'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.

[nagant]

Suckers.

[RetiredTexasVet]

I thought the Great Society was the payoff ... as Lyndon B Johnson said, pass this bill and we will those “black people” (not his exact words for those people) voting for us forever.

[mosesdapoet]

We created a country in Africa called Liberia for this purpose. But that is never mentioned in these discussions.

[Hulka]

Hello.

Good point.

Messy business to figure this reparations thing, and what about the “one-drop rule,” meaning that a single drop of “black blood” makes a person a black. . .

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

Bad credit keeps blacks from owning houses in the inner cities, not the banks.

[Captain Compassion]

Are they insane?

[simpson96]

Ah liberals, they care SO much - and want everyone to know it - with OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY.

I don’t know whether to fall out of my chair laughing, or shake my head in utter disbelief that this is a real story.

[zaxtres]

The African tribes captured the slaves and sold them, the Spaniards and Portuguese who loaded them on ships and sold them, the USBritish merchants (north and south) who bought them and resold them to the southern plantations. -------------- Everyone wants to claim that the United States was the problem with the institution of slavery. The institution of slavery was brought to North America by the British. It was these same British who became US citizens that continued the institution of slavery. Technically Slavery was in the United States from 1776 to 1863 when Lincoln freed the slaves through the Emancipation Declaration. That means that institution of slavery was in the United States for 103 years. African Slaves were traded for almost 400 years. People really need to quit saying that Slavery started with the United States.