You do realize that two people in that crowd were having medical issues! So, rather than continuing his speech, Trump allowed the first responders to do their jobs. I really don’t think having background music for entertainment during that timeframe was such a travesty.
Who is ready to pay reparations
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How about we make it so that a portion of anybody's income that's dumb enough to give to Trump, goes to the descendants of slaves:
Despite your rant…I assume you realize there is no way the U.S. can afford to pay reparations. Even if we could afford such, how would the $ amount(s) be calculated. In any case, it’s all a moot point.
I think you need to watch the actual rally. The medical emergency was over when this started:
Pandering is truly one of those both sides do it issues and it drives me nuts. You acting like the right doesn't do it is par for the course.
Well, that British dude much like his country of origin doesn't have to worry about our Constitution which he conveniently leaves out of the argument. So many people on the left are so ready to trash the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to give handouts in order to receive a lifetime of political loyalty.
You’re on to something - all the billions spent by both parties on campaign ads, etc are a waste.How about we make it so that a portion of anybody's income that's dumb enough to give to Trump, goes to the descendants of slaves:
You’re becoming the biggest idiot on the internet.
Credits or tax cuts Trump has stated during election cycle
Keep tax cuts
However bring back salt, biggest increase of taxes, in his tax cuts
No taxes on tips
Eliminate income tax on Social Security benefits
Scrapping taxes on Overtime pay
Lowering Corporate tax rates
Yeah looks like he is throwing all kind of money around. He isn't merely suggesting to review it either. Its actually a part of his plan, unlike reoperations is no where in Kamala's plan. I think its something she would like, but its a losing argument and isn't feasible.
Maybe, but you have to admit Trump standing on stage and swaying for almost three quarters of an hour is odd behavior.
Normally he would be right. The right has intellectually de-evolved in the past 20 years.
The lefts crazy just centers around guilt and naivety, which is at least a noble endeavor.
The far right is wrong most of the time. too long of a list to go through. If Trump is your standard bearer you have lost all ability to think critically.
The far left is wrong on positions they hold most dear. They would like you to believe they are so morally superior that they would have never had slaves or they would have freed them. While at the same time they do not stand up for 1/2 of the muslim population that is currently enslaved.
Why aren't you in the middle east fighting for women and gays?
Because when the oppressors are not white or Jewish, it doesn't count.
Repatriation to Liberia would have occurred if not for John Wilkes Booth.
Oh come on Hitman. You're selling yourself way short here.
Ah, yes. In rides those with nothing but straw men, ad hominems, and bad faith arguments.
Charlemagne brought it up, a descendant of Black slaves. Pretty obvious as to why he would bring it up, and it's not about selfishness, but righting an injustice for Black Americans. I don't think it hurts to ask at all. The bigger question is, why are you too fragile to have a discourse about it?
Black urban culture/crime has really screwed over the hard working AA's that want to make an honest living just like everyone else.
Oh, our Constitutional scholar is here! Please do tell how this violates the Constitution, and how George HW Bush was violating it with reparations to Japanese-Americans? Can't wait to hear...
Mark Cuban and Hollywood white crackers for Kamala.I’m sure most of you will gladly agree to pay for this
Harris says she remains open to reparations in interview with Charlamagne Tha God: 5 moments
Vice President Kamala Harris sat for an interview with Charlamagne Tha God on Tuesday in Detroit.www.usatoday.com
Of course not. Hitchens addressed this "white whine". Never let "perfect" be the enemy of "good". I'm in favor of some other way of benefitting Black communities without direct cash payments. We simply haven't done enough of this, and in fact, we spent decades destroying areas of Black wealth and prosperity.
if you want to fix something, start with valuing education. That fixes most problems.
I brought up the absolute most legitimate road blocks of reparations (Constitution and Civil Rights Act) and you threw a tantrum and wanted nothing to do with having "discourse". Not to mention there are way more blacks here who are not descendants of slaves than those who are. What is the plan for weeding them out (and again, in direct opposition to the CRA)?
And why would those blacks whose families came here well after the end of slavery be forced to "chip in", while dealing with all of the same obstacles? What about the Chinese who were forced to build the TC railroad then had to deal with the Chinese Exclusion Act and other awful things placed before them? Is it because they seemed to overcome that shit, that we do not consider them for reparations?
Seems like lots of discourse to be had.
That’s not a good reason to not discuss something.
Liberal policies have done more harm to the African American community more than anything.
Why is god not an acceptable answer in science?
Let's not act like it hasn't been discussed. There is little good that comes out of that conversation.
Sure are. Let’s start here first and go from there later.
Um, no. I hear right wing sheep bleat this line all the time, and never have any given a shred of legitimate evidence for this asinine claim.
According to Walter Williams, true reparations means putting the aggrieved parties in as good a position as they’d be in had their ancestors never been removed from West Africa. Ie. return them to West Africa. Any proposal that does not accomplish this is not truly about reparations. Naturally, Walter Williams rightfully declined.
Because you can’t learn from your mistakes if you won’t even discuss them. While I’ve said before I’m not okay with direct reparations a la what we did with Japanese Americans, this is more complicated than that.
Too many people like to pretend that slavery ended with the civil war and that was the end of it…leaving out the roughly 80 years where in large swaths of the country African Americans were effectively second class citizens. We still see echoes of that today.
Building the world, it's likely that capitalism doesn't become the main global economic system without the mass genocide, expatriation and slavery that drove its' development.
Just like clockwork painting with a broad brush. bau
