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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on August 28, 2020, 06:15:58 pm
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Sheila Jackson Lee presses Congress to pass reparations bill at DC march
By James Bikales - 08/28/20 01:35 PM EDT
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on Friday used her speech at a march in Washington to call on Congress to pass her bill to study paying reparations to Black Americans.
“I understand the words of — Dr. Martin Luther King said that the Negro people have been given a bad check — a check which has come to be marked ‘insufficient funds,’†she said. “Today we stop the insufficient funds, and we put money in the bank, because we’ve got to heal this nation.â€
“We will not stop until the nation knows Black Lives Matter, and reparations are passed as the most significant civil rights legislation of the 21st century,†Jackson Lee added.
Friday’s march, organized by civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton and his National Action Network, marks the 57th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream†speech.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/514155-sheila-jackson-lee-presses-congress-to-pass-reparations-bill-at-dc-march
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Were the Dems dumb enough to include a call for "reparations" in their platform?
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Were the Dems dumb enough to include a call for "reparations" in their platform?
I'm entitled to hope they did. I still think we should pay reparations in Confederate dollars.
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Don't know if the 'festivities' for MLK are complete, but it's thundering and lightening here...just 30 minutes by car from the D.C. line.
Hope they get a little damp. happy77
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(https://dcbarroco.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/sheilajacksonleefreeatlast.jpg?w=536&h=640&zoom=2)
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Were the Dems dumb enough to include a call for "reparations" in their platform?
Reparations was only found in this one statement.
2020 Democratic Party Platform
https://www.demconvention.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2020-07-31-Democratic-Party-Platform-For-Distribution.pdf (https://www.demconvention.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2020-07-31-Democratic-Party-Platform-For-Distribution.pdf)
We believe Black lives matter, and will establish a national commission to examine the lasting economic effects of slavery, Jim Crow segregation, and racially discriminatory federal policies on income, wealth, educational, health, and employment outcomes; to pursue truth and promote racial healing; and to study reparations. We must acknowledge that there can be no realization of the American dream without grappling with the lasting effects of slavery, and facing up to the centuries-long campaign of violence, fear, and trauma wrought upon Black Americans
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Reparations was only found in this one statement.
2020 Democratic Party Platform
https://www.demconvention.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2020-07-31-Democratic-Party-Platform-For-Distribution.pdf (https://www.demconvention.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2020-07-31-Democratic-Party-Platform-For-Distribution.pdf)
And that's why the Bernie Bros voted as a bloc against the platform. Fact.
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I don't see a lot of masks or "social distancing."
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Egm6ekOU8AMFNEn?format=jpg&name=small)
A tweeter (https://twitter.com/javajuliet/status/1299775126578184193) opines:Meanwhile Dems are encouraging the highest risk poc do go out in huge masses to get cases to spike again so they can continue to blame Trump And hurt our country
How about it, Al Charlatan?
:shrug:
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They don't need a reparations bill. They can sue in court for breach of the 1865 '40 Acres' agreement and win easily. Except that the federal government isn't liable. The Democrat Party is. They were the ones who breached the agreement.
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They don't need a reparations bill. They can sue in court for breach of the 1865 '40 Acres' agreement and win easily. Except that the federal government isn't liable. The Democrat Party is. They were the ones who breached the agreement.
Global warming, Covid, racism - their answer for everything is always the same: blow up the economy. Makes you wonder if they are being entirely honest about their intentions. :pondering:
I heard there is a proposal being circulated suggesting for 12 trillion for reparations.
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I heard there is a proposal being circulated suggesting for 12 trillion for reparations.
I don't have a problem with $12 trillion as long as the entity legally responsible pays it - the Democrat Party. It was the Democrats who reneged on the federal agreement. It is the Democrat Party alone that is liable.
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We have paid 17 trillion in welfare since LBJ. What do they think that is? BESIDES BLACK BUSINESS MEN USED BLACK & white slaves. The tribes men in Africa, need to pay reparations. They are who SOLD...their slaves, to slave traders. One was a black man named CIRQUE. Then Anthony Johnson, a black man, started 'slavery' as we know it in America about 1630's. I want my reparations, from MILLIONS OF WHITE CHRISTIANS that were slaves, by BLACK muslim's at BARBARY COAST.
None of these congress people know their OWN HISTORY. I like the idea of one person on here? I will pay reparations, to anyone unhappy here, if they go back to Africa, with the condition, they CANNOT RETURN. GHANA has put out advertisements for their people to, come back to their roots. Instant citizenship for them. They will NEVER be happy here.
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Everybody's race were slaves at one time. We just don't complain and keep whining.
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Free blacks who owned black slaves.
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on Friday used her speech at a march in Washington to call on Congress to pass her bill to study paying reparations to Black Americans.
I might be willing to chip in a few bucks if she would promise to wear my collar and lease when I take her for a walk,and bark to let me know when she needs to go outside.
The upside for her,is I would be more than happy to let her chase cars and run out into the road.