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Nah..I'm sure he'll settle for financial restitution.
Of course he would, just like the other race merchants like Jackson's PUSH and Sharpton's NAN do daily.
Rangel should be counting his lucky stars that he is black, because it is not PC for guilty white liberals to throw black crooks like him and Sharpton in jail.
Rangel is an intelligent guy; he knows this is DOA, but is trying to stoke non-hispanic black turnout as much as he possibly can. Espaillat has been breathing down his neck for years now.
The same KKK members that claim to be Christians. Where the same ones dragging blacks under trucks to death and lynching them. They claim to be god fearing Christians but disobey one of this biggest rules in the Bible. ** love everybody**. Maybe they are Christian extremist.
Reminds me of the race hucksters that Barack Obama and his family went to church with in Chicago under the racist Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
Since it was Africans themselves with the help of Arabs that started the Western slave trading, why doesn't he ask THEM for reparations? Some of them are STILL dabbling in slavery.
Slavery still happens in Saudi Arabia! Also, recently a Saudi Diplomat couple living in DC were caught having kept two slaves in their home for 12 years.
Yes, Rangel is a Spanish name, so I knew he had Latino ancestors somewhere on his dad's side. But he's from a historically black neighborhood, identifies as black (e.g. Congressional Black Caucus), and has been generally regarded as black. Redistricting added largely Puerto Rican territory to his district, the problem he faces now is that of a Puerto Rican challenger with a neighborhood base outside his old district.
That would be a Dominican challenger......only now has Charlie began to play up his own Latin roots.
That would be a Dominican challenger......only now has Charlie began to play up his own Latin roots.
He does have a lot of Dominicans in his district, for some reason I had the impression the new district picked up Espaillat and a lot of Puerto Ricans (apparently, no and not many). Since I know Espaillat has a base in his State Senate district, and I now know he is Dominican, he must be in Manhattan (which is where Dominicans cluster in NYC) and must have been in Rangel's district for some years. Rangel can at least play up his Puerto Rican roots in the Bronx but that might not be sufficient. Besides, isn't it time for him to retire?
There is not a valid reason for reparations to be paid today.
There are plenty of reasons for reparations to be paid today, both legal and moral.
The US court system allows living relatives to collect lawsuit money owed to their long deceased relatives, example asbestos caused cancer cases. This is the transfer of money owed to a long deceased person to their living relatives.
When sunken treasure ships from 100's of years ago are found by US citizens part of the treasure is returned to the ships country of origin. This is a group of peoples property lost 100's of years ago being returned to them.
And this is a website helping people claim money from their deceased relatives. It says there is no time limit regarding the collecting of a deceased family members assets. Missing Money Frequently Asked Questions
Clearly US laws state that long deceased peoples family members can claim money and/or (property) from their long deceased relatives. And American laws state there is no time limit on this claim process.
But the US government broke the "40 acres and a mule" agreement. Don't living African Americans have the right to the property promised to their relatives by the US government?
Is it not the moral thing to honor this agreement?
If the answer to the above questions is "yes", then African Americans who can prove they are the relatives of freed slaves are owed 40 acres of land and a mule (or) the monetary value of 40 acres of land and a mule (in todays dollars, adjusted for inflation.)
Clearly there are valid reasons for reparations to be paid today, and these reasons are both legal and moral.
Don't the living relatives of those African Americans have the right to their relatives stolen property?
Its strange how when a US citizens finds a sunken treasure ship that is 100's of years old, the US citizen by law must return a portion of the ships valuables to the ships country of origin. But when African Americans from the 1920's (and much later) have their property stolen, most people say to their relitives "get over it, stop whining, we don't owe you nothing."
So when a Europeans property that is 100's of years old is found by US citizens, US law says a portion of that property must be returned. But when a black person is involved there is no law to return the property, instead the black person gets attacked and is told to get over it.
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