Black People Politics : Mitch McConnell Says Obama's Election Means We Don't Need Reparations

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Mitch McConnell Says Obama's Election Means We Don't Need Reparations


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday dismissed the idea of modern-day reparations for slavery, arguing that civil rights legislation and former President Barack Obama’s election show they are unnecessary...

Mitch McConnell Says Obama's Election Means We Don't Need Reparations

“I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea,” McConnell said.

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Amy Russo
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[Queenie]

I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time when I saw this. Laugh because I thought how stupid and overtly racist can you be? Cry, because this is the reality we so sadly find ourselves in and I wonder where this kind of thinking will lead us. "We" can't rely on politicians to fight these kinds of battles for us--not alone. Sadly, we can't rely on so-called Black leaders (who are they?) to do it for us either. Where is the public outcry? When AOC referred to the shenanigans happening to immigrants along the southern border as concentration camps, Jews immediately rose up and let the world know they were offended by that reference, as though it somehow diminished what happened to them during the holocaust and nothing could possibly compare to that. I wonder if Black people would have had the same reaction if she had referred to the situation as a plantation. Russian intervention into our election process isn't the only issue we have to worry about as we approach the 2020 presidential elections. Gerrymandering is an issue within the U.S. and those of us who vote (I hope ALL Black, eligible non-voters consider this election as an urgent need to act by voting) need to make sure you are registered and that you know your district and where to vote.

 

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Laura Ingraham Dismisses Reparations: ‘No Do-Overs...We Won, You Lost, That’s That’

Laura Ingraham Dismisses Reparations: ‘No Do-Overs...We Won, You Lost, That’s That’

Alex Wong/GettyFox News star Laura Ingraham waded into the ongoing debate over reparations for descendants of slaves during her podcast on Thursday by proclaiming there are no “do-overs” after a “conquest.”Talking to Kentucky State professor and Hate Crime Hoax author Wilfred Reilly about the recent

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By Justin Baragona
The Daily Beast

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Slavery reparations could carry a $17 trillion price tag


It’s unclear how a sum as potentially as large as $17.1 trillion would be financed. Darity’s research posits that it could be financed through additional taxes, or by issuing bonds; but Darity and Francis make clear that “African-Americans should not bear the tax burden of financing their own reparations payments.”

Slavery reparations could carry a $17 trillion price tag

After a decade, Congress has begun the debate of reparations to African Americans for the injustices of slavery. But are reparations possible — and how much would it cost?

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Kristin Myers
Yahoo Finance

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Report: Sen. Mitch McConnell's family owned 14 slaves in Alabama

Report: Sen. Mitch McConnell's family owned 14 slaves in Alabama

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has opposed paying the descendants of slaves reparations but an NBC News review of U.S. census records shows his family owned 14.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has opposed paying the descendants of slaves reparations



Phillip M. Bailey
USA TODAY