Posted on 04/08/2024 1:33:35 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Tennessee is divided over reparations, with a black Memphis pastor leading the charge against a bill that would prohibit the funding of a proposed reparations study in the state.
Rev. Earle Fisher, the senior pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church, has garnered more than 1,100 signatures for his petition against the “reprehensible legislation” introduced to the state legislature to prohibit local governments from “engaging in the vital work of studying or disbursing reparations.”
The commissioners of Shelby County — which includes Memphis — voted last year to launch a “feasibility study to examine reparations for the descendants of slaves,” the Daily Mail reported.
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Is the bill banning these reparations studies, or merely declining to fund them? Quite a difference.
If the reparations loons want studies, they can come up with the money themselves. Nobody’s stopping them.
Shelby County wishes to chase away as many people as possible.
As the former mayor of Memphis once said “If you don’t like it you can leave!”
Shortly thereafter northwest Mississippi became one of the fastest growing areas in the nation.
I wonder how long it will be before the element ruins the King’s home there in Memphis.
“engaging in the vital work of GIBSMEDAT.”
Where, oh where would anti-racism be without progressive white women?
They should let them (Memphis) study it all they want. On their own dime. And if they decide to actually attempt the payments, they can do THAT too so long as it’s ALSO on their dime. Why try to stop them?
There hasn’t slavery since the 1860s. Get a job.
I’d give it to the (American ) Indians first
I can tell you, this isn’t on anyone’s radar in TN.
It’s one whiner in Memphis.
I think all Ginger’s are due reparations.
Prove me wrong…
I loathe these people.
“I think all Ginger’s are due reparations.”
Hey, they were all starving and eating potatoes not long ago. I’m married to a beautiful one, so YES big reparations.
Gibsmedat
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