....meanwhile, in Evanston IL
Posted on 07/15/2023 8:32:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
At long last, justice has come: the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Ill., has begun paying reparations to black residents. So now that historic wrongs have been righted, a new era of racial harmony will dawn in northern Illinois, right? Wrong: one local “civil rights activist” is already complaining that the payouts are too meager and more money is needed. Despite the discontent, however, supporters of the scheme are optimistic, with one even terming it “a test run for the whole country.” Yeah, that’s the problem.
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Evanston will shell out $25,000 to around 140 black residents of Evanston by the end of this year. This is just a small part of $10 million in reparations payments that the city approved in 2019, so lots more free money is coming. Meanwhile, the party has already begun for sixteen Evanston residents who have already received their dough and are now experiencing the bliss of ancient injustices redressed. These people have been suffering from the racism of the white supremacists in Evanston for a long time; a Thursday report in Slay noted that “individuals must have been at least 18 years old and resided in the city between 1919 and 1969 to qualify for the payments.”
One would think that Evanston would be ringing with hosannas for this dawning of Democrat vote bribery, uh, that is, racial justice, but somehow the joy of equity is still proving to be elusive, at least for some Evanstonians. Alleged civil rights activist Bennett Johnson, according to Slay, is not satisfied at all. He complained about the fact that the city set 1969 as the cutoff year, saying it was “totally arbitrary”; however, that was the year that Evanston passed a fair housing law.
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It never be enough with these f*****g people.
For 50 years of my life we have had affirmative action, desegregation, calls for balancing diversity in the workplace, and on and on.
IF one never took advantage of the opportunities presented in the last 50 years, how does one think faux reoperations are going to benefit you now? Every last one of us knows this fails on the face it.
All that exists now is greed.
how is this legal
Exactly.
They never are.
***one local “civil rights activist” is already complaining that the payouts are too meager and more money is needed.***
Right on time. they were warned by Rudyard Kipling in his poem Dane-geld.
And once you have paid him the Dane-geld,
You will never get rid of the Dane.
....meanwhile, in Evanston IL
It will NEVER be enough. Blackmailers know a good thing when they see one and it works.
I am all for paying reparations to former slaves of the Confederacy.
Are there any still alive?
Nobody saw this coming, nope, uh uh.
The only problem with Reparations is those paying will feel like they have made Amends while those receiving will feel like it’s not enough! So all Evanston has done is admit guilt and establish that the must pay. Question, how much, how long?
I believe I’ve read that about 2.5% of White Americans have slave owner’s as ancestors.
Likewise, 10% to 30% of black Americans are descended from (white) slave owners because many slave owners had sex with their slave girls.
So white Americans would have to pay reparations to a black American for something his great great great grandfather did?
How much will end up with the Illinois State Lottery?
Beyond that, though, this is a hate crime: robbery based on racial prejudice.
Are reparations taxable income? Maybe the IRS can start hounding these people for taxes on that money.
Some time ago Palestinians were offered everything they asked for.
‘Not enough’
The British compensated slave owners for each slave they manumitted.
America never did.
“..When I was young there was a saying that applied to anyone:
““Give them an inch and they will take a mile.”...”
Yep. Without a doubt.
Just look at the gays as an example. They said: “We just want to come out of the closet and live normal lives like everyone else.”
Look at em now: in our faces, after our children, radical, violent, mass murderers...the list is long.
It's not enough.
I’m for reparations to be paid to any living former slave.
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