Hakeem Jeffries, Pelosi's likely replacement, supports commission to study slavery reparations

Hakeem Jeffries, Pelosi's likely replacement, supports commission to study slavery reparations.

Links:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ha...supports-commission-study-slavery-reparations
https://goodwordnews.com/hakeem-jef...acks-commission-to-study-slavery-reparations/

Yeah... it's that 'reparations' thing again -- the 'holy grail' for all the race-bating, 'woke' Democrats who want special government giveaways for Blacks, none of whom were ever 'enslaved' in their lives! The last surviving slave in the United States died almost 90 years ago....

And, as everyone knows, slavery ended in the United States over 157 years ago! All remaining 'racist' practices were made completely illegal in this nation by both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Right Act of 1965 -- decades ago!

So what does "first Black", Hakeem Jeffries -- the person most likely to step into the role of Democrat Party House Leader, advocate...? REPARATIONS!

Your thoughts...?

 

Jeffries is an election denier.

 

Well, he sounds like a total dumbass and this is the first I’ve heard about him.

 

He has a far reputation. He’s from New York after all. So what would expect?

 

He has a far left reputation. He’s from a safe district in New York. What do you expect?

 

@Pixie
I remember you recently stating that no elected Democrats had supported reparations. I provided you several examples in that thread which you completely ignored even though I presented them to you twice.

Here is but one more example.

It's okay to admit that you were wrong.

 

DON'T be surprised if he runs for president in 2028! Like Obama before him, he's exactly the kind of "Black-ish" political figure that the Democrat Party has doted on for the past twenty years. Indeed, Jeffries is often referred to as "the Obama of Brooklyn".

When you read his bio, you see that he's got all the 'chops' to make a very powerful presence of himself to Democrats, unless he mires himself in too deep with the 'wokester' wing of the party with this very unpopular 'reparations' ploy.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakeem_Jeffries

. Hakeem Jeffries, the next Democrat Party House leader.

 

I'd ask him the same thing I'd ask any quarter-wit pushing for reparations .....

How are you going to know who's black? Count the drops? Skin tone assay? Hair curlyness? Whatever the method used, it will be the most horrifically racist business since Hitler.

Unbelievable that we could get to 2022 and still think this kind of thing is okay.

 

I don't think there's a need to invoke Hitler for this. I think we can simplify that it's both costly and counterproductive. We need programs that can bring people together in a bipartisan manner, not programs that are for specific groups. That I believe is not "who we are" if they're going to be consistent.

 

Yeah the scary blackish politician. !!

 

Exactly...
And, that is why any discussion of "Reparations" (on any level, for or against) is entirely useless, moot, and a total waste of time...
Reparations AIN'T Happenin'...Period!

 

Don't 'bet the farm', Andy. Can you name even one (ONE) Black politician in Congress today who wouldn't jump on the 'reparations' bandwagon in heartbeat if it showed the slightest sign of getting any traction? And who better to give 'reparations' the desired traction, than a Black House Democrat party leader like HAKEEM JEFFRIES...?

Once radical Democrats learned how to work the "White guilt" leverage in this country way back in the 1970's, there's been a slow but steady movement to this point, and it ain't over yet... not by a long shot.

 

Reparations WON'T Happen! Period!

 

A study is not support of reparations

 

Also...
Since Jeffries will be in the MINORITY Caucus, none of the GOP Leadership Members will even give a sheet about his "agenda"...
Much ado about nothing...

 

Except, You're WRONG!
"Supporting a Study" and "Supporting Reparations" are 2 Completely Different Things...
^And, Everybody KNOWS That...

 

Token candidate. His qualifications is same as the cashier at the local supermarket.

 

How so?
How many "cashiers at the local supermarket" have already served 10 Years in Congress?
Sadly, your attempt to impugn the man's character fails miserably on multiple levels...
That said, feel free to try again...

 

Well the title of a ZZ Top song comes to mind.

Gotsta Get Paid.

 

I "liked" your post, Andy, because if you're right, then it would mean that the "reparations" ploy has been defeated by fairness and common sense -- but I'd have a LOT more confidence that you're right if you could name even ONE Black congressman/woman/whatever who wouldn't support it in a micro-instant if they thought they could! Democrats will be the 'minority' faction in the House for the next two years -- but remember -- they're smart enough to play "the LONG game"....

Long ago I started asking the rhetorical question here in the Forum if I shouldn't get "reparations" from the Government of Italy because the Roman Empire enslaved my Germanic ancestors... and nobody in the hyperliberal, 'woke' Left ever responded. How could they? The mere suggestion of such a thing in the dim, dark past is a laughable FARCE, just as this "reparations" ploy is TODAY!

 

Do you find something wrong with being blackish?

The left CONSTANTLY tells us we need POC in all kinds of government and business positions because their diversity brings different points of view and experiences, blackish narrows down POC to just one color. If blackish didn't exist, then what's the point of even having all this diversity the left talks about?

Anyway, this is just another vote buying scheme from the left and during the last year they had quite a few; student loan forgiveness, reparations, basic universal income for everyone except people of Euro heritage and who can forget giving each illegal $450,000?

Do you guys ever spend your own money?

 

Is it? I've yet to see you do so. But you are right, it is the polite thing to do.

 

Reparations in what form?

I can get behind a large influx of money into minority neighborhoods, schools, streets, housing, and so forth, but it's ridiculous to consider giving individual descendents of slaves cash.

As for Jeffries, how dare any of you disrespect the congressional representative for "God's Country?" There are an extraordinary number of churches, cathedrals, synagogues, temples, and mosques per capita in Brooklyn.

 

I'm all for reparations for blacks.
Who was it that enslaved black people and their descendants, stripping them of wages, property, civil rights, and freedom to be sold as commodities for the transatlantic slave trade?
First hint, it wasn't America. For the US government to pay reparations you have to address harms caused by human rights violations such as segregation, systematic denial of fair housing, education, and employment opportunities. Unfortunately, slavery wasn't illegal and you can't enact current laws upon those who were never under these current laws because it makes you feel better.
If you want to address black reparations for slavery, then you have to address the ones responsible for forcing them into slavery.

And If we are going down the reparations path, American Indians would be at the front of the line way way ahead of the black community.