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2020-06-02 -Land of the Free
CNBC: BET Founder Robert Johnson Calls For $14 Trillion Of Reparations For Slavery
Opportunist grabbing at the chance to execute a key item on an old list. Fuggedabout it, buddy.
[CNBC]
  • “Now is the time to go big” to keep America from dividing into two separate and unequal societies, Robert Johnson said in a CNBC interview Monday.

  • Johnson said reparations would send the signal that white Americans acknowledge “damages that are owed” for the unequal playing field created by slavery and the decades since.

  • The wealth divide and police brutality against blacks are at the heart of protests that have erupted across the nation following last week’s killing of George Floyd during an arrest in Minneapolis.

Gonna have to discount the damage done by all the death, maiming and destruction of the Civil War first.
Then deduct all the costs of black pathology to our society and civilization, including but not limited to:

Crime,

Affirmative action

The financial costs of the countless social programs designed to "lift blacks up".

The damage done to our Constitutional rights under color of "integration".

Property value decline brought about by black people moving into the neighborhood.

Etc, etc.

If there is still money left after that, split the money up and tell blacks: "You can have this money when you give up your citizenship and book passage to somewhere outside of the US. Go where you want, but you can't stay here."
Posted by charger 2020-06-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top
 File under: Antifa 

#1 Eat a dick, grifter
Posted by DarthVader 2020-06-02 00:41||   2020-06-02 00:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Start big - with your own personal wealth, big guy! Give 'til it hurts, then give some more!
Posted by Raj 2020-06-02 00:55||   2020-06-02 00:55|| Front Page Top

#3 I still have the immigration papers of my grandparents. So I had nothing to do with slavery. Why should I and my family be paying?
Posted by Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-06-02 01:14||   2020-06-02 01:14|| Front Page Top

#4 The vast majority of 'whites' had nothing to do with slaves. Most were descendant from the great immigration waves *after* the Civil War. And even if they weren't - very few whites, even in the south, owned slaves.

What about people like Obama - possibly a descendant of someone who sold the slaves to the 'white man' in Africa in the first place? And he is half 'black' and half 'white'...

I suggest the DNC first pay reparations. After all the vast majority of slaveowners were Democrats.
Posted by CrazyFool 2020-06-02 01:25||   2020-06-02 01:25|| Front Page Top

#5 $14 trillion = 600,000 Union dead * $23 million each life sacrificed to enable Emancipation.

i.e. Paid in Full.

Now go fuck off.
Posted by Lex 2020-06-02 01:26||   2020-06-02 01:26|| Front Page Top

#6 At the rate we're printing money that will be just pocket change in a couple of years.
Posted by Glenmore 2020-06-02 01:46||   2020-06-02 01:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Yall keep burning down the Post Office the check will never get to you anyway, bro.
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2020-06-02 01:55||   2020-06-02 01:55|| Front Page Top

#8 When I hear such maniacal ravings, I just shake my head. You just cannot argue with idiots.
Posted by Clem 2020-06-02 05:09||   2020-06-02 05:09|| Front Page Top

#9 I call for a 14 Trillion payment from your community to the decedents of Union soldiers who died liberating your ancestors.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-02 07:02||   2020-06-02 07:02|| Front Page Top

#10 When you ask reparations to the Arabs who caught MORE slaves tahn the whites, who systematically castrated en and whose main use for female for women was not cooking or cleaning the house but raping them in their harems
Posted by JFM 2020-06-02 07:26||   2020-06-02 07:26|| Front Page Top

#11 incentivizing victimhood = more victims

who woulda thunk it
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-06-02 07:45||   2020-06-02 07:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Get to Liberia...

Just go...

I think the civilised countries should even fund you, one-way tickets, of-course.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-06-02 07:51||   2020-06-02 07:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Make no mistake, the real BET message is actually the old Robert Mugabe message. Give us your land and cattle and be gone.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-02 07:56||   2020-06-02 07:56|| Front Page Top

#14 Fine but you go back to Africa as non-citizens with nothing. All payments taxed at 100% with the money going to families of Union soldiers and victims of black crime.
Posted by Silentbrick 2020-06-02 08:28||   2020-06-02 08:28|| Front Page Top

#15 Reparations? Johnson likes to pick at scabs and make things worse? Another idiotic idea that needs to be $hit-canned.

Otherwise what #5 Lex and others said.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-06-02 10:27||   2020-06-02 10:27|| Front Page Top

#16 Person 1: Here is what you need to do to succeed...
Person 2: NO!
Failure results.
Person 2: Give us money because the system is unfairly stacked against us.
Person 1: WTF?
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-06-02 10:35||   2020-06-02 10:35|| Front Page Top

#17 Democrats claim DACA kids shouldn't have to pay for their parents crimes...
...But white people are still responsible for 17th Century slave owners?
an old comment I read years ago, some things never change
Posted by Jan 2020-06-02 10:52||   2020-06-02 10:52|| Front Page Top

#18 A SHINE IS A SHINE till dey dies!
Posted by ranture 2020-06-02 11:20||   2020-06-02 11:20|| Front Page Top

#19 /\ That's good old Midwest talk.
Posted by Clem 2020-06-02 11:38||   2020-06-02 11:38|| Front Page Top

#20 
How many ex-slaves are alive to collect?

I'm sure he doesn't mean HE should benefit from the suffering of others...
Posted by flash91 2020-06-02 12:38||   2020-06-02 12:38|| Front Page Top

#21 At the rate they are digging their hole, they are gonna owe whitey a lot of scratch.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-02 13:48||   2020-06-02 13:48|| Front Page Top

#22 I’m descended from people who owned slaves, others that didn’t and fought on both sides of the civil war, and every war since then. So I’m pretty sure you think I owe you and yours something. So it’s right in the closet, come and get it!!!!!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-06-02 15:51||   2020-06-02 15:51|| Front Page Top

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