Posted on 08/08/2022 7:21:58 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
To cover the payment of reparations to local blacks for what was termed injustices from the past, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners on July 17 voted unanimously to approve $2 million in its fiscal 2023 budget — and to add $500,000 to future reparations budgets, with an annual increase of 2 percent.
The county reparations budget approval followed the City of Ashville’s commitment — also on a unanimous vote — to an initial reparations investment of $2.1 million in its 2022 budget — and included an additional allocation of $500,000 for 2023.
“We are at the intersection of yesterday, today and tomorrow,” Commissioner Al Whitesides said, according to a county press release. “This is going to make our whole community stronger. This is something that will help us heal.”
(Excerpt) Read more at ashevilledailyplanet.com ...
Nothing good will come of it.
Additional welfare?
Of course not. It is welfare and forever.
Out of what tax base do they intend to pay this?
I’d be looking to move out tomorrow if this happened.
“This is something that will help us heal.”
This I seriously doubt. In fact I’d lay money on it.
Yes, it does look like additional welfare instead of 40 acres and a Lexus.
Weapons grade dumb Al Whitesides.
Asheville will see massive population shifts soon as people with no desire to work flood the city
I have heard that some old models of good-condition Nike sneakers do indeed sell for many hundreds of dollars, so there is that.
It is other people’s money they are playing with. They think it is their job to squander it, and make “in your face” comments.
They should be arrested, this is outright theft from taxpayers.
From the article:
Whitesides also said, as News 13 noted, “When you look in business, education and look in every other field, we (blacks) have to fight for every inch of what we get...”
Yeah, so does everyone else. And so the image of lazy black people will persist. As will the phrase, “N rich.”
Where's my $$$$??
Wont go very far when they want $2 million EACH
Stupid is as stupid does.
Apparently the taxpayers voted for those clowns. You get what you vote for.
Vote for me and everything’s free!
If you own property in that county now is the time to sell and move. Predict the population is about to begin a decline.
Asheville is wildly woke liberal. Anyone who would object to this lunacy has already moved out of there with just the knuckle dragging wokesters remaining. Next thing will be the city council approving white slavery for the few black folk living there as a form of pay back reparations.
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