Reparations demands are spiking and Democrats
have this astonishing reaction
Fox News,
by
Jonathan Turley
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
5/27/2023 8:47:09 AM
"It's time to pay." Those four words from Missouri Democrat Rep. Cori Bush are being heard a lot by Democratic politicians across the country this month. For Bush, the debt amounts to $14 trillion in reparations for Black Americans. In California, activists are demanding as much as $5 million per Black resident and asking Gov. Gavin Newsom "where's the money?" One member of Newsom's Reparations Task Force demanded that the state pay its "sin bill"
In New York and Chicago, mayors are balking at towering costs from migrants being shipped from the border to their "sanctuary" cities.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
aasilver 5/27/2023 8:58:56 AM (No. 1478567)
California was NEVER a slave State. Look it up.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
czechlist 5/27/2023 8:59:51 AM (No. 1478570)
stereotype validation
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ADNova 5/27/2023 9:16:25 AM (No. 1478585)
Nice cities you have there. It’d be a shame if they all caught on fire.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
moebellini3 5/27/2023 9:18:50 AM (No. 1478586)
Why reparations now. Just look at every communist democratic run city in the country and you'll know why. The people are total illiterates. There is no education in these cities. People can't read or write and can barely communicate with anyone. The public schools are nothing but war zones and the communist democrats refuse to allow school choice to those few who want it. And jobs are not the answer because people don't even have the basic skills to hold any kind of job. You see, communist democrats have done their job, the total destruction of the black community. Crime, drugs, car jackings, assaults and protests, the common theme in every democratic run city. And people still don't get it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rama41 5/27/2023 9:19:23 AM (No. 1478587)
If Democrats want to pay reparations, do it in the form of school choice.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 5/27/2023 9:39:23 AM (No. 1478601)
I say give ‘em all a giant economy-sized tube of
REPARATION-H and let ‘em shove it where the sun don’t shine.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/27/2023 9:40:15 AM (No. 1478602)
Why does this generation of blacks deserve reparations.
They weren't slaves and they have Affirmative Action jobs.
Who will pay the next generation after this generation has tossed their reparations away in dope and alcohol and mansions they wil trash. The fact is that we (white Americans) have been paying reparations for years, we have tried to educate them so they can be gainfully employed, we have placed them in our schools and watched them destroy the educations of our own children. We have watched the kill each other in our cities. What good is handing money to people who do not know what to do with it?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
FLCracker 5/27/2023 9:51:05 AM (No. 1478609)
Yeah, they'll pay reparations the same way they honor their pledges to be sanctuary cities.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
PChristopher 5/27/2023 9:55:22 AM (No. 1478613)
Offer them a million apiece, but they have to leave the country and not come back.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mean Gene 5/27/2023 10:03:49 AM (No. 1478619)
The Civil War, reconstruction, Constitutional amendments, civil rights, voting rights, affirmative action, housing subsidies, welfare payments, food stamps, etc. etc. etc. Not to mention leniency for criminal acts. Have I missed anything? That's all reparations. Enough already!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
EQKimball 5/27/2023 10:05:16 AM (No. 1478620)
In the words of pastor Jeremiah Wright, the chickens indeed have come home to roost.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
2assume 5/27/2023 10:16:21 AM (No. 1478628)
Make them offer proof that they are a descendant of a slave and then deduct every handout that they and their descendants got from the government over the centuries, add interest.
Bill them for the difference
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 5/27/2023 10:42:15 AM (No. 1478647)
The idea that people who never owned slaves must, 160+ years after slavery ended, pay large amounts of money to people who never were slaves, in a state that never had any slaves, and never had slavery......is completely irrational, and going to beat the heck out of Dems.
They have set loony, ridiculous, completely unworkable "expectation" among one of their key constituencies....the black welfare grifter class.
This is going to be fun to watch. The grifters screaming louder and getting angrier over a non-existent thing which absolutely cannot happen. Enjoy the firestorm you have created Dems.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 5/27/2023 12:14:10 PM (No. 1478723)
For me…there is no negotiation room for tortious claims that are outside statute of limitations. Just say no.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 5/27/2023 12:14:46 PM (No. 1478724)
Re #13. They have indeed raised the expectation of the ghetto class community and we will now see riotsthat will make the BLM riots look peaceful in comparison. California and the cities don’t even have the money to send these people a five dollar gift card much less a five million dollar check. When they don’t get it, they will proceed to loot stores, rob banks and kill innocent citizens. This reparations business by race would be blatantly unconstitutional and will die quickly if it got to SCOTUS thus further enraging the black underclass. The Dems have let an evil genie out of it’s bottle and they won’t be able to put him back.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 5/27/2023 12:29:05 PM (No. 1478733)
According to zip recruiter, the average wage in Ca, all workers, is $29 per hour. The average wage for African American workers (the zip recruiter terminology) is HIGHER, at $38 per hour. All of the arguments made for CA for reparations are mooted by cold, hard facts
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
pixelero 5/27/2023 12:30:37 PM (No. 1478735)
If hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese boat people and East Asians can come to this country and make it within one generation, five generations of another culture should be able to at least claw way up to middle-class respectability, given a century and a half of opportunity, and tons of federal entitlements, just for them.
It’s easy: respect the law, find employment, don’t have kids until you can afford them, don’t be violent and stupid.
Almost a half-million dead in the Civil War and trillions of dollars since President Johnson’s Civil Rights Act, America has sufficiently paid up.
What kind of prideless person would take this money?
I’m open minded, explain it to me.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/27/2023 1:27:08 PM (No. 1478772)
I wonder how many of the blacks with their hands out know that every single slave owner and every single Confederate soldier was a democrat. Or that the Republican party was founded with the intent to end slavery and that the first Republican president was Lincoln.
Only democrats should pay up.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
coyote 5/27/2023 2:16:06 PM (No. 1478795)
Yes, it's time to pay back. Pay back for the ending of slavery that was done primarily by England and the USA. Payback should be in the form of acknowledgement of this great feat. If Bush and others want actually slave holders to pay, Africa, the Middle East, and China is where you will find them.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
sw penn 5/27/2023 2:17:45 PM (No. 1478796)
There is a better than average chance
that if you give large cash handouts to 12% of the population,
the other 88% you expect to pay for it
are going to lynch you.
Politically speaking, of course...
Stupid dems have gotten themselves
into another no win situation.
Should be a great show.
Don't forget the popcorn...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
JayD 5/27/2023 2:42:13 PM (No. 1478815)
Democrats are losing one of their most trustworthy voting blocs so this is the only way forward they can find. The most unsubtle case of vote-buying since the student-loan "forgiveness" scam.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
coldborezero 5/27/2023 4:25:53 PM (No. 1478869)
I have a dream. I dream that one day all blacks will truly be free. Free from the oppressive bonds of gravity (an evil force created by white supremacists). Three days after they ascend to take their rightful place in the heavens, we humans will not even recall their having ever existed.
It is a dream I have.
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When, when are blacks going to be told no to their ever more excessive demands? It's never enough.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 5/27/2023 6:35:11 PM (No. 1478946)
No reparations without permanent repatriation.
PERIOD
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/28/2023 7:02:29 AM (No. 1479199)
"Grievance" is the only reason people vote Democrat. That is no "glue" to hold your party base together, and no platform to sell as a vision for the nation. They've switched allegiances over the years to capture the ever expanding disgruntled hate groups in America from Unions to blacks to Hispanics to college-loan-debt-ridden youth to Muslim immigrants and now they bring under the tent, sexual deviants+pedophiles+perverts who have, according to Demonrats, been underrepresented and voiceless in the "halls of power." Is this all the Democrats have? Has their vision for America devolved to comport with the lowest creatures in the national zoo? A full-on embrace of criminality to the point of Hedonism is their new Party Pledge and Platform?
God will judge this nation accordingly, and it won't be pleasant.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 5/28/2023 8:04:47 AM (No. 1479226)
#4 You forgot abortion on demand. Black mothers account for 38% of all abortions. Tell me again how "Black lives matter.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Msquared112 5/28/2023 8:05:04 AM (No. 1479227)
Why NOT demand reparations?: Everything else they demand, they get.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/28/2023 8:26:25 AM (No. 1479243)
California is a minority majority populated State, in that respect do you think that all the other minority groups in California are going to sit still politically and allow the leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrat to hand their money to Black Folks there who were never slaves, in a State that never was a slave state?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
janjan 5/28/2023 8:28:12 AM (No. 1479244)
Democrats painted themselves into a corner with this idea. The ridiculous demands by the Black radicals are laughable. There is no money owed to them and no money to be paid.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/28/2023 8:38:29 AM (No. 1479251)
California captured and enslaved Chinese to force them to work on the railroads and imprisoned innocent Japanese families. Where are their reparations? Instead they want to pay people who were sold to white slave traders by their own chieftains and witch doctors. America got the raw end of that deal.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Trapper 5/28/2023 8:39:36 AM (No. 1479252)
We have already had over half a century of "reparations" in the form of preferential treatment of Blacks in college admissions, grading, hiring, promotion, and government contracting. Furthermore, all the "systemic racism" bandied about was rendered illegal by the civil rights and voting rights acts of 1964 and 1965. Anyolne still behind after all that has only themselves to blame. Didn't get that grade you wanted? Work harder. Didn't get that promotion you wanted? Work harder.
Watch for the Supreme Court to issue an opinion this month ending affirmative action as unconsitutional, using language that makes it clear that racial "reparations" would also be unconstitutional, telegraphing that any racial "reparations" case brought before them will be struck down as unconstitutional as well.
"Reparations" is notbeginning. It's over.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
BaldGuy 5/28/2023 10:07:56 AM (No. 1479326)
#4...you really nailed it....too bad you won't see that on CBS, NBC, etc
#29...it will just give them a reason to riot and loot more this summer....all they know how to do. The career
path for most young black males in inner cities is either jail, or death.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Zigrid 5/28/2023 11:25:49 AM (No. 1479399)
In order for this to go through...every black person has to prove with paperwork that they are related to a slave...that should take 100 years or so....it's only a voting grab for the blacks who have deserted the rats....typical rat game ...promise them anything and then blame the republicans for not following through...it's so obvious....I think the black community will see through this....
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/28/2023 12:33:16 PM (No. 1479451)
Are these the same people who stood around waiting for Obama's stash that never arrived? Cori, is it all stashed in your garage?
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
hershey 5/28/2023 2:30:16 PM (No. 1479510)
With all the freebies, don't forget the Obamaphones...they are all still working and taxpayers are paying the bill...now that donkus Biteme is giving them out to illegals...read somewhere a long time ago some honest black man tried to turn in the free phone one of his relatives had after he died...there was NO mechanism to allow that....
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
little guy 5/28/2023 3:55:09 PM (No. 1479562)
Talk about biting the hand that feeds!
Note that not one serious national Demo-rat (like Schumer, Pelosi or Clinton) is indicating support for direct checks from the Treasury to pay for this pie-in-the-sky nonsense.
The average black in America is ... sadly ... easily manipulated. This is nothing more than the promise of a pony at Christmas if you're a good boy. When Christmas day finally rolls around there will be an excuse that Santa got sick, the reindeer hurt their feet, etc. Wait until next year! Next thing ya know, you're married and blowing smoke yourself.
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It was Democrats who historically supported slavery, the confederacy, and Jim Crow. If they want to pay reparations, let them pay out of their own pockets. Maybe Soros can help.