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House panel advances bill to weigh slavery reparations
« on: April 15, 2021, 01:01:48 pm »
House panel advances bill to weigh slavery reparations
by Susan Ferrechio, Chief Congressional Correspondent |
 | April 14, 2021 11:29 PM

A House committee late Wednesday took an unprecedented step to advance legislation to examine whether the federal government should provide slavery reparations to African Americans.

Democrats, who control the majority, passed the bill without any GOP support after engaging in partisan bickering of who was responsible for slavery.

The bill, H.R. 40, is named after the unkept promise to provide freed slaves “40 acres and a mule.” It has 175 Democratic co-sponsors in the House, representing the majority of the entire caucus. The measure would create a 13-member commission that would study the impact of slavery and subsequent racial discrimination and whether the government should provide reparations.

“H.R. 40 is intended to begin a national conversation about how to confront the brutal mistreatment of African Americans during chattel slavery, Jim Crow segregation and the enduring structural racism that remains endemic to our society today,” Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat said.

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Re: House panel advances bill to weigh slavery reparations
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2021, 02:18:33 pm »
House panel advances bill to weigh slavery reparations
by Susan Ferrechio, Chief Congressional Correspondent |
 | April 14, 2021 11:29 PM

A House committee late Wednesday took an unprecedented step to advance legislation to examine whether the federal government should provide slavery reparations to African Americans.

Democrats, who control the majority, passed the bill without any GOP support after engaging in partisan bickering of who was responsible for slavery.

The bill, H.R. 40, is named after the unkept promise to provide freed slaves “40 acres and a mule.” It has 175 Democratic co-sponsors in the House, representing the majority of the entire caucus. The measure would create a 13-member commission that would study the impact of slavery and subsequent racial discrimination and whether the government should provide reparations.

“H.R. 40 is intended to begin a national conversation about how to confront the brutal mistreatment of African Americans during chattel slavery, Jim Crow segregation and the enduring structural racism that remains endemic to our society today,” Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat said.

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Re: House panel advances bill to weigh slavery reparations
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2021, 07:08:11 pm »
OH!  It's CONVERSATION they want to start, is it?

Ok.  Let's start.

I was born in 1961, not 1861.   So I've never owned a slave, not only do I not know anyone who who has ever owned slaves but I know no one in America who was personally enslaved by Democrats on or prior to June 19, 1865.   

Ergo, I bear no responsibility for slavery or any of it's consequences in the subsequent CENTURIES since it was abolished by the REOPUBLICANS at the end of the US Civil War.

BUT...if we ARE going to discuss "reparations" we are going to have to discuss who was responsible not only for culture of slavery the Republicans ENDED but the aftermath, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, the Jim Crow laws, the segregation and systemic economic oppressions alleged to have happened.  And if we discuss that, we're just going to have to point out that it was the DEMOCRATs behind ALL of it.

So.   If "reparations" are going to be paid, the people who should be paying are...the DEMOCRATS and only the Democrats.

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Oh, and yes, this is yet another example of what the Rodents have to RUSH through the Congress because they are worried their efforts to steal elections in 2022 might fail.     
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Re: House panel advances bill to weigh slavery reparations
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2021, 07:33:52 pm »
If Elizabeth Warren can self-identify as a Native American, I can self-identify as a descendent of slaves.

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Re: House panel advances bill to weigh slavery reparations
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2021, 11:45:03 pm »
"The bill, H.R. 40, is named after the unkept promise to provide freed slaves “40 acres and a mule.” It has 175 Democratic co-sponsors in the House, representing the majority of the entire caucus. The measure would create a 13-member commission that would study the impact of slavery and subsequent racial discrimination and whether the government should provide reparations."

Just as with the upcoming commission to study "expanding" the Supreme Court, the findings of this committee-to-be are a foregone conclusion before it ever convenes...

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Re: House panel advances bill to weigh slavery reparations
« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2021, 11:52:10 pm »

Ergo, I bear no responsibility for slavery or any of it's consequences in the subsequent CENTURIES since it was abolished by the REOPUBLICANS at the end of the US Civil War.

BUT...if we ARE going to discuss "reparations" we are going to have to discuss who was responsible not only for culture of slavery the Republicans ENDED but the aftermath, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, the Jim Crow laws, the segregation and systemic economic oppressions alleged to have happened.  And if we discuss that, we're just going to have to point out that it was the DEMOCRATs behind ALL of it.

So.   If "reparations" are going to be paid, the people who should be paying are...the DEMOCRATS and only the Democrats.

Correctamundo!  The Democrat Party should indeed pay reparations.
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Re: House panel advances bill to weigh slavery reparations
« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2021, 11:54:18 pm »
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"The bill, H.R. 40, is named after the unkept promise to provide freed slaves “40 acres and a mule.” It has 175 Democratic co-sponsors in the House, representing the majority of the entire caucus. The measure would create a 13-member commission that would study the impact of slavery and subsequent racial discrimination and whether the government should provide reparations."

It was the Democrat Party that reneged on this agreement.  It is the Democrat Party that broke that promise.  It is the Democrat Party alone that is liable for making it right.
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