BET founder Robert Johnson calls for $14 trillion of reparations for slavery

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  1. The Wyrd of Gawd

    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    He will become dictator for life.
     
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    i would agree to those terms
    so how many ex slaves are still alive? i will pay them each 1 million dollars from my own pocket
     
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    And this happens how? Who allows it? Tempting as it is to declare it SHOULD happen, I foresee the day when he'd be as old as that crone Ginsburg and as senile as Groper Joe. Lifetime? Nah. Spare him the embarrassment and set up a logical succession to prevent Dems from ever botching things like under Obama. Why limit a dynasty to one mere generation or supreme whatever-he-calls-himself. A thousand years of capitalist growth! Hail, business, the business of America and of the free world! (*cue the fife and drum*)
     
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    When I look at the riots, which hasn't been often because I'm busy, I see tons of white faces in the crowd. Especially in DC ... are they all thugs?

     
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    How about we total up all the damage done by all the demonstrations and take it off the top of the $14 Trillion, they might end up owing money.
     
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    he is a billionaire and has to donate 99 percent of his net worth to this fund.
     
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    How many black folks do you think are still living today that experienced or grew up during Jim Crow segregation.

    Also I asked the question of when did America EVER pay restitution for slavery or Jim Crow segregation.
     
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    Still doesn't change the fact of what the effects of slavery was and where are you getting this info of they didn't want reparations. Please post that.
     
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    That is what we are told, but how do we know that is true.

    So if you are captured with stolen goods the police are not going to charge you, they are going to charge the person whom you claim stole it. Come on Steve we know it doesn't work like that. Also what does that have to do with how these good God fearin children in America treated another human being once we were here.
     
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    How many of their descendants are still alive today and how many people who suffered through Jim Crow segregation are alive today?
     
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    those arent the term I said I would agree with
    I will do the same as Reagan that you brought up did he payed the direct survivor of the Japanese internment camps not descendants but the actual Japanese's Americans that was placed in those camps by a democrat president
     
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    Ok so pay the direct survivors of Jim Crow segregation.
     
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    It's race hustling and it's a con job and it's not about any altruistic motive. It's about Fame and Fortune.

    What these so-called civil rights leaders do is they convince people that they need them to advocate for their civil rights. That's why this white supremacist narrative is being carried on like it is.

    It's a hustle. And this is kind of like contractor asking for an increase in budget. They need 2,000 but they ask you for 10 so when you give them mm it doesn't seem like that much.

    And reparations tend to get some people excited because it's a game where you push a button then sometimes cash comes out. People commit 15 felonies for three boxes of sneakers. As we've seen over the past three days
     
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    And I asked, do you think blacks should be given reparations for something they never experienced?
     
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    Who cares? This bullshit was resolved 55 years ago. If you're 70 years old just suffered go have yourself a great big ol cookie. Nobody cares.

    If you want to talk about **** that happens now that would be productive. You want to talk about police brutality something that exists today that we should really talk about, but people are too busy stealing and burning **** for there to be any attention paid?

    Or do you want to try and make people feel guilty for some horseshit that happened before they were born that's really a distant memory for the oldest people in our society today?

    I'm a white guy I don't feel any guilt at all whatsoever for it because I was born in the 80s. Now if you want to cry about it go find me support group.
     
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    What do you do with someone like Obama? He's a millionaire whose ancestors weren't involved in slavery, unless it was on the business end in Africa. His white mother's family were slaveowners.
     
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    Exactly, both the wrongdoers and the victims are long gone. The deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans who died ending slavery is reparation enough.

    Why not ask for reparations from the Democratic Party, the party of slavery?
     
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    You should cry. It would put federal government out of business. Even suggesting it is anti-American and racist in my view.
     
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    I suppose it might have slipped your mind that the folks who were granted reparations were in fact those who had been interned. No? Can you point to a single surviving person in the US who would have been a slave? No? And just for grins, when the owner of BET says it's an investment, and 40Million folks will get $350K a piece, what do you suppose those folks will do with the cash? How will $350K be used to improve their circumstances? I mean, the morality of extorting the nation aside, give us some concrete examples of how just black folk in America will spend their windfalls. Oh, and since this is income, don't the feds immediately get ~39% of it back? Do you suppose that the now ~$210K will be enough to ease all of their pain?

    I offer Liberia as an option to repatriate those in this country who obviously don't feel like they can be a part of this country anymore. Fine, don't like it? Leave.
     
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    Answer my question and I will answer yours.
     
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    Nope, you answer mine and ill answer yours.
     
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    Anyone/everyone participating in these riots is a thug loser ignorant piece of sh*t who should be prosecuted to the fullest extent if the law.

    Clear enough?
     
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    You mean folks like you don't care. How was it ended, but not resolved.

    If the problems had been resolved as you claimed we wouldn't be were we are now.
    That's the cop out that you are going to use.
    Today's German wasn't born during the Holocaust but they are still footing the bill for it. I had nothing to do with Japanese Americans being put in internment camps, but my tax dollars were spent in 1983 when Reagan paid them reparations.
    Most whites that were responsible for it didn't feel any
    I can point to many black folks who are survivors of Jim Crow segregation, racism and discrimination. I noticed you change your talk when it comes to those 3 because the excuse of no one still living during those periods goes out the window.
     
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    So you answer a question with a question. Lost in the sauce.
     
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    Its official, I am black!
     

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