Marianne Williamson, 2020 Democratic hopeful and self-help author, rolled out her plan to spend up to $500 billion in reparations to descendants of slavery.
Williamson argues, as many policy experts do, that reparations could actually cost trillions of dollars by offering financial backing to those who have never actually experienced slavery themselves.
By comparison, her plan is a real penny-pincher.
“I have proposed $200 to $500 billion to be disbursed over a period of 20 years,” she announced, failing to offer a glimpse as to what magical money tree she’ll grow in order to get that money.
Williamson added that the money would be distributed based on the suggestions of a panel “made up of 30 to 50 people who themselves are descendants of American slaves.”
If you did the math of the 40 acres and a mule, given that there was 4 to 5 million slaves at the end of the Civil War, and they were all promised 40 acres and a mule for every family of four, if you did the math today, it would be trillions of dollars. #Reparations #BigTruth
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) July 31, 2019
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40 Acres and a Mule
Speaking of asses, Williamson has suggested that a major portion of her plan to pay $500 billion in reparations would be to repeal the Republican middle-class tax cuts.
During an interview with CNN, the new-age author explained, “You repeal the 2017 tax cut, you put back in the middle-class tax cut,” prior to listing a litany of other pipe dreams.
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She went on to suggest the amount was necessary because “anything less than $100 billion dollars is an insult” to black Americans.
“It’s… payment of a debt that is owed. That is what reparations is.”
Author Marianne Williamson earned applause and cheers when she mounted a defense of her plan to offer $200 billion to $500 billion in reparations to the descendants of enslaved Africans in the US. #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/MCCtLWcZ45
— CNN (@CNN) July 31, 2019
In the second 2020 presidential Democratic debate, Williamson explained that reparations were a debt owed to descendants of slavery because, even though slavery was abolished, America continued acting like ‘domestic terrorists’ towards them for years to come.
“We need to recognize, when it comes to the economic gap between blacks and whites in America, it does come from a great injustice that has never been dealt with,” she alleged.
“That great injustice has had to do with the fact that there was 250 years of slavery followed by another hundred years of domestic terrorism.”
Apology Tour
Williamson’s loathing of white people is startling from a woman who insists she’s not a “wacky new-age nutcase.”
“People are so invested in creating this false narrative about me as the ‘crystal lady,’ ‘wacky new-age nutcase.’ If you really think about it, I must be doing something right that they’re so scared,” she claimed.
Or, maybe it’s because you’re actually a wacky new-age nutcase. There’s that too.
Williamson previously made white people in attendance at one of her tour stops join her in a ‘prayer of apology’ to those black members in attendance.
Prayer apparently isn’t enough. It requires cold hard cash to atone for the sins of a nation that nobody alive today ever experienced.
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MY IMMIGRANT FAMILY (MAYFLOWER) VOTED REPUBLICAN AND FOUGHT FOR THE NORTH IN THE CIVIL WAR…. BEING A PART OF THE AMERICAN MELTING POT IS THE PRIZE…
LBJ’s phony baloney (not so) Great Society, redux..
LBJ’s phony baloney (not so) Great Society, redux..
She had these visions of reparations just after she recited some witches incantation and sipped on the wild mushroom tea.
Politicians do these stupid moves for votes. We the people will have to pay for these stupid directions. What is the National Debt? Congress does not care.
There’s a name destined for obscurity!
There are NO blacks people alive today that were ever slaves, so just get over it. Remember the really bad hurricane in the Gulf a few yrs ago, and they were given money to restart their lives and what did they use the money for, tattoos. Don’t be so stupid, keep them working so money will go into SS, so they will be able to retire.
There are NO blacks people alive today that were ever slaves, so just get over it. Remember the really bad hurricane in the Gulf a few yrs ago, and they were given money to restart their lives and what did they use the money for, tattoos. Don’t be so stupid, keep them working so money will go into SS, so they will be able to retire.
Plain and simple- If you believe in Slavery Reparations, You are stupid and pandering to gain votes or You are raciest as they come! She is singling out only one group. Many different types of people were forced into slavery……Besides Slavery was a private enterprise and the 1860 census shows that in the states that seceded from the Union, an average of only 32 percent of recorded families owned slaves. So “if” money is owed it should come from the people or company’s pockets not from the tax payers.
Plain and simple- If you believe in Slavery Reparations, You are stupid and pandering to gain votes or You are raciest as they come! She is singling out only one group. Many different types of people were forced into slavery……Besides Slavery was a private enterprise and the 1860 census shows that in the states that seceded from the Union, an average of only 32 percent of recorded families owned slaves. So “if” money is owed it should come from the people or company’s pockets not from the tax payers.
Good! YOU pay the reparations to your heart;s content and leave those of us whose ancestors were in another country and had nothing to do with slavery alone!
Good! YOU pay the reparations to your heart;s content and leave those of us whose ancestors were in another country and had nothing to do with slavery alone!
Let me get this straight; You are going to take my tax cuts, and fund reparations with it? I’ve got a better idea. let’s just tax democrats, since they were the only ones who owned slaves
Every day blacks are getting “woke” to the democrat lies.. lying and promising them reparations ain’t gonna cut it any longer. They are wise to these thieves.They’ve ruined every city under their control for the last 50 years
Every day blacks are getting “woke” to the democrat lies.. lying and promising them reparations ain’t gonna cut it any longer. They are wise to these thieves.They’ve ruined every city under their control for the last 50 years
That paying off African Americans has as much chance as a snowball in hell. It wont
go anywhere. Think of how the taxes on all of us will go up, including African Americans.
shes trying to buy black votes but their leaving the reservation now like never before. They have more jobs, money, & freedom than they ever had listening to the socialists. The democrats used them and threw them away. Look At San Francisco, Baltimore, Chicago, Seattle and Portland, swill buckets, crime ridden and diseased. All run by democrats. That’s what you get for voting for them.
kind of like the “you can keep your doctor”….promises, promises….but, this one is also even more asinine. Some of my ancestors in the “Happy Hunting Ground” probably laughing their Eagle Feathers off.
kind of like the “you can keep your doctor”….promises, promises….but, this one is also even more asinine. Some of my ancestors in the “Happy Hunting Ground” probably laughing their Eagle Feathers off.
Sooo, she’s giving everyone $5. Would that be in installments or will everyone get the whole $5? LOL The more outrageous thing about this is not the reparations part. It is that people are actually taking this woman seriously.
Are they willing to alienate more than 90% of American citizens to buy a few votes?
Are they willing to alienate more than 90% of American citizens to buy a few votes?
The more than 300,000 Union soldier who lost their lives fighting to free the slaves more than covers the reparations issue.
Nutcase
Nutcase
Some of my ancestors were slaves and some were slave owners.. Do I receive or do I have to pay for this.??
Some of my ancestors were slaves and some were slave owners.. Do I receive or do I have to pay for this.??
that woman is out of her mind.
I’m sure everyone’s distant ancestors went through hard times at some point, should we have reparations for those folks also? the entire concept is ridiculous.
that woman is out of her mind.
I’m sure everyone’s distant ancestors went through hard times at some point, should we have reparations for those folks also? the entire concept is ridiculous.
What else are you gonna give ’em, Ms. Williamson ? Maybe sweet ol’ Bernie will let you claim one of his freebies.
Anyhow, reparations aren’t gonna get you the black vote. Even the ones you hope to reach with your give away realize that they’re not gonna get cash on the curb down by the liquor store.
What about reparations for the indentured servants that came over and were treated worse than the slaves? This gal is a definite nut case twelve short of a bakers dozen.
What about reparations for the indentured servants that came over and were treated worse than the slaves? This gal is a definite nut case twelve short of a bakers dozen.
So reparations are a debt owed but school loans aren’t?
Reparations have already been paid. 4-5 Americans paid for each slave’s freedom during the Civil War with their very lives. Paid in FULL! These pseudo-liberal Dems think they can just spend everyone else’s money except their own! Guess I’ll go water my “money-tree”…DUH!
Reparations have already been paid. 4-5 Americans paid for each slave’s freedom during the Civil War with their very lives. Paid in FULL! These pseudo-liberal Dems think they can just spend everyone else’s money except their own! Guess I’ll go water my “money-tree”…DUH!
The desperation is unbelievable!
40 acres and a mule was Gen. Sherman’s idea; it was never promised by either President Lincoln or President Johnson, and was never passed by Congress. My family paid its reparations through my paternal great-great-grandfathers Howes (head wound at Fair Oaks), Fuller (killed at Fredericksburg), Cain (wounded at Spotsylvania Court House) and Dawes (fought in every major eastern battle from 2nd Bull Run through Spotsylvania Court House).
bet they will take it out of social security..my family came here from Ireland after the civil war. They never owned slaves worked hard for what they had.
bet they will take it out of social security..my family came here from Ireland after the civil war. They never owned slaves worked hard for what they had.
So can Mizzzzzz. Williamson explain to me how it is that blacks in America are better off, by just about any measure applied, than blacks in Africa or just about anywhere else? Now I know liberals despise personal responsibility nearly as much as they despise the truth, but maybe the truth is that reason blacks have not prospered as much as other races in America has more to do with the black culture than it does with white oppression.
Never even heard of her. Obviously, she’s a nut and has zero chance of gaining her party’s nomination. Any candidate the Dems put up that openly advocates for reparations has no chance of becoming president. Just look at the polls of Americans on reparations. It isn’t popular.
Never even heard of her. Obviously, she’s a nut and has zero chance of gaining her party’s nomination. Any candidate the Dems put up that openly advocates for reparations has no chance of becoming president. Just look at the polls of Americans on reparations. It isn’t popular.
How about returning all the Southwestern States that were “Stolen” following the Mexican War of 1846 though the US paid for that land. But that is another issue.
I have to agree with Sammy
I have to agree with Sammy
They have been getting freebees for 60 years and all kinds of breaks that they didn’t deserve.
Reparations is another word for VOTE BUYING. It’s illegal Dems,
Reparations is another word for VOTE BUYING. It’s illegal Dems,
Also Affirmative Action for all these yeas, getting jobs and entrance to universities that they did not qualify for, by passing people that were qualified, is a form of restoration.
My mother’s family had no part in the Civil War, they immigrated from Scotland in 1920. My Grandfather immigrated from Ireland in 1900. Another family unit came in 1635, fought in American Revolution, 1812 and for Union Army during Civil War. No reparations for descendants who receive welfare benefits since President Johnson, those are the Reparations.
My mother’s family had no part in the Civil War, they immigrated from Scotland in 1920. My Grandfather immigrated from Ireland in 1900. Another family unit came in 1635, fought in American Revolution, 1812 and for Union Army during Civil War. No reparations for descendants who receive welfare benefits since President Johnson, those are the Reparations.