Squad Member Cori Bush Slammed for Demanding $14 Trillion in Reparations

Far-left ‘Squad’ member Cori Bush was closely criticized after introducing laws demanding $14 trillion in reparations for slavery, and suggesting america authorities has a “ethical and authorized obligation” to take action.

Bush, flanked by activists and different leftwing extremist lawmakers like Consultant Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), introduced the brand new laws identified as Reparations NOW at a Wednesday press convention.

“America should present reparations if we want a affluent future for all,” she demanded.

“The USA has an ethical and authorized obligation to offer reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting hurt on the lives of tens of millions of black folks,” Bush stated.

Bowman chimed in by claiming black folks nonetheless really feel the ache of slavery in the present day, even when they’ve by no means really skilled it.

“Trauma lives within the black physique,” he reasoned.

Rep. @CoriBush: “The USA has an ethical & authorized obligation to offer reparations for the enslavement of Africans … black folks in our nation can’t wait any longer” [clip via @FoxBusiness] pic.twitter.com/Z7QNIY8mwk

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 18, 2023

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Cori Bush Desires $14 Trillion in Reparations

You is perhaps stunned to be taught that Consultant Cori Bush put forth her $14 trillion reparations bundle and not using a plan to fund it and clearly with out excited about the proposal very a lot in any respect.

When requested to clarify how one can fund the large proposal, Bush prompt america slash spending overseas and on protection – the whole of which might quantity to some 1/14th of $14 trillion. (Which additionally, in response to the leftist media, would make her ‘Putin’s puppet.’)

Why cease at $14 trillion? Why not simply proceed to make up numbers corresponding to eleventy trillion?

Cori Bush calls for $14 Trillion in Reparations.

That is the fashionable Democrat social gathering.

They began slavery, and now they need to receives a commission.pic.twitter.com/5d4U6ZmO94

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 18, 2023

As absurd as it might sound, Bush hints that the Biden administration is taking it severely and “working with” them.

“We’re working with this administration, we’re speaking with different members of Congress, however I’ll say this,” she stated.

“If we will proceed to fund these limitless wars, or we will proceed to place trillions of {dollars} into these ceaselessly wars, into the Protection funds even past what they requested for, if we will ship cash overseas to assist elsewhere, then we have now to verify, as a result of we’re speaking about issues which might be occurring now.”

No, slavery isn’t occurring now. And never one individual alive has ever been subjected to slavery in america.

CORI BUSH: “The USA has an ethical & authorized obligation to offer reparations for the enslavement of Africans.”

NO WE DON’T.
WE DON’T OWE YOU SHIT!

We’ve come thus far since MLK marched to provide us equal rights, and right here’s that heifer Cori Bush sticking her hand out like…

— Lavern Spicer 🇺🇸 (@lavern_spicer) May 18, 2023

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Simply Extra of that Woke Ideology

Cori Bush was broadly ridiculed for her demand that American taxpayers cough up $14 trillion in reparations.

Consultant Kat Cammack, a Florida Republican, slammed the plan as little greater than “woke ideology.”

“I believe that’s simply the woke ideology peeking and rearing its ugly head,” she stated. “On this nation, you are able to do something, be something, and this tradition of victimhood, it has completely gotten uncontrolled.”

You possibly can even grow to be a member of Congress whereas sporting a room temperature IQ!

Consultant Chip Roy (R-TX) acknowledged, “The notion of reparations are so absurd, they don’t even benefit a response.”

Journalist Christopher Tremoglie writes that the “nationwide reckoning” pro-reparations Democrats are demanding “was the Civil Struggle, through which over 625,000 white males died preventing to finish the evil establishment of slavery.”

“@CoriBush thinks reparations can be a nationwide reckoning over slavery.

The nationwide reckoning was the US Civil Struggle, when 625,000 white males died to finish the evil establishment.”
–@CWTremohttps://t.co/JRfWZYk6Vb

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 19, 2023

Bush has lengthy been a critic of the nation for which she serves as a prestigious lawmaker.

Final Independence Day, she slammed america and claimed “black folks nonetheless aren’t free” in America.

“Once they say that the 4th of July is about American freedom, bear in mind this: the liberty they’re referring to is for white folks,” she falsely claimed. “This land is stolen land and Black folks nonetheless aren’t free.”

Once they say that the 4th of July is about American freedom, bear in mind this: the liberty they’re referring to is for white folks.

This land is stolen land and Black folks nonetheless aren’t free.

— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) July 4, 2021

The idea of reparations, regardless of far-left Democrats suggesting it’s a foregone conclusion that it’s proper and simply, stays extremely unpopular in America.

Newest polling shows three-quarters or extra of white adults oppose reparations, as do a majority of Latinos and Asian People.

Consultant Burgess Owens (R-UT), who’s black, prompt he’d wish to see Democrats pay restitution to blacks “for all of the distress dropped at my race.”