Obama Aide Says Reparations ‘Top Priority’

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Long absent from the national agenda, the issue of compensating African-Americans for their ancestors' time in servitude is poised to become a hot-button issue in President Obama's second term.

According to key White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, the Obama administration will take a 'very serious look' at the issue of reparations over the next year, and hopes to offer the nation's 40 million African Americans a large cash payout in early 2014.

Speaking candidly to Jet Magazine, Jarrett says that black Americans are entitled to receive the wages never paid to their ancestors.

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The total cost of such a program will be approximately $4 trillion dollars. But despite the high price tag, Jarrett says that the program will be paid for in full through new revenues.

"It would be unfair to impose this burden on people whose ancestors never owned slaves or whose ancestors immigrated to this country after the Civil War," she argues, "Therefore we'll be placing a special tax on Southern whites to pay for this spending."

http://dailycurrant.com/2013/01/24/obama-reparations-top-priority/

[Obama 2012 1,714]

clearly a joke article....

Either way, there are actually plenty who believe in doing this sort of thing. The idea is stupid and only one that would create animosity at the end of the day.

[SMOKE 1,426]

'only if I don't have to pay'

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

That mule left the barn and died a long time ago.

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clearly a joke article....

Yes.

[JoBri 548]

They already got reparations in the form of multi-generational welfare.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

They already got reparations in the form of multi-generational welfare.

Yes, because we know only black people are on welfare.

[Rose13 30]

No links can be found to the original article. Curious.

[decocker 7,198]

They already got reparations in the form of multi-generational welfare.

oh my. so much is wrong with this sentence.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

No links can be found to the original article. Curious.

http://dailycurrant.com/2013/01/24/obama-reparations-top-priority/