Posted on 10/07/2023 3:54:54 PM PDT by knighthawk
The office for New York City Mayor Eric Adams says it supports the 'spirit' of a legislation that could trigger black New Yorkers to be paid reparations for slavery.
Sideya Sherman, commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Equity, said the controversial bill should be tweaked to avoid overlapping with two comparable state bills.
The bill, which was created by Councilwoman Farah Louis to launch a task force to study the effects of racial discrimination on the city could potentially lead to payments being issued, The Post reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It is a task force to study the matter. We already know the conclusions and we also know the outcome - zero, nada, zilch.
It is simply a campaign bone thrown to blacks to help in upcoming elections. And they will almost all fall for it, hook, line and sinker.
Talk of reparations is nothing less than a leftist plot to divide people by race in order to destroy America.
Blacks are stealing it daily. Why would the voters GIVE them more money?
Oh come on man ….. how we gonna get them to vote democrat if we don’t say we will give them money ?
I work hard so that welfare recipients can live free.
Who’s the slave now.
Hey Adams! Give to the Irish first. They were the first slaves in America.
But why am I paying for all these rule breaking illegal immigrants?
“The bill, which was created by Councilwoman Farah Louis to launch a task force to study the effects of racial discrimination on the city could potentially lead to payments being issued”
Outstanding!!! My dad was NYPD for 23 years- he was twice bypassed for promotion to Captain, despite having twice as much on the job experience and getting twice the score on the Captain’s exam as those who were promoted. Of course the reason my dad was bypassed for promotion by those less qualified was simply because he was white- in other words racial discrimination in NY!!!
New York did have slaves!
Heck .. The family that owned the New York Times were slaveholders!
As a matter of fact New York was named after the great Trader of African Slaves, the head of The Royal African Company ... King James II, also known as the Duke of York
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/the-forgotten-history-of-slavery-in-new-york/
Here’s my idea for reparations: a free one way ticket 🎟 back to Africa!
RE: said the controversial bill should be tweaked to avoid overlapping with two comparable state bills.
So much extra tax money floating around you just have to grab for some and it’s yours. But don’t overlap the loot disbursement?
What happened to cash strapped cities are too broke to house and take care of any border crossers?
Democrats always seem to decide to spend money before the determine if they can afford it.
RE: Money from people who never owned slaves to people who never were slaves in a state that never had slaves. what’s the problem?
Perfectly said.
If North American slavery had not existed, none of the descendants of those slaves would ever have been born. Their ancestors never would have met and procreated. Descendants of slaves owe their very lives to the existence of slavery.
Not a defense of or an apology for slavery, just An inconvenient truth.
Reparations = Bill of Attainder = UnConstitutional
Thank you, l never mind being corrected. My mistake l just assumed NY was never a slave area since they were a northern state. As reparations we should give the NYT to Thomas Sowell.
This is going to be a real hoot until WHITE AMERICA decides that they want “reparations” too. After all, we built, fought and died for this country.
The military Jo Jo the RAT is leaving them isn’t going to work against the American militia.
Keep sending the bus loads.
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