Steps away from the U.S. Capitol -- a building built by slaves -- the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties will hold its first hearing in more than a decade on the hot-button topic of reparations for the descendants of Africans brought to America, enslaved and impacted by discriminatory policies including segregation.
The appearance actor Danny Glover and award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose 2014 essay"The Case for Reparations" thrust the divisive topic onto the national stage, are expected to testify, lending celebrity status to an issue that has been wending through Congress for decades. "Here we are in 2019 talking about it again. It is a sore spot for this nation," Johnson told ABC News in April."It is something that we must address, so we can get past this moment in time in a way in which the legacy of slavery, the legacy of segregation, the legacy of institutional racism can once in for all be done away with and we can all prosper as a nation as one whole community.
Jackson Lee's bill has more than 50 cosponsors, including at least three House Democrats running for president: Eric Swalwell of California, Tim Ryan of Ohio and Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii. In early April, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., held a joint press conference with Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., to promote a 10/20/30 funding bill outside of the U.S. Capitol, a measure that seeks to allocate 10% of federal funds to invest into counties that have had a poverty level of at least 20% for over 30 years.
Another 2020 candidate who's been talking about reparations since 1997 is spiritual leader Marianne Williamson, who told ABC News Monday,"The whole idea of reparations, to me, has been an extension of a moral principle."
Please don't ask just for money ask to have a education program trade program history program to teach our youth
This guy is the poster Child of discrimination. And it is not white discrimination against any other race
Food for thought. The Americas where 2nd Egypt (around 2500 BC). yes true fact. they had slaves. This recompense Ideal would then pave the way to extort recompense all the way back... slavery was not an American tool it was a social norm for 10's of 1000's of years world wide.
I say prove you were a slave.
I’m white and was denied a home loan, where’s my money at?
Well then hold the people in government responsible to task. Oh that's right. They're dead. So is the issue. It is un American to penalize innocent people.
Give me a break.
The negative envy, non-black Americans, will have towards black people, will never subside if reparations were given. Food for thought.
Don't forget: Augusta National received criticism for admitting no African Americans as members until 1990 and no women as members until 2012. The club long required all caddies to be black and barred black golfers from the Masters Tournament until Lee Elder participated in1975.
Are we going to lose America? This apology started with Obama and is still continuing. Women weren’t treated right either, so where’s our payback? Get real! We are letting these screwball Dems bankrupt America! KAG! KEEP AMERICA GREAT!
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Look at the smirking guy behind Mr Cohen... .
ninaland Fairness comes into play. I'd like a matching check for BOTH of my Great Grandfathers - both WOUNDED freeing the Slaves. No personal checks accepted.
If democrats ran on reperations they would lose House in 2020 and possibly the presidency.
Think this jackass has any idea that the north was part of the USA and they lost 360,000 people to end slavery? (He asked knowingly)
Tell it!!!!
Well said
CurtisScoon Question, do the countries in Africa have to pay also for selling slaves? Do other cultures get reprimands for being slaves? Where does it end? Why not stop looking at the past and try to make new and the future better.
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Sounds like Democrats would be the ones having to pay 🤔
I say this should begin in Africa. Where tribes took, sold and traded slaves. Tough pill to swallow. But, it's historic fact. Hell, it's actually still ongoing today.
Then go after the countries that colonized this place when slavery was legalized.
The CSA was defeated why does the country that fought a war to free the slaves have to pay?
The Homestead Act gave away 160 million acres of free land to 1.6 million people in this country Blacks were excluded. That land has been passed on to generations of white people who's only right to it was/is based on skin color. Miss me the 'we weren't alive 150 years ago'
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Reminds me of when I criticized a university foundation for malfeasance regarding the investment of an endowment's principal. The foundation president retorts, tweaking his gold cufflinks, that was another staff, not us. Same incorporation, right?! Where's the million dollars?!
I hope that us Jews don't have to pay for bringing them here.
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How exactly are they going to determine who gets these reparations, and in what amount?
If you believe that the federal government should pay you some restitution for past offenses, then you will always be in the reliant on handouts and be in servitude to its whims.
This brother had my ear and he touch on some good points about reparations
That's the wrong question. The Federal Government won't be who bears the responsibility, the American people will, and the American people, as a group, are not complicit. despite what some would have you believe.
The purveyors of white supremacy understand economics all too well. How much stuff costs and how much they can exploit the profits for. Hence, reparations are the perfect solution to that white supremacy. Time to pay up, America.
How about going after the descendants of slave owners and their assets, specifically, and not all Americans?
Individuals are not paying money. Individuals will not receive money. This is all about money going to 'advocacy groups'; i.e., grifters.
CurtisScoon If you all learned real history, you would know that the same people who are demanding reparations are the same people who will need to pay someone else. Don’t equate black to slave, that’s the biggest con game in history
He should start a gofundme to pay for it. That way everyone in favor can back their belief. It's a win-win.
ninaland I agree and get this man in a office some where please
Hahahahaha get the F outta here. What about the people who weren’t here. Or the Irish people who were slaves. Or descendents of civil war veterans.
Are y kidding me so 60 years of welfare and free medical was free right I was brought up poor but was taught right from wrong and if you want things in life you got to work’
Let’s claim all the gold from heaven because God has allowed human to sin.
Move to the back of the line ..... elbowing my way to the front. Reparations- a dangling carrot, a small piece of the pie to pop people back into the Democrat line. obviouspandering sad. Very sad.
He's absolutely right. People who are victims of Jim Crow are VERY MUCH ALIVE today. Slavery and the Jim Crow that followed didn't happen very long ago. Jim Crow as we know it only ended in 1965.
You CAN’T change History !!!! Let it go
Largely promulgated by Democrats.
the native american indians were enslaved RAPED had their land stolen start with them.
To be honest I am not a supporter of reparations for 150 years ago, if we follow that logic we should still be punishing the grand children of NAZIS etc, but having said that, if there are people alive today who have directly suffered they should receive more than a token.
God bless TaNehisiCoats
And hold on to his words. He will bring US out of this HELL with more than we lost. GOD WILL JUDGE THAT NATION WHICH thy seed has served. He promised that. I feel sorry and forgiveness towards them because, they have NO IDEA WHAT'S COMING. ACCEPTNOREPARATIONS
Democrats feel guilty
True. By TheDemocrats that is.
Subsequent generations are being punished as well. STOP WITH THIS MADNESS. JOB LOST EVERYTHING BUT HE NEVER ONCE DISOBEYED/CURSED OR BLAMED ANYONE FOR HIS TRIALS. When the devil could do NO MORE to him. He recovered MORE THAN HE LOST. God wants us to see our MISTAKES
Remember when the NRA was formed to help protect black people from Democrats and THEIR KKK?
Colonel sanders is looking for attention. Democrats view reparations as a few more votes their way
This whole conversation is ridiculous. Are they going to DNA test everyone in the US?
get a life
Explain to me why they think they are owed something? Why do they never talk about the black people who sold black people into slavery. Why is it you never hear about Mr. Johnson who was the first slaveni owner in this country. Mr. Johnson was black.
Shouldn’t we just call it what it is? It’s a racist tax. A “white guilt tax.” Because slavery was a quite diverse institution. Are the blacks and natives who have a lineage of slave ownership paying reparations as well?
God, I wish I was down there testifying. The Government is NOT responsible for the economic/social damages of the AA. IT'S SO MUCH BIGGER THAN GOVT. We didn't just happen to lose EVERYTHING to the enslaver. WE LOST EVERYTHING BECAUSE OUR ANCESTORS DISOBEYED GOD. WE THE
I have a couple of questions for that man. 1. Who liberated the slaves and in what way. 2. Why did the liberated slaves refuse to move to Liberia, or to the northern states? After that, numerous questions are raised about who to whom owe reparation.
How complicit? 20% of the damages? 80? Feds didn’t act alone, states, counties, and private citizens contributed to the problem. How do you cut that pie?
Is this a priority in our country right now? Is it more important than drug addiction? Violent gun crimes? Healthcare? Immigration?
Hell no
MomRovin More focus has to be put on McConnell on a host of issues. Largely gone unscathed with all this f*ckery going on.
Brilliant response with details that can be used with anyone who wants to immediately dismiss the whole notion of reparations
The brainwashed masses are waking. They see the hurdled masses running from the Democratic Plantation. This is all about creating division among Americans. Do not fall under their wicked schemes. They only lust for power and control. Do not let them break or divide us.
Boom!
Truth!!!!!!
He speaks very well. These horrors are true but rain hollow on a simple fact. Blacks in America were doing better in every statistic during Jim Crow than after the Welfare State began in the 60’s. Before the welfare state, black employment was on the same levels as whites (1/2)
How can anyone take the idiot Democrats serious ever again? Since the only platform TheDemocrats have is socialism they must buy votes! They have never done anything for black voters in 50 years! BLEXIT WalkAway
We had a Civil War 150 years ago and STOPPED slavery in America! How is the Federal Government complicit?
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Housing Segregation is not slavery. Slavery was never Statutory nor Constitutional. It was cultural. Federal Gov't actual repealed slavery with subsequent Civil Rights Legislations by Statute. Fed Gov't FREED slaves didn't ENSLAVE them!
Preach
So true.
Bc some people think HANDOUTS are the American way!
The DEMOCRATS were complicit in it. Along with other blacks who owned slaves. We do NOT want to pay reparations when the money is needed for MANY other things.
Well - who will pay for it - Just Whites? & who will get it - all coloreds or only those who can prove slave roots! Push that agenda till the election - let's see how it works.
There is absolutely no reason why any black person born in the last 150 years should get any money from the government because of slavery. That’s total laughable BS. How about getting an education, be align with the other races as far as educational level and work for a living.
johnlegend Another issue that never goes anywhere and never will. And sends people running to vote for Dems. Dems are like cats and laser pointers.
I think the conversation needs to also include those whose lands and lives we took to sell to each other to become rich, while confining them on 'reservations'.
I am a proud black man I wouldn’t accept reparations that’s embarrassing I would rather work for my money
“When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
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Reparations waste of time....move on
Why take money from black people to give it to other people? That’s THEIR money
They are just still trying to keep the black man down. Don't be fooled.
He’s not wrong.
Doesn't have shit to do with me... not getting my money
The fact that I have an MBA and still get rejected for jobs requiring a high school diploma or equivalent education is why there needs to be reparations. I paid $3,000 in interest on a $10,000 student loan. So, I’m not getting the jobs and having to pay 30% interest on ONE loan.
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'The federal government was deeply complicit in housing segregation and redlining, and in the plunder of black homeowners in Chicago,' Coates adds. 'Many of the people who were victimized by housing segregation and by redlining are very much alive today.'
Sounds like a genealogical nightmare. How about blacks who descend from free blacks and not slaves? How about those who are half-white? 1/4? 1/8? How about blacks who immigrated? Who is going to verify the records? Can we eliminate Affirmative action?
What a Dumb Question!
Will Democratic candidates be asked about reparations during the debates? They should.
Fk that. $$$$$ That's all these fools see.
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Love him. There is no American writer from whom I learn more - word by word, sentence by carefully weighted sentence - than Coates.
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This grievance mining only serves to ensure victimhood.
An exercise in soft bigotry & hardcore insanity
Gimme a Break!
What about the free blacks that owned land and slaves do they have to pay or do they get money? One of the meanest slave owners in history was a free black man by the name of Nat Butler. The Irish were also slaves should they be compensated?
Let all the registered Democrats pay for the sins of their party, I'll go along with that. DesperateDemocrats
CFraase This is true don’t even your history ....
BS, Democrat ploy to buy votes with taxpayer money. Nothing more nothing less. Oh yeah, I want reparations for Christian persecution my ancestors endured and atheism and the radical Islamic faith still perpetuates today.
We going to dig up all those dead slaves to fulfill that?
Is Danny Glover, net worth of $40 million, owed reparations?
The 40 acres and a mule was not a promise, it was a idea forwarded by some politicians. Other politicians, including Lincoln, considered colonizing freed slaves, much like England. Serious examination of historical facts nullifies the argument for “promised reparations.”
I want my 40 acres downtown
Reparations are history leave it there
I think the Africans who sold us out should pay. Africa can give land, gold and diamonds. Don’t expect the defendants of Slave owners to give anything.
Reparations have already been paid. Slaves ancestors live in the most privileged country in the world thanks to their ancestors hard work 👍👍
How do we decide who gets reparations and how do we decide whose going to pay for it? Less than 2% of US citizens owned slaves. Democrats are just promising free shit again. They always have to buy votes😂😂
The only ones talking about it are the nutjobs.
None are living, more socialism pushed by treasonous media and DemoRATS. Free everything but who pays the bill ? The working class !
Look at all the great stuff they have access to. What more do they want? Hell, send them to Sudan. Maybe then they'll start appreciating how good they have it here.
The government has lied to us from DAY ONE! It's documented that we were betrayed not once (by slavery) but twice (when we didn't get reparations) by our own country. Let's make a new deal: Y'all can keep the 40-acres and that donkey if you can get the President to stop lying!
So people who have had abundant opportunity in this country now MUST take from people who never did anything wrong to them. Makes sense. Tell me. Which crimes you did not commit do YOU want to pay for?
Shouldn’t their welfare count as reparations?
. Republican MitchMcConnell said the payback was electing a black president. Don't laugh, it's true. This is how a racism works, tell a racist joke and make it sound normal. ImpeachDonaldTrumpNOW DemocratsForTrumpNeverImpeach ImpeachmentHearings
No one alive was a slave nor a slave owner so the pandering left wants a bunch of people that weren’t there to pay massive amounts of money to people that weren’t there. That sounds about right.
Where’s my 40? Fukk the mule.
Dumbest argument ever... Force generations to pay for things they had ZERO control over, yeah and you don't think any of this cash will be tossed under the table? Your crazy.
similar situation when Wendy's promise me free extra large milkshake but never came through~disgusting behaviour in both circumstances
I don't think we have enough acres or mules to give. Will a $100 Amazon gift card do?
Weird how slavery goes on today and these same people could care less