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Chicago looting proves Black America deserves reparations — here's why
NBC News ^ | August 30, 2020 | Carlos Ballesteros

Posted on 08/30/2020 1:55:17 PM PDT by Belteshazzar

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"Since arriving en masse during the Great Migration more than a century ago, Black Chicagoans have been violently relegated to the margins, exploited at every turn and expected to do more with less."

Do some addition everyone. Since Carter Henry Harrison IV, mayor from 1897-1905, Chicago has had precisely two Republican mayors, Fred A. Busse, from 1907-1911, and William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson, 1915-1923 and 1927-1931, who was totally a tool of Johnny Torrio and Al Capone. All the rest have been democrats, which includes the last 89 YEARS!

Is any of this mentioned in the article? No. This is quite a masterpiece of investigative journalism.

No doubt it is all Trump's fault.

1 posted on 08/30/2020 1:55:17 PM PDT by Belteshazzar
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>>”Since arriving en masse during the Great Migration more than a century ago, Black Chicagoans have been violently relegated to the margins, exploited at every turn and expected to do more with less.”

Tell them to blame Oprah. She’s from Chicago and is a billionaire. She got their share, no doubt.


2 posted on 08/30/2020 1:57:15 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Belteshazzar

Sorry, it isn’t the Democrats. It’s those who elect them. You can’t help people who won’t obey the law and take responsibility for themselves and their children.


3 posted on 08/30/2020 1:58:27 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” ― Yogi Berra)
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“When protesters attack high-end retail stores that are owned by the wealthy and service the wealthy, that is not ‘our’ city and has never been meant for us”

There are no wealthy black people? In Chicago? (Oprah, Obama)

There are no poor white people? In Chicago?

This man’s a hate filled racist, Jim.


4 posted on 08/30/2020 1:58:38 PM PDT by Skywise
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NBC - Never Been Clear

Great logic - If somebody's a serial killer, it proves the people he killed had it coming.


5 posted on 08/30/2020 1:59:57 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Belteshazzar

The only reparations this racist should get is a way one permanent ticket to his ancestral homelands


6 posted on 08/30/2020 2:00:26 PM PDT by Okeydoker
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“These protests can only end when the safety and wellbeing of our communities is finally prioritized.”

Y’all need to stop shooting each other then....


7 posted on 08/30/2020 2:01:46 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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All we read and see from the MEDIA conglomerate CBSABCNBCMSNBCCNN this days is CREATIVE writing exercise...

They cannot simply report the news...it must be spun and positioned for political effect...

Makes me sick and I can no longer watch these clowns...and they truly are employed as CLOWNS by CLOWNS... ;-I


8 posted on 08/30/2020 2:02:03 PM PDT by MCEscherHammer
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the poor whites and every other minority understand they can’t have things they can’t earn

gotta pay for stuff

stealing isnt a virtue and neither is poverty

this is what generous efer expanding welfare systems that require no work from those living off them, result in. entitled demanding poor that don’t feel they have to better themselves and believe their stealing is fine because they ‘feel’ they deserve and need it.

in other words, jungle rules, anarchy

they hypocritically cry for the cops when their stuff gets stolen or they are shot or injured, though


9 posted on 08/30/2020 2:03:06 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Yeah no doubt that people who can’t feed their families will feel much better having that Gucci and Chanel bag/sarc


10 posted on 08/30/2020 2:03:23 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Hourly , Daily , Weekly ,Monthly or Yearly Reparations ? because it would NEVER END


11 posted on 08/30/2020 2:03:30 PM PDT by butlerweave
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“When protesters attack high-end retail stores that are owned by the wealthy and service the wealthy, that is not ‘our’ city and has never been meant for us,”

Stay in school, study, get a good education, get a good job and WORK...Those “high-end” retail stores will be GLAD to sell you whatever you want...


12 posted on 08/30/2020 2:04:07 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Pining_4_TX

wrong

its democrats who elect them

and democrat leaders who work to flush the community down the toilet for everyone


13 posted on 08/30/2020 2:04:24 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MCEscherHammer

Ah, but it is easier to write ABCNNBCBS!


14 posted on 08/30/2020 2:04:58 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE ( I can only donate monthly, but the radical ABCNNBCBS does it every hour on their news.)
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To: Belteshazzar

Oh wait they’re Black Americans now ,how many times will change what they are ?


15 posted on 08/30/2020 2:05:23 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Yeah, really...notice how no one loots grocery stores.


16 posted on 08/30/2020 2:08:11 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give Me Liberty or Give me Death!")
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To: Belteshazzar

1) Privilege is wearing $200 sneakers when you’ve never had a job.
2) Privilege is wearing $300 Beats headphones while living on public assistance.
3) Privilege is having a Smartphone with a Data plan, which you receive no bill for.
4) Privilege is living in public subsidized housing where you don’t have a utility or phone bill and where rising property taxes, rents and energy costs have absolutely no effect on the amount of food you can put on your table, which is largely covered by Government Food Stamps.
5) Privilege is having free health insurance for you and your family that’s paid for by working taxpayers who often can’t afford proper health coverage for their own families.
6) Privilege is having multiple national organizations promoting and protecting just your race alone — that are subsidized by federal tax dollars.
7) Privilege is having access to a national college fund that supports only one race.
8) Privilege is having a television network that supports only one race.
9) Privilege is having most of the media news networks refuse to cover incidents wherein one race (one-eighth of the population) commits 50% of the crimes.
10) Privilege is the ability to go march against, and protest against anything that triggers you, without worrying about calling off from work and the consequences that accompany such.
11) Privilege is having as many children as you want, regardless of your employment status, and be able to send them off to daycare or pre-school you don’t pay for.
12) Privilege is being able to vote in many states without showing a driver’s license, voter ID card or other credentials — just because your race claims they should be exempt from such requirements.
13) Privilege is being able to riot, loot, commit arson and tear down historic monuments without consequences — just because you don’t like folks such as Columbus, U. S. Grant or even Lincoln.


17 posted on 08/30/2020 2:09:31 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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“transfixed a confused nation”

https://webmail.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/


18 posted on 08/30/2020 2:13:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Belteshazzar

So the Mafia owes reparations. Good luck.


19 posted on 08/30/2020 2:13:13 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: Chode

#17 = Bravo !


20 posted on 08/30/2020 2:14:40 PM PDT by tomkat
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