governance, how many would want it?


28 posted on 06/03/2020 10:07:54 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: JV3MRC

Bret Baier gave this clown a full 10 minutes.

Am done with Bret Baier for good.


29 posted on 06/03/2020 10:10:08 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: mowowie

Start the Printing Presses.

Give them $14 Trillion......in Confederate currency.


30 posted on 06/03/2020 10:11:03 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: JV3MRC

We’ve already contributed, and are called racist, and will continue to be called racist even after they take all our money.


31 posted on 06/03/2020 10:18:52 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Never forget Justine Damond, murdered by a NON-WHITE, NON-CHRISTIAN cop. (Oh, and no riots))
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To: escapefromboston
How about a few bucks and a one way ticket back to Africa

All rioters should be charged with a 10 year federal felony, which they can avoid if they renounce their citizenship and take a one way flight to Africa. South Africa needs more whites anyways.

32 posted on 06/03/2020 10:22:26 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (COMDEMS would rather rule over a pile of ashes, than lose to Trump and REAL Americans)
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“U.S. government should provide $14 trillion of reparations for slavery to help reduce racial inequality.”

The US Government has no money of its own, it just redistributes moneys it gets from taxes, fees and tariffs. Thus Mr Johnson is advocating an enormous increase in taxes ESPECIALLY if the recipients are exempted from the tax burden while continuing to receive standard tax benefits.

Can you say 'Straw Man Argument'?

33 posted on 06/03/2020 10:27:40 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: JV3MRC

Write ‘em an IOU.


34 posted on 06/03/2020 10:29:52 AM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: JV3MRC

When they find me with shackled slaves in the backyard tool shed, then we’ll talk.


35 posted on 06/03/2020 10:34:00 AM PDT by bgill (Idiots. CDC site doesn't recommend wearing a mask to protect from COVID-19)
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To: JV3MRC

Well at least 25% would go straight back to the Gov through the lottery.
Another 5% though sales tax.
Pot stores would see a massive rise in business paying something like 30% of gross back in Taxes.
It would make for a great buy option on NIKE, the makers of Hennessy and Parliament cigarettes..
In the end much of that 14 trillion would soon find it’s way back into the economy and tax base..and they would be back bitching and complaining as usual..


36 posted on 06/03/2020 10:34:31 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: JV3MRC

Take it out of the trillions in damages over the years from “peaceful protests”.


37 posted on 06/03/2020 10:37:46 AM PDT by pas
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To: beethovenfan

Western Union it to West Africa, and give them a one-way ticket to retrieve it. In the long run, it would be worth it- because everyone knows that the next generation will ask for the same.


38 posted on 06/03/2020 10:42:37 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: JV3MRC

I have been discriminated against in education and employment because I am white.

I want my reparations, and I want them now!


39 posted on 06/03/2020 10:44:48 AM PDT by cgbg (New poll: post elderly voters like Biden's experience as Wilson's VP fighting the Spanish Flu.)
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To: DPMD

Indeed, I do get your drift.


40 posted on 06/03/2020 10:57:07 AM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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