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intheflow

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8. Yes, it won't pass AND

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu May 18, 2023, 10:14 AM

May 2023

Last edited Thu May 18, 2023, 10:56 AM - Edit history (1)

if we start now we might be able to normalize the idea and get it passed in 50 years... the same amount of time it took conservatives to normalize and overturn Roe. Better than waiting for never to introduce/normalize enslaved Americans' reparations.

As an aside, did you (anyone reading this) know that reparations were paid after the Civil War? To the former slave-holders.

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Members of Congress aim to revive federal reparations push [View all] brooklynite May 2023 OP

it won't pass rampartc May 2023 #1

And that's what they said about LBJ's signing the 1968 Civil Rights Act. intheflow May 2023 #9

johnson thought the civil tights act would cost us elections for a generation. he was wrong. rampartc May 2023 #11

Cori Bush (MO-01), D+27; Barbara Lee (CA-12), D+40; Rashida Tlaib (MI-12), D+23 brooklynite May 2023 #2

Wow, I'm shocked that those three would support this! Polybius May 2023 #15

Rep. Cori Bush Pushes For $14 Trillion In Reparations TheProle May 2023 #19

Was this the bill that was introduced by Rep. John Conyers? Rhiannon12866 May 2023 #3

Yes in 1989. SouthBayDem May 2023 #4

Thanks so much! Rhiannon12866 May 2023 #5

That one I wouldn't mind Polybius May 2023 #16

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. oldsoftie May 2023 #6

I'll take, newdayneeded May 2023 #7

Yes, it won't pass AND intheflow May 2023 #8

Sorry Bayard May 2023 #10

$14 Trillion - that's the price tag on it inwiththenew May 2023 #12

if this passed tomorrow newdayneeded May 2023 #13

That's a lot of money. What was the system that was proposing? XorXor May 2023 #14

I'll support it, but only with this clause: Polybius May 2023 #17

Barbara Lee just conceded her Senate race Zorro May 2023 #18