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Reparations for slave descendants?


Eldorado

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On 4/15/2021 at 12:33 AM, Eldorado said:

 

In Alaska...? Its quite nice in the middle of summer. 

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OooooKAY. Umm.. I'm somewhat puzzled ? 

Lets look at that opening post again. 

On 2/20/2021 at 6:59 PM, Eldorado said:

President Joe Biden supports a study on whether descendants of enslaved people in the United States should receive reparations, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Wednesday, as the issue was being debated on Capitol Hill.

HR-40, a bill to fund the study of “slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies” has been floated in Congress for more than 30 years, but never taken up for a full vote.

Democratic Representative Sheila Jackson Lee reintroduced it in January.

1619 ?

What's with 1619 ? I thought the USA was created in 1776 ? 

I mean.. it EXISTED before that, but as a series of colonies under British Rule... so the current USA government can hardly be guilty of slavery committed under a foreign government , as they where not in control of policy, and where British citizens

 

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10 minutes ago, RoofGardener said:

OooooKAY. Umm.. I'm somewhat puzzled ? 

Lets look at that opening post again. 

1619 ?

What's with 1619 ? I thought the USA was created in 1776 ? 

I mean.. it EXISTED before that, but as a series of colonies under British Rule... so the current USA government can hardly be guilty of slavery committed under a foreign government , as they where not in control of policy, and where British citizens

 

Maybe the US House Democrats will email a bill to the Queen in London?

You know... Go half and half? Sounds very reasonable...

:w00t: :wacko:

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46 minutes ago, DieChecker said:

Maybe the US House Democrats will email a bill to the Queen in London?

You know... Go half and half? Sounds very reasonable...

:w00t: :wacko:

She'd be getting a bargain. After all, of the 11 million black african slaves we shipped to the America's, only 600,000 ended up in America itself. And half of THOSE where before the Colonials revolted and formed the USA. 

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