Venmo reparations? Satire merges with reality as white Americans offload their guilt by paying Juneteenth ‘tips’

RT ^ | June 19, 2020 | RT

[Stravinsky]

Why are white people sending unsolicited donations to their black friends - or forking it over to total strangers? The phenomenon may have begun as satire, but like so many jokes in 2020, “mini-reparations” have become reality.

With race relations in the US front and center ever since last month’s police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, some people are taking the matter of reparations for slavery into their own hands. Guilty white people sending unsolicited cash donations to their black acquaintances – or eagerly responding to calls for cash from random social media accounts purporting to be needy black folks – has become so common that “Venmo” (an online money transfer service) was trending on Twitter on Thursday and Friday, converging with the Juneteenth holiday that commemorates the end of slavery.

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Not everyone felt compunction about taking guilty white liberals’ money, however. Numerous social media users started threads inviting black people to leave their CashApp and Venmo tags to make things easier for white users to unload their privileged pennies all at one go.

[proud American in Canada]

Indeed.

[House Atreides]

Well, if Venmo can be anonymous to the contributors, I’ll begin to identify as black and sign up. Only partially sarcasm.

[Reno89519]

Are people really that ignorant and gullible?

[metmom]

With race relations in the US front and center ever since last month’s police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, some people are taking the matter of reparations for slavery into their own hands. Guilty white people sending unsolicited cash donations to their black acquaintances – or eagerly responding to calls for cash from random social media accounts purporting to be needy black folks – has become so common that “Venmo” (an online money transfer service) was trending on Twitter on Thursday and Friday, converging with the Juneteenth holiday that commemorates the end of slavery.

Well, they are free to do as they choose with their own money.

Just don’t demand Ido it or try to guilt trip me i to it.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Real History of Juneteenth. Juneteenth commemorates when the Union Army, on behalf of a Republican Congress and a Republican President, freed the last slave from their Democrat Party slaveholder.

[Trillian]

It’ll never be enough and they’ll get angrier. Don’t give them squat.

[Paladin2]

Tip:

Don’t take any ‘Rat wooden nickels...

[Allegra]

White liberals are so gullible. And it seems they enjoy being manipulated.

[Georgia Girl 2]

My guilt is so bad I’m only going to display the confederate flag on my back deck this July 4th. 😆

[Svartalfiar]

Hm. We really need to get Irish-Americans in on this! Our ancestors were mightily oppressed, so random people should send me money for beer and a shiny new REC7!