The Upity Folk are on the war path, screaming at the top of their lungs they want reparations. We agree, they should get some reparations, but in return we should get ours.
Extra police, firemen, defense attorneys were hired to protect our cities. And don’t forget the jails and jailers, that cost mullah. Adding in the free education, hospitalization, housing, entitlements blows us through the roof. As a judge, we are blind in front of the law, but going to our abacus, we find you Upity folk owe the United States treasury fifty trillion dollars. Do the math! The results will be the same. Numbers, in this case don’t lie.
Since 1964, remember “The Great Society” of LBJ fame, we have poured trillions of dollars to wipe out poverty, yes there was a War on Poverty. Who would have believed it now. And today it is still hard to believe that there are 45 million of us, still living in poverty. Guess we lost the war on poverty, like the one we lost in Afghanistan. The question on both counts remains a mystery.
REPARATIONS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS
News, Analysis and Opinion from POLITICO
President Joe Biden supports the idea behind the bill. Vice President Kamala Harris endorsed it during her time in the Senate. But that might not be enough to get a proposal to study reparations for slavery to Biden’s desk this Congress.
Despite the enormity of the task behind the legislation known as H.R. 40 — named for the “40 acres and a mule” that has come to symbolize the post-Civil War government’s failure to help formerly enslaved people — the bill has new political momentum since its last introduction in 2019, when the GOP controlled the White House and Senate. The nationwide protests last summer following George Floyd’s killing have raised public awareness of racial injustice and kick-started a national conversation that advocates for a reparations dialogue see as valuable.
What no one knows yet is how committed the White House is to the specific House legislative vehicle, which has been introduced in every Congress for more than three decades and would establish a commission of experts to study direct payments to African Americans. The Senate introduced a companion bill for the first time during the 116th Congress, prompting a number of presidential candidates — including then-California Sen. Harris — to throw their support behind it.
Biden supported the idea of a reparations study during his own 2020 presidential bid but stopped short of fully endorsing the legislation itself. His administration did not testify at a Wednesday hearing in a House Judiciary Committee subpanel on the reparations measure, and White House press secretary Jen Psaki largely reiterated that stance Wednesday while stoppping short of full-throated backing for the bill.
“It’s working its way through Congress,” Psaki told reporters when asked if Biden would sign the bill should it pass. “We’d certainly support a study, but we’ll see what happens through the legislative process.”