Posted on 04/18/2015 8:53:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
The city of Chicago is proposing a $5.5 million reparations package for those who suffered under the ruthless rule of police commander Jon Burge from 1972 to 1991. Backed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the plan would supply victims with free college tuition, counseling for drug abuse and psychological issues, and include a formal apology from the city, according to the Chicago Tribune.
While the plan appears to be an attempt to reckon with part of the city's less-than-spotless past, Thursday evening Fox Business Network's Charles Payne said he's afraid nationwide slavery reparations might be next.
"The news in my mind is a glimpse of really much bigger news that is going to come from the White House," he said. "I think that theres going to be an official apology from the White House for slavery in America and then there's going to be a major push to get cash. And Im talking lots of cash.
Payne, who is black, argued that it would be counterproductive to dwell on the tragedies of the past. He speculated that President Obama would make his push for slavery reparations next year.
I actually think it would be a major mistake," Payne said. "Instead, Obama should really discuss and focus on all of the progress we have made and how all Americans need to move forward for better days for all of our kids.
A panel of guests joined Payne, and seemed to echo his views.
"Sure, slavery was a horrible thing that happened, but this is not going to help race relations in the United States today, Tea Party News Network's Scottie Nell Hughes said....
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What about compensation payments to all the cival war vet’s families who died fighting in the cival war to free the black people ?
I say the reparations debt was paid in full....
Correction: this is Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s presidency legacy....
Nothing separates people’s loyalties more than over the issue of money nowadays....
I’d like obama to pay me back for all of the investment, wage, and tax loss I’ve suffered since he to office.
Should I start holding my breath?
Nothing speaks more of slavery and living on a plantation then keeping people dependent on lies and government handouts to certain ethnic communities... Keeps them inslaved to the Democrat Party....
I’d like obama to pay me back for all of the investment, wage, and tax loss I’ve suffered since he to office.
Should I start holding my breath?
All the liberals will be all for this as long as it’s the Kochs who pay the money. They’ll be livid when they discover that everyone of them will have to pay a little, too. But it’ll still be the republicans’ fault.
I thought zero wasn’t interested in things that happened before he was born.
Reparations were paid in the blood of the 620,000 white men who died to make the black man free. to pay the black man today would be an insult to those who died.
My first reaction: “Where would Chicago get $5.5 million to throw down the bottomless pit of race reparations? Isn’t Chicago broke, busted, flat on their @$$ like Detroit, and the entire state of California?”
I would like our CHAMPION Hillary to come out in 100 percent support of Reparations for Blacks,it should be a mandatory tax deduction from all white folk pay checks
Per capita, what percentage of welfare goes to blacks vs whites? They are already being paid. And why do blacks still need welfare after all these years?
Just hang a “We accept EBT cards” poster outside of most any bodega or local “stop n puke” convenience store you might buy. Not too difficult to get into that business.
The largest number are not black. However, looking at percentages on entitlements for each race’s total number is a different story.
That’s what I said...per capita.
Okay, but usually per capita as a category means of total population - average person out of the total population.
I guess it could also extend down into racial groups, but most times I’ve seen it used refers to individuals of the ‘whole’......
It ends up making not much difference - they are disproportionately represented on entitlement roles as a percentage of their racial group.
see dave chappells skit on slave reparations to see what will happen... :)
Chicago’s reparations proposal is in and of itself racist: It only applies to BLACK victims of Burge, and does not apply to Burge’s WHITE victims.
They won’t leave,and no sane country on the planet would accept them.
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