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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on June 19, 2019, 04:44:33 pm
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Boos erupt after GOP lawmaker calls reparations ‘unconstitutional,’ meeting called back to order
June 19, 2019 | Tom Tillison
Understanding well the power of pop culture and the impact celebrities can have on pushing destructive agenda items like “restorative justice,†the Democrat-led House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties presented their star witnesses at Wednesday’s hearing.
Hard-left actor Danny Glover and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates were rolled out to present testimony as Democrat members on the panel set out to “examine, through open and constructive discourse, the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, its continuing impact on the community and the path to restorative justice.â€
This being progressive code for slavery reparations — the issue is on the radar of some of the more radical 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls.
Glover, 72, an admirer of deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, the socialist Venezuelan dictator who died in 2013, testified that he is the great-grandson of a slave who was freed by the emancipation proclamation — the actor said he met his great-grandmother as a child.
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If dey gibs da peeps moolah, gonna be all gone soon.
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I see that Danny is really suffering in America </sarcasm>
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Anthony Johnson (b. c. 1600 – d. 1670) was a black Angolan who achieved freedom in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia after serving his term of indenture. He became one of the first property owners and slaveholders of African birth there.
He was the first black indentured servant, the first free black, and the first to establish the first black community, first black landowner, first black slave owner, and the first person based on his court case to establish slavery legally in North America. One could argue that he was the founder of slavery in Virginia.
In 1654, he brought a case before Virginia courts in which he contested a suit launched by one of his indentured servants, a Negro who adopted the name of John Casor.
Johnson won the suit and retained Casor as his servant for life.
This officially made Johnson the first legal slave owner in the British colonies that would eventually become the United States.
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Boos erupt after GOP lawmaker calls reparations ‘unconstitutional,’ meeting called back to order
The target of the booing is the Constitution itself.