https://www.foxnews.com/politi...-for-black-americans

Two leading Democratic presidential candidates -- U.S. Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts -- have reportedly said they support reparations for black Americans affected by slavery, reflecting a shift in the importance of race and identity issues within the party.

Yup. When all of your "new" ideas hit zero on the public's acceptance radar, revert back to your tried-and-true grievance industry emotional talking points.

Thank God I identify as black. Let the money roll baby.

Time to stock up on Shinola so I can get my fair share.

I had a great grandfather severely disabled while fighting for the North in the Civil War trying to free the slaves. He was an invalid for the rest of his life. Please send me my check. Thank you.

That's a good indication of how desperate they are and the contest hasn't even begun yet. I'm actually looking forward to the Democrat debates. They should be quite entertaining. I'm hoping they'll be eye-opening for a lot of people as well.

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for black Americans affected by slavery

Well, thank goodness since no one alive was affected.

Where's MY free shit?

This is a good thing. It will just help ensure four more years for Trump. The term "racist" will be thrown around even more, and thus further watered down into a completely meaningless word. There's no downside here.

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Originally posted by Bigboreshooter:
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Two leading Democratic presidential candidates -- U.S. Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts -- have reportedly said they support reparations for black Americans affected by slavery, reflecting a shift in the importance of race and identity issues within the party.

Both of whom are ultra-liberal democraP assholes and are just trying to buy the black vote!

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Originally posted by Gene Hillman:
I had a great grandfather severely disabled while fighting for the North in the Civil War trying to free the slaves. He was an invalid for the rest of his life. Please send me my check. Thank you.

I also had a great grandfather severely disabled in the civil war. He fought for the North, was captured and tortured for days. They hung him by his thumbs so long that he was permanently paralyzed. Spent his entire life after the war being fed by family members. How about some reparations for us descendants?

This is written by a black guy, for the NYT, and even he doesn't sound thrilled with the idea:

2020 Democrats Embrace Race-Conscious Policies, Including Reparations

By Astead W. Herndon

Feb. 21, 2019

From the very first day of the 2020 presidential race, when Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts blamed “generations of discrimination” for black families earning far less than white households, Democratic hopefuls have broadly emphasized racial justice and closing the wealth gap in their policy platforms.

But in recent weeks, some candidates have started embracing specific goals and overtly race-conscious legislation that even the most left-wing elected officials stayed away from in recent years.

Last week, Senator Kamala Harris of California agreed with a radio host’s recent suggestion that government reparations for black Americans were necessary to address the legacies of slavery and discrimination. Ms. Harris later affirmed that support in a statement to The Times.

“We have to be honest that people in this country do not start from the same place or have access to the same opportunities,” she said. “I’m serious about taking an approach that would change policies and structures and make real investments in black communities.”

Ms. Warren also said she supported reparations for black Americans impacted by slavery — a policy that experts say could cost several trillion dollars, and one that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and many top Democrats have not supported.

The Warren campaign declined to give further details on that backing, but it came amid her calls for the federal government to provide special home-buying assistance to residents of communities that were adversely affected by “redlining,” the discriminatory practice of denying mortgages, usually in poor and nonwhite areas. She also announced a sweeping universal child-care proposal that could strongly benefit minority communities that often have limited early childhood services.

The morally driven policy goals of Ms. Harris and Ms. Warren reflect a broader shift in the importance of race and identity issues in the Democratic Party, according to several scholars and political leaders who focus on the intersection of race and politics. While Democrats have long cast themselves as more inclusive than the Republican Party, grass-roots organizers and many liberal voters of all races are now pushing elected officials to go further on policies of racial equality, regardless of any political calculations.

But race-conscious policies could emerge as a fissure in a wide-open Democratic primary, as some moderate candidates seek to run against the party’s recent leftward lurch. There are also political risks for the general election: Republicans have long attempted to paint Democrats who embrace policies that address racial inequalities as anti-white, and polling often shows reparations for black Americans remains an unpopular policy across the country.

That two leading Democratic candidates have embraced reparations — the concept that the federal government should both acknowledge the ongoing legacy of slavery and discrimination and provide compensatory payment to those affected — is a major shift from past presidential campaigns and a win for activists who have tried to push the issue into the mainstream for decades.

Even among the 2020 Democrats who stopped short of endorsing reparations, several have laid out robust policies aimed at closing the gap in wealth between black and white families. Scholars estimate that black families in America today earn just $57.30 for every $100 in income earned by white families, according to the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey. For every $100 in white family wealth, black families hold just $5.04.

Senator Cory Booker’s “baby bonds” policy aims to help poorer children by giving them a government-funded savings account that could total up to $50,000 for the lowest income brackets. The plan has been praised by liberal scholars, who think it could go a long way in helping lower-income Americans begin to build wealth. And Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has endorsed a proposal to allow Americans without checking accounts to bank at the local post office; a disproportionate percentage of America’s unbanked population are people of color.

María Urbina, national policy director for the progressive group Indivisible, said that after years of being pushed by activists, the Democratic Party was getting closer to applying its liberal values to racial equality. Policies like reparations or “baby bonds” that seek to close the racial wealth gap, she said, should be viewed similarly to idealistic programs that have been embraced by Democrats seeking the presidential nomination, including the Green New Deal and “Medicare for all.”

“We want folks who are being ambitious, not just working within the margins and the contours of what we had before, but sort of reimagining things on our own terms and being really aspirational,” Ms. Urbina said.

Sandy Darity, a Duke University professor who is a leading scholar on reparations and the racial wealth gap, said he believes more black Americans may come to see reparations as a defining issue for their support.

“There is a point in black Americans making a collective decision to treat a candidate’s attitude toward reparations as a litmus test for supporting them,” Dr. Darity said. “I think if folks had paid closer attention to the fact that Barack Obama was against reparations, they would have not been as disappointed by his presidency, because they would have had more realistic expectations about what he was likely to do.”

Among Democrats, the idea of reparations has been unpopular until very recently. For more than two decades, Representative John Conyers, the Detroit Democratic stalwart who resigned in December 2017, repeatedly introduced a reparations bill to Congress that received little support from either party.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...ats-race-policy.html

These fools just keep widening the chasm in this country. Their personal gain is all that matters to them. And they hide behind "equality".

This reminds me of a time when the Native Americans were expecting a big check for our Uncle. I want to think it was about $6,000.

I had a friend that sold used cars. It was a back row kind of place. I asked him if he expected a windfall. He said - Yep, I mark all my $3,500 cars at $5,750 and sell the hell out of them. I get my money back.

It's like Elizabeth Warren's new proposal for universal childcare. Medicare for all, free tuition, months of family leave - those were all already proposed by other candidates. Warren had to find a new give-away to propose so that she wouldn't be left behind. Reparations are the same thing. With such a large field of radically left candidates, it's going to get harder and harder for the candidates to figure out what free s*t they can promise that hasn't already been trotted out. They will be proposing more and more outlandish ideas simply to separate themselves from the pack. It should be entertaining at least.

How would this not paying for votes? Fvcking communist/dictator wannabes

We've been paying reparations since 1965.
We've already paid trillions. It's called welfare.

As LBJ explained to fellow Democrats after doing a 180-flip on civil rights as president and pushing the 1964 Civil Rights Act (which resembled the 1957 Civil Rights Act he had gutted as a senator): "I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for 200 years."

That's according to a steward on Air Force One, who overhead him say it.

Economic Opportunity Act of 1964

Secretary of Labor Wirtz stated, "It has become clear that America is not going to put up with poverty amidst prosperity. We realize that by itself prosperity is not going to get rid of poverty."[5] He emphasized that the War on Poverty had two central objectives:

First, to provide jobs and training, especially for those young people now growing up in poverty, and increasingly condemned by lack of economic opportunity to repeat the cycle over again.

Second, to begin the process of planning and organizing that will bring the entire resources of a community to bear on the specific problem of breaking up the cycle of poverty in that community.

The War on Poverty attacked the roots and consequences of poverty by creating job opportunities, increasing productivity, and enhancing the quality of life. The aim was not to end poverty but to eradicate the principal causes of it.

And how do you prove you were descendents of slaves? Not all blacks were slaves, Shelia Jackson Lee likes to say “she was a slave”, but her parents were from Jamaica. For whatever reason idiots assume, if you were black, you were a slave, what do you ask for to prove it?

Why just blacks? Families of indentured servants? Native Americans? The Hispancs that lost their land grants? The farmers from the dust bowl? The Japanese Americans from the internment camps? All the families who suffered losses in the military? WHat makes blacks so special?

If we go down this rabbit hole I’m getting DNA testing and cashing in cause my family are certified pure bred mutts.