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Venmo reparations? Satire merges with reality as white Americans offload their guilt by paying Juneteenth ‘tips’
RT ^ | June 19, 2020 | RT

Posted on 06/19/2021 2:11:50 PM PDT by 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.

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.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 18620619; abolition; emancipation; entitled; givememoneywhiteboy; juneteenth; reparations; venmo
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I know this is from last year (and yeah, It’s RT), but it’s happening again this year too.
1 posted on 06/19/2021 2:11:50 PM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Stravinsky

Modern day indulgences


2 posted on 06/19/2021 2:15:35 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Stravinsky

There are going to be a lot of Nigerian scammers jumping into this.


3 posted on 06/19/2021 2:16:08 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Stravinsky

You may take your reparations and shove them up your reprobate mind.


4 posted on 06/19/2021 2:18:56 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: Stravinsky

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!


5 posted on 06/19/2021 2:19:02 PM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: tbw2

LOL! Probably true.

Anyway, I’ve never liked Venmo because it’s never seemed very secure to me. I usually choose PayPal because it seems more secure and the transactions are very smooth. It’s as leftist as the rest of the big financial companies, but at the moment it doesn’t seem to be trying to drive away its normal human being customer base. Yet.


6 posted on 06/19/2021 2:19:47 PM PDT by livius
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To: Stravinsky; Fred Nerks

I just went down to the train station and opened my lap top case, seated with a large sign: “Support Juneteenth “

I made 20 thousand dollars in 9 hours.

And I am not even black! ( sarc,)


7 posted on 06/19/2021 2:23:47 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Stravinsky

Tax deductible?


8 posted on 06/19/2021 2:23:59 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Stravinsky

I am 110% in favor of repatriations.


9 posted on 06/19/2021 2:33:00 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Biden's illegal presidency is a demonazi declaration of war on Americans and civilization.)
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To: Stravinsky

I think it is a pretty damn good insult that cant be taken as an insult.

Like a pat on the head.

I need to try it at next year’s White Republicans Freed the Slaves day.


10 posted on 06/19/2021 2:33:56 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The left does not want dialogue; it wants compliance.)
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> Guilty white people sending unsolicited cash donations to their black acquaintances... <

That would make some sense, if those white people actually owned slaves at one time. Otherwise, it’s evidence of a mental illness.


11 posted on 06/19/2021 2:34:23 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: tbw2

>>There are going to be a lot of Nigerian scammers jumping into this.<<

I think you can’t call them “Nigerians.” I think it “Blasckammers.”


12 posted on 06/19/2021 2:35:05 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The left does not want dialogue; it wants compliance.)
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To: Stravinsky
They gotta read more stuff from the late Walter Williams:

Proclamation of Pardon For European-Americans

13 posted on 06/19/2021 2:36:16 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: Stravinsky

Juneteenth, the day the Republican Party freed the slaves from the Democrats. Libs are paying tips upon this realization.


14 posted on 06/19/2021 2:38:10 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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Why are white people sending unsolicited donations to their black friends - or forking it over to total strangers?

Because they're stupid??

15 posted on 06/19/2021 2:38:59 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Stravinsky

I have been an employed tax payer since 1973, so I have already been making contributions.


16 posted on 06/19/2021 2:48:59 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: Stravinsky

Since the slaves didn’t emancipate themselves, shouldn’t blacks be donating to whites?


17 posted on 06/19/2021 2:49:56 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Stravinsky

Baizuo are the worst.


18 posted on 06/19/2021 2:53:17 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Stravinsky
Voting for Obama didn't get you credit for not being racist, now you think giving some beggar $20 online will get it done?

Think again, fools.

19 posted on 06/19/2021 2:53:41 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Stravinsky

That’s on Russia Today. They are watching their former adversary as it enters the final stage of its dissolution. There is no need to nuke us. Just a few more years.


20 posted on 06/19/2021 2:54:23 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The government is the biggest criminal of them all.)
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