Far-left ‘Squad’ member Cori Bush was heavily criticized after introducing legislation demanding $14 trillion in reparations for slavery, and suggesting the United States government has a “moral and legal obligation” to do so.
Bush, flanked by activists and other leftwing extremist lawmakers like Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), announced the new legislation known as Reparations NOW at a Wednesday press conference.
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“America must provide reparations if we desire a prosperous future for all,” she demanded.
“The United States has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of black people,” Bush said.
Bowman chimed in by claiming black people still feel the pain of slavery today, even if they’ve never actually experienced it.
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“Trauma lives in the black body,” he reasoned.
Rep. @CoriBush: “The United States has a moral & legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans … black people in our country cannot wait any longer” [clip via @FoxBusiness] pic.twitter.com/Z7QNIY8mwk
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 18, 2023
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Cori Bush Wants $14 Trillion in Reparations
You might be surprised to learn that Representative Cori Bush put forth her $14 trillion reparations package without a plan to fund it and clearly without thinking about the proposal very much at all.
When asked to explain how to fund the massive proposal, Bush suggested the United States slash spending abroad and on defense – the total of which would amount to some 1/14th of $14 trillion. (Which also, according to the leftist media, would make her ‘Putin’s puppet.’)
Why stop at $14 trillion? Why not just continue to make up numbers such as eleventy trillion?
Cori Bush demands $14 Trillion in Reparations.
This is the modern Democrat party.
They started slavery, and now they want to get paid.pic.twitter.com/5d4U6ZmO94
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As absurd as it may sound, Bush hints that the Biden administration is taking it seriously and “working with” them.
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“We’re working with this administration, we’re talking with other members of Congress, but I’ll say this,” she said.
“If we can continue to fund these endless wars, or we can continue to put trillions of dollars into these forever wars, into the Defense budget even beyond what they asked for, if we can send money abroad to help elsewhere, then we have to make sure, because we’re talking about things that are happening now.”
No, slavery isn’t happening now. And not one person alive has ever been subjected to slavery in the United States.
CORI BUSH: “The United States has a moral & legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans.”
NO WE DON’T.
WE DON’T OWE YOU SHIT!We’ve come so far since MLK marched to give us equal rights, and here’s that heifer Cori Bush sticking her hand out like…
— Lavern Spicer 🇺🇸 (@lavern_spicer) May 18, 2023
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Just More of that Woke Ideology
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Cori Bush was widely ridiculed for her demand that American taxpayers cough up $14 trillion in reparations.
Representative Kat Cammack, a Florida Republican, slammed the plan as little more than “woke ideology.”
“I think that is just the woke ideology peeking and rearing its ugly head,” she said. “In this country, you can do anything, be anything, and this culture of victimhood, it has absolutely gotten out of control.”
You can even become a member of Congress while sporting a room temperature IQ!
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Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) stated, “The notion of reparations are so absurd, they don’t even merit a response.”
Journalist Christopher Tremoglie writes that the “national reckoning” pro-reparations Democrats are demanding “was the Civil War, in which over 625,000 white men died fighting to end the evil institution of slavery.”
“@CoriBush thinks reparations would be a national reckoning over slavery.
The national reckoning was the US Civil War, when 625,000 white men died to end the evil institution.”
–@CWTremohttps://t.co/JRfWZYk6Vb— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 19, 2023
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Bush has long been a critic of the country for which she serves as a prestigious lawmaker.
Last Independence Day, she slammed the United States and claimed “black people still aren’t free” in America.
“When they say that the 4th of July is about American freedom, remember this: the freedom they’re referring to is for white people,” she falsely claimed. “This land is stolen land and Black people still aren’t free.”
When they say that the 4th of July is about American freedom, remember this: the freedom they’re referring to is for white people.
This land is stolen land and Black people still aren’t free.
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) July 4, 2021
The concept of reparations, despite far-left Democrats suggesting it is a foregone conclusion that it is right and just, remains incredibly unpopular in America.
Latest polling shows three-quarters or more of white adults oppose reparations, as do a majority of Latinos and Asian Americans.
Representative Burgess Owens (R-UT), who is black, suggested he’d like to see Democrats pay restitution to blacks “for all the misery brought to my race.”
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So, comrade Bush demands money taken from non-slave holders and given to non-slaves. Well, she is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and redistribution of other people’s wealth is central to socialists. Marx, Mao, and Lenin would be so proud.
Cori is a racist extreme marxist.
Extermination is in her future.
All reparations should go straight to the homeless, not blacks. Also, it should go to those who served our nation’s military, police, firefighters, ems workers and all first responders who put their lives on the line everyday for strangers. Black people have gone too far with this crap. Demanding something isn’t going to help their end game. Such ignorance, arrogance and racism directed at non blacks.
She’s addressing the wrong government. The last government around here that had slaves was the Confederacy, not the one in Washington.
She’s addressing the wrong government. The last government around here that had sl_ves was the Confederacy. Maybe she’s owed 14 trillion Confederate dollars, but that’s between her and Jefferson Davis.
“The United States has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of black people,” Might I suggest that Ms. Bush has a “moral and legal obligation” to leave if she doesn’t like it here. I’m sure she’ll be much better off.
Totally ridiculous! You disgust me, Ms. Bush.
Cori acts just like a cow that ate a bucket full of jimson weed
What the F next? The year is 2023 that’s 158 years since slavery was abolished, 154 years since Black Men were given the right to vote. None of these people seeking ” Reparations” were ever slaves, none of their parents, or even their Grand Parents. Same for the Slave owners. Does these reparations include those of Irish ,German or Orientals who’s Ancestors came to America as Indentured Servants ( Slaves ) , Or is this another Perk just for the Black Communities ? Who have had the same opportunities since the Civil rights act and the push for more since 1965:( Of which the Demonrats fought like angry bulls to keep from happening )
How about the Dutch who brought the first wholesale numbers of slaves to the North American continent, right in what is now NYC, then New Amsterdam. and who did they buy them from? African village Chieftains and the Muslim slave traders in western Africa. Bet she still thinks Cleopatra and all the Egyptian Pharoahs were black which is also a lie. Cleo was Greek, and the Blacks only ruled Egypt for a few decades
“If we can continue to fund these endless wars…….” Who started these endless and wars and continues to fund them. Yup, the Democrats. Cori Bush and her ilk never face reality. The blacks who were brought to this country were already slaves in their native land. That is how they became slaves in this country. The blacks of today should be glad their ancestors were brought here else, as of today, they might be in Africa trying to outrun a lion.
Reparations… hmmm, let’s think about this. Yes, I’d easily agree that slavery is wrong, inexcusable and never should have happened. But the fact that slavery was abolished long ago means that you can make your life into what you want now; you are free to do that! If you want to talk about who deserves reparations more, let’s talk about the Native Americans. The American Indians weren’t given the option of being slaves; they were murdered! Yes, slavery is wrong, but I’d have to say that genocide is even worse. And many of the children who survived the slaughter were sent to state run schools to be transformed; to be forced to adhere to the “proper” lifestyles and weren’t allowed to practice their own traditions.
Truly goes to show just how ignorant and lacking of analytical skills the current “reparations promotors are. If one wants to destroy a society, simply give them everything they want with out them putting forth any effort. A proven recipe for societal destruction.
They don’t want that.
If people who were never slaves are given my money, when I’ve never owned slaves, I’ll have no option but to get my money back at all costs since it was stolen.
Want reparations? Go to africa and get your reparations from the tribal leaders there. They captured, tortured, & sold their own to the ship owners, who then took the slaves to the US. Of their own kind did not do that, over 3/4 of them would not be here. Some would have been lion dinner as they never would have been here.
That woman has the brains of a sack of rocks. I thought Missourians had more brains than to elect someone like her. As far as reparations are concerned, what about the Irish, Chinese and all the other indentured servants brought over against their will.
To say that she has the brain of a sack of rocks is being way too kind!
I say it should be taken out of HER salary. I’m just sure she wouldn’t object.
Cory Bush is a piece of drek, along with her ilk. It was her own ancestors who had slaves and sold them. And, anyone who falls for this drek should have their heads examined. She doesn’t know anything about slavery and it’s time for her to learn. Does she even know that there are still slaves in other countries? Let people get jobs and do honest work instead of spending their time and the government’s money, which comes from us – the taxpayers.
There is no one on this earth alive today that would deserve reparations .
A racial entitlement is only permissible to remedy the government’s own discrimination, not societal discrimination.
nuts
Yes, every person who had a slave and is still living needs to pay reparations, and any slave who is still alive in America is due reparations. But, if you or your family did not have any slaves, you are not required to pay reparations. And all persons alive who were slaves need to file a reparations declaration determining who enslaved them during their lifetime!
No person in America who did not have slaves during their lifetime should be required to pay any reparations, and ONLY those living persons who were slaves and can prove that are to be paid reparations, after a trial, from the persons who enslaved them!
NO TAXPAYERS should ever be required to pay reparations for slavery, this is a separate legal case from slaves against their slaveholders and only applies to those slaves still living against those slave holders still living.
my grandparents suffered when they immigrated from Ireland and Poland—I want reparations for my suffering every time I think of them
If she had a brain in her head she would be going after the British , Dutch , and French as they were the ones that brought the slave to what would become the USA that ended slavery less than 55yrs after the war of 1812.
they get FREE housing, food, medical, child support,
blacks have high paying jobs, in government, judges, teachers etc
slavery ended in 1865 so anyone who was a slave would be 150 plus years old and the generations after most of them would NEVER have lasted, AND WHAT ABOUT THE ONES WHO DIED FOR THEM TO HAVE FREEDOM CIVIL WAR
get the money out of the ones who sold them, captured them, shipped them from Africa to here
we all work for a living
so ms. bush give them some of the money you have stolen and ask oprah and barrack for some money and don’t forget sharpon to give some, also for who is going to pay all this trillions back = the future generations of non working collecting welfare people
A trillion here a trillion there and pretty soon you’re talkin’ real money.
GOD does the Reparations not people Cory Bush is a spoiled child.. Both whites and Blacks gladly fought on both sides of the civil War. When AmerICans thought both sides were in the Right . Where was Cory when The children were working in factories and dangerous jobs for pennies and hour. Have her look up the Real TRUTH of the Civil War…. Vengeance is Mine sayeth The LORD.
No reparations.!!!! GOD created All colors. Celebrates All Colors so we do too . All AmerICans made America Great.