'NOT BENEFITING ME' Black Americans are getting $25,000 in slavery reparations - but residents are calling the money ‘fake’ restitution

The Sun ^ | 6/05/21 | Frances Mulraney

[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.

[Libloather]

Slaves know - whatever it is, it'll never be enough.

[Telepathic Intruder]

They want slaves of their own, because it’s only wrong when someone else does it.

[Delta 21]

Idiocy on a mega scale. Shouldn’t take long to reach critical mass.

[Delta 21]

Whats gonna happen if you’re not on of the 16 black folks getting any of this money?

[Uncle Miltie]

I would hate to think that their mental slavery is intergenerationally and permanently ENDEMIC.

That would be raciss.

Prove me wrong, BLM! Reject “reparations”!

[cgbg]

true reparations can only come from the federal government

Nah, true reparations can only come from the United Nations--countries all over the world were involved in the slave trade for centuries.

The African tribes captured the slaves and sold them, the Spaniards and Portuguese who loaded them on ships and sold them, the US merchants (north and south) who bought them and resold them to the southern plantations.

Of course the northern US folks who then freed the slaves should get credited some amount...

This could become a board game--slave trade monopoly!

[Hambone 1934]

Gosh,what would that do to black activists and their whitey is bad,bad,bad narrative??????

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

When does the blackmailer (pun not exactly intended but not removed either) ever say “I’ve had enough - nice doing business with you”. Never - that’s when. The blackmailer will keep going back to the well again and again. Same deal here.

[Hootowl]

A hand full of “Gimme” and a mouth full of “Not enuff.”

[McGavin999]

What about the Jews who were held as slaves in Egypt? Do the blacks claiming to be the decedents of the ancient Egyptians owe reparations to the Jews? What about the Celts that were held as slaves by the Romans, do the Italians owe reparations to the Scots, Irish and Germans? How about the African tribes that captured and sold other tribes into slavery? Do those Africans owe reparations to other Africans?

Just asking.

[Spirit of Liberty]

Let’s see...$400,000 divided among 12,500 black people.

That’s $32 each.

Oh wait...math is racist, isn’t it??

[MAGA2017]

“slavery reparations”? how many of these people were slaves?

[M1903A1]

“Forget it, Jake...it’s Evanston.”

[dfwgator]

Dave Chappelle pretty much nailed it as to how reparations really would work....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8LroCgg3uc

[tflabo]

Buncha victimhood BS. Here’s a more productive idea. Let any new or current black owned businesses receive a 2 year benefit of deep tax cuts and their customers receive a sales tax discount too. Way better than wasting the money for nothing giveaway ‘reparations’.

[cgbg]

How about the African tribes that captured and sold other tribes into slavery? Do those Africans owe reparations to other Africans?

What I want to know is how they handle a black person has one ancestor who was a slave and another ancestor was a black African who sold slaves--does the person have to have two bank accounts so they can have one bank account pay reparations to the other bank account?

[SteelPSUGOP]

1) dangle a dollar and they will want 2 dollars. 2) Don’t take any of my tax dollars to pay for this, the slaves were free when my ancestors arrived. 3) American blacks, despite slavery and racism, are dramatically better off than their African counterparts.

The worst thing for black americans is white liberalism

[rlmorel]

You know...that is quite a good idea you have there.

The tokens for players could be muslim Africans rounding up blacks to sell them, or white Democrats engaging in the slave trade...or Democrat Klansmen.

There could be a card with a Royal Navy Frigate on it that says “Get out of Slavery Free!”

[tired&retired]

As a Native American, I want $100,000.

They took our land.. and killed our people.. damages..

At least they let the slaves live...

[Let's Roll]

If the deaths of 350,000 Union soldiers who fought to end slavery wasn’t enough, no amount of money will ever be enough.