Mel Reynolds Vows to Serve Jail Term and Leave the Country: "I'm Done With America."

The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | May 11, 2018 | Mark Brown

[PBRCat]

Former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds is headed back to jail, but for a short enough time — four months — that he said hopes to be living in Africa by Christmas.

“I’m done with America. I’m going to do this, and I’m going home — to Africa. … I’ve given up on America,” Reynolds told reporters after U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman sentenced him to six months imprisonment for his failure to file income tax returns.

“It’s really a tragedy you’ve squandered the opportunities you’ve had and the type of person you could have been,” the judge told Reynolds.

Reynolds, whose amazing rise from poverty to become a Rhodes Scholar, Harvard grad and then congressman was matched by an equally amazing fall from grace during the 1990s, had sought probation.

[Vince Ferrer]

Most other countries are pickey about allowing criminals into their countries. He’d better try Germany or Sweden.

[Ancesthntr]

Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, you corrupt bastard!

[IronJack]

I think America is done with him too.

And good riddance.

[mjp]

that he said hopes to be living in Africa by Christmas.

please let this be true

[montag813]

“I’m done with America. I’m going to do this, and I’m going home — to Africa. … I’ve given up on America,”

Can we fund an ad campaign and broadcast this 10 times a day on every channel?

I would even pay a special tax for ships and planes to ship them out.

The promised land for angry African-Americans is waiting, just as Jefferson, Monroe and even Lincoln supported:

COME HOME!!!

[Trillian]

LOL, just wait until reality sets in.

[DoughtyOne]

Exactly! “:^)

[DoughtyOne]

For sure...

[DoughtyOne]

...desert...

[DoughtyOne]

Works for me...

“:^)

[DoughtyOne]

Could be...

[Fightin Whitey]

Rhodes Scholar

So hit the Rhodes, scholar.

[I want the USA back]

Where do you plan to go, mel? You are an American citizen. They aren’t going to let you in just because you are a privileged member of a government-certified minority. Besides, they have seen enough corruption in government officials.

Besides, most Africans speaks better English than you does.

[SharpRightTurn]

My recommendation, Mel, is the Congo. Enjoy.