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Originally Posted by DRob4JC
Not sure why they need a commission... they have talked about this forever.
Biden has signed 54 EOs in under a month... some of which were prepared beforehand. They have had time to continually harass Trump. If they really wanted to do this, it would be done already. It would have been done with the black president and a fully Democrat lead Congress ten years ago when they promoted it.
This legislation is the same legislation rehashed from a deceased legislator back in 1989.
Nearly 180 Democratic lawmakers have signed on to legislation that would form a 13-member commission to study slavery reparations at a cost of $12 million.
The Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act was reintroduced in the new session of Congress and now has 162 Democratic co-sponsors in the House and 17 Democratic co-sponsors in the Senate. The Senate version was introduced by New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker. The bill was first introduced by former Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers in 1989.
The legislation seeks to "address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery."
I'm just telling you ... nothing tangible will ever get done on this. It is more valuable to them to use the issue to help get themselves elected than to solve the problem and take the issue off of the table.
Look at Biden's statement...
The White House has said President Joe Biden supports the legislation that would set up the commission. Vice President Kamala Harris was a co-sponsor of the bill as a senator.
"He certainly would support a study of reparations," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said at the White House press briefing on Wednesday.
Studying reparations is fine. Actually paying for reparations won't get done by them.
Disclaimer: I don't think reparations on the whole will do much good. It would put money in one's pocket, but won't change any habits that lead to a more prosperous lifestyle. If we keep having kids in single parent family structures, money won't make any long term change.
Are you implying no good kids come from single parent households?
Bad news for all those widowed by our endless wars of choice raising children.
The Democrats are the new slave owners, they are just dangling a carrot for AA. They see you as their needy voter base. They already have you where they want you, and reparations aren’t part of their equation. It’s just another way of holding their power over you. You should be insulted by their propaganda.
I am Jewish and my ancestors arrived starting in 1896,coming through I'm guessing 1914. They should be exempt from paying reparations or paying for any "commission" to study the issue.
Further, I should be entitled to reparations paid by the world because of:
Egyptian slavery;
Roman dismemberment of our civilization;
Moorish pogroms occurring even during the "Golden Age" in Spain;
The Spanish Inquisition and auto-da-fe's, or "acts of faith";
Numerous expulsions from England;
Luther's persecutions;
The Russian pogroms; and
Last but certainly not least, at the risk of violating Godwin's Law, the Nazi Holocaust.
By that logic, I'm owed big time. Send me a check.
Whoa on #1... God allowed Israel to plunder the Egyptians on the way out - and they got a bunch of gold and silver.
Whoa on #1... God allowed Israel to plunder the Egyptians on the way out - and they got a bunch of gold and silver.
That one has been paid.
But was that the equivalent value for the services rendered? Also the gold and silver went into the Golden Calf. Now one can take the position that the Hebrews were building idols in the form of pyramids in Egypt.
I think we'd need valuation experts to determine if the value of the property taken was adequate recompense for the services rendered? And did it equal $15 per hour in 2021 dollars?
The Democrats are the new slave owners, they are just dangling a carrot for AA. They see you as their needy voter base. They already have you where they want you, and reparations aren’t part of their equation. It’s just another way of holding their power over you. You should be insulted by their propaganda.
Most people with an average IQ know know this, and most people with eyes can see this. The only ones that are oblivious to this are those on the democrat plantation, and the only ones who are okay with this are self loathing whites.
Well, if cash reparations are ever paid then the slate needs to be wiped clean. Reparations are an apology, acknowledgement that it happened, and compensation. Then the debt is paid.
I agree but the thing is nothing will change & people will just say they need more.
wait,..so like,..it will cost 12million just to make this committee to talk about reparations?
Or they are saying 12million will cover The Reparations? lol.
If the former,. They basically are creating this 'job' that they can say they do and get 12million to talk on Zoom?
Sign me up!
No kidding. I agree. $12m for a 13 person committee? Roughly $925k each to discuss something so completely ridiculous that it will never happen... Sign me up.
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