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House to hold slavery reparations hearing with testimony from Ta-Nehisi Coates
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:34 pm
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:34 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The topic of reparations for slavery is headed to Capitol Hill for its first hearing in more than a decade with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover set to testify before a House panel.
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is scheduled to hold the hearing next Wednesday, its stated purpose “to examine, through open and constructive discourse, the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, its continuing impact on the community and the path to restorative justice.” The date of the hearing, June 19, coincides with Juneteenth, a cultural holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved blacks in America.
HuffPo
This post was edited on 6/14/19 at 12:37 pm
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Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:35 pm to cajunangelle
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Ta-Nehisi
She doesn't look like she's 160+ years old.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:35 pm to cajunangelle
We need more of them programs
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:37 pm to cajunangelle
I'll give 40 acres and a SMALL TRACTOR to anyone willing to work it.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:37 pm to cajunangelle
It's good they have Coates there, he can detail his harrowing experiences as a slave on a cotton plantation.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:37 pm to cajunangelle
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Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover set to testify
Were they slaves? What's the basis for their testimony?
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:38 pm to cajunangelle
How does forcing one group who have never owned a slave
to transfer wealth to another group who have never been slaves
make any sense in a sane world??
to transfer wealth to another group who have never been slaves
make any sense in a sane world??
This post was edited on 6/14/19 at 12:41 pm
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:38 pm to NIH
I vaguely recall Sheila Jackson Lee saying the word Juneteenth over and over. 
is Juneteenth?
is Juneteenth?
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:39 pm to cajunangelle
This country is so fricked when the left regains power
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:40 pm to TrueTiger
This should go well
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:43 pm to cajunangelle
And people were worried abortion would turn off the average voter.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:44 pm to cajunangelle
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Danny Glover
I sure as frick hope his purpose there is to show how reparations are not necessary.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:44 pm to cajunangelle
Race hustlers doing what they do
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:45 pm to the808bass
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And people were worried abortion would turn off the average voter.
And the democRats say, "hey Alabama, hold my beer."
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:45 pm to cajunangelle
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
Even he doesn't know what reparations should look like after championing the "conversation" about them 5 years ago.
In the retrospective interview he just did, he flat out said "it can't be as easy as checking the black box on the census" and should be isolated to only living people who can make a claim to have been discrimated against by racist housing policy in the 1950s or whatever.
When pressed by the interview, he defaulted to politician-speak "that's why we need a committee..."
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:52 pm to Muthsera
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Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:55 pm to cajunangelle
I say every living person who owned a slave in the US gives every living person who was a slave in the US $1 Trillion each. Would that be enough?
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:57 pm to cajunangelle
Were either of them slaves?
How about their parents?
Then they should shut the frick up.
How about their parents?
Then they should shut the frick up.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:58 pm to TrueTiger
quote:
How does forcing one group who have never owned a slave
to transfer wealth to another group who have never been slaves
make any sense in a sane world??
Yeah, I'm white but my descendants came into this country in the late 19th century. My family didn't have any slaves.
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:59 pm to cajunangelle
Juneteenth is like Kwanza.
Totaly made up bullshite.
Totaly made up bullshite.
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