NOT ON MY FUCKING WATCH!!!
Congress, unfortunately, is, collectively speaking, rather like a small child. You've to keep your eye on them, or the next thing you know, they're drawing on the wall with crayons.
HR 40 is the biggest goddamn crayon I've seen in a while.
Quoting here;
"To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes."
That is so fucked up, I honestly don't know where to begin. Maybe the fact that my family didn't even get to this country until the early 20th century, 50 years after slavery was outlawed. Why should I be held responsible for something someone's long dead great-great-grandfather did to someone else's long dead great-great-grandfather?
More importantly, why should my tax dollars go someone whose great-great-grandfather was enslaved? How does four or more generations of separation from slavery justify a check from Uncle Sam? What specific injustice has he suffered?
Also, according to this bill, all descendants of slavery may get a check. According to this bill, 4 million slaves were brought to this country. Their descendants now number at least ten times this number. If you give each of them just $10 that's $400 million.
And last, but not least, when my forebears came to this country, they faced signs saying "Irish need not apply". Fact of the matter is, everybody who has come to this country has been crapped on, my people included. Do you see any of them standing there, with their hands out?
No, you don't.
HR 40 is the biggest goddamn crayon I've seen in a while.
Quoting here;
"To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes."
That is so fucked up, I honestly don't know where to begin. Maybe the fact that my family didn't even get to this country until the early 20th century, 50 years after slavery was outlawed. Why should I be held responsible for something someone's long dead great-great-grandfather did to someone else's long dead great-great-grandfather?
More importantly, why should my tax dollars go someone whose great-great-grandfather was enslaved? How does four or more generations of separation from slavery justify a check from Uncle Sam? What specific injustice has he suffered?
Also, according to this bill, all descendants of slavery may get a check. According to this bill, 4 million slaves were brought to this country. Their descendants now number at least ten times this number. If you give each of them just $10 that's $400 million.
And last, but not least, when my forebears came to this country, they faced signs saying "Irish need not apply". Fact of the matter is, everybody who has come to this country has been crapped on, my people included. Do you see any of them standing there, with their hands out?
No, you don't.