He's 100% correct because Congress won't approve it.
But is it something he can issue an executive order on?
But is it something he can issue an executive order on?
O-bam-a: I Can’t Pursue Rep's Because It’s Politically Infeasible
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Larry Lambo
Superstar
I can tell you one difference. The sheer amount of money.
The Japanese got $20K per person. If you do that for every descendant of a former slave in the US, it would be $600 Billion. The Japanese got $1.2B
Best thing to do, is keep your mouth shut and move covertly.
Didn't the US pay Japanese Americans, Native Americans, Jewish Americans, etc? But blacks, the people they literally dragged across the globe to terrorize and rape can't get rep, we also have one of the smallest populations in the states, but its impossible.
Get this c00n out of my face.
They don't feel they did anything wrong.
ORDER_66
I dont care anymore 2026
Oh well they should have paid it back instead of making jim crow after slavery was over... but They could give the japanese back money for their interment in ww2 and the jews as well... but when we came back from the war we're still "******s" to them.
Trillions.... Well they got money for these wars, they pass that shyt in a heartbeat but cant pay back for their past fukkups huh but continue to keep making the same fukkups...
Bunchy Carter
I'll Take The Money Over The Honey
Yeah, the article is made up. If Obama did say that, it would be trending on black twitter and dr boyce, dr claud anderson and etc., would have said something
Fillerguy
Veteran
How would reparations for us even work? Even if you could track down direct slave descendants (
) how would you come up with the funds? Is Congress supposed to draft a bill to raise that money
2016/17 Congress You mean the Congress that was elected by the half of the country that also elected a xenophobic candidate
Plus many ppl believe affirmative action is reparations. Being treated like "equals" on paper is our reparations.
We should have a racial draft first to keep c00ns and biracials out
) how would you come up with the funds? Is Congress supposed to draft a bill to raise that money2016/17 Congress You mean the Congress that was elected by the half of the country that also elected a xenophobic candidatePlus many ppl believe affirmative action is reparations. Being treated like "equals" on paper is our reparations.
We should have a racial draft first to keep c00ns and biracials out
Formerly Black Trash
Philosopher, Connoisseur, Future Legend
YUP!
Lol when Obama first got elected nikkas was like
8 years later now it's just
Eee yuppppppp
You nikkas are clowns.
same way they come up with funds to give Israel $38 Billion in military aidHow would reparations for us even work? Even if you could track down direct slave descendants (
Pull Up the Roots
Veteran
‘Better Is Good’: Obama on Reparations, Civil Rights, and the Art of the Possible
Read the whole interview. It's good. The dailycaller writer posted out-of-context pieces and took liberties with some of his words. The dailycaller is disreputable. The dailycaller shouldn't be used as a source.
"Obama: Step No. 2, and this is where I think policies do need to be somewhat race-specific, is making sure that institutions are not discriminatory. So you’ve got something like the FHA [Federal Housing Administration], which was on its face a universal program that involved a huge mechanism for wealth accumulation and people entering into the middle class. But if, in its application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices. The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that it excluded domestic workers or agricultural workers, you might not see race in it, unless you knew that that covered a huge chunk of African Americans, particularly in the South. So reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of black boys being suspended at substantially higher rates than white boys for the same behavior, in the absence of that kind of rigorous enforcement of the nondiscrimination principle, then the long-standing biases that I believe have weakened, but are still clearly present in our society, assert themselves in ways that usually disadvantage African Americans."
"Obama: Now, does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we’ve had before when you talk about something like reparations. Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those gaps. That those were wrongs done to the black community as a whole, and black families specifically, and that in order to close that gap, a society has a moral obligation to make a large, aggressive investment, even if it’s not in the form of individual reparations checks, but in the form of a Marshall Plan, in order to close those gaps. It is easy to make that theoretical argument. But as a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation’s resources over a long period of time to make that right. You can look at examples like postwar Germany, where reparations were paid to Holocaust victims and families, but—"
Congress has power of the purse. Where would the money come from?He's 100% correct because Congress won't approve it.
But is it something he can issue an executive order on?