This dude must have been smoking some serious crack when he came up with a $14 trillion dollar slavery reparation bill! Claims African Americans should be paid the sum of $350,000 each spread over 30 years! LOL!
All I can say is that no-one alive today had anything to do with slavery and the idea that paying African Americans will somehow make everything better is a laughable JOKE!
Folks, it's safe to say this man lost his damn mind!
What he has to say is fair enough from what I can gather from the article. It's reasonably to-the-point, but I think asking for all-that-money lowers the cause, simply because the cause is now about money...
I would have considered "some" compensation & formal acknowledgement of apology from "the people & gov't" be awarded, but let's also be reminded that it's based on a system that existed many years ago..And times have changed..And generally speaking, conditions for "everyone" have improved over the years. And these people are now US-of-A citizens, which places y'all high on the ladder of the world's "leading" countries.
This guys talikin' jive imo, & is really only degrading what is a genuine issue that needs addressing.
No disrepsect intended.
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I say make the African blacks that sold them into a legal system of slavery to pay for it. They took the kangs out of their grass huts and sold them.
Reperations? I want 50 years back wages because I was a white male and could not land a decent job over the minorities and women.
That is a very good point Shawnee! One that never seems to be mentioned! Absolutely no mention of the people who sold them into slavery!
Back in them days a trip across the Atlantic wasn't $400 and 8 hours in a jet! Also there were no cities, no fast food - just bare land as far as the eye could see! Sometimes after paying all my bills I feel like a slave for the dollar.
If everyone doesn't get $350,000 then NO-ONE should get $350,000! People thinking otherwise should shit in one hand and wish in the other to see which fills up first!
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Sometimes after paying all my bills, I feel like a slave for the dollar.
It's not fair to burden Mr.Trumpdt with personal woes, but this does need his attention, & should be an election issue for sure.
I wonder what "Trumpdt University" lectures on the issue of modern slavery ?...
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"Only an alert & knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial & military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods & goals, so that security & liberty may prosper together". Dwight D.Eisenhower.
I'd be willing to say he has some blame for the current lending standards and credit reporting regulations that unfairly discriminate against small business people (read that as ALL small business people), and especially Ben Carson for his allowing the HUD to use a discriminatory formula for small businesses... but to blame him for the bills himself? Why not! I'll bite on that!
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No it isn't fair, Beshear is a crooked POS dem. But the whiney blacks get what they want. Ever hear any other minority complain like they do? NO
I want my reparations and back wages for 50 years of "we can't hire you although you are our top choice because you are a white male" Yeah, tell me about that white privilege shit.
The sad part is that even if given $350,000 over the course of 30 years many of them would just seek out ways to collect it early thru payday advances or companies like JG Wentworth! And even if they were all given $350k many would go out and buy their Dodge cars and other stuff they cannot afford like $100k gold chains and $20k outfits and then they would come back with their hands out looking for more saying it wasnt enough, or just enough to get them in trouble. I am sure some of them might make something out of it, but most would end up the same way many lotto winners do, broke and in even more trouble.
Even debating this rediculously racist proposal is laughable! There isnt a slave owner alive today! And to be quite honest, many blacks were sold by their own people/family! So they should seek reperations from their ancestors in Africa! Maybe they can squeeze some money out of Nelson Mandella's estate? Or even the African government, depending on their tribe, territory or country?
All I know is it's not something that anyone outside blacks would support, for obvious reasons.
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