I’d like to go into the woods with Temar Bishop.

Burgess Owens gave em' an earful as a black offspring of slaves.

His argument to the committee was that only Democrats should pay restitution because they have brought misery to his race. Link

Ha. Ha. Vote-pandering show hearings can cut both ways.

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Originally posted by sigalert:
So we cut them a check and everything will be okay?

If we cut ANY checks it will make things WORSE and FURTHER radicalize everyone who deals in that crap.

The time window for reparations ran out somewhere around 1900.

Mark my words:

Give them a trillion dollars today and they'll be back in five years wanting more.

Paying reparations will solve nothing. It will only create more problems and irrevocably validate a false principle. This will never happen.

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Originally posted by 6guns:
^^^ That makes my blood boil!

Regardless of his 'reasoning' it makes my blood boil. People who rape women deserve shallow graves.

A good article showing the people involved as legislative reparations movers is found HERE.

The author takes on the players by name in an article entitled:
Slavery Reparations for Millionaires - Needy millionaires are standing by to take your paycheck.

Here is just a sample:

The hearing, formally titled, H.R. 40 and the Path to Restorative Justice, references Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s bill calling for a commission to study a proposal to pay compensation to the descendants of slaves.

“I stand here as a freed slave,” Rep. Jackson Lee had once declared on the House floor.

Her estimated net worth, as of 2015, is $3,547,506. The median House average was $800,000.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s annual salary, funded by taxpayers, is $174,000.

Her husband, Elwyn C. Lee, is the Vice President for Community Relations at the University of Houston where he earns $239,501. The median salary at the University of Houston is $60,000.

Lee sponsored or co-sponsored bills that sent $5.25 million to her husband’s employer in just two years.

If anyone deserves reparations, it’s taxpayers. Both Sheila Jackson Lee and Elwyn Lee are Yale graduates. Her son is a Harvard grad.

The taxpayers (you) are putting out 12 million dollars to study this "problem."

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Originally posted by jhe888:
It is political point making and nothing more. It comes up regularly and comes to nothing. Don't waste your time even thinking about it.

But do think about if enough idiot libs get voted in, then we are screwed.

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Originally posted by dewhorse:
Um....I would say when the Africans pay up, they had a great deal to do with gathering the slaves.

Hell in some countries they still keep slaves.

Umm, allegedly there are more slaves right now than ever before in human history. Mostly in Africa, & most slaveholders are Muslim.

If I’m 1/2 black & 1/2 white, can I just cut myself a check?

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Mark my words:

Give them a trillion dollars today and they'll be back in five years wanting more.

5 years? I don't think it will take that long...

Have all the of the Blacks who owned slaves and their descendants been identified, so those who are living can participate in this BS?

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Originally posted by maximus_flavius:

If I’m 1/2 black & 1/2 white, can I just cut myself a check?

Yes, but only for half the amount of the standard reparation.

This is extortion, plain & simple. Next will be the Japanese Americans who were placed within internment camps during WW2. Where does it end?

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by maximus_flavius:

If I’m 1/2 black & 1/2 white, can I just cut myself a check?

Yes, but only for half the amount of the standard reparation.

Sounds like everyone will need a blood test...

my direct fraternal ancestor stepped off a boat in Jamestown,
early 1600's, (either 08 or 10, can't remember which)
he was 11, and alone,

thinking the only reason an 11 yr old would come here was that he was probably an indentured servant,


do I , as a decedent of a potential indentured servant,, can I get a cut?

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Originally posted by lyman:
my direct fraternal ancestor stepped off a boat in Jamestown,
early 1600's, (either 08 or 10, can't remember which)
he was 11, and alone,

thinking the only reason an 11 yr old would come here was that he was probably an indentured servant,


do I , as a decedent of a potential indentured servant,, can I get a cut?

I suspect you have the wrong tint to pull it off.

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Originally posted by Fed161:
I believe that we all should pay for our own sins, not the sins of others, including ancestors. Additionally, my ancestors fought for the north in the civil war. Do I pay too? I guess so.

I had family fighting for the North during that war. One of them had been captured by the South and tortured to the point that his arms were permanently paralyzed. I recall hearing about how he had to be hand fed by older family members due to those injuries.

I seem to recall that there were some 600K casualties in the civil war. How about reparations for them? All this reparations shit is nothing but a bunch idiots who have no idea what that really means.

Oh, and just how are we supposed to know who should receive those reparations? By skin color? That is not quite the simplistic answer, either. Blacks fought on both sides!

My family was brought over in a debtor's colony as white slaves.

Where is my check?