Posted on 05/25/2018 8:36:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
An Oregon non-profit just did something the U.S. government refuses to do: it gave out reparations to people of color
In the inaugural Reparations Happy Hour earlier this week, the hosts gave each person of color who attended $10 with no questions asked. With 40 people in attendance, Brown Hope, the non-profit gave out $400 that evening.
“It’s exactly what it sounds like,” said Brown Hope founder Cameron Whitten. “What I want to do is end the cycle of exploitation. For Black, brown, indigenous people you face so many barriers, whether it’s tokenization or straight-up poverty.“
Portland is one of the whitest major cities in the U.S. with census data showing that 78 percent of the population is white. As a result, it has a history of strained race relations that go back decades.
Indeed, white people were not allowed at the event, though they could donate money to the cause. Having raised more than $5000 so far, Whitten is planning to have more Reparation Happy Hours in the future.
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What would MLK say to this? It really is disgusting. Obama is responsible for this widening divide.
Finally. Nancy Pelosi has a situation with real crumbs.
Yes, Mr. Whitten it’s exactly what it sounds like but you purport to be against tokenization while that’s exactly what you’re doing. How patronized would you feel if some smug busybody deigned to offer poor helpless people such as yourself ten bucks just for showing up? You must work for the government and think it’s normal to get paid just for showing up or something.
One of the stupidest as well. But that doesn't necessarily mean white people are stupid. Just a lot of them in Portland.
Showing their contempt for people by buying them off for peanuts
But at the end of the night, the Blacks get a bill for damages because of the havoc they have wreaked.
Smiling, holding up a $10 bill that was taken from Whitey. That seems to deserve a picture.
What dey be thinkin’? Dat Whitey done be one MF’ing a$$hole? Dat dis be da beginnin’ and dey be comin’ for all Whitey’s money?
Why not have a picture of the a$$hole Whiteys who gave the money? Show them smiling, radiating their new-found virtue? Show the fools who can now be smug and happy, that they have made up for the evil of slavery committed by people who are now dead against people who are now dead?
Hell, if $10 is all it takes to shut up all those whiners, let’s do it.
Cheapest fix is the best.
Then FINALLY, we can put it behind us and come together as an American people.
Rachel Dolezal, Who Posed as Black, Accused of Welfare Fraud
Blacks enslaved blacks and sold them.
They still do to this day (Boko Haram, etc).
Whites liberated blacks.
I am white, I want to be given $10 for every coffee I order, as gratitude payment.
Did Elizabeth Warren get her $10.00?
Do palefaces have a $10.00 cover charge?
We should pay to repatriate all those whose ancestors were taken from their ancestral homelands.
How come white is not a color but black is?
Memorial Day weekend when we should be remembering our fallen heroes this crap. 600k died in the Civil War was all the reparations necessary.
The blood of over half a million Americans isn’t “reparations” enough?
Good grief.
What the... Biatch you can’t even buy a pack a Kools for $10 bucks Portland. You must be trippin’.
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