Eighty years after the first Nazi bombs fell on Poland, echoes of the blasts can be heard in the bickering between Warsaw and Berlin over the possibility of billions of euros in war reparations.
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) contributor Rob Smith recently asked 2020 Democrat presidential candidates — the majority of whom have said that they support reparations for slavery — if they would give him his “reparations” right there, on the spot. Zero candidates agreed to pay Smith.
Spiritual guru and 2020 White House hopeful Marianne Williamson released her plan to pay between $200 billion to $500 billion in reparations to descendants of African slaves in the United States.
Democrats’ “Medicare for All” proposals would destroy Medicare, “breaking the bargain with senior citizens,” warned Michael Walsh.
Marianne Williamson was Google’s most-searched Democrat candidate during the second Democrat debate on Tuesday, according to Google Trends.
Author and speaker Marianne Williamson defended her spending plan on slavery reparations in response to a question by CNN’s Don Lemon Tuesday evening during the 2020 Democratic debates, saying any proposal that is “less than $100 billion” is “an insult.”
A new poll found that a majority of Americans do not want the government to provide cash reparations to descendants of slaves.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) released a $75 billion plan Friday aimed specifically at helping African-Americans overcome the wealth gap. The plan includes $60 billion to historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and $12 billion to support black entrepreneurs.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced his support Tuesday for establishing a commission to study reparation proposals for black descendants of African slaves.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) believes that “writing a check” to the descendants of slaves is not “going to be enough” when it comes to reparations.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg unveiled his “Douglass Plan,” which he said is for “restoration” of the black community from the effects of racism.
The ancestors of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) owned slaves — according to her father, Stanford University economics professor Donald Harris.
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen warns his fellow Democrats to “stop embracing losing issues” like reparations and Medicare for All or else Trump will win.
The establishment media took shots at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) over a U.S. census record supposedly detailing his ancestry’s entanglement with slavery, but the Kentucky senator responded by mentioning a shared background with former President Barack Obama.
Appearing Wednesday on BET Digital’s #BlackCoffeeLive, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) proclaimed “it’s past time” reparations are paid to descendants of African slaves in the United States.
Early in this election cycle, Democratic Party candidates have raised the possibility of expanding Medicare for all, reparations and student loan forgiveness as part of their 2020 campaign vision for America. While those proposals may get out the vote for
We will have to wait and see how and if the debates move the needle within the Democrat primary. But what these last two nights have done is clarify a Democrat Party that is bound and determined to confiscate our guns, our money and our health insurance. Oh, and then Democrats are going to decriminalize illegal immigration and give our health insurance to illegal aliens.
The first two Democrat Primary debates are slated to kick off Wednesday and Thursday night, and while debate rules have made their debut, no official topics have been released. There are, though, a number of specific questions that could help voters on both sides of the aisle get a better feel for the presidential hopefuls.
In a recent interview with reporter Nicholas Ballasy, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) signaled her support for reparations for descendants of American slaves, saying “I support any opportunity for restorative justice.”
In a Tuesday interview with The Root, 2020 White House hopeful and former Rep. Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke (D-TX) argued all Americans must learn the history of slavery before reparations can become a reality.
Climate change and gun policy dominate the interests of Democrats going into the first Democrat Primary debates, but reparations and the U.S.-Mexico wall – two subjects many Democrat hopefuls have been campaigning on – is the least of their concerns, according to a Morning Consult poll released Tuesday.
Reparations are gaining steam again, as the House of Representatives has scheduled the first hearing on the subject in over a decade for Wednesday, June 19. The hearing is supposed to consider the “continuing impact” of slavery, which was abolished over 150 years ago, and ponder the concept of “restorative justice,” which means penalizing people who had nothing to do with it.
Members of the Project 21 black leadership network say reparations for descendants of slaves is a “sham” that will hurt race relations.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill in the Senate on Thursday that would allow same-sex couples to amend past tax returns.
Fox Sports One host Jason Whitlock feels those who testified before Congress demanding slave reparations are “clowns” and “useful idiots.”
Daytime TV star and radio host Steve Harvey ripped Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R- KY) over his dismissal of reparations Wednesday, calling him a “hillbilly.”
Burgess Owens linked “every bad thing that’s happened to [blacks] over the years” to the Democrat Party while considering reparations.
At the top of his Wednesday nationally syndicated radio broadcast, conservative talker Mark Levin, author of “Unfreedom of the Press,” castigated Democrats pushing the position of reparations to be paid out for America’s past sin of slavery.
Democrats – including Women’s March leader Tamika Mallory – are ripping former Oakland Raider Burgess Owens after he called out the Democrat Party for its role in slavery, segregation, and black oppression during testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee Wednesday.
Testifying Wednesday before a House subcommittee on reparations for slavery, 2020 White Houe hopeful Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said that the United States has thus far failed to adequately address the “white supremacy that tainted this country’s founding.”
Hollywood actor and left-wing activist Danny Glover on Wednesday testified before Congress that instituting a national policy on reparations for descendants of Africans enslaved in the United States is a “moral, democratic, and economic imperative.”
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties holds a hearing about reparations for slave descendants on Wednesday.
Addressing the media on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) explained his opposition to reparations for slavery, stating “no one currently alive was responsible for that.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The topic of reparations for slavery is headed to Capitol Hill for its first hearing in more than a decade with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover set to testify before a House panel.
A House Judiciary subcommittee will hold hearings on reparations next Wednesday, marking the first time in more than a decade that the House will discuss potentially compensating the descendants of slaves.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author of “The Case for Reparations,” praised Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in the New Yorker on Monday as a 2020 Democrat who is not just giving “lip service on reparations,” revealing that Warren had asked him about five years ago to have a conversation with her about his reparations piece.
Appearing Monday on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” with Trevor Noah, longshot 2020 White House hopeful Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) endorsed creating a committee on reparations for African-American communities to address what he described as the United States’ “original sin of slavery.”
Democrat 2020 candidate Senator Kirsten Gillibrand spoke at MoveOn.org’s “Big Ideas” forum in San Francisco Saturday and called for the implementation of a “Family Bill of Rights.”
Socialist leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn has backed suggestions that the UK should pay reparations to former colonies of the British Empire.
BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s culture minister says the country is returning to Namibia a centuries-old stone cross, even though it was originally of European origin, as a gesture of reconciliation.
