Posted on 08/20/2015 1:11:22 AM PDT by bob_denard
The city of Chicago is proposing a $5.5 million reparations package for those who suffered under the ruthless rule of police commander Jon Burge from 1972 to 1991. Backed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the plan would supply victims with free college tuition, counseling for drug abuse and psychological issues, and include a formal apology from the city, according to the Chicago Tribune.
While the plan appears to be an attempt to reckon with part of the city's less-than-spotless past, Thursday evening Fox Business Network's Charles Payne said he's afraid nationwide slavery reparations might be next.
"The news in my mind is a glimpse of really much bigger news that is going to come from the White House," he said. "I think that theres going to be an official apology from the White House for slavery in America and then there's going to be a major push to get cash. And Im talking lots of cash.
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“Anyone who immigrated subsequent to 1863 and their descendants would be exempt from the process.”
Damn you! My mother’s side got here in 1635 and was living in Texas during the war.
Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!
Reparations for slavery was one of Hillary’s issues in her planned run for president in 2004.
Charles Barron derailed that plan when during the August 2002 rally for reparations for slavery he said if they didn’t get reparations for slaver there would be “Scorched Earth” meaning race riots in every city.
Hillary immediately distanced herself from reparations when she was connected to the orchestrated race riots as part of her dirty tricks campaign to get into the WH.
Obama is working to get Hillary into the WH by creating issues for her and making it appear as if it’s all his doing.
Lets start an online petition demanding reparations be paid to black people by the party responsible for slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, segregation, and 110 years of horrible discrimination, the DEMOCRAT PARTY. We need justice, those bastards better pay up!!
I “want” nobama to immediately resign and to leave this country.
“Best thing ever happened to blacks was their ancestors being brought to the colonies”
None of today’s descendants of slaves would be alive today if slavery had not existed. The odds are practically zero any living black today would have had the same combination of male/female ancestors required to result in the exact same egg being fertilized by the same sperm that created them. Certainly those who have white ancestors, as well as black, would not exist had their African ancestors never been taken to the Western Hemisphere. Most of today’s descendants of slaves have some white DNA.
It is ironic how few living American blacks who complain about slavery, white privilege, and racism in America choose to move to Africa. This absence of action to improve their condition is testimony to the fact they know they are better off in the USA than if they lived in Africa.
Well the GOP is pretty bad but I am not seeing reparations get passed in the budget even by those feckless quislings.
I sincerely believe that any former slave who is still alive should have a day in court with his former master if he is still alive.
How about descendants of people who fled Missouri because of their anti-slavery opinions? They were chased out by the early forerunners of the KKK, barns burning, looting, homes invaded and threats.
Do I have to play reparations too?
Interested taxpayers of the city of Chicago should arrest Rahm for check kiting, and make him fall down a bunch of flights of steps on the way to the police station.
Someone should tell the interested taxpayers of Chicago that ISIS would probably pay a lot more than 5.5 million to get their hands on Rahm Emanuel...
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