Posted on 03/11/2021 7:55:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Evanston, Ill., is a suburb of 75,000 residents directly north of the city of Chicago. Aside from being the home of Northwestern University and the birthplace of dozens of famous actors, including Bill Murray, the city is known as just an extension of Chicago.
Now, Evanston will be known as the first city in the country to offer reparations to black people. The Evanston City Council will vote on March 22 to finalize a plan that was approved by voters in 2019 offering reparations to black people for “historical racism and discrimination.”
What’s curious about this plan is that nowhere does it say anything about slavery. The $10 million to be disbursed over the next 10 years — funded by voluntary contributions and a 3 percent tax on recreational marijuana sales — will go toward righting historic wrongs brought about by racism, not as compensation for being held in bondage.
“Reparations is the most appropriate legislative response to the historic practices and the contemporary conditions of the Black community. And although many of the anti-Black policies have been outlawed, many remain embedded in policy, including zoning and other government practices,” said Robin Rue Simmons, an alderman in Evanston’s 5th Ward, who introduced the legislation.
From NBC News:
Under the program’s first phase, qualifying residents would get $25,000 to use toward homeownership, home improvement and mortgage assistance, Simmons said. To qualify, residents must either have lived in or been a direct descendant of a Black person who lived in Evanston between 1919 to 1969 who suffered discrimination in housing because of city ordinances, policies or practices.
While Evanston passed a fair housing ordinance in 1969, redlining and overt discriminatory housing practices were sharply evident for years afterward.
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Thats not going to work. Screw the paperwork,...people want money fast so they can get out and buy some WEED!!!!
What is redlining?
1919 to 1969?
What? Reparations is supposed to be about slavery to the end of the Civil war period. This is just a give away and virtue signalling at someone else’s expense. And since Illinois is sure to take the Federal bail out money from the so-called covid bill, they will not be able to raise taxes to cover those expenses ...
Hilariously, paying for their "reparations" themselves.
Yeah, I know, that's racist.
Redlining is a practice where banks draw lines on a map around certain areas as “too risky to loan money there”.
It’s actually a reasonable practice, but the government called it racist. Eliminating redlining is one of the things that fueled the credit collapse of 2008.
I don’t know how a town with a tax base of 75,000 people can make it anything significant. Anything significant would break them.
Most of that money will go to the lawyers processing that paperwork.
I wonder how they will go about proving that they are the descendants of a Black person? I have no idea how I could prove that my, e.g., great-grandmother was White, insofar as I have no documentary evidence supporting that claim (none of her paperwork states her race). And photographs? Anyone could present a photo and claim "That's my great-grandmother!"
Me-thinks anyone today with too-light a complexion who presents himself for reparation payments would be subjected to intense scrutiny - but I hope that someone tries it!
Regards,
How long will it be before all FOOD purchases are cut off for us white folks? Much to be made up for in this country for all those POOR OPPRESSED PEOPLE This must be payment for being on the news each and every day because of the crimes and violence they commit!
According to the Global Slavery Index (GSI), there are an estimated 40.3 million slaves in the world today. This modern day slavery is in many instances not all too different from that in medieval times, as people are still being owned as property by others in some countries around the world
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-most-modern-slaves-today.html
What about Reparations for all the families who lost their properties and lives fighting to end slavery.
Are we also giving Reparations to descendance of non-white slave owner. which is what would happen if we base qualification on race.
Do we penalize all slave owner descendance without distinction between those who treated people like cattle vs those who treated people like refugees and used slavery to provide safe haven.
Do biracial bloodlines get 50% of the award or do we aware them 100% for their black genetics and then cancel it out by penalizing them 100% for their white genetics.
It’s limited in scope so that this doesn’t initially hit the fan. But it will soon expand and then tax the substance out of the unfortunate people who are guilty because of the color of their skin.
They need to be a citizen to qualify for this—racist!
Giving blacks reparations is racist.
I guess no one taught the town council that Illinois was, from its statehood, a Free State, in which slavery was illegal.
“3 percent tax on recreational marijuana sales..”
Hilariously, paying for their “reparations” themselves.”
I got a laugh out of that one too. The next step is to legalize crack and heroine and tax that as well.
As to “volunteer donations” , those are going to come from the usual piñatas, I mean, businesses, to whom race hustlers will make them an offer they can’t refuse.
‘and who can provide all of the corresponding paperwork (incl. verification that they are, indeed, Black) upon submitting their application. “
That is obviously racis. You’re expecting people that are incapable to get a voter ID card to fill out a bunch of paperwork?
That’s an obvious case of reparation suppression!
Well, if they were really discriminated against for housing in Evanston, then maybe they didn't actually manage to live there, due to the discrimination. So those people are SOL I guess. Same for all the people who were discriminated against and just don't live in Evanston anymore. Tough luck.
Well, that’s probably why the ordinance doesn’t mention slavery, just housing discrimination.
But ironically, I think it was actually an Illinois company that made the first restitution payments for profiting from slavery, when Chicago-based Aetna had to pay up after getting sued because they wrote policies insuring slaves as property.
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