Nov 28, 2023
Newsmax Hosts Who Didn't Do The Reading Instantly HUMILIATE Themselves
Newsmax hosts prove how completely clueless they are over the impact and how reparations work in sickening attack against Jamaal Bowman following his discussion how money could be allocated to gain voter support. John Iadarola and Adrienne Lawrence break it down on The Damage Report.
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Earlier, I played a soundbite
from Congressman Jamal Bowman,
the one that pulled out the fire alarm,
and
he said the reason people of color
are dismayed about the economy is because
there hasn't been a real conversation
about reparations, Betsy.
I mean, all they care about
is giving away our money, so
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they're voting block [CROSSTALK] job.
>> Speaker 2: It was a long time ago.
We're sorry if you're still
worried about it, go get a job.
>> Speaker 1: Everybody go get a job.
Leave our money alone.
>> Speaker 2: We got job
openings in America.
>> [LAUGH]
>> Speaker 3: It takes a lot of effort on
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right wing media to really stand out in
how horrendous your commentary can be.
And I think that Newsmax has
actually managed it right there.
Their contributor Betsy McCaughey and
host Lydia Kurinaj,
laughing out loud at the concept
of reparations, saying they're
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sorry if you're still worried about
hundreds of years of slavery and
all of the associated evils worried?
That's the term that you use.
Go get a job.
When people have jobs and
it's our money that would be given away,
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us, the white people on the panel's
money would be given away to you,
other US citizens who
contribute via taxes, and
it's just as much money as anyone else.
The entire thing almost could not
be more disgusting as possible.
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I'm missing layers to the nuances.
Adrienne, what did you make of that?
>> Speaker 4: It was utterly disgusting.
And it also is just a very base
understanding of how individuals,
primarily members of the black
community in the United States,
have been harmed and
continually held back.
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It's just because slavery supposedly ended
with that whole 13th Amendment thing
doesn't mean it actually ended,
and we know that for a fact.
And also the reality is that there
have been programs and initiatives put
in place to continue to hold back
black people and elevate white people.
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As we saw throughout the 30s,
40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, even just
looking at things like redlining and being
able to get a mortgage to buy a house,
how many of these things were explicitly
excluded in terms of options for
black people by way of the US government?
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And I will always say the reality is that
black people built the United States and
also built their wealth so
that they could become the economic
world power that they are.
So we wouldn't have any of what
we have but for the rape and
pillaging of enslaved people.
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Enslaved people whose legacy is
still felt today in the harm that is
perpetrated on black Americans.
So this isn't about,
just go out and get a job.
This is about writing a wrong,
or at least attempting to.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, and
as you described, writing many wrongs,
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many wrongs that have existed
in many different forms,
some of them many years ago,
some of them not that many years ago.
Some of them still present,
some of them perhaps coming down
the pike if Republicans get their way,
because none of this is ancient history.
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I apologize to the Newsmax
hosts if Adrian and
I still seem worried about all of this and
just a stupid, pointless,
hypothetical question, but if any of this
had been done to white conservatives,
do you think that the Newsmax hosts
would just move on and get a job?
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Do you think that they wouldn't
have an issue with it anyway?
There was a reference in what they
said to Representative Jamal Bowman.
So why don't we actually hear
what the congressman had said?
>> Speaker 5: People of color have been
turned off for a while because of lack of
comprehensive immigration reform if you're
talking about the Latino community.
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And no conversation at all about
reparations if you're talking about
the black community, but we're spending
hundreds of billions of dollars every
year on weapons and war, but we can't even
have a conversation about reparations.
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>> Speaker 3: So
he did talk about reparations.
He admittedly also talked about
a number of other issues,
both policy and
also funding priorities and all that.
You could have a big, long conversation
about the points that the representative
raised there, or
instead you can just laugh at him and
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say that he's trying to rob the good white
people who pay taxes to pay off his base.
I guess that is simpler,
it requires less production, Adrienne.
>> Yeah, and really less true.
It's just it's really sad that so
many people want to act like things didn't
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happen and that they're not still
happening or that the impact isn't still
felt like you had property stolen from
people, what that would mean for them if
they had that return to them, which we
saw in Southern California recently.
We've had this go on for centuries.
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And so unless it's rectified or addressed,
it's not going to be ameliorated.
And also there's gonna
continue to be a divide.
I also wanna bring up the fact is that
marginalized groups in the United States
have received considerable amounts
of reparations over the years and
also globally for harms committed against
them and atrocities that were committed.
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So to act like that this is some
wild ideology is just completely and
totally inaccurate.
It just seems to be inaccurate
when it comes to black people.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, 100%.
By the way, we were talking about
how this is ancient history,
they're active in this area.
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Well, in the area that Newsmax is
talking about right there, Florida state
senator is trying to pass a constitutional
amendment to block reparations.
So it's a joint resolution to prohibit
the state, a county, a municipality, or
any other political subdivision from
paying reparations to certain individuals,
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which I understand that's like legal
language, certain individuals, but
it seems like just a racist not wanting
to admit who they're targeting with their
constitutional amendment is
what it feels like to me.
It also says that no government would
be allowed to pay compensation the form
of reparations to an individual who's
a descendant of an enslaved individual who
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lived in the US before 1865.
So, yeah,
that is what the Constitution is lacking,
is an explicit bar from any
future iteration of our country.
Perhaps more evolved, more enlightened,
trying to rectify long standing,
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historic and current issues.
So it's just amazing when I think
about what I would do hypothetically,
if I got involved in politics,
what I would spend my day doing, and
then I look at what actual politicians do.
It is madness to me like that they live
their whole life getting some support and
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raising money to get in office to
make sure that nobody gets helped.
By the way, it's not like every
Democrat agrees on reparations.
I wanna show you the polls.
58% support reparations in some form,
I mean,
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it all comes down to what it actually is.
But that's a general level of support.
18% of Republicans, and
there's a massive racial gap as well,
with 74% of black Americans supporting it,
only 26% of white Americans.
So look, that said, you have to wonder
with polls like this, when what most
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people hear about when they hear about the
possibility, even briefly, of reparations.
What they hear is perspectives like the
Newsmax people, those really angry women,
these white women who don't want it to
even be casually discussed by congressman.
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So, anyway, those are my thoughts.
Any final thoughts, Adrienne?
>> Speaker 4: So when I was in Israel and
pretty much left wing members of their
government had invited me to come and
share dialogue about the segregation
issues that are going on
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over there just within
the international boundaries of Israel.
One thing that they had noted was that
there became a significant divide
before there was essentially
pushing out of the Palestinians.
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And that divide came in part because
Germany gave reparations to the Jews as
a result of the Holocaust.
And that created a situation
where the Jews and
the Palestinians in Israel were now living
in a, they were living side by side.
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But then all of a sudden,
when somebody gets the come up,
then they can start businesses, they can
have a lot of more economic mobility and
it creates a greater divide.
And so I think that's what a lot of white
people are afraid of in the United States.
The thought that if we actually had to
compensate black people for the value of
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their work, then there's going to come now
a situation where black people are gonna
have more economic mobility, that they
are going to be able to buy homes and
to have access to greater resources.
And unfortunately, because so
much of whiteness is geared toward
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the suppression of the black identity,
they just can't have it.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, comparative jealousy
and all that is such a big part of it.
You're talking about how it
would help those families,
it would also help communities.
It would stimulate economic activity,
it would create new inventions.
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It would employ people.
There would be ripple effects that affect
lots of people who are not getting
the reparations themselves.
But not one single white
conservative would stop for
a second to think about that.
They would just think about the fact
that how dare those people get money?
My money that I paid in.
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That's the way that it's set up.
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