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Maxine Waters promises 'reparations' if Dems take over in 2020
American Thinker ^ | 03/05/2018 | Rick Moran

Posted on 03/27/2018 11:29:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

How radical can the Democrats get if they take over the government again? What used to be an extreme position - reparations to black people for slavery - is now entering the mainstream of Democratic party thought and could become a reality once the Democrats regain power.

Reparations have been mentioned since the end of slavery, but in recent years, it has been elevated to a serious issue by liberal Democrats. Rep. Maxine "Mad Max" Waters, appears to want to make it a cornerstone of a run for the presidency in 2020.

WATERS: “He’s a bully — he has a bully mentality. We need someone in the presidency who not only has good sense but understands diplomacy and understands what we need to do to have peace in this world so we can all look forward to the possibility that we’re someday going to have a world that’s about peace and justice and respect for individual liberty.”

RYE: “Is that your stump speech for 2020? — Is she running? Is she running?”
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WATERS: “I’d be happy to do that. That’s no problem. In order to get where we need to go on this issue and other issues, we really got to understand that 2018 is important in taking back the House and taking back the Senate ... If we want to get to the point where we can get reparations, we’ve got to have the power to do that, Number 1, by having a supportive president would be wonderful, but taking back the House would be absolutely wonderful ... I need to take back that House so that we can have a majority in that committee.”


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: maxinewaters; reparations; slavery
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To: SeekAndFind
Free money for All Y'all!

Oh... wait. You already have it.

41 posted on 03/27/2018 11:51:44 AM PDT by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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To: jonascord
The idiots who keep re-electing this moron. To them, she's a demi-god, and anyone who doubts is a raciss'.

Then obviously they do not "do" any intellectual processing. They just automatically pull the lever for this idiot. So they are just as stupid as she is. Probably their highest intellectual achievement has been to utter the word "Duh". When she dies, they will find some other vicious racist who says the right things ("You are not responsible for your own poverty, the white man is") and elect them until they die, etc.

42 posted on 03/27/2018 11:51:44 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: DCBryan1
Dumbass. They already got reparations.....trillions in the war on poverty + the hundreds of thousands of dead Americans during the War of Northern Aggression.

Sounds like we're due some change on a massive overpayment.

43 posted on 03/27/2018 11:51:44 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: EinNYC
Does anyone actually listen to her craven rants any more?

Sure. The handout parasites.

44 posted on 03/27/2018 11:52:18 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeh, that’s the ticket.
reparations

alrighty then, the blacks get these.
As part Native American (Indian for all these wahoos in DC)
I demand the same. How about them apples?!!

This is certainly helping to grow the d’rat party Especially for the minority (still growing) voters.


45 posted on 03/27/2018 11:52:19 AM PDT by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: SeekAndFind

Presumably, whites whose ancestors arrived after 1865 would be exempt?


46 posted on 03/27/2018 11:52:48 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: Rurudyne

I distinctly remember “40 acres and a mule” as payouts. Did they forget?


47 posted on 03/27/2018 11:53:04 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: rjsimmon
Many in my family were white indentured servants—can I get some money

Hey, the Jews in Egypt were slaves for over 400 years. Shouldn't I have my hand out to Egypt for reparations?

48 posted on 03/27/2018 11:54:50 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: SeekAndFind

How far back in history should we go? Passover approaches, and reminds me that my ancestors were enslaved by Africans for centuries. A lien should be placed on any and all reparations they receive, and forwarded to my folk.


49 posted on 03/27/2018 11:55:03 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: SeekAndFind

A million dollars per person and a one-way coach ticket to Africa. You give up your American citizenship. Deal?


50 posted on 03/27/2018 11:55:37 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainlaend US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: SeekAndFind

51 posted on 03/27/2018 11:57:25 AM PDT by McGruff (The Swamp is not just full of only democrats)
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To: SeekAndFind

In South Africa, whites are less than 9% of the population and can no longer defend themselves.

Here is a clue Mad Max. This is not South Africa.


52 posted on 03/27/2018 11:58:07 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: SeekAndFind
Maxine Waters promises 'reparations' if Dems take over in 2020

DAYUM!

I know the elected sub-30 IQ elected criminal queen has stolen a lot of money over the last 25 years, but...

Not nearly enough to share it with all her 42,000,000 U.S. Homies...

Maybe she'll have a rap-phone and a rap pen. I suppose we can all watch in amusement when she tries that Executive Order... LOL!

53 posted on 03/27/2018 11:58:22 AM PDT by publius911 (Declaration: MSM, I am so over watching or listening to bald perverts, thugs and sluts)
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To: SeekAndFind

There is not one single person alive in America today that has suffered, or is suffering under institutionalized slavery.


54 posted on 03/27/2018 11:59:25 AM PDT by Spruce
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To: SeekAndFind

If reparations are provided, do they return to Africa?


55 posted on 03/27/2018 11:59:45 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: SeekAndFind

Wouldn’t it be funny if Maxine Waters was a descendant of slave holders.


56 posted on 03/27/2018 12:00:17 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: fwdude

“Anyone who was once a slave in the U.S. gets reparations.”

My grandparents got here in the early 1930’s. Does that mean I don’t have to pay due to lineage?


57 posted on 03/27/2018 12:00:59 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (What is a Blue City? First world cities run by third world politicians.)
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To: publius911
Maybe she'll have a rap-phone and a rap pen

She could rap under the name of “No cents”.

58 posted on 03/27/2018 12:02:17 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: SeekAndFind

Keep talking Maxine. The more you talk, the more votes we get.


59 posted on 03/27/2018 12:03:25 PM PDT by Mouton (The MSM is a clear and present danger to the republic.)
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To: WayneS
Here is a reparation plan I can live with:

1) Any living person who was held in slavery while slavery was the law of the land shall receive a one-time payment of $5.0 Million and shall be exempted from paying income tax for the rest of his/her life.

2) Any living person who is the biological offspring (son or daughter) of a person who was held in slavery while slavery was the law of the land shall receive a one time payment of $1.0 Million and shall be exempted from paying income tax for the rest of his/her life.

Seriously? Here is mine

Every person who owns or has owned a slave has to pay reparations to any person who was or is a slave.

60 posted on 03/27/2018 12:07:05 PM PDT by ProudGOP
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