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boomdaddy
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posted 04-06-2019 10:06 AM
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Reparations my ass. Affirmative action for the last 50 years is way too much reparations. It is damn time to start treating everyone equal in this country.
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Old Norm
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posted 04-06-2019 10:10 AM
Reparations are nothing short of a scam. I grew up as poor as a snake, but don't think anybody owes me a thing.
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PaulCat
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posted 04-06-2019 05:40 PM
If my math is correct, there is nobody alive that lived during the days of slavery.
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Old Norm
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posted 04-06-2019 07:03 PM
Unless one of them lived for approximately 153-154 years, your math is spot on!
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PaulCat
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posted 04-07-2019 10:15 AM
And if the goal is make reparations to descendants of slaves (not sure how they'll figure out who those people ara), then the reparations should come from the descendants of the slave owners, not the federal government.
All this is is an attempt to get votes.
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SCWC
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posted 04-08-2019 01:06 PM
This is nothing more than a democrat ploy to make sure they lock up all the black votes in the country. Affirmative action which started under LBJ has given blacks the right to go to the front of the line for education, jobs and almost every other thing that goes on in this country.
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Tiptree
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posted 04-08-2019 04:34 PM
Reparations are taking money from the innocent to give to those who are not the victims. What kind of 'justice' is that?
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GA Cat
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posted 04-10-2019 11:18 PM
I am all for reparations as long as those at fault pay. The democrats are the party that supported slavery, so take the money from the DNC to pay reparations.
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Old Norm
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posted 04-11-2019 08:12 AM
If the DNC was to make the payments, it would serve to extend Lyndon B Johnson's prediction of, "I'll have those n*****s voting democrat for the next 200 years!" Yes, he said that.
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ironrangetoo
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posted 04-13-2019 04:24 AM
If reparations were made for slavery, wouldn't reparations to native Americans then become logical????? Both may have justifications but are not practical solutions to historical wrongs.
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ukcatfannfl
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posted 04-13-2019 07:58 AM
Good point iron -also might as well have the southern states pay the northern states for starting the civil war while we are at it!
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Old Norm
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posted 04-13-2019 10:25 AM
There were as many, if not more, white slaves as black ones
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GA Cat
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posted 04-24-2019 09:08 PM
quote: Originally posted by ukcatfannfl: Good point iron -also might as well have the southern states pay the northern states for starting the civil war while we are at it!
But we didn’t start it!!
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ukcatfannfl
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posted 04-25-2019 08:38 AM
I believe we (south) fired on Fort Sumter which began the civil war.. [ 04-25-2019, 08:39 AM: Message edited by: ukcatfannfl ]
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SCWC
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posted 04-25-2019 06:04 PM
You are right Ed, Fort Sumpter was occupied by Northern forces and the confederacy fired the first shots that started the way. That occured in Charleston, SC.
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GA Cat
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posted 04-25-2019 07:32 PM
I didn't say we didn't fire the first shot, I said we didn't start. IF those darned Yankees had just left South Carolina as requested, there would have been no shelling of the fort.
I hope you all know I am just kidding. I am well aware of the history here. I have read all the articles of secession of the southern states and came to a painful discovery, the south was fighting primarily to defend the institution of slavery. Though many of the common people may not have had a stake in that fight, the articles of secession make it clear that their primary purpose was to protect the rich southern plantations owners rights to own slaves.
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ukcatfannfl
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posted 04-25-2019 09:35 PM
Tks Ga just color me confused!
Your statement above is - Then like today the elitist dems are doing the same thing - vote me in u poor people and we will promise you anything!! lol [ 04-25-2019, 09:37 PM: Message edited by: ukcatfannfl ]
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MountainMafia
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posted 05-06-2019 01:28 PM
Tiptree:
quote: Reparations are taking money from the innocent to give to those who are not the victims. What kind of 'justice' is that?
Well put....totally agree.
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