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2025-03-15 Government Corruption

Minnesota Democrats reintroduce $100 million reparations bill

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Posted by Fred 2025-03-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11147 views ] Top

#1 Good for them, that will certainly make us all take them more seriously.

Posted by Crusader 2025-03-15 00:34|| 2025-03-15 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2

May I point you to a draft I am still working on. THE FALLACY OF REPARATIONS.

Also:
Slavery has been forbidden in the state of Minnesota since that state's admission to the Union in 1858. The second section of the first Article of the state's constitution, drafted in 1857, provides that:

There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude from the State otherwise there is the punishment of crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted

So why the Reparations, it never had Slavery?

Posted by NN2N1 2025-03-15 07:46|| 2025-03-15 07:46|| Front Page Top

#3 The Romans had slavery. I fear for Italy's finances.

Posted by European Conservative 2025-03-15 07:48|| 2025-03-15 07:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Minnesota was a free state.

..in the presidential election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln won Minnesota with 63% of the vote, his second largest share of the popular vote after Vermont. In the ensuing Civil War, Minnesotan soldiers fought and died on battlefields such as First Bull Run, Mill Springs, Antietam, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Gettysburg, Missionary Ridge, and Nashville. Indeed, records show that 21,982 Minnesotans enlisted in the United States armed forces between 1861 and 1865 of whom 635 died in combat and 1,936 as a result of disease or accident. This is equal, proportionately, to 86,000 dead from today’s population. Minnesota paid a high price in blood to save the Union and end the evil of slavery..

This is just the Democrats trying to drag everyone else into the crime they committed. Reparations - let the Donks pay for it themselves.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-03-15 08:05|| 2025-03-15 08:05|| Front Page Top

#5
Here's an idea.
Since the Democrat party fought for and promoted Slavery and Jim Crow Laws for over 125 years. Sue the Democrat party in Federal Court, and force THE DNC to pay all reparations.

Maybe I should apply for Reparations? 🤔
As, my Grandparents were sold/traded by an Eastern European family, who started and owned a Cotton Mill in Western Mass in 1890's. As indentured servants, under contract, they were forced to work 60–72 hrs a week, live in company rented housing, and purchase items from the company store.

All after Slavery was claimed to be abolished.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-03-15 08:54|| 2025-03-15 08:54|| Front Page Top

#6 A hundred frickin' million? Who this b. is, JD Evil?

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-03-15 08:56|| 2025-03-15 08:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Though there's something to be said for playing it safe...

Bungle in the Jungle, or, The Burst of the Wurst

[cue slavery-cost industry humming]
Let's jump on this belt and go slumming
Where nothing that's rotten
Is ever forgotten
And Democrats scream, "Keep it coming!"

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-03-15 09:02|| 2025-03-15 09:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Minnesota has already paid any debt forward.
See 1St Minnesota Volunteers and Gettysburg

Posted by Mercutio 2025-03-15 09:17|| 2025-03-15 09:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Do the Somalis qualify for reparations based on skin color even though their ancestors had no idea that America had a Civil War?

Posted by Super Hose 2025-03-15 09:19|| 2025-03-15 09:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Reparations for the Somalians' slavery should come from the Arabs and Egyptians.

The European and New World slavery subjects were mostly West African.

Unless you want to go back to the Nordic and Germanic tribal practices where the folks they used were mostly European or Baltic.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-03-15 11:02|| 2025-03-15 11:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Unless you want to go back to the Nordic and Germanic tribal practices

Wait a minute! Are you saying the Americans didn't invent slavery?

Posted by SteveS 2025-03-15 11:13|| 2025-03-15 11:13|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ Yeah, we put the "Slav" in slavery

Posted by Frank G 2025-03-15 12:35|| 2025-03-15 12:35|| Front Page Top

#13 I bet the first three things invented by humans, in order, were
Prost!tuti@n
Weapons
Slaving

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-03-15 12:50|| 2025-03-15 12:50|| Front Page Top

#14 ...I've got an idea: find the people/corporations in Minnesota whose actions led to the need for reparations, and then levy a chunk of that 100M against their human or corporate descendants.

I suspect that would end this crap PDQ.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-03-15 13:53|| 2025-03-15 13:53|| Front Page Top

#15 Just send the bill to Target. Let them see how that works out for them. They should have moved long ago, but they're raging lefties themselves so they deserve the pain.

Posted by Crusader 2025-03-15 23:47|| 2025-03-15 23:47|| Front Page Top

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