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Episode 3684: The Reparations Debate: Can America Find a Path Forward?

29 min · 7. maj 2026
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Time for Trump's Patriotic Reparations by Thomas Redick Reparations time has come for American Blacks and Donald Trump is the key to making it happen. He can declare federal supremacy while dismissing the white supremacy charges he and other Republicans have faced. Polls show over 90 percent of Blacks and a majority of White folks will be okay with reparations by 2040. This book deals with the biggest challenge, the issue of reparations for slavery. This is too costly (seventeen trillion?), too unlawful (slavery was legal at the time, and Blacks owned slaves too), and fails to account for the credit of nearly seven hundred thousand men who died in the Civil War that ended slavery in the US. It is best left for later, if ever. The Civil War cost America trillions, making it a wash with slavery wages. America's been delaying payment of reparations since the end of the Civil War, when President Johnson took away the forty acres and a mule that General Sherman gave freed slaves. So Blacks were left with nothing during Reconstruction when the dark cloud or murder of crows called Jim Crow settled on the land in 1876. Reparations pioneer Callie House endured harassment and imprisonment in the early 1900s but got a movement underway that sought payment from rebel cotton, even if she was only offered an old folk's home. Federal reparations law would preempt the state attempts at reparations, forcing them to pay into the federal foundation that the law would create. California's report of over five hundred pages stops considering reparations after 1910, which is perplexing. They probably felt it was too much to cover Jim Crow and lynching since they included slavery illegally in the analysis. Donald Trump can reward families who suffered lynching, including Hispanics and Asians who were lynched. Churches, universities, and foundations are starting to fund reparations. These initiatives would be untouched by federal preemption. Precedents exist, including Ronald Reagan's payments to Japanese internees. Nazi nastiness toward Jews has everything to do with the US treatment of Blacks, and they paid for their killing of six million Jews, gypsies, gays, and others. The Germans paid Jews in 1952 and continue paying them into 2025. https://www.amazon.com/Trumps-Patriotic-Reparations-Thomas-Redick/dp/B0FY4HQ8FW/ref=monarch_sidesheet_title [https://www.amazon.com/Trumps-Patriotic-Reparations-Thomas-Redick/dp/B0FY4HQ8FW/ref=monarch_sidesheet_title] https://www.ecpublishingllc.com/ [https://www.ecpublishingllc.com/] http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/5726trec.mp3 [http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/5726trec.mp3]

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