TYT with Cenk: 'Slavery Reparations' Claim By Rep. (Steve) King

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Run time: 04:39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZIKf02fFgo   Posted on YouTube: December 01, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 301   Posted on DU: December 01, 2010 By DU Member: alp227 Views on DU: 757

 
More information: "Steve King: Black Farmers' Settlement Is 'Slavery Reparations' (VIDEO)." TPM Muckracker: November 30, 2010.

[Lions_fan]

1. "very, very, URBAN senator"

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :argh:

[Bullet1987]

2. Of course it's racism!

[Lions_fan]

3. This guy King is an idiot

Rep. Steve King: "Very Urban" Obama Trying To Send "Slavery Reparations" To Drug Addicts Posing As Farmers

November 30, 2010 3:16 pm ET — Alan Pyke

"The fraudulent claims might be, well, Johnny, yeah, he was raised on a farm, but he wouldn't help his dad, he went off to the city and became a drug addict," King said. "But now his daddy's died, and Johnny wants the $50,000 that comes from the USDA under this claim." According to King's math, fully 75 percent of money paid out under the original Pigford settlement was given to such fraudsters.

King does acknowledge some discrimination took place at the USDA. "I believe there was discrimination taking place within some of our USDA offices, particularly around the south, where the culture of segregation prevailed beyond the legal segregation we had," King said at the beginning of his remarks.

According to King, it's time to say, "We're not gonna pay slavery reparations in the United States Congress" because "that debt was paid for in blood, and it was paid for in the blood of a lot of Yankees especially."

Despite King's tinfoil-hat logic, support for Pigford II isn't limited to ambitious black politicians. In fact, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced a Pigford II bill the same year Obama did.

http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/201011300008

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4. Not even bothering to hide it

at the very least, the repubs, some of the time, want to act like fair and they follow the law of the land, and try to hide their racism. Sometimes. Only a RW reactionary racist repub scumbag would equate a court ruling in the face of years of discrimination and ordering due payment for harm caused to black farmers as "reparations". GMAFB! :eyes:
Like Cenk said, the idea, much less fact, of black people getting paid by the government makes repubs scream bloody murder.