Kashchei said:

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A quick Google search says we have spent over $20 trillion dollars since the 1960s on the "Great Society" and other social welfare programs. So by their math, they actually OWE $6 trillion dollars...

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MarathonAg12 said:

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Where would that money come from?

Authors demand US government issue $14 trillion in reparations over role in slavery, voter suppression https://t.co/idbuOdXxzX

— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 31, 2023

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TheTruthsLastHope said:

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Burrus86 said:

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So, welfare all these years isn't considered reparations up to this point?

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More white Americans are on welfare than any other race. How would that be reparations for black Americans?

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dreyOO said:

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The real game here is to keep floating these outrageous ideas and numbers. Then when they try to pass anything around a few hundred billion, every talking head will start talking about what a great compromise it is.

F all of this discussion. We should just set up a fund for one-way tickets back to wherever people think they have a better opportunity. Take the ticket and give up your citizenship. Buh bye

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eric76 said:

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doubledog said:

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eric76 said:

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MarathonAg12 said:

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Where would that money come from?

Authors demand US government issue $14 trillion in reparations over role in slavery, voter suppression https://t.co/idbuOdXxzX

— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 31, 2023

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Just what MLK wanted.

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MLK wanted "Word leaders" to pay for reparations? Since "modern" slavery began with African and Arab traders then MLK would of wanted those associated countries to pay for slavery.

Or were you attempting to be facetious. We can never tell...

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MLK most certainly advocated for reparations.

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TxTarpon said:

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Tax Iraq, Afghanistan, Mexico and Iran.

All black people who can prove heritage before 1865 get a check.
After 51% of the checks are cashed, then Affirmative Action, Quotas, Racial Preferences, HUB status, etc all go away.
You have been made whole and these programs are no longer needed.

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oldarmyjess66 said:

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TxTarpon said:

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Tax Iraq, Afghanistan, Mexico and Iran.

All black people who can prove heritage before 1865 get a check.
After 51% of the checks are cashed, then Affirmative Action, Quotas, Racial Preferences, HUB status, etc all go away.
You have been made whole and these programs are no longer needed.

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Not likely to ever go away.

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YouBet said:

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That would get us to $45T in total? Let's go with $20T so we can at least hit the $50T milestone.

We can do better.

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TxTarpon said:

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Tax Iraq, Afghanistan, Mexico and Iran.

All black people who can prove heritage before 1865 get a check.
After 51% of the checks are cashed, then Affirmative Action, Quotas, Racial Preferences, HUB status, etc all go away.
You have been made whole and these programs are no longer needed.

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doubledog said:

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eric76 said:

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doubledog said:

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eric76 said:

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MarathonAg12 said:

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Where would that money come from?

Authors demand US government issue $14 trillion in reparations over role in slavery, voter suppression https://t.co/idbuOdXxzX

— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 31, 2023

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Just what MLK wanted.

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MLK wanted "Word leaders" to pay for reparations? Since "modern" slavery began with African and Arab traders then MLK would of wanted those associated countries to pay for slavery.

Or were you attempting to be facetious. We can never tell...

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MLK most certainly advocated for reparations.

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Can you provide a link?

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Quote:

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"In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. The note was a promise that all men, yes black and white would be guaranteed the unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness ... it is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as the citizens of colour are concerned. Instead of honouring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked insufficient funds."


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King made the point that American banks held trillions of dollars, amounts far exceeding the bail money demanded by the courts. It was locked in American vaults and ought to be released to compensate the millions of African Americans who had attempted to live their lives under the curse of enslavement, and whose economic opportunities had been drastically curtailed because of history's cruel past.

King was adamant. Reparations, alongside other concrete expressions of justice, needed to happen now. And remedying the inherited inequalities would ultimately only happen through reparations. Such urgency was not at all surprising because for King, reparations would entail America, blighted by exploitation, taking its own history seriously. It would be a concrete acknowledgement of the effects that harmful policies had had on black bodies. Reparations was a way of making the country whole and providing African Americans with the opportunities to become some bodies.

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The American elite have done everything possible to conceal this potentially dangerous part of the 'I have a dream' speech, presenting King as a gradualist and diplomat, not a revolutionary committed to reparations. And many faith communities, including churches have been silent on this most pressing of issues.

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HarleySpoon said:

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Will any type of ID be required when I pick up my check?

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TheTruthsLastHope said:

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Frederick Palowaski said:

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TheTruthsLastHope said:

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Yesterday said:

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White Man gets 100% credit for starting slavery even though whites enslaved whites, browns enslaved blacks, blacks enslaved blacks, reds enslaved reds etc etc.

White man gets 0% credit for ending slavery in the US.

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There are still slave plantations being discovered on in the US. There was a plantation discovered in GA in 2022. So why should "white man" get credit for something he hasn't done as it pertains to ending slavery?

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Lol. Like college football players, huh?

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Not aware of any being found on the slave plantation found in GA in 2022.

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stallion6 said:

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Once a victim, always a victim. It will never change.

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torrid said:

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Did some calculating, hopefully my math (Excel) is correct.

Let's assume a total of "only" $14 trillion for now. Trillion is 10^12, correct? The total US population is 332 million, with 60.1% being white non-Hispanic and 12.4% being black.

Each black person is due $340,000. Each white non-Hispanic person needs to cough up $70,000.

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halfastros81 said:

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Scream the lie… get shown the door…. Leave and return later when the time is right to scream the next lie. That's the MO.

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B-1 83 said:

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TheTruthsLastHope said:

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Frederick Palowaski said:

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TheTruthsLastHope said:

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Yesterday said:

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White Man gets 100% credit for starting slavery even though whites enslaved whites, browns enslaved blacks, blacks enslaved blacks, reds enslaved reds etc etc.

White man gets 0% credit for ending slavery in the US.

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There are still slave plantations being discovered on in the US. There was a plantation discovered in GA in 2022. So why should "white man" get credit for something he hasn't done as it pertains to ending slavery?

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Lol. Like college football players, huh?

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Not aware of any being found on the slave plantation found in GA in 2022.

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And you aren't aware of any Black slaves being found on any "plantation" in GA in 2022. If you read the story, it was heads of FIELD CREWS that were convicted of using Central American work visa holders at various farmS. Now look at the surnames of those convicted and tell us of the evil White people (as portrayed historically as slave owners) involved in this illegal operation.

https://www.news4jax.com/news/georgia/2022/03/31/modern-day-slavery-2-brunswick-men-among-3-sentenced-in-forced-farm-labor-cases/

Do you ever tire of such abject failure?

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TxTarpon said:

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stallion6 said:

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Once a victim, always a victim. It will never change.

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Who hurt you?

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