Obama: I'd support reparations if it weren't for the massive white backlash that would ensue

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Senator al Franken, that female senator in cali that was outed for having 3somes with her staff and they're going after Cuomo now. He was supposed to be a strong contender for president in 2024 (if Biden doesn't run) but now it's looking questionable that he even has a political career at all after this scandal.
I'm not here to argue brotha but if you're gonna make a point that Dems get their own out the paint unlike the repubs, you're going to have to make a better case than one senator who has threesomes with their staff.
 

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If we join together we can sustain each other! Do you realize what our spending power is? What would happen if we used that spending power on black businesses and companies in the black community?

We literally have the power to change our communities overnight! We can establish our own banks and give credit to each other.

I'm not saying reparations isn't important. I'm saying that yes, let's keep our eyes on it but also let's be honest and admit that it isn't happening RIGHT NOW. And in the meantime let's do the work of building up our communities until such time as if or when reparations happen.

How can we sustain eachother when we have the highest employment numbers? When we are living check to check being underpaid? When they are intentionally targeted by fukked up loans and mortgages -- and more. Which leave us homeless and no longer home-owners.

You are in Michigan -- you should understand what the closing of the plants did to our communities and families. I am from a GM family.

You can ride through my town/city and everyother Black majority area in Michigan and see the closed plants -- and they were in our communities. They funded and aided in our growth and jobs.

They are gone now -- with no replacements. It's thousands of Black folks with degrees -- and making less than $15.

To maintain a bank -- dollars must STAY in the back to build -- how will that happen when there is no money to deposit -- that will stay in the bank. They will only use the Bank for check-cashing purposes.

Do you understand Banking and why they are failing and hard to keep in our communities?

Why a 19th-century bank failure still matters

Is time running out to save black-owned banks?

AND NOT ONCE did I or anyone else say it was happening NOW -- but we have to continue to demand, speak and support it -- and those who are advocating for it.

That's why I told you to STFU -- what's so hard about not speaking down upon, against and uninformed about something that will redress/restore 95% of AA and our communities in this country.

Everything you are calling for can happen and be sustained with multi-generational reparations.
 
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So I didn't vote? Don't the ppl choose who they want in office and who they want out of office?

I didn't choose?

I got off my ass and was the change that I wanted to see. I put in work getting folks to vote Trump out and I went and voted him out myself.

I saved myself from Trump.

You went and voted for a white man to save you from Trump. You didn’t do shyt lol. Lol at going to a polling station and putting a check mark equaling “putting in work”

Then you turn around and demean those who are looking for what’s owed to them as “needing the white man”. You “saved yourself” by voting for a white man. Take the log out your eye buddy
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from local to to state level is the best bet like in Oregon or for a micro level of what it could look like.





Reparations will never happen in this country. Let's just get that out the way first.

But in terms of Obama's quote...is he wrong? Consider what the south did when Obamacare was passed. After the Supreme Court allowed states to opt in/out, nearly the entire south opted out of the Medicaid expansion. Despite the federal government offering to pay 90% of the costs. The reason? They didn't want to give healthcare to poor people...specifically black people. The south is where a very large portion of the black population lives. It took years for many of these states to expand Medicaid due to ballot measures.

We can barely expand healthcare in this country because a large portion of people are so angered by the idea of black people having healthcare. We gave people two (soon to be three) checks during a global pandemic, because so many people are angered at the idea of black people receiving money. Yet you think the government can just hand billions of dollars to black people exclusively and there won't be a white backlash? You're crazy. Just having a black president resulted in a whitelash that gave us Trump. What would the reparations whitelash look like lmao.

I think reparations could be done in one of the original ways, which was funneling money into urban areas for infrastructure (ie jobs). That's prob the only way it could be done, as a part of a larger bill. It wouldn't be called reparations.
 

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We need to unite and give it to ourselves.

I'm not waiting for white ppl to all of a sudden grow a conscience and give me something. Nah just stay the hell out of my way and don't try to stop my progress. Any progress that I make, I'm trying to build an institution for our ppl. And I know many other black ppl that feel the same exact way.

But they’ll never get out of our way and let us progress independently. History has shown that when we unite around their economic principles and start to gather wealth they’ll start to knock us down either openly through domestic terror and violence (Tulsa/Elaine/Greenville/Rosewood) or through clandestine activities that they’ll use to steal the community’s wealth. So then what happens when, under their system, all that we build is burned or stolen again? We’re (our descendants) supposed to ignore that too, I guess, like y’all suggest we should do with reparations?

Reparations should come in the form of tax exemption (Income and Property), 0% interest rate mortgages/car loans/business loans, free healthcare and free higher education for 246 years (The same length of years of America’s years of participation in chattel slavery from 1619-1865). That’s the only sensible way to really “fix” their ancestors’ mess and for us to be able to build on a large and long-lasting/permanent scale. It wouldn’t be a “handout” (even though that’s exactly what their ancestors got) and would actually benefit this country in the long-term. Again, it will never happen, whether through our own efforts or through reparations, because that’s not on this country’s agenda.
 

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shyt looks fake and photoshopped, breh.
:comeon:

I’m saying that as a strong politician critic and conspiracy theorist.
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its 100s of pics and vids with location data and his family members in the footage/pictures :why:
 

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Bruh... you’re legit stupid. You can’t even put together a coherent thought without name calling. Not to mention you’re just making new stuff up every time you respond. You think I don’t believe cash is owed? Of course I do! What are you even talking about? You can’t even handle a dialogue where you don’t agree with someone else. It’s straight to name calling, lol. You’re infantile. See, I would never condemn anyone for being willing to approach reparations the way some of you would. At the end of the day we all believe reparations should happen, even if we don’t agree on the how. But nikkas like you come on here and call people spineless and c00ns because you can’t fathom the idea that someone doesn’t think like you. If it was as easy as you make it out to be this would have been done years ago. If people will die in protest of police violence you don’t think people will do the same for getting their birthright of reparations? The problem is, when the smoke clears and the bodies are in the streets, will reparations be on the docket? These racist don’t even want to do simple shyt like require police officers to wear body cams. How much do fukking body cams cost! They don’t even want to prosecute a police sanctioned murder caught on camera! But you can’t understand why someone would want to actually strategize to get reparations given to black people?

I bet you couldn’t even give me a coherent plan for how to distribute reparations. How to pay them, who to pay them to, how much they should be, and how it would be paid for (in a way that would actually make it through Congress). This b*stard Manchin doesn’t even want to give people $1400 dollar checks in the middle of a pandemic, lol. And he’s a Democrat!

Explain to me how you logically see your strategy playing out and leading to reparations. If you could give a reasonable response to that, I would consider conceding to your approach.
The first and most important step of the strategy is getting worthless c00ns like you the fukk up out the way ...
 
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You went and voted for a white man to save you from Trump. You didn’t do shyt lol. Lol at going to a polling station and putting a check mark equaling “putting in work”





Man are you even from America? Do you know many of my people fought and were literally killed for me to be able to have the right to vote, you dumb nucca?

Do you know what my ppl sacrificed and gave up in order for me to have this right? Some sacrificed their freedom, some sacrificed their lives and many children grew up with parents who had scars from this fight... and some grew up without parents at all.

You would demean and throw away our ancestors who fought for you to have the rights that you have today. And the rights that we have we got most of them through our ability to vote. You ignorant fool nucca.
 
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