Who is "black"?
How much "black blood" would be necessary to claim reparations? One-half? One-fifth? Less?
Would recent black immigrants from Africa be eligible for reparations?
Should blacks be compensated for discriminatory practices after slavery ended? If so, why not the Irish, the Italians, the Slavs, and others who were similarly discriminated against when they first arrived?
Who decides all these questions? Congress? A "Reparations Commission" of some kind?
I'm sure you can come up with your own questions about how reparations would be divvied up in the real world. And that's the problem with the entire issue; it's not real. It's a fantasy - a bad nightmare that would divide and destroy the country far more than the KKK could ever dream of doing.
Wouldn’t it be funny if Maxine Waters was a descendant of slave holders.
Keep talking Maxine. The more you talk, the more votes we get.
Good. How much does each White get?
Maxine, my relatives came here in the 1920s and 1940s, so WHY should I be punished? My grandfather, came from Italy, built 8 homes, worked in the coal mines and LEARNED ENGLISH. He then went to Minnesota , worked in the copper mines, built 10 houses before moving back to Pennsylvania. Should I be punished? I know to you SOCIALISTS, I should be to you morons, but i have one word GFY...
There was a zero chance of reparations when the Democrats controlled Congress before. There is a zero chance of it if they regain control in 2018.
You had a black President, and control of both houses of Congress, but you were too busy passing other crap to introduce reparations. What a moron.
Keep talkin’ Maxine....keep talkin’
“I need to take back that House so that we can have a majority in that committee.”
Just say it, Maxine ... ‘so I can impeach Trump!’
Enough reparations have been paid already in every conceivable way. Looking at the poor state of White America, I’d say too much was already given.
Republicans should offer a bill to give blacks reparations, and tax the democrat party, the party of slavery, to pay for it.
“Maxine Waters promises ‘reparations’ if Dems take over in 2020”
Is Maxie concerned about the Rats losing the brain-dead minority vote?
2020?...sooooo is she conceding his impeachment?
This woman ought to read the book of Nehemiah. He had enemy big mouths speaking against his plan too. But like those traitors, her words will come to nothing and she will slink away in shame and disgrace. Our responsibility, for those of us who are Christians, is to continue to pray using spiritual weapons.
A “mention” is not a law.
I would think, even if it was a “law”, the “statute of limitations” have run out now.
If you didn’t get it from the ones who actually “enslaved” you, and you haven’t picked any cotton in your life (by force), it is certainly not up to today’s taxpayers to foot the bill.
Keep it up Maxine...you’re ensuring Americans don’t want anymore of democrats.
I want reparations for my peoples’ enslavement by Africans.
3500 years of interest is going to sting a bit.
It can never happen but it is a specialized type of virtue signaling. Black signaling.
My Grandfather (GF) was a judge and had a cross burned in his yard by the KKK.
He was going to rule on the guilt/non-guilt of a black man on trial for murder in Livingston, MT in the ‘30’s (no jury trial back then).
The KKK demanded that he find the N!**** guilty or they would have him (my GF) hanged the next night.
My GF found the man not guilty.
About six months later one of the ‘participants’ in the cross burning was found guilty of the murder and, eventually, hanged.
I’m against reparations.