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2016-01-24 Home Front: Culture Wars
Great News -€“ Reparations demand causing Dem fissure
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Posted by Besoeker 2016-01-24 06:22|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Add to that descendents of a Pennsylvania farmer who fought in the Civil War to free slaves....
Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-01-24 09:02||   2016-01-24 09:02|| Front Page Top

#2 ...over 250,000 white Northerners died to put the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments on the Constitution, in a world where slavery was and had been common in all of history. That was in a population one tenth the size of today. Can you even comprehend let alone image something to sacrifice for that would cost 2 and a half million lives today? Debt was paid in blood and body.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-01-24 09:25||   2016-01-24 09:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Time to make popcorn!
Posted by Nguard 2016-01-24 11:38||   2016-01-24 11:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Kiss my White Irish Ass Ta-Nihisi
Posted by NoMoreBS 2016-01-24 12:09||   2016-01-24 12:09|| Front Page Top

#5 My father's family emigrated here from Moravia in the 1880's.

Slavery was ended in 1865.

Even I can do that math. I don't owe anyone a damned dime.
Posted by Barbara 2016-01-24 12:25||   2016-01-24 12:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Let's do no more on this issue unless & until we hear from the Union dead at Andersonville.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-01-24 13:48||   2016-01-24 13:48|| Front Page Top

#7 My family was landed gentry in Northern Virginia.

The head of the family freed all of the family slaves shortly before the Revolutionary War because he developed a belief slavery was immoral.

Do I have to pay reparations even though my family freed slaves, educated them, fed and clothed them until they could find employment?
Posted by Bill Clinton 2016-01-24 14:12||   2016-01-24 14:12|| Front Page Top

#8 by all records my ancestors immigrted (legally) from Sweden and Norway in the late 1800's. Always lived in the north anyway.

Do I have to pay reparations? And why?

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Posted by CrazyFool 2016-01-24 14:21||   2016-01-24 14:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Asking questions about reparations is racccccissssst.

It's Rape-a-Nation, not reparation.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2016-01-24 14:49||   2016-01-24 14:49|| Front Page Top

#10 ALL whites have to pay for slavery. Because by the very fact of their whiteness they have benefitted from racism for at least the last 150 years. Or so my daughter says.
Posted by Glenmore 2016-01-24 15:47||   2016-01-24 15:47|| Front Page Top

#11 ...actually they've benefited from something called democracy or a republic, governing for the benefit of the majority (who just happen to be white) rather than an oligarchy, monarchy, aristocracy...et al. "Diversity" is modern progressive term for anti-democratic institutions and programs. Something socialists hold dear.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-01-24 16:36||   2016-01-24 16:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Are you saying my daughter is wrong? But she's got college degrees and stuff!
Posted by Glenmore 2016-01-24 16:40||   2016-01-24 16:40|| Front Page Top

#13 We owe you a debt; great! We have a 20 trillion dollar debt that you can have, take it quick while interest rates are still historically low. You have 30 years to pay it off and we can finally shake hands and call it even.
Posted by Airandee 2016-01-24 17:24||   2016-01-24 17:24|| Front Page Top

#14 Just say "No".
Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2016-01-24 20:24||   2016-01-24 20:24|| Front Page Top

#15 Since Obama's ancestors were never slaves i n America, is he entitled to reparations just because of the color of his skin?

How about a recent immigrant from Ghana?
Posted by Rambler in Virginia  2016-01-24 20:49||   2016-01-24 20:49|| Front Page Top

#16 I kinda feel like I'm starting to identify as black . . . .
Posted by gorb 2016-01-24 22:34||   2016-01-24 22:34|| Front Page Top

#17 They want money, fine. Here's the deal, you take the money, you renounce US citizenship and you LEAVE. You may never come to the US again. You want to stay, no money for you.
Posted by Silentbrick 2016-01-24 22:54||   2016-01-24 22:54|| Front Page Top

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