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McConnell on slavery reparations: Not 'a good idea'

Discussion in 'Current Events' started by Egoboy, Jun 19, 2019.

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  1. tharock220

    tharock220 Well-Known Member

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    Reparations just perpetuates the idea that blacks are helpless victims incapable of saving themselves. They need liberal whites to survive.
     
    tharock220, Jun 19, 2019
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    Nunya D. Well-Known Member

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    So, for how long? Will all black people get free college forever....so someone born 100 years from now will be able to get free college? Would these "skill schools" be open to members of other ethnic groups?

    If black people get special treatment of free college or exclusive schools, isn't that racism in itself? It sounds like you are proposing reparations for racism by creating more racism.
     
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    TurnerAshby Well-Known Member

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    I agree and you can tell what your saying is true when they are pressed on it they back away like Warren did on her Breakfast Club interview. It seems to be all lip service at this point imo
     
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  4. TurnerAshby

    TurnerAshby Well-Known Member

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    Idk about you but thatd be a firm no from me lol
     
    TurnerAshby, Jun 19, 2019
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    Talon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Which would be funny if it wasn't so bitterly ironic that liberal whites were the enablers of many of the major problems that are plaguing the black community and the cities many of them live in today.

    Consider Daniel Patrick Moynihan's warning in 1965 to his fellow white liberals when they were crafting the "Great Society" and "War on Poverty" programs that were supposed to save blacks:

    From the wild Irish slums of the 19th century Eastern seaboard, to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future -- that community asks for and gets chaos. Crime, violence, unrest, disorder -- most particularly the furious, unrestrained lashing out at the whole social structure -- that is not only to be expected; it is very near to inevitable...

    Does any of this sound/look strikingly familiar?

    Have things gotten worse or better?

    War on Poverty Revisited
    By Thomas Sowell
    https://www.capitalismmagazine.com/2004/08/war-on-poverty-revisited/
     
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    Bluesguy Well-Known Member Donor

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    We've been doing that for 60 years and more, when can we stop? And NONE of that will do anything until the crime problem and systemic social problems blacks create for themselves are fixed. As I have noted before I worked at a light manufacturing plant on the south side of Chicago back in the 1970's that paid good wages. The blacks ran them out due to the crime.
     
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    Talon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yeah, what could possibly go wrong with the government possessing all our DNA. :roll:

    Why don't we just renounce what few privacy rights we have left and shackle up...
     
    Talon, Jun 19, 2019
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    FreshAir Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    white and black communities? why don't we encourage diversity, mix it up a bit

    "make college free for all blacks, build skills schools for blacks, create tax-free zones in black areas"

    how about not use race to decide to help people, help everyone equally
     
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    That will set race relations back about 200 years and probably lead to a civil war........but otherwise a solid plan, obviously the result of critical thinking..........
     
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    that could stop many from trying to collect as they do not want the government to have their dna
     
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    I agree with both of these gentlemen (from the reparations hearing):
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-hearing-slavery-reparations
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    ^^^Good points.

    [​IMG]

    Like Rachel Dolezal*? :p Or maybe since the indian thing backfired for Fauxahontas, she could try identifying as black? :p

    *As a sidenote, this nutcase Dolezal (who now calls herself Nkechi Amare Diallo) has just come out as "bisexual". First she was black, now she's bisexual. Once an attention-ho, always an attention-ho. But now a white bisexual attention-ho. ROFL
     
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    Shhhhhhhh Mitch........please let the Dems run on a platform of reparations
     
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  13. Egoboy

    Egoboy Well-Known Member Donor

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    Even though I agree with Mitch on this single issue, I'd never VOTE with him on anything...
     
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    FreshAir Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    some southern conservatives regardless which party they belonged to then or now are not good people... no denying that
     
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    Burgess Owens on reparations.

     
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  16. Egoboy

    Egoboy Well-Known Member Donor

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    Yes, for those of you who have ZERO idea who Burgess Owens is, he is apparently a former NFL "star" (Def Safety from the 1970's)....

    I have to assume that most of you don't, since I know sports and I had to look him up....

    If you got Franco Harris or Tony Dorsett or somebody people have heard of, it might mean more...
     
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    price of free money.... always a catch
     
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    So you dismiss what black people say because...?
     
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    The property of Nobles in Russia was confiscated between 1918 and 1920. It was mostly used to reconstruct Russia after Civil War. In 1920s, USSR was a humane society. Unfortunately, Totalitarianism took over in 1929-'37.
     
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    Some Southern liberals are not good people no matter what party to which they belong. Same with Northern and Western and Eastern liberals, what's your point?
     
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    If the dems keep pushing this, it will be the ned of the modern day Democratic party. Full Stop
     
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    no more then the right pushing forcing rape victims to have their rapists babies, neither will ever happen, but some on the extremes will want it too
     
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    sorry, did you have a point?
     
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    This is what the dnc believes and always have
     
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    Bluesguy Well-Known Member Donor

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    I was asking about yours, what was it?
     
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