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Lance Bass esquire

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26. I only have first hand expierience..growing up with the few

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 11:17 PM

Jul 2016

of my clan that survived. Sitting on my uncles lap and wondering what that tattoo was on his arm. Wondering why he had weird fake teeth. I wouldn't have understood why they were pulled out as a form of torture.

When I got older they explained to me what happened and why every 10 years people in my family go to visit a camp in Poland because that's where family members are buried in mass graves.

My family never blamed.
They never felt sorry for themselves.

That's life.

Some live..some die..you move on.

That's what I know.

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are we ready for reparations? [View all] reddread Jul 2016 OP

The peeps who deserved reparations died a hundred years ago. Lance Bass esquire Jul 2016 #1

You mean the peeps who keep getting blasted by police? brush Jul 2016 #3

This. Silver_Witch Jul 2016 #29

Thank you so much for the link OhioBlue Jul 2016 #40

Yep +100 840high Jul 2016 #31

damn right I'm ready and not just for slavery reparations but jim crow reparations too. craigmatic Jul 2016 #2

LOL...let me know how that works out for you. n/t Lance Bass esquire Jul 2016 #4

the LOL reddread Jul 2016 #6

LOL Thank You! n/t Lance Bass esquire Jul 2016 #8

Inform yourself. Read Ta-Nehisi's landmark article on reparations brush Jul 2016 #9

I've read it. I still say no to reparations. Unless you can find some slaves who are 150 yrs. old. Waldorf Jul 2016 #10

So hundreds of years of stolen labor means nothing to you? brush Jul 2016 #11

One side of my family got here way after the war... citood Jul 2016 #30

Not that complicated, nor entirely unprecedented brush Jul 2016 #35

I'm sure I am more familiar with the Dawes Rolls than you citood Jul 2016 #41

i would have no problem with my tax dollars going for reparations . and my family got here 100 or so JI7 Jul 2016 #47

Well, that makes you a philantropist citood Jul 2016 #52

i have no problem paying any of that JI7 Jul 2016 #55

I did and like I said Let me know how that works out for you. Lance Bass esquire Jul 2016 #12

Just curious what ethnic group you are? brush Jul 2016 #17

Jews were justly paid reparations by Germany. Lance Bass esquire Jul 2016 #18

Post removed Post removed Jul 2016 #19

Are you really publishing a link to a Holocaust denial site? Joe the Revelator Jul 2016 #23

Not my intention. Just trying inform a poster that Germany reparations to Jewish . . . brush Jul 2016 #37

By using a holocaust denial site, you're not really disproving his point Joe the Revelator Jul 2016 #39

I only have first hand expierience..growing up with the few Lance Bass esquire Jul 2016 #26

this 840high Jul 2016 #32

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Your family deserves compensation also. brush Jul 2016 #38

I have truly seen it all now. An actual live link to IHR neo nazis on DU AntiBank Jul 2016 #34

Regarding Japanese Americans Dyedinthewoolliberal Jul 2016 #20

That's it? That's all you have to say without backing it up? brush Jul 2016 #22

Says the person posting links for a holocaust denial site. Joe the Revelator Jul 2016 #24

Backing it up? Dyedinthewoolliberal Jul 2016 #27

LOL You owe me a new keyboard! Lance Bass esquire Jul 2016 #28

Send me the invoice! Dyedinthewoolliberal Jul 2016 #46

Germany has repeatedly rejected reparations for descendents of the Herero and Namaqua genocide Chathamization Jul 2016 #43

Your sincerity is suspect. nt LexVegas Jul 2016 #5

for no particular reason I presume? reddread Jul 2016 #7

I'd imagine simply due to the consistency of narrative in your posts. LanternWaste Jul 2016 #54

You do understand that in History, Arab and African merchants were the greatest enslavers? Albertoo Jul 2016 #13

No. n/t X_Digger Jul 2016 #14

Do Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson get checks? (nt) Nye Bevan Jul 2016 #15

I agree that the time for reparations has long passed. SheilaT Jul 2016 #16

Medicare is partially "means tested" now 1939 Jul 2016 #49

That's true. I'd forgotten, despite the fact that my first year on Medicare SheilaT Jul 2016 #53

Depends on what you mean by reparations, but I'm open to talking about different options aikoaiko Jul 2016 #21

Great Society???? NT 1939 Jul 2016 #50

We have to give the country back LuvNewcastle Jul 2016 #25

Stop calling us Indians. We aren't from India. cherokeeprogressive Jul 2016 #45

My ex preferred to be called an Indian, LuvNewcastle Jul 2016 #51

I don't think reparations will ever be passed in the US--but maybe, just maybe they could stop tblue37 Jul 2016 #33

reparations will never be paid, but you knew that already AntiBank Jul 2016 #36

No(nt) jack_krass Jul 2016 #42

I am! You fucking bet! MY ancestors owned this WHOLE FUCKING CONTINENT. cherokeeprogressive Jul 2016 #44

For who? What group? JustAnotherGen Jul 2016 #48

Start a GoFundMe Acct. greytdemocrat Jul 2016 #56