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Evanston Residents Weigh in on Slow-Moving Reparations Plan
WGN9 ^ | Jun 1, 2023 | Gaynor Hall

Posted on 06/02/2023 2:58:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

“Show Me The Money!”


21 posted on 06/02/2023 4:42:19 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: nickcarraway

I say it yet again…….modern descendants of slaves would never have been born if it were not for slavery. Slavery is what brought their ancestors together to procreate. Out of bad comes good sometimes and people should recognize how they personally have benefited from slavery in America. They received the ultimate reward…….life.


22 posted on 06/02/2023 4:45:36 PM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: Brian Griffin

Interesting info.

“Evanston was historically a dry city, until 1972...”

“Evanston was mainly uninhabited, consisting largely of wetlands and swampy forest...”

Which is it?


23 posted on 06/02/2023 4:52:33 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Both. The dry part deals with sale of liquor. For a while, back in the '60's and '70's, the Chicago Bears were considering moving from Wrigley Field to Evanston, but the dry law was a factor against it. And then the Bears moved to Soldier Field in Chicago, and Evanston never came up again.

And much of the Chicago area near Lake Michigan was not farmable, including the northern part where Evanston is located. Most of the good farmland is West, South and a little bit North of the city.

24 posted on 06/02/2023 5:08:37 PM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: nickcarraway

On the reparations front, older cemeteries in Illinois are full of the graves of 16-to20 year-olds who died in the Union Army during the Civil War. Hopefully, the City of Evanston will impose a tax on the Northwestern endowment funds to fund the reparation payout. So far, it seems all of the latest round of wacky liberal spending is just a way to launder all of the COVID spending that the federal government approved back in 2020-2022.


25 posted on 06/02/2023 5:13:17 PM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: Lurker

We lived in Evanston in the ‘60s. Delightful place then — of course many places were. Strange to see it take such. a long slide downhill. Big sigh.


26 posted on 06/02/2023 5:17:49 PM PDT by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: Bernard
older cemeteries in Illinois are full of the graves of 16-to20 year-olds who died in the Union Army during the Civil War.

i.e., people who today are known as white supremacists.

27 posted on 06/02/2023 5:20:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Idiots! Illinois was never a slave state.

https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2016-10-20/illinois-issues-slave-state


28 posted on 06/02/2023 5:23:40 PM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence & stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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“there are people who are recognizing people of color”

Like all those white Christian soldiers buried in places like Arlignton and Antietem?


29 posted on 06/02/2023 5:38:20 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: TokarevM57

I’m here to speak for whitey. What about all of our descendents that came over here were free. Hell no! Some were indenture servants. I say, “Reparations for every one!” What about those poor whites that couldn’t afford slaves? (Angry mob in the background.) Why should reparation be about the color of your skin? It was the invisible white indentured servants that built America. Us poor Anglo-Americans.


30 posted on 06/02/2023 7:33:00 PM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

If you’re on SSI, which is disability for people who don’t have enough work credits to qualify for SSDI, you are only allowed to have $2000 in assets plus a vehicle of any value.


31 posted on 06/02/2023 9:39:03 PM PDT by brianl703
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To: nickcarraway

When illusion meets disillusion.....


32 posted on 06/03/2023 5:14:12 AM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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To: Paladin2

dry = no alcoholic beverages


33 posted on 06/03/2023 6:28:33 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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