CHICAGO (CBS) — Senator Mark Kirk ruffled a lot of feathers with his recent plan to round up 18,000 gang members but a group of South Side pastors say they have a way for him to redeem himself: Help pass legislation to give African Americans reparation.
Rev. Anthony Williams of Freedom Community Church in Englewood says it’s something that’s long overdue.
“Jews got their reparations from the Holocaust, Japanese got their reparations from the internment. It is time for us to get our reparations,†said. Rev. Williams.
Rev. Joel Washington says they also want Kirk to fight to keep mental health facilities on the South Side open, make sure federal money gets in the right hands and hold congressional hearings on violence and to do something about the flow of guns.
“We get arms from outside the community. We don’t manufacture arms, we don’t manufacture the weapons,†said Rev. Washington.
The pastors urge Kirk and Congressman Bobby Rush to push for HR 40, a bill that would set up a study on making financial reparations to descendants of American slaves.
One of their 'unspoken' and historically buried problems is .. Sorting out the Black Slave Owners from the actual slaves! :???:There is no interest in presenting historical facts. They just want a handout based on skin color.
The Black Slave Owners who incidentally owned 'White' as well as Black slaves! :tongue:
And what of those is is with mixed heritage on one side as well as immigrants who came here AFTER slavery ended on the other side? Should I just pay myself a 10 spot and call it even? This whole thing is just silly considering how convoluted blood lines would be at this point.
STFU, Vesta.
For the love of Christ, just stop.
Anthony Johnson was believed to be the first Black to set foot on Virginia soil.
He was the first black indentured servant, the first free black, and the first to establish the first black community, first black landowner, first black slave owner, and the first person based on his court case to establish slavery legally in North America. One could argue that he was the founder of slavery in Virginia.
In 1651 Anthony Johnson was given 250 acres as "head rights" for purchasing five incoming white redemptioners.
By July 1651 Johnson had five indentured servants of his own. In 1864, he brought a case before Virginia courts in which he contested a suit launched by one of his indentured servants, a Negro who adopted the name of John Casor.
Johnson won the suit and retained Casor as his servant for life, who thus became the first official and true slave in America.
In 1652 John Johnson, Anthony Johnson's eldest son, purchased eleven incoming white males and females, and received 550 acres adjacent to his father.
There were a number of additional Virginia land patents representing grants to free blacks of from fifty to 550 acres for purchasing white redemptioners.
Oh God no; they already got their reparations, and more.
It's called the Great Society and War on Poverty.
Reparations only to those willing to give up their US citizenship and repatriot themselves to Africa and never again visit the US.
All of that - as costly as it has been - is just blood in the water for the school of sharks the leftists have whipped into a feeding frenzy.
Reparations, no, repatriation, sure! However, I expect no takers on that one...
Well HI5 to you. If they agree great! if not then we are done with this crap!!! eff off. I am partial American Indian so what???? Indians had a FAR worse stent with this than the Blacks.....And the use of African American is a joke cause you are from a area not a continent! Where in Zimbabwe, or Chad or Algeria etc are you from? So that said i have no issue with any one that will call themselves a American!.....but it seems None of the listed wants to claim that.Ask for reparations, baby.
Ask for reparations, baby.
I also suggest the descendants of the Irish, the resident WWII Germans and Japanese, the Chinese, the Lithuanians, the Italians: all should demand Reparations NOW!
NO! I'm sorry I do not agree. You must be some sort of leftist F**k! I believe these peeps have no rights at all when it comes to this i was just giving an example of this in my life and want nothing these DEGENERATE F**KS are calling for cause I do no believe this at ALL!!!!
NO! I'm sorry I do not agree. You must be some sort of leftist F**k! I believe these peeps have no rights at all when it comes to this i was just giving an example of this in my life and want nothing these DEGENERATE F**KS are calling for cause I do no believe this at ALL!!!!
Get with the program, baby. We are ALL victims!!! Every dollar given goes to every single victim in the USA (since it is 100% of the population, everyone gets everything which means no one gets anything -- you gettin' it now?)
Think the REVERSE of:
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My Grandmother was Dutch...
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Dude; he was being sarcastic. Let's try to keep the blood pressure from spiking unnecessarily, mkay? :cheersmate:
Ask for reparations, baby.
I also suggest the descendants of the Irish, the resident WWII Germans and Japanese, the Chinese, the Lithuanians, the Italians: all should demand Reparations NOW!
“Jews got their reparations from the Holocaust, Japanese got their reparations from the internment. It is time for us to get our reparations,†said. Rev. Williams.
I like the repatriation idea.
The only problem with that is the ****sticks would expect the ****ing gummint to move 'em.
Still might be a way to make that a win-win...
All you Obamaphone grabbers; worthless, professional welfare cheats and hangers-on; food stamp professionals; and other ne'er-do-wells, all you shits pack your shit, throw it on the trailer for a one-way trip to the 3rd world shithole of your choice.
Your reparations? The cost of moving you and your shit.
Tax free.