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

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Trump got a record number of black voters. Black people are getting sick of victimhood politics, but Democrats are too stupid to get it.

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Anonymous wrote:

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

Yes, he also gets a little tiny pink peen up his butt just like he regularly does.

I thought making fun of gays was a big no no for liberals?

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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?

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.

But why should the taxpayers of MD, most of whom had no relationship with this, bear the burden of it? Especially at a time when the state faces unprecedented job loss and all of the challenges that will come with it. You are welcome to start a charity fund, but this feels mismatched.

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You’re His Property’: Embattled Mississippi sheriff Bryan Bailey used inmates and county resources for personal gain, former inmates and deputy say

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Let's be clear many, many states particularly in the South still have a form of slavery going on. Utilizing prisoners for picking crops and such, is both inhumane and technically illegal. Slavery has not did in this country it has taken a new form. US tax papers or a huge debt to the descendants of slaves (African Americans)

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My Parents came over in 1962. We had zero to do with slavery. Do we get a waiver?

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Hardened hearts were prophesied. The descendants of the transatlantic slave trade are the true Hebrews, more specifically the scattered tribe of Judah. Reparations and recompense will come.

Joel 3
3 [a]“In those days and at that time,
when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will gather all nations
and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.[b]
There I will put them on trial
for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel,
because they scattered my people among the nations
and divided up my land.
3 They cast lots for my people
and traded boys for prostitutes;
they sold girls for wine to drink.
4 “Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done. 5 For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.[c] 6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.

7 “See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done. 8 I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away.” The Lord has spoken.

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Anonymous wrote:My Parents came over in 1962. We had zero to do with slavery. Do we get a waiver?

No, because you and they benefitted from white privilege. For instance, the USDA, Dept of Agriculture moved many white immigrants to states which were largely underpopulated, gave them land and then taught how to farm, have them low interest rates and gave them grants/loans for farming equipment.

Let's not also forget GI bills which locked African Americans out of home building relate but gave first generation immigrants opportunity.

All of this can be easily Googled or read in books.

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Anonymous wrote:Hardened hearts were prophesied. The descendants of the transatlantic slave trade are the true Hebrews, more specifically the scattered tribe of Judah. Reparations and recompense will come.

Joel 3
3 [a]“In those days and at that time,
when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will gather all nations
and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.[b]
There I will put them on trial
for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel,
because they scattered my people among the nations
and divided up my land.
3 They cast lots for my people
and traded boys for prostitutes;
they sold girls for wine to drink.
4 “Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done. 5 For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.[c] 6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.

7 “See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done. 8 I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away.” The Lord has spoken.

Selah APPTMH

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Anonymous wrote:I would argue that reparations are due to anyone who can prove their lineage to a harmed relative. HOWEVER that should only be in exchange for the elimination of any state DEI programs that disproportionately target AA by race. Once reparations are paid then the debt is settled and any further racial prioritization would be beyond reason.

DEI is not prioritization. That's just how conservatives have spun it.

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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?

Their families are not receiving any reparations today. And those who were slaves got them at the time. Their ancestors are greedy. I lost many family members in the Holocaust. Should I get paid out?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My Parents came over in 1962. We had zero to do with slavery. Do we get a waiver?

No, because you and they benefitted from white privilege. For instance, the USDA, Dept of Agriculture moved many white immigrants to states which were largely underpopulated, gave them land and then taught how to farm, have them low interest rates and gave them grants/loans for farming equipment.

Let's not also forget GI bills which locked African Americans out of home building relate but gave first generation immigrants opportunity.

All of this can be easily Googled or read in books.

Not everyone got white privilege. Jews, especially did not. And, my husband who is a retiree never got a GI bill. Don't assume everyone gets one. When he enlisted it was under another plan. Many of did not have ancestors in the US or were alive during slavery. Why should we pay for it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Parents came over in 1962. We had zero to do with slavery. Do we get a waiver?

No. Trump is proposing to pay out reparations to the January 6 terrorists. You have to pay that too.

[Anonymous]

Trying to make me remember why I would vote for Trump for a third term?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://apnews.com/article/slavery-reparations-maryland-wes-moore-2daea88df55e5f4b0053b124b042e145

Will hit the Governor’s desk before becoming law, so it isn’t a done deal yet. Nevertheless, it is newsworthy.

Well, every other group has received reparations. And if the U.S. has had money to give to whiny ass Israel since forever and to the Ukraine, they have money for us.

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