2020 Democratic candidate for president Beto O’Rourke was asked recently if he would support reparations for slavery by signing Sheila Jackson Lee’s bill that does just that.
‘Yes’
Appearing at the Nation Action Network’s convention alongside Rev. Al Sharpton, O’Rourke said, “Yes. Civil rights are not just those victories that I began with at the outset of my comments, but the injustices that have been visited and continue to be visited on people.”
“We will never get the change that we need to live up to the promise of this country. So absolutely, I would sign that into law,” O’Rourke said.
Beto’s Flip-Flop on Reparations
This was a change in position for O’Rourke.
“Just last month, O’Rourke told an audience in Iowa he was not in favor of traditional reparations for African Americans, a position he was later confronted on during a stop in South Carolina,” U.S. News and World Report notes. “Why should I, as a black man, vote for you when you oppose reparations?’ a man asked O’Rourke, according to Mediaite.”
“O’Rourke replied with a long answer arguing that making institutional changes like eliminating voter identification laws and gerrymandering would ‘begin … to get some of that repair.”
Rep. @JacksonLeeTX18 has introduced a law that would create a commission tasked with looking at options for reparations.@BetoORourke says he'd support it, too. https://t.co/J3RLkaNFdV
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 3, 2019
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So between then and now, O’Rourke has apparently decided to come out fully in favor of reparations?
Wednesday’s admission of support for Lee’s bill marks the first time O’Rourke has been clear about whether he supports it or not.
It will be interesting to see what the rest of the Democratic field does. In a party that moves farther left each day, taking such stances on reparations and other radical proposals might please many Democratic voters, but how will those positions play in a general election?
Would most Americans want to elect a president who wants to give money to people today for horrible sins committed a century and a half ago? Does that even make sense?
Beto seems to have concluded that it does. If he becomes the 2020 nominee, it will be interesting to see what President Trump says in response.
We’ll make the popcorn.
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so, how many slaves are alive today, not the ones being used by muslims in the mideast, but in the u.s.? most like zero. so also, how many sons and daughters of these said slaves are alive today? i think it has been paid back many times over. and while we are going there, who was the ones most responsible for slaves being just that. their own people. and here is another tidbit, why does canada have to pay black kids to attend school, we helped free them, with that lovely underground railroad.if there were any slaves up here, it’s because they put themselves into it freely, i don’t think that anyone here ever actually have a slave, unless it was freely being sex slave. most of all crime anywhere, is purpetrated by black, robberies, rapes murders, and dope dealing.so, tell me again why any one of them should get one fucking penny.
Ahhh someone owes up, here up north, do we get anything for fighting and dying for their freedom?
Okay no one today was a slave, and not all blacks were slaves. The Europeans brought it here so they best get a hold of the Queen. So, he needs to answer this , what about the blacks that owned black slaves? what about the north , we did not have slavery? What about the white slaves, Irish, one of the worse? Egyptians had slaves, that is how common it was. this is the only a way to buy votes and find it very sick, how do we move on forward with the past that has nothing to do with us keep coming up? Many benefits have been created for many cultures to do better, so that does not count?
i am sorry,i thought al sharpton looked like a malnutritioned lizard ,instead he looks more like a malnutritioned squirrel.note the head compared to the body,looks like he’s short on nuts and brains.sorry lizard.
My European ancestors were poor sharecroppers in the South, for hundreds of years. Do I get an exemption? I didn’t think so. By the way the first slave owner in America was black. Can’t his ancestors pay my restitution?
A BIG NO VOTE FOR BETO….
Those reparations were made when Americans laid down their lives to free black Americans from slavery.
First of all, what he really is saying is, he will say anything to get attention and get elected.
And number 2, Your Reparations have already been paid. And are still being paid. It’s called Welfare. No one alive today was a Slave during that time in our Dark History and no one alive today was a Slave owner either. This is nothing more than to keep the Plantation alive for the DemocRATS that were and still are, the real Slave Owners.
The no voter I D distresses me so much. To rent a motel room I had to show I d. Eye doc been to for years asks for I d. No I d big time voter fraud. Americans better wake up & smell the roses. This country is doomed.
We are already paying reparations. Affirmative action programs have been in place for over 30 years. They are very expensive. Federal, state and local governments spend money administering and enforcing them. Businesses spend more to make sure they are following the rules and defending themselves from administrative and legal action when someone thinks they are not. We also pay costs from increased incompetence and lower morale in the workplace.
Estimates of these costs vary. Some reach as high as hundreds of billions of dollars. But even if we accept lower estimates and remember that women and other minorities benefit from affirmative action policies (think Elizabeth Warren), it it still clear that payments of tens of billions of dollars annually have been made to black Americans for decades. The fact that these payments do not seem to be doing much, if any, good, does not alter the fact that they are being made.
Finally, when considering the question of reparations we should return to a point suggested by Lincoln. All blacks descended from slaves are more than compensated for the damage of slavery by the good fortune of living in the United States. Every black in the United States is much better off economically, legally, politically, and morally than any black living in Africa. This is a debt of course that all Americans, not just blacks, owe and it can only be repaid by being a good citizen.
Robert my boy, if you want to do something about slavery then strengthen your borders. Those that are being trafficked now are the ones that need help, not the great great great great great grandchildren of Kunte Kinte. And as with slavery down through the ages it starts with the ones doing the trafficking who are in fact trafficking their own people. The Muslim world apparently is still fervently slave trading amongst their own with the full permission of Allah himself if you listen to them. Anyway, if you could see your way to help out somewhere in there rather than standing next to a POS like Sharpton in an effort to garner a few coloured votes it would be appreciated I should imagine.
First , we’re not really talking about reparations, we’re talking about extortion. Reparations were paid to those directly involved after the civil war. If they want more now they should be paid by the DNC. Democrats were the ones most responsible for southern slavery and the difficulty blacks have had overcoming that prejudice, after all.
Even so, will there be a reduction for all the blacks who owned slaves or blacks who fought for the south?
I didn’t immigrate to the United States till 1949, will I have to pay reparation? Since so many Americans, even white ones have black ancestors way, way back in their DNA, will they be able to collect reparations. And what about half black, like Obama? How much reparation will he have to pay?
The Pathetic Disgusting Liberal DemocRATs will lose the 2020 elections and the party will be abolished. No need to worry, everything is under control. The “Fake News” liberal media has lost close to 50% of its viewership. People have begun to smarten up and see the light.
I am all for reparations just as soon as you show me ONE person living today who was a slave. My ancestors were Irish, who most came here during the 1800’s as Lifetime Indentured Servants of the wealthy, when am I going to get my reparations.
This tells me that the fake Mexican is going to do whatever he thinks will get him one more vote. I think I will tell him I will vote if women get reparations for our unequal pay and it should be prorated. As a 75 yo female, I should get more than a 50 yo. I bet he would consider it. What a loser and what a joke! I see that jutting jaw of his and I want to throw up.
Reparations were paid after the Civil War. Former slaves in the South were given 40 acres of land and a mule, the equivalent today of being given a farm and a tractor. It was already done.
Beto is too stupid to understand this would never pass legal muster….in order to have reparations, someone must show that they were actually harmed by someone or some thing. That would be like someone demanding money from the British gov’t because their great grandfather went down with the Titanic! Now that person’s great grandmother could have sued the White Star Line way back then for wrongful death but not a descendant of such today! And here’s another thing – like the Titanic’s owner, the government that allowed slavery is also defunct. In other words, because the southern Dems lost the Civil War, their government no longer exists! So how do you get reparations (or damages) from an entity that is no longer in existence? The Confederate States of American cannot repay anything because it no longer exists.
How much further to the left can this INSANE Democrat Party get ! Their ideas get more ridiculous by the day ! “Beto” ,as this ignorant fool likes to be called, is one of the WORST.
What about all the technology stolen from the Germans, we need payment too!
what if I’m second generation?
what if I’m feeling black?
what if I’m white but born in Africa?
what if there was no slavery would they even be alive today?
Is this bs happening in other countries, the U.S.A. had slavery for 89 years, other countries 100s of years; Oh that’s right we have the most money and a corrupt government.
Great! How much is he thinking of paying me. LOL Talk about living in fantasy land.
People who keeps looking back will never get ahead. Liberals have no clue on how to get people to be positive and strive to move forward. They simply want people to rely on their handiuts and hold people as their slaves as long as they can.
The only way reparations will be made is if his wife pays for everything.
What’s a Beto?
HOW STUPID , I GUESS HE IS LOOKING TO GET THE BLACK VOTE. WE OWE THEM NOTHING.
THE MONEY WOULD PROBABLY GO TO A BUNCH OF STREET DRUG DEALERS AND PIMPS OR SOME FREE LOADERS THAT DON’T WANT TO WORK .SLAVERY WAS STARTED BY THE BLACK MAN SELLING HIS OWN WOMEN TO THE PLANTATION OWNERS WHO SOME WERE BLACK MAYBE THEY SHOULD PAY THE WHITE MAN. MY GOD NO ONE SHOULD GET PAID FOR ANY THING. WHAT ABOUT SAVING OUR COUNTRY. FROM THE ILLEGALS THAT ARE INVADING OUR COUNTRY. BETO O ROUKE, WHY DON’T YOU GET YOUR BRAIN ADJUSTED
Talk and voting are not th e way to deal with the liberal dem bloodsuckers, this will take civil war, why are we waiting?
to pure absolute,that was a great comment,thank you
Great idea!
Charge every Democrat whose ancestors owned one or more slaves between 1850 & 1865, $100,000 for each slave owned.
Then, those who have verifiable heritage can split the $100,000 for each ancestor they can show was a slave during that period.
I say this because no Republicans owned slaves.
While we are at it, let’s charge another $100,000 for every family that left the Union from 1859-1865 and give that money to the families of all the Union soldiers who died because of the Civil War.
I mean fair is fair…
Me?
I have neither as my parents were first generation born on both sides so you can see my solution does not benefit me on either side of the equation.
the only reparations i had for them ,i flushed them down earlier.these people who want reparations are the same slugs who want free everything,free college,free medical,free food stamps, 100% welfare slugs,the lowest of the low.apparently they were slugs all their lives.they have been getting reparations since their kin, left africa.they actually owe other people for bringing them out of the jungles to civilization.what about the romans,they had slaves and guess what they had white slaves,who’s gonna pay the reparations to the white people who’s folks were slaves.
Let Beto pay them
oops should have been rat
I think he looks like a ray
Because he is.
first of all,look at al sharpton,it seems his body is shrinking ,but his head is as big as ever,he looks more and more like a damn starving lizard.
Reparations are a concept that can only exist in a collectivist world. Then again, Democrats only exist in a collectivist world.
It is also something that can only exist in a racist world. Then again, Democrats only exist in a racist world.
It is also something that cannot exist in a capitalist world. Then again, Democrats only exist in a world without capitalism.
Laying down their lives to rightfully free black Americans from enslavement when the dem party and their supporters refused to release them was reparation , despite the fact those who fought and died for them did not own nor condone slavery.
Will the black descendants of slave holders have to pay reparations, also? And there were slave holders in the north as well as the south.
Good point.
Excellent ! ! ! My ancestors are all from Eastern Europe in the early 1900s. Will I have to pay reparations?
Do the white Republican citizens from the north, who’s forefathers fought and thousands died to end slavery have to pay reparations also? Or, will it only be the descendants of the white Democrats who supported slavery and created the KKK?
There surely will be another civil war our government is very fair and AL SHARPTON PAY YOUR TAXES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WHY AREN’T YOU IN JAIL
Let him pay for it ….
we had nothing to do with it plus there were blacks who owned slaves as well.
He better learn history.
Slavery was not our doing that was long ago and there were many slaves we now did not put it into law Lincoln freed the salves. This is abuse of our tax dollar and we the people should not be held responsible for what happened centeries ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We will get rid of every liberal in this country first!!!!!!!!!