Posted on 05/28/2018 9:31:38 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
Reparations Happy Hour Invites White People to Pay for Drinks
By Daniel Victor
In Portland, Ore., organizers of the Reparations Happy Hour invited black, brown and indigenous people to a bar and handed them $10 bills as they arrived, a small but symbolic gift mostly funded by white people who were asked not to attend.
Brown Hope, a local activist organization, wanted the event, which was held on Monday, to be a space for people of color in a mostly white city to meet one another, discuss policy issues and plan potential action.
While it was far from the full-scale reparations sought by some as penance for the horrors of slavery and continuing racial injustice, Cameron Whitten, the 27-year-old activist who organized the event, said there was one similarity: It made attendees feel as if their pain were valued and understood.
It was only $10, but when I saw them I saw their eyes light up, he said. What I saw there was that people felt like they were finally seen.
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Okay, free fire water. Don’t forget to pick up one of those blankets carrying smallpox on the way out. Idiots.
Kudos to the bar owner for figuring out a way to increase traffic— in the same way Starbucks’ everyone can come in and sit and sh*t for free policy will increase foot traffic. Would love to know the actual sales figures on this promo.
Liberals are like sheep going to their slaughter.
You give me a free drink, my eyes light up too. Nevertheless, anything that separates white liberals and their money has my full support.
Next time they can do some hazing.
“Thank you Sir, may I have another!”
Self flagellation might also do.
...horrors of slavery and continued racial injustice LOL, ya right
If you gave every black person in this country $10,000, none of them would have anything to show for it in a year. (Let’s be real: a lot of black men would have their reparations checks immediately garnished for child support.)
If you gave every black person in this country $100,000, most of them would have nothing to show for it in five years.
If you gave every black person in this country $500,000, a lot of them would have nothing to show for it in ten years, and those who bought real estate would screw up the markets in a lot of areas.
This isn’t even unique to black people. You look at lottery winners and most of them go flat broke very quickly.
Reparations would do nothing to solve the problems in the black community, and would enrage almost every single white person. This is a non-starter.
Hey, no problem. So long as they had a hemlock chaser for these grifter goons. You done HAD your reparations—welfare for multiple generations.
I’ll spring for a bottle of Thunderbird.
Then I’m absolved?
“If you gave every black person in this country $100,000, most of them would have nothing to show for it in five years.”
Less than 6 months. I’ve watched people of all colors go through that type of cash very quickly.
Drunks do some funny and weird . . . . crap. LOL. “Reparations”. Okay.
Since this farce was held in Portland, Im sure that there was no shortage of white snowflakes happily willing to participate.
Invitation declined.
Sure if they can gladly tell me who placed slaves into slavery in the first place and the actual history of slavery of Afrikans, I might think about giving a 10 dollar reparation with the condition they can 1) never ask for it again and 2) never claim anyone is racist and 3) disavow the race baiters who is robbing them of their money.
How about nonworking-by-choice blacks on welfare pay me reparations for the 50+ hours a week I work and pay taxes that support their useless asses?
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