“And the Republicans don’t see it, and they just tear it apart because they have no perspective of caring about African-Americans or caring about people getting together and anything nice that happens. It’s a tough sport, and they play it tough.”

that came out of the Victoria Brink DNA test; once it was proven that she was not his daughter, he could continue having sex with her without it being a scandal.  

I wasn't going to mention that. But… I think the DNA test was forged. But I'm a conspiracy theorist..

How did he win a seat held by Harold Ford Sr & Harold Ford Jr. for 32 years?

That was against the Ford family. I'm FROM Memphis. I wouldn't exactly Call it a forward thinking…

Harold Ford Jr. didn't run again in 2007 because he ran for senator.  Otherwise, he'd probably still be the Congressman and be out this year because of redistricting.

It's been 20 years!!! How do YOU remember that?  

...formal Congressional resolution apologizing for slavery and Jim Crow.  And that was in his first term.
http://www.knkx.org/2008-07-30/congress-apologizes-for-slavery-jim-crow

And what has he done in the last 15 years?

pointing out past glories.  Biden was proud of his racist background as a Senator, but said he was a new man when running for President, yet he continued to make racist remarks throughout his presidency. His mentor in the Senate, Robert Byrd, Grand Huzzah of the clan, was dead by then.

Memphis is gonna get alot shit for "nada"...If anything, just for principle.

for any former slave who is still living, but that does not count submissive women who were my sex slaves but didn't charge me.  

Yeah. There will never be reparations. So, "forming a committee" doesn't sway me. Can we at least be a part of history?!?!!

It's not just slavery but the decades of repression that followed it. Segregation, theft of property, lynchings, economic discrimination, employment discrimination, redlining. So to my mind it's not even a question but that reparations are called for. The question is how to do it equitably?

And what about people that got their freedom at certain times what about Black people that immigrated to America at different times it would just be way too complicated to try to give reparations at this time however we can focus on fixing our social structures so that everything is merit base and not color basd.  

was subject to discrimination.  And if they emigrated that's no excuse to deny justice to the descendants of enslaved people. But I agree it's complicated.
Dictated as I'm beating off.

You better maintain your distance. If I EVER get the chance, I will be taking it, Smart Ass.

Most "committees" (and we have had them in California) that take up the issue reparations have, as their criteria, that applicants for reparation funds must be able to trace their own lineage back to a person in slavery.  This means you are no longer giving reparations for slavery, but for a whole host of treatment and conditions to people who were not, themselves, slaves.  Does everyone up to the present that experienced ANY of these things get reparations, too.  I know some black businessmen who came from humble families that were successful and became multimillionaires.  Do they get reparations because their parents or grandparents did not have the business acumen that they had?  

My question to everyone is this.   Should the Irish get reparations?  Or any other group that was hurt by their ancestry in the USA?  Same goes for people who were disenfranchised because of sexual orientation, creed, religion, sex (woman's rights), etc?     I mean why just the "black" ancestry?   How about Native Americans?   How about those coming from southeast Asia or Asian countries?   You know the families thrown into internment camps during WW2?    

You know the families thrown into internment camps during WW2?"

because he hates stupid righties who embarrass him. And he definitely finds crsm embarrassing. As you know, GaG's half Chinese and cites the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 as the reason half of him should get reparations. I would simply add that the Semi-Sino Sicilian (his other half) doesn't need a dime. He's in the "awl bidness" and Trump's Iran War debacle has made him richer than ever.
Did I mention he thinks crsm is dumber than a bag of hammers?

"I am half Chinese.  I am also half Italian and I like to think I am Chinese from the waist up and Italian from the waist down."
http://www.theeroticreview.com/discussion-boards/ter-general-board-12/so-is-that-why-all-the-thai-girls-think-my-dick-is-so-big-728687?page=

Honestly I didn't know that about the WW2 survivors.   I learned something new.    But you are talking about 120,000 US Citizens.   Who were directly thrown into camps, made it so they couldn't work and support families.