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| Dem Pres. Candidate Julian Castro isn't ruling out direct payments to African-Americans over slavery |
| 2019-03-11 |
| [WashingtonTimes] Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro isn’t ruling out direct payments to African-Americans for the legacy of slavery ‐ a stand separating him from his 2020 rivals. "If under the Constitution we compensate people because we take their property, why wouldn’t you compensate people who actually were property," the former Obama-era housing secretary and ex-San Antonio mayor said on Sunday. Castro was among the last of a pack of 2020 candidates to speak at the South by Southwest Festival in Texas, in what amounted to one of the biggest gatherings of the Democratic field yet. As Democrats have addressed reparations in the early stages of the race, other candidates are discussing tax credits and other subsidies, rather than direct payments for the labor and legal oppression of slaves and their descendants. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders would put resources such as "Medicare for All" and tuition-free college into distressed communities. Castro tells CNN’s "State of the Union" he doesn’t think that’s the proper argument for reparations if "a big check needs to be written for a whole bunch of other stuff." Castro stopped short of saying he would push for direct compensation to descendants as president, saying instead that he would appoint a commissioner or task force that would make recommendations. Sanders was in New Hampshire, while Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts was in Dallas, Kamala Harris of California was in Miami and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota was in Tampa. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 buy stock in Cadillac And Colt 45® (NOT the revolver, although that may be a thought) |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2019-03-11 15:42 |
| #11 300 million Americans become African HYPHEN Americans in documentation. There's no real test so how would this electoral bribe work in practise? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-03-11 15:30 |
| #10 The last Americans who were slaves were mostly white. Where's the pandering in that? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-03-11 12:08 |
| #9 I'm all for it. First, like Silent Brick said, thence any residuals may be redeemed in Liberia, paid one-way travel voucher included at n/c upon surrender of U.S. citizenship. |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2019-03-11 11:45 |
| #8 So pay them. After you pay them, they must pay compensation to the families of all the Union soldiers who died or were wounded or just served during the Civil War. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2019-03-11 10:58 |
| #7 "If under the Constitution we compensate people because we take their property, why wouldn’t you compensate people who actually were property," Because they're long dead, idiot |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-03-11 10:11 |
| #6 I. Am. Corn-hoolian! |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-03-11 09:39 |
| #5 Could lead to early retirements and smaller government. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-03-11 09:07 |
| #4 buy stock in Cadillac |
| Posted by: chris 2019-03-11 08:53 |
| #3 Seems like a lot of Democrats are trying to shore up the faultering black vote using promises of reperations combined with the knowledge they can spin anti-reperation arguments as racist. Not a bad strategy, and if elected they can play the race card every time their reparations nonsense goes nowhere. |
| Posted by: Rjschwarz 2019-03-11 08:35 |
| #2 I can just imagine how it's going to work... "But those reparations didn't count! Y'all waited until right before The Inflation was going to make the money worthless before handing it out!" We'll all be working on The Dignity Canal for the Chinese or the Russians or the Bolivarians and they probably still won't shut up about it and the laogai will be overcome with race riots. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2019-03-11 08:23 |
| #1 When is it time for them to make their anti-white hate official? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-03-11 06:41 |