“We need a moral and spiritual awakening in the country.”
Marianne Williamson, a best-selling author. spiritual teacher and activist, announced her bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Monday. On Thursday, she sat down on CNN’s New Day, where she said the United States needs to pay African-Americans reparations for slavery.
“We need a moral and spiritual awakening in the country,” the candidate stated. “Nothing short of that is adequate to really fundamentally change the patterns of our political dysfunction.”
Her platform includes proposal for free public college, universal health care, Medicare for all, a green new deal and $10 billion per year for slavery reparations to be paid over the course of a decade.
“I believe $100 billion given to a council to apply this money to economic projects and educational projects of renewal for that population is simply a debt to be paid,” Williamson said.
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And that my friends WILL BE the straw that breaks the camel's back!!!
So instead of giving it directly to the people she will make a fund that the government will control and dole out to their pork projects. Yeah, that'll work.
Ridiculous, Not a dam sole alive today was a slave.
Why should they even think about Compensation.
Always out to get something for nothing.
There's already been way more than that given for government freebies problems solved.
REALLY?? Talk about living in the past
Well since I'm Irish and they were slave's looooogg before the tribes sold off their enemies in Africa. Should I also ask for some cash?? Of course not. Why?? Because the Irish, Italian, French, German,english etc. All endured some kind of hardships. But why is it the blacks can't seem to get over it?? I think with ALL the trillions of dollars we have given these unworthy bastards. All the RACIST government programs that they were given to get educated and jobs. I think they got all they should get. I mean with EVERYTHING they have been given. WTF have they done with it but use it for more RACIST BULLSHIT. They want to be equal. But segregated at the same time.
THE BLACK:
MSP ASSOCIATION
CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS
NAACP
ALL RACIST ASSOCIATES AGAINST WHITES. CAN YOU IMAGINE A
WHITE MSP
WHITE CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS
NAACP
??????
THESE RACISTS BE MARCHING IN THE STREETS.
6:44, what people do you refer to or would you giveaway money to? Bet there is no slave in existence today. If you find a pair are they going to get one hundred billion divided between two of them. Sure as heck doesn't go to their children that were not slaved. This society had better reel itself in before everyone is dirt poor.
Reparations have been given and still being given since the 60's. Part of the democratic master plan.
You are absolutely correct 7:08. The folks that deserve the reparations are long gone
No means NO. Period, END of discussion.
What percent African American do you have to be to qualify for the funds?
typical always looking for something free. if they were raised with and had any morels they would be ashamed to even think such a thing as reparations for something that happened so long ago. shame on them, and to think they pretend to be offended when people look down on them. they only need to look in the mirror be honest for once and admit just how low into the sea of depravity they have sunk
You know I'm about sick of these African Americans always talking about reparations. Unless they're talking about paying back the slave owners who lost their property due to President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The government should've paid back of the property owners from what they paid for their property.
10:39 am, you are right, the ines that deserve the reparations are long gone. They would be the slave owners because it wasn't illegal at the time and the Federal Government forced them to give up their slaves that they paid for and they were never compensated. Immoral or not they were purchased legally. Another unfunded mandate by the Feds!
Ms. Williamson is just another Dem painting a divisive line in the sand for her own selfish, self-centered reasons. Waving a “holeyer than thou” banner for guess what? VOTES. She doesn’t mention the estimated 360,000+ white’s that died freeing the slaves nor the estimated 150,000+ white’s in the union that were maimed during the Civil War. She doesn’t mention that is was the French, Dutch & warring black tribes that started the slave trade. The English, Irish, Scott’s etc. did not believe in owning slaves. She didn’t mention that the English had been enslaved at least twice in history. She didn’t mention William “April” Ellison, one of several black entrepreneur that owned slaves before the Civil War. She didn’t mention that President Lincoln offered a free ride home to Africa plus pay to all slaves or partials of farm land plus a mule & tools if THEY WANTED to stay. She didn’t mention that even today there’s still slavery in Africa. Perhaps Ms. Williamson should go there and wave her banner? But then again that would be trying to do some good and doing good is not in her repertoire. Dividing the Country for votes is her goal.
Welp, her presidential run ended rather quickly.
No Democrat socialist will ever be president.
Pull a Pocahontas, and say you KNOW you are partly black, so you should get $$$...It worked for Elizabeth Warren...well, until she was found out LMAO
I want ten million dollars for forced integration that led to a hostile school experience which robbed me out of my full potential and ability to maximize my income
You have to be as black as Elizabeth Warren is Indian.
Ask there OWN peeps for the $$$ they are the ones that sold them to the Muslims FACT.
Yup that's y Republicans will be president for Ever
Also BLM AND THE BLACK PANTHERS AND THE BLACK ISRAELITES.
Aka civil war.
Morals, idiot!
ASK no cortex CORTEZ for the $$$
“We need a moral and spiritual awakening in the country.”
Yeah, but it's in all of the Blue voting blocs.
What the Firetruck?
they did get paid. 40 acres and a mule and the opportunity to go back or to Liberia. Slavery is still running rampant around the world. Why not go fight that instead of looking for ghosts here. Nobody in this country alive today that was born here has been a slave. So move on already.
YOU ALREADY GOT IT !!!! It is called welfare and a free country to live in.
Damn right 6:20! I have relatives who died at Antietam fighting for the Union, Did they not sacrifice enough?
The majority of people in America today, do not have any history of slave ownership what so ever. So how can they make US pay that? Answer, they cannot. So don't get your hopes up black people. WE will not let that happen. WE are not responsible for slavery. They are telling you that to get you to vote for them. And when you ask them for the money you will get some kind of excuse as to why they do not have it yet. It's a trick. They do not have to live up to any promises they make to you.
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