Posted on 09/23/2013 10:20:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
CHICAGO — Senator Mark Kirk ruffled a lot of feathers with his recent plan to round up 18,000 gang members but a group of South Side pastors say they have a way for him to redeem himself: Help pass legislation to give African Americans reparation.
Rev. Anthony Williams of Freedom Community Church in Englewood says it’s something that’s long overdue.
“Jews got their reparations from the Holocaust, Japanese got their reparations from the internment. It is time for us to get our reparations,” said. Rev. Williams.
Rev. Joel Washington says they also want Kirk to fight to keep mental health facilities on the South Side open, make sure federal money gets in the right hands and hold congressional hearings on violence and to do something about the flow of guns....
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com ...
Yup.
It’s something like that.
But with sound.
Yeah. Ads by the gazillions.
Just boykott the boogers.
Forgetting the trillion dollars that have gone toward the War on Poverty which, paradoxically, has impoverished a black community that is so dependent on government that it is falling apart.
ha - Maybe so.
I’ve seen the obama-phone lady. She’s definitely a parody of herself.
The funny thing is that according to the reparations folks, the war on poverty/great society doesn’t count because whites were targeted for assistance as well ...
Maybe any living slaves deserve reparations, of course they might be too old to enjoy them by now.
Speaking of reparations, when do they pay us back for decades of government handouts and racial preferences?
Shouldn’t full reparations include relocation to one’s continent of abduction?
As long as they pay back the trillions of welfare dollars , I am all for it.
Never has so much been given to so few and they have done so little.
Yes one aspect of Obama care is reparations and wealth transfer from white to black. Whites who prefer private insurance are now paying for and stuck in a socialist health care boondoggle that hurts them and helps the poor who tend to be black, immigrant and minority and Hispanic
The poor could have been more easily taken care of on their own (and were) rather than sucking everyone one else into 0-care and bringing others down but this is what communism is all about. Equal distribution of poverty
Why should I pay anything? I wasn’t even there!
I couldn't understand why the story was talking about Chicago gangs when the headline was about the Church of Scotland. An obvious sign of critically low caffeine levels in the early morning reader.
Blacks have clearly become their own worst enemy.
I’m all for giving Rev Williams $200.00 per day that he spent in slavery.
I distinctly remember in history class, that they received 40 acres and a mule following the Civil War. I would be extremely happy if I was given this today.
So where does reparations start and stop? Seems like they have already got them several times and several different forms, 40 acres, AA, 600,0000 dead Americans, and now obamacare. If I go onto a genealgy website and find my great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather was a slave, would I be eligible?
Another question I have about this, what does slavery have to do with them today. I am sure some of my ancestors worked in coal mines and other sweat shops for meager wages just enough to pay the company for the house provided and to get food at the company store.
“a way for him to redeem himself”
I’ve never heard shakedown described exactly that way. Or can we just call it what it is...old-fashioned blackmail?
Mine too...
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