Maryland votes to create commission to study and recommend reparations for slavery

[Anonymous]

For things like this Trump was elected president.

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Anonymous wrote:Omg can they not read the room? This is horrible timing. I wish I could move out of MD.

+1 My spouse is a liberal, and now wants to move out of MD, too.

Wife’s parents are die hard liberals. They want to move to the area to be close to us and grandkids. For years now Virginia was off the table, but now they are both looking in Virginia and claim it’s because of taxes and crime.

I think just as conservatives should be able to admit that some of their national politics suck, even die hard liberals need to be able to admit that their local governance is absolutely horrible.

PP here. absolutely. DH admits some of the Dem policies are terrible. I'm a former R, now Independent. Don't even have to go into what I think about today's Rs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg can they not read the room? This is horrible timing. I wish I could move out of MD.

+1 My spouse is a liberal, and now wants to move out of MD, too.

Wife’s parents are die hard liberals. They want to move to the area to be close to us and grandkids. For years now Virginia was off the table, but now they are both looking in Virginia and claim it’s because of taxes and crime.

I think just as conservatives should be able to admit that some of their national politics suck, even die hard liberals need to be able to admit that their local governance is absolutely horrible.

I think that as I fight my way up and down Old Georgetown Road twice a day every day and see zero bicyclists using the bike lanes.

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Anonymous wrote:For things like this Trump was elected president.

This is so stupid, Dems really can’t help themselves ugh. Stuff like this is why Trump won. Please Dems just stop with this stuff that is broadly unpopular and doesn’t help you win presidential elections.

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Anonymous wrote:Maryland has a $3 billion budget deficit, FYI.

Florida has a surplus. Imagine that.

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Anonymous wrote:One more reason to avoid Maryland. We should study and learn from history, but "reparations" for slavery in the current decade is just imbecilic.

Do you hold that same sentiment for the Native Americans who receive certain economic yearly benefits? What about those who are Jewish descendants of the Holocaust who also receive such benefits? What about the Japanese Internment camp descendants who received reparations?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg can they not read the room? This is horrible timing. I wish I could move out of MD.

+1 My spouse is a liberal, and now wants to move out of MD, too.

Wife’s parents are die hard liberals. They want to move to the area to be close to us and grandkids. For years now Virginia was off the table, but now they are both looking in Virginia and claim it’s because of taxes and crime.

I think just as conservatives should be able to admit that some of their national politics suck, even die hard liberals need to be able to admit that their local governance is absolutely horrible.

I think that as I fight my way up and down Old Georgetown Road twice a day every day and see zero bicyclists using the bike lanes.

+1000

[Anonymous]

My husband is white as can be but has an enslaved ancestor from 300 years ago. Does he get reparations?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One more reason to avoid Maryland. We should study and learn from history, but "reparations" for slavery in the current decade is just imbecilic.

Do you hold that same sentiment for the Native Americans who receive certain economic yearly benefits? What about those who are Jewish descendants of the Holocaust who also receive such benefits? What about the Japanese Internment camp descendants who received reparations?

Show us evidence that descendants of any of those groups get reparations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One more reason to avoid Maryland. We should study and learn from history, but "reparations" for slavery in the current decade is just imbecilic.

Do you hold that same sentiment for the Native Americans who receive certain economic yearly benefits? What about those who are Jewish descendants of the Holocaust who also receive such benefits? What about the Japanese Internment camp descendants who received reparations?

You should put the same effort into working for a living that you put into competing for a prize in the Oppression Olympics.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One more reason to avoid Maryland. We should study and learn from history, but "reparations" for slavery in the current decade is just imbecilic.

Do you hold that same sentiment for the Native Americans who receive certain economic yearly benefits? What about those who are Jewish descendants of the Holocaust who also receive such benefits? What about the Japanese Internment camp descendants who received reparations?

The US stole Native American land and pushed them into "camps".

Those Japanese who were interned had their livelihoods stolen from them, and they directly received reparations, not the descendants.

The government was not directly involved in the slave trade, though they made it legal. And it's been over 150 years since the slaves have been freed. There are no living slaves or even direct descendants of slaves today.

We've had EO and AA for decades, and until recently DEI.

I'm all for means tested financial assistance like free meals for kids, subsidies for housing (I've given to those types of charities over the years), but not reparations to people who were not directly impacted by slavery.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland has a $3 billion budget deficit, FYI.

Florida has a surplus. Imagine that.

Because of federal aid. Duh.!
You paid for that how do you feel about that?

The deficit is gonna be 7 billion in two years.

No more gravy train for red state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One more reason to avoid Maryland. We should study and learn from history, but "reparations" for slavery in the current decade is just imbecilic.

Do you hold that same sentiment for the Native Americans who receive certain economic yearly benefits? What about those who are Jewish descendants of the Holocaust who also receive such benefits? What about the Japanese Internment camp descendants who received reparations?

The US stole Native American land and pushed them into "camps".

Those Japanese who were interned had their livelihoods stolen from them, and they directly received reparations, not the descendants.

The government was not directly involved in the slave trade, though they made it legal. And it's been over 150 years since the slaves have been freed. There are no living slaves or even direct descendants of slaves today.

We've had EO and AA for decades, and until recently DEI.

I'm all for means tested financial assistance like free meals for kids, subsidies for housing (I've given to those types of charities over the years), but not reparations to people who were not directly impacted by slavery.

It’s a study.

You only know about all those other things because of a… Wait for it… A study.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can't wait to see Hogan become our next governor in 2026.

Can’t wait…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One more reason to avoid Maryland. We should study and learn from history, but "reparations" for slavery in the current decade is just imbecilic.

Do you hold that same sentiment for the Native Americans who receive certain economic yearly benefits? What about those who are Jewish descendants of the Holocaust who also receive such benefits? What about the Japanese Internment camp descendants who received reparations?

The US stole Native American land and pushed them into "camps".

Those Japanese who were interned had their livelihoods stolen from them, and they directly received reparations, not the descendants.

The government was not directly involved in the slave trade, though they made it legal. And it's been over 150 years since the slaves have been freed. There are no living slaves or even direct descendants of slaves today.

We've had EO and AA for decades, and until recently DEI.

I'm all for means tested financial assistance like free meals for kids, subsidies for housing (I've given to those types of charities over the years), but not reparations to people who were not directly impacted by slavery.

So would you then want to be Black for a year and then come back to tell us that African Americans are still not directly impacted from American policies?

Slavery ended sure but what about Jim Crow laws, Water in Flint Michigan and the way families were treated after Hurricane Katrina (qualify as eco-terrorism). The direct and living descendants of the Tulsa Massacre still have not received any reparations from lost homes, land, businesses, family members being chased out by a man angry white mob. The NY Times ran an excellent piece on the impact still effecting those families whose wealth was wiped out in a night.

Let's not forget redlining, educational disparities, banking while black, driving while black, police brutality and a whole of host of other terrorisms and atrocities committed.