Thread: Chuck Schumer Backs Reparations Commission: Racism Is ‘in the American Bones’

Chuck Schumer Backs Reparations Commission: Racism Is ‘in the American Bones’

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced his support Tuesday for establishing a commission to study reparations proposals for black descendants of African slaves.

“Racism is the poison in America, it’s in the American bones, unfortunately,” Schumer said as voiced support for H.R 40, a bill championed by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) that would create a commission to study the issue of reparations. “The legacy of slavery and Jim Crow is still with us,” added Schumer.
The debate over reparations catapulted from the campaign trail to Congress last month when lawmakers heard testimony for and against the idea of providing compensation for slavery. On June 19th, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held a hearing on Jackson Lee’s bill. The panel invited 2020 White House hopeful Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Hollywood actor and left-wing activist Danny Glover, author Ta-Nehisi Coates, and others to discuss the measure re-introduced in January.
Booker, who testified first before the panel, said the country has “yet to truly acknowledge and grapple with the racism and white supremacy that tainted this country’s founding and continues to cause persistent and deep racial disparities and inequality.”
“The stain of slavery was not just inked in bloodshed, but in policies that have disadvantaged African Americans for generations,” the lawmaker added.
Earlier this year, Booker introduced a version of Jackson Lee’s measure to the Senate.
Following Booker was Glover, who called establishing a national policy on reparations a “moral, democratic, and economic imperative.”
“Despite much progress over the last centuries, this hearing is yet another important step in the long and heroic struggle of African-Americans to cure the damages inflicted by enslavement, post-emancipation and forced racial exclusionary policies,” Glover told lawmakers
The hearing came amid a growing discussion in the Democrat Party about reparations. Several of the party’s presidential candidates have endorsed looking at the idea.
In a Point Taken-Marist poll conducted in 2016, 68 percent of Americans said the country should not pay cash reparations to African American descendants of slaves to make up for the harm caused by slavery and racial discrimination. About 8 in 10 white Americans said they were opposed to reparations, while about 6 in 10 black Americans said they were in favor.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has said that he opposes reparations, telling reporters: “I don’t want reparations for something that happened 150 years ago. We’ve tried to deal with the original sin of slavery by passing civil rights legislation.”
“It would be hard to figure out who to compensate” for slavery, the Kentucky Republicannoted. “No one currently alive was responsible for that.”
Last week, McConnell said his family’s history of slave ownership doesn’t change his opposition to reparations.
The Kentucky Republican noted that he and former President Barack Obama have opposed reparations, and “both are the descendants of slave owners.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...merican-bones/

The Democrats ARE the party of racism!

Go get your reparations from the countries that sold your ancestors!

As we all know, Senator Chuck Shumer FREELY states that he's "THE GUARDIAN of ISRAEL" in the US Senate. So in other words, he's a Senator from NY State and a Senator from Israel in the US Senate. He represents them BOTH. He claims Racism is "in the AMERICAN BONES", but it's more than clear that Racism is "in the ISRAELI BONES" also, but you'll never hear a PEEP out of the guy on that, NOR FROM ANYBODY in CONGRESS over this????? Why aren't Black Congressional members complaining that Black Americans are being forced to send their TAX $$$$'s to a group of people who has as 1 of their primary religious leaders an individual who considers them "MONKEYS" and then states that this comparison derives from 1 of the Jewish religion's primary religious texts, The Talmud?????

Chief rabbi calls black people ‘monkeys’

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef uses pejorative term ‘kushi’ for African Americans in weekly sermon

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Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends a ceremony in Jerusalem, October 22, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel called black people “monkeys” during his weekly sermon on Saturday evening.
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef was addressing Jewish legal aspects of the blessing on seeing fruit trees blossoming, during the current Hebrew month of Nissan, and, specifically, whether one should bless one tree or at least two.
In that context, he mentioned a blessing uttered upon seeing an “unusual creature,” citing the example of encountering a black person who has two white parents on the street in America.
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In footage aired by the Ynet news site, Yosef could be seen referring to black people by the word “kushi,” which in modern Hebrew has pejorative connotations, and then going on to term a black person a “monkey.”


His office told Ynet that the comparison was a quote from the Talmud.
Yosef has been known to court controversy in his sermons.
In a sermon delivered in May last year, he appeared to suggest during his weekly sermon that secular woman behave like animals because they dress immodestly.
In March 2016, Yosef was forced to retract a comment that non-Jews should not live in Israel, calling it “theoretical.”
He said non-Jews could live in Israel only if they observe the seven Noahide Laws, which are prohibitions against idolatry, blaspheming God, murder, forbidden sexual relations, stealing, and eating limbs off a live animal, and which prescribe the establishment of a legal system.
Non-Jews, Yosef said, are in Israel only to serve Jews.


Israel has two chief rabbis. Yosef represents those with origins in the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, and the Middle East, and David Lau represents Ashkenazic Jews, with origins in European lands of the Roman Empire.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/chief-...ns-to-monkeys/

My mother's side had some really old line Bostonians. AFAIK, they made their money on alcohol, not slaves. Owning a tavern in those days was like owning the Houston Astrodome.