Posted on 07/13/2023 6:40:42 PM PDT by bitt
Apart from the 16 individuals who have already received payment, the city has identified 90 more eligible individuals and begun making home visits.
A Chicago suburb began paying reparations to black residents this week after first approving the proposal in 2019.
Thus far, 16 residents have received funds from a $10 million sum the city allocated for such payments, the Evanston Round Table reported. The money was initially to come from cannabis sales tax, but the city subsequently approved use of real estate transfer tax revenue to expedite the process.
Apart from the 16 individuals who have already received payment, the city has identified 90 more eligible individuals and begun making home visits.
"Our job here is just to move forward and to continue being that example, to continue illustrating that a small municipality can make real tangible progress," said mayor Daniel Bliss.
The reparations committee, meanwhile, expects to have paid out $25,000 to each of 140 eligible residents by the end of the year, according to the Wall Street Journal. To qualify, a resident must have been at least 18 and living in the city between 1919 and 1969, the New York Post reported.
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Illinois wasn’t even a slave state!!!
Oh its Evanston. That explains it.
Idiots.
Maybe they’ll use that money to rebuild the neighborhoods they destroyed.
If I read this correctly, no one born past 1951.
How did they come up with this?
Many were already paid reparations after the Civil War. The pledge was “Forty acres and a mule”, but they were also given tools to work the land. I’ve also pointed out here several times that I’ve served as an expert witness in economics for over 40 years and know reparations are made to leave the plaintiff is a position of financial indifference. I did a 157 year present value analysis of comparing blacks’ income here versus their income at points of origin in Africa. It turns out blacks owe non-blacks approximately $640,000 to offset their economic gains here versus those living in Africa.
The payments are being sent the wrong way...
We need to start suing them personally. For property damage, declining home/property values, crime increases, all because of their personal stupidity and flawed beliefs translating into tangible policies destroying where people live.
it’s Really stupid to this, I’d say they didn’t think this through; Once they pay it will never be enough. Once the money runs out , their will again be hands out for more. Pandoras Box indeed!
Time to rob black people.
They can get “aid” for their reparations from the neighboring City of Chicago whose leftist mayor wants to impose a 3.5 percent tax on income over $ 100,000.
Its about time......
Ya think that will stop the free stuff?
I have three Great-Great Grandfathers who fought for the Union.
Where are my reparations?
So they can buy more ammo to kill each other?
In other news, cocaine sales skyrocket.
Check your eligibility here...
No American from 50 years ago, or even 40 years ago would believe that even one city or town of the U.S. could be brainwashed into this degree of mass insanity.
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