If they were to give the USA an enema, Minnesota is where they need to put the tube!
“When it comes to the education crisis in Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools there is no money, there is no funding, nobody can come up with any solutions,” she said. “But then on less than two months’ notice [Minneapolis] can magically find $600,000 to fortify the Fourth Precinct [police station].”
Probably because it’s not drawn from the same part of the budget. Sheesh!
Minnesota, as a former slave holding state and member of the Confederate States of America, should do this for all of the descendants of those held in slavery within the state boundaries before the Emancipation Proclamation.
My family fought to free the slaves and one of them was wounded. If anyone deserves reparations, it is those who served to free everyone.
1. It wasn’t white folks rounding them up, back in the day, and putting them on boats bound for Europe and America.
2. The issue has been settled; Lincoln saw to that; with the lives of hundreds of thousands, on both sides.
3. If the do-gooders are still feeling some degree of guilt (thanks to fedgov’s public education, in no small part), then I suggest they all get together, pass the hat, and divvy up the collection.
And, most importantly...
4. I and my ancestors had NOTHING to do with it. Count me out. I don’t feel the least smidgen of guilt about any of this. Get over it. Take some personal responsibility, and suck it up, Bucky!
Somalis are black. They, the race of black, need reparations.
The girl in back dressed mooselimish. Mooselims suffer discrimination. They, the mooselim race, need reparations.
Quick! Give them reparations!
Melekin said too many people think it means just cutting a check for descendants of slavery. Rather, she said, people should see that the issue is far more nuanced. “It can also be investing in educational programs, it can also be investing in community infrastructure, it can be anything,” she said. “We just want to make sure the conversation is being had and that reparations is not being pushed off the table as some wacky ideology.”
But many of our troubled big city school systems already spend more per capita on education than the national average. So we need to “invest” more in education in places which already spend more than most on education???
We have also invested plenty in community infrastructure over the decades. Much such funding was spent on public housing projects. When many such public housing projects were built, they were hailed by liberals as a great improvement over the slum housing they replaced.
Unfortunately too many residents of those places behave like animals and vandalized their own communities.
I would love to have some good debates with the liberals on some of these issues. The notion that we haven’t “invested” enough or “spent” enough, or devoted enough “resources” to troubled poverty stricken communities, or devoted enough to ghetto schools, is absurd on the face of it. Yet the liberals view that we don’t do enough seems to be prevalent.
Pictured: More victims of Multi-Generational Rectal Defilade Syndrome...
So far...No cure in sight...
Just put them on a bus and drive them over to Ft. Snelling and tell them “here’s your reparations”.
“...they might put more of the state’s funding into things that directly benefit the black community, like early childhood education or criminal justice reform.”
Two things not needed (except for maybe on the reservations up north) back before Minnesota had a black community.
The history of mankind is a history of slavery.
I will be happy to share any reparations I get from the Russians and Chinese and Italians.
Actually, I think reparations in Minnesota might just be in order. My great uncle, a Norwegian immigrant who couldn’t even speak English was drafted into the Minnesota militia and sent off to fight the Civil War at age 19. He was killed in action. Our family didn’t even get all of his belongings back. With interest, we should be due a tidy sum by now.
What, that's not what you meant? oh wait...