Posted on 06/05/2021 10:36:38 AM PDT by Libloather
THE first US city to introduce slavery reparations is facing backlash from black residents who have blasted the $25,000 payments as "fake" restitution and claimed it is "not benefiting me."
Evanston, Illinois, voted in March to approve the first slavery reparations system for black residents in a $400,000 program that was expected to be a blueprint for the rest of the country.
Yet the program has been criticized for being focused on allowing 16 black people to receive $25,000 payments that can only be put toward housing.
Opponents to the program have noted that there are 12,500 black people in the city, which is located north of downtown Chicago, many of whom have been victims or the descendants of victims of discriminatory housing practices.
Black residents in the city were formerly subject to "redlining," a practice through which banks refused housing loans to predominantly black neighborhoods.
It kept black communities from home ownership, a key source of wealth.
Yet Evanston's focus on housing has caused the program to be slammed as "a housing voucher program, not reparations."
"Calling it that does more harm than good," authors A. Kirsten Mullen and William Darity Jr wrote in an opinion piece for the Washington Post.
They added to NBC that true reparations can only come from the federal government and that local programs “cannot meet the bill.”
Black residents also believe that the program places too many restrictions on how the money can be spent.
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Chappelle always hilarious.
Indeed.
just have to figure out how to get off the tax grid.....they should be paying money to people like my father who went into ww2 barely 16....
“Not enough?!?! What’s wrong with these cotton pickin’ people??” - Joe Biden
I’m willing to pay almost any amount that is the result of a treaty that includes the language “paid in full”.
Need to add Britain & the Netherlands to the transporters and the Caribbean, Central & South American countries that the vast majority of the African Slaves went to. Of the some 11.3+ million slaves who survived to the Western Hemisphere, the British North America & its successor entities of the United States & Canada took in about 4.4% / 500k, with almost all of the rest going south of there.
THEN you have to move to slave capture & holding that is not specific to Black Africa. Islam, in its religious doctrines, specifically permits holding slaves who did not accept Islam personally. From ~700 to present, various Islamic polities have lived on slavery, regardless of skin color or ethnicity. The Ottoman Empire, The Barbary North African countries, and into Mogul India, all regarded slaves as good war booty. Into the 1700s, the English Channel and south through Europe's Mediterranean coasts had slave raids by 'pirates' out of North Africa.
Reparations is a fools game now being played by those who see a gain in it. There is a long history of why visiting the sins of the fathers on the children is a very bad policy. Two wrongs will not make this problem go away but these 'leaders' only see this movement as empowering their cause(s). What a mess!
you left out the Muslims
skeered?
They (Blacks) will never ever be satisfied. It’s impossible to placate these people.
how about a gold tooth for everyone!!
I demand reparations for my two family members killed and the two crippled fighting with the union armies that freed this ungrateful race.
Need to add the Irish who the British transported and sold into slavery before the blacks were even considered. Yes they were, the Irish, first plantation slaves.
the blacks want money for nothing forever
Why are there still slaves in Evanston, Illinois? D’oh.
Blatantly unconstitutional.
Very funny! Thanks for posting it.
They don’t actually want money that would require them to spend and invest wisely. They want houses and cars given to them. Those things the money can buy, without the effort. And you will be expected to put in the upkeep for them as well. Cash only exists for them as a flashy status symbol.
playing their game, anyone who lost an ancestor fighting for the North in the Civil War shouldn’t pay a darned thing.
How much do I get if I self identify as a black slave put down by da man?
Thank you! I've been shouting on this board for years that I WANT REPARATIONS FROM THE ITALIANS, with interest! They murdered our queen Boadica, and at one point considered Britons to stupid to even be slaves.
I WANT JUSTICE, ONCE AND FOR ALL.
Hi.
I hope you are doing well.
Playing their game, anyone who lost an ancestor fighting for the North in the Civil War shouldn’t pay a darned thing.
My great great uncle (Keogh), fought on the Union side during the war, but wasn’t killed. I guess no Benjamins?
I should ask if my family is owed reparations.
Unfortunately Capt. Myles Keogh was killed at the battle of the Little Big Horn river.
Oh oh! Wait! My wife is black, do we get extra rations? A mule and 40 acres?
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