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Old 02-10-2009, 21:18   #16
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To carry out the provisions of this Act, there are authorized to be appropriated $8,000,000.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.40.IH:
The resolution's sponsors could save the tax payers a few million dollars if the two gentlemen and their staffs were to enroll in a freshman level American history class at a local college or university. They would quickly find that the questions they think have been 'unexplored' have been answered in great detail by generations of scholars.

IMHO, there are important conversations to be had about the role racism has played and continues to play in America but this proposal is a road map leading in the wrong direction.
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Old 02-11-2009, 18:50   #17
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The resolution's sponsors could save the tax payers a few million dollars if the two gentlemen and their staffs were to enroll in a freshman level American history class at a local college or university. They would quickly find that the questions they think have been 'unexplored' have been answered in great detail by generations of scholars.

IMHO, there are important conversations to be had about the role racism has played and continues to play in America but this proposal is a road map leading in the wrong direction.
Exactly...on all counts. More frightening than nearly any policy or politician is the ease with which the voting public is played for fools with words...and the costs in $$$ and trust.

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Old 03-01-2023, 19:03   #18
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Wow, dragging up Richard and Sigaba, but this is where the search lead me. SO, ....

Reparation and % of black DNA to qualify, has not been defined, but having a partner in life with 31% Mali, 26% native (Indigenous), we are all in on the $5 million per individual payment.

This is in jest, but there is no doubt there will be thousands claiming heritage and showing newly printed documentation of group adherence.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...s-for-slavery/

My question is what % of black must you be to collect reparation?

Edit to add: Puerto Ricans would own this as the island was a transfer point of the slave trade, where many found solice in the arms of the native populance.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/960378979

https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...n-book-slavery

https://www.quora.com/What-percentag...res-and-a-mule

https://thehbsway.rocks/portfolio/dna-reparations/ ****

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Old 03-02-2023, 08:29   #19
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we are all in on the $5 million per individual payment.

My question is what % of black must you be to collect reparation?
They will do it then switch to a digital currency a few months later and that 5 million will be worthless and it will be laid to rest that they paid Reparations.

(How did they know that was going to happen, what difference does it make at this time anyway.)
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