Clinton and Sanders are both fellow zionist of yours ... they're your responsibility
If they bleed we can kill them. On Monday, February 22, 2016 at 3:14:58 PM UTC-6, KeithInTampa wrote: > > Your Peeps: > > plainolamerican > Feb 8 > Reply > to PoliticalForum > Candidates you side with... > > 89% > [image: Hillary Clinton]Hillary Clinton Democratic > > on economic, domestic policy, healthcare, social, education, and > environmental issues. > compare answers > <http://www.isidewith.com/elections/2016-presidential/1840736686:801556209> > > 82% > [image: Bernie Sanders]Bernie Sanders Democratic > > on environmental, domestic policy, healthcare, social, and economic issues. > compare answers > <http://www.isidewith.com/elections/2016-presidential/1840736686:801556211> > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 3:59 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Obama administration earmarks $12 million in reparations for Holocaust >> survivors >> By Mo Barnes <http://rollingout.com/author/maurice-barnes/> >> <https://twitter.com/theblogrebel> | October 7, 2015 7:43 AM EST | >> 109 >> [image: President Obama and reparations question(Photo Source: Official >> WHite House Photo and historical image)] >> >> President Obama and reparations question(Photo Source: Official WHite >> House Photo and historical image) >> >> There can be no doubt that the Jews of Europe suffered great hardship and >> genocide under the regime of Adolf Hitler and his allies during World War >> II. Nazi concentration camp survivors were able to settle throughout the >> world and eventually founded the nation of Israel. But the Holocaust >> survivors in this country are still suffering with an estimated 150,000 age >> 65+ living below the poverty line. >> >> In response, the Obama administration last week approved $12 million in >> aid over the next five years to assist these survivors. This was part of an >> initiative backed by Vice President Joe Biden in 2013. Last year, the White >> House named Aviva Sufian as a special envoy for U.S. Holocaust survivor >> services. >> >> Many European countries have paid victims of the Holocaust; at the top of >> the list is Germany, which paid over $90 billion in reparations. In 2012, >> Germany gave an estimated 80,000 survivors in other countries a one-time >> payment of $3,250. >> >> This is not the first time America has paid restitution or reparations to >> the survivors of racial atrocities. In 1998, the United States pledged to >> pay $1.25 billion to Japanese-Americans and their heirs. That amount is in >> addition to the $1.65 billion previously paid out to 81,278 claimants. >> >> But when it comes to the United States paying reparations to Blacks who >> suffered oppression and genocide, there is no money forthcoming. Taking >> aside the argument that descendants of former slaves of the United States >> are more than deserving of economic justice, what about the 20thcentury >> Black Holocaust? There are, in fact, incidents where many of the survivors >> are still living: >> >> - The bombing and burning of “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa, Oklahoma >> 1921 >> - The burning and lynching of Rosewood, FL 1923 >> - Moore’s Ford Bridge Massacre 1947 >> - Church burnings that took place from 1954-2015 >> - Illegal and unconstitutional arrests of Blacks during the Civil >> Rights movement >> - Jim Crow laws enacted at the state and local levels and ignored at >> the federal level >> - The implications of the CIA linked crack epidemic in Black >> communities >> - Hurricane Katrina victims living below the poverty line >> >> The sad part about these tragedies is that this is just a short list of >> events that are deserving of restitution. What does it take for restitution >> or reparations for Blacks in the United States? >> >> On Monday, February 22, 2016 at 2:56:51 PM UTC-6, plainolamerican wrote: >>> >>> Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders caused a stir when hetold >>> Fusion >>> <http://fusion.net/video/255113/bernie-sanders-reparations-answer-iowa-forum/> >>> that >>> he does not support reparations for slavery on the grounds that such a >>> program would be “very divisive” and would never pass Congress. >>> >>> Ta-Nehisi Coates, a National Book Award winner and writer for The >>> Atlantic who wrote a widely read article >>> <http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/> >>> in >>> 2014 making the case for reparations, was among those who took Sanders >>> to task >>> <http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/bernie-sanders-reparations/424602/> >>> . >>> >>> Four years ago, though, Sanders did support a form of reparations—not >>> for descendants of African slaves and victims of other injustices against >>> African-Americans, but for Holocaust survivors and the families of those >>> who were killed. >>> >>> The Vermont senator joined 18 colleagues in co-sponsoring the Holocaust >>> Rail Justice Act, a bill >>> <https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s634> to help survivors and >>> families sue France’s national railway company, SNCF, for reparations. >>> >>> A group of victims’ families called the Coalition for Holocaust Rail >>> Justice pushed for a decade to get the railway to pay because it carried >>> tens of thousands of Jews and other prisoners from France to German camps. >>> SNCF officials have apologized and argued that the Nazis forced the railway >>> to do it. >>> >>> The Sanders-sponsored bill never came up for a vote. But in 2014, France >>> agreed to send the U.S. State Department $60 million to be distributed to >>> American Holocaust survivors and victims’ families. After the deal was >>> announced, Sen. Chuck Schumer, one of the lead sponsors of the Holocaust >>> Rail Justice Act, credited the bill >>> <https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/schumer-announces-after-his-push-us-state-department-will-finally-accept-applications-for-restitution-from-holocaust-survivors-who-were-transported-to-concentration-camps-via-french-rail-company-sncf-during-wwii-beginning-next-week-a-total-of-60m-will-be-available-to-eligible-survivors-and-family-members-of-those-who-perished> >>> for >>> helping make the payments possible. >>> >>> Slavery reparations would present logistical hurdles that do not apply >>> to Holocaust reparations because of the relative timing of the historical >>> atrocities and the size of the receiving populations. Nevertheless, legal >>> and economic scholars have published a large body of work on how >>> reparations for African-Americans might be achieved. >>> >>> Experts like Duke University’s William Darity and the late Boris Bittker >>> of Yale University have studied the question for decades. Rep. John Conyers >>> (D-Mich.) has introduced bills in Congress for a quarter-century to >>> establish a commission to study how reparations might work in the United >>> States. >>> >>> <http://2912a.v.fwmrm.net/ad/l/1?s=f047&n=379215%3B379215&t=1456174308867484005&f=&r=379215&adid=13138274&reid=4342632&arid=0&auid=&cn=defaultClick&et=c&_cc=&tpos=&sr=0&cr=> >>> >>> The Sanders campaign did not respond to a request for comment from >>> Fusion. >>> >>> Sanders is not the only Democratic candidate who supports Holocaust >>> reparations without supporting reparations for atrocities that happened on >>> American soil. >>> >>> Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked about slavery >>> reparations at Fusion’s Iowa Brown & Black Forum >>> <http://fusion.net/series/demforum/>and did not give a direct answer. She >>> argued instead for more investment in underprivileged communities, citing a >>> proposal from the Congressional Black Caucus. >>> >>> Clinton, too, has a history of explicit support for Holocaust >>> reparations. During her husband’s administration, she was given an award by >>> the World Jewish Congress for helping obtain reparations from the Swiss and >>> German governments. >>> >>> Some advocates for Holocaust reparations said they felt that Clinton’s >>> contribution was overstated and that the award was political. Clinton >>> herself played down her role in winning the payments but was clear in her >>> support for the payments. >>> >>> During her 2000 Senate campaign, Clinton was asked >>> <http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4577330/clinton-reparations> about the >>> award, her position on Holocaust reparations, and whether she would endorse >>> slavery reparations. Without answering directly, she said that “we have >>> some mental and emotional and psychological reparations to pay first.” >>> >>> “We do owe … an apology to African-Americans for hundreds of years of >>> slavery,” she said, “but I think that the people I know and the people I >>> work with want us to stay focused on the future, keep our economy going, >>> keep providing good public education, quality affordable healthcare—do the >>> things that will enable people to have the best futures for themselves, and >>> that’s what I’m committed to doing.” >>> >> -- >> -- >> Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. >> For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum >> >> * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ >> * It's active and moderated. 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