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Posted: 1/18/2024 10:35:48 AM EDT
Bowman is among nine sponsors of H.R. 414, which seeks to establish that the US has “a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of Black people in the United States.”

The measure, introduced in 2023, would prompt the federal government to spend $14 trillion on a reparations program that would support the descendants of enslaved Black people and people of African descent.

‘Squad’ lawmaker explains ‘creative’ way to pay $14 trillion in slavery reparations: ‘Moral and legal obligation’

Bowman cited the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the “space race” endeavor as examples that would make the measure feasible.

“When COVID was destroying us, we invested in the American people in a way that kept the economy afloat,” said Bowman. “The government can invest the same way in reparations without raising taxes on anyone.”

“Where did the money come from?” Bowman said. “We spent it into existence.”

https://nypost.com/2024/01/18/news/ny-squad-member-rep-jamaal-bowman-explains-creative-way-to-pay-slavery-reparations/
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:38:20 AM EDT
[#1]
Good to not see the use of the word 'african' hyphenated in front of American in any text OP posted...
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:39:22 AM EDT
[#2]
What if someone is mixed how does that work?
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:40:27 AM EDT
[#3]
The US didn’t invent slavery.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:41:38 AM EDT
[#4]
I thought welfare and DEI were reparations...how's that not enough?
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:41:39 AM EDT
[#5]
Reparations have been paid in blood and Affirmative Action, DE&I and Welfare........they deserve nothing further
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:42:00 AM EDT
[#6]
1.4 trillion for the Big Guy.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:42:26 AM EDT
[#7]
Fity percent
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:43:20 AM EDT
[#8]
How many trillions in "reparations" have been paid out since the 60's in the form of welfare?
Fuck those assholes.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:43:48 AM EDT
[#9]
That might finally accomplish what they are actually trying to do .
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:44:14 AM EDT
[#10]
“Where did the money come from?” Bowman said. “We spent it into existence.”
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Our "leaders" couldn't successfully run a lemonade stand.  
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:45:25 AM EDT
[#11]
Welfare is reparations... Fuck that shit.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:46:34 AM EDT
[#12]
so, every white person existing today would have to pay 5 million dollars to blacks.

Paid by whites that never owned a slave.

A huge population of whites (Germans, Irish and Italians) came after the civil war.

So add 50% to the national debt to pay people that weren't slaves paid by people that weren't slave owners.

edit: Most of the US before the civil war did not own slaves and most states did not allow it.

Most slaves were sold to Spanish and Dutch by Africans.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:46:37 AM EDT
[#13]
That would be a Cloward - Piven kill shot moment ,   that's it ,  shut the lights off and don't even bother locking the door .   It's over .
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:47:36 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:48:39 AM EDT
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Welfare is reparations... Fuck that shit.
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kind of

so, in the last 100 years, how much land was given (current value), how much welfare was paid, how much college tuition benefits, etc?

Probably more than 15 tril.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:49:33 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:49:39 AM EDT
[#17]
Make the Indians pay for it, they are the Native Americans here, the rest of us came from some place else. To that my family has only been here for 100 years.

Bowman must have his head up his ass for the warmth.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:49:49 AM EDT
[#18]
I want reparations form the barbary coast and Roman Empire for white slavery.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:51:58 AM EDT
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It will never be enough. Reparations are just another scam by democrats to buy votes until that voting block is no longer needed.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:55:30 AM EDT
[#20]
Kangz for everyone!
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:55:53 AM EDT
[#21]
I support this.

Reparations are necessary to account for the racial wealth disparity we see today in America.

It is obviously the fault of racism, which is why African countries that were never colonized, like Ethiopia, ended up being just as prosperous as any European or East Asian country.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:57:48 AM EDT
[#22]
87 Quadrillion or GTFO.

Anything less than that is racist
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 10:58:06 AM EDT
[#23]
Every Jew and Christian deserves reparations from Egypt.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:02:37 AM EDT
[#24]
Reparations for black America would be like me buying laptops for my cats. Isn't the US bending over backwards to kiss their asses for 50 years enough?
No group in human history has had government largess bestowed upon them the likes of which black America has. When is enough enough?

Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:02:44 AM EDT
[#25]
500 billion to reparations
13.5 trillion in grift
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:04:11 AM EDT
[#26]
HOA’s with very expensive monthly dues are going to be very … popular.

Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:04:22 AM EDT
[#27]
Only a White Supremacist Racist would say ' No " .
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:21:46 AM EDT
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Exactly.
Welfare
Affirmative action
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:22:20 AM EDT
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Exactly but facts don't matter.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:22:43 AM EDT
[#30]
He wants to fix a fantasy with a fantasy. The world is (D)ifferent to them.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:25:18 AM EDT
[#31]
There's more slaves today than at the time of American Emancipation. Britain, France and the USA were the first nations in history to abolish its practice.

Reparations dildos can get fucked.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:28:38 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:29:18 AM EDT
[#33]
Tell him to get his reparations from the tribal chiefs of africa who sold their descendants. Then tell him to fuck the fuck off.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:32:52 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:38:07 AM EDT
[#35]
They should create a secondary currency and send that out.

Black and women owned businesses must accept it.  Keep the white man out of this reparations completely so he can't benefit from it.

Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:39:15 AM EDT
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Nor was it actively involved in the collection & transport. Portugal, Spain & Britain were world leaders for centuries. Even after Britain banned forced slavery it remained a world leader in the trade.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:41:32 AM EDT
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This...
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:52:06 AM EDT
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[#40]
On the bright side, most of that money will pretty quickly find itself circulating in the economy.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:55:35 AM EDT
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How about just give away tickets to go back to Africa if they want? Just have to rescind citizenship. If America is so bad, there is the option.
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Any politician who suggested this would be committing career suicide...but it's a valid suggestion.  We could even tack on an extra $100K per person to get them started in their new life.  At some point we need to just get this over with.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:55:44 AM EDT
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Democrats have spun themselves into a religious fervor over black people, and there will never, ever, ever be an end point to this insanity.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:57:10 AM EDT
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Reparations for black America would be like me buying laptops for my cats. Isn't the US bending over backwards to kiss their asses for 50 years enough?
No group in human history has had government largess bestowed upon them the likes of which black America has. When is enough enough?

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Have patience.

Our new overlords from south of the border are known for their sense of brotherly love.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:57:51 AM EDT
[#44]
Should be thank a slave owner day.

Seriously if it weren't for slavery there wouldn't be any African Americans.

If I had a time machine I'd turn those ships around.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:58:26 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:58:47 AM EDT
[#46]
Don't forget the families in Africa that were traumatized by their loved ones being hunted down,captured,and sold into slavery...generational trauma should also be compensated...

Africans should sue...

Every single African in America and Africa should get 1 million...save a tree...pay them all in crypto...
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 11:59:27 AM EDT
[#47]
This is completely inadequate.  It should be $14 Trillion to EACH descendant.  Only $14 Trillion dollars to someone who's ancestors suffered at the hands of their own race is adequate.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 12:22:13 PM EDT
[#48]
This ends with the enslavement of straight, white men.
Link Posted: 1/18/2024 12:22:26 PM EDT
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Only a White Supremacist Racist would say ' No " .
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Link Posted: 1/18/2024 12:26:36 PM EDT
[#50]
Democrat policies since the 60s have done more lasting harm to people of African descent than slavery ever did.  If someone should pay it should be them.
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