Posted on 08/11/2020 1:06:49 PM PDT by Hojczyk
leader of a Chicago protest said that looting should be viewed as reparations, according to reports.
In Chicago, supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement held a rally on Monday to stand in solidarity with the more than 100 people arrested early that morning during the rioting and looting that took place in the city's downtown area. The looting, which took place during the early hours of Monday morning, caused tens of millions of dollars in damage and injured more than a dozen police officers.
"I don't care if someone decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy's or a Nike store, because that makes sure that person eats ... That is reparations," Ariel Atkins told NBC Chicago.
"Anything they wanted to take, they can take it because these businesses have insurance," she continued.
The social unrest that led to the Monday morning looting began on Sunday afternoon, when a police officer in the city's Englewood neighborhood was involved in a shootout with a 20-year-old man.
The officer had responded to reports of a man with a gun in the neighborhood. As the officer pursued the suspect, the man reportedly turned, and began firing at the officer. The officer fired back and struck the young man, who was taken to a nearby hospital.
One organizer at the demonstration, which was held outside a police station in the city's South Loop, reportedly said the looting should be viewed as "reparations."
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
Chicago Mayor Drives Past Looters To Arrest 7-Year-Old Having A Birthday Party (SATIRE)
Babylon Bee ^ | August 10, 2020 | Babylon Bee
CHICAGO, IL—Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot protected the citizens of Chicago yesterday by arresting a 7-year-old having a birthday party.
The mayor reportedly jumped in her car and drove over toward the boy’s house, waving at looters, rioters, and murderers as she passed. Bricks, Molotov cocktails, and hand grenades flew over her car as she hurtled down the streets of Chicago, careening down alleyways and ripping through parking lots to get to the illegal party.
“Drop the cake and put your hands behind your head,” Lightfoot said. “Nice and easy — you’re coming with me.”
“The streets are now safe,” Lightfoot said as she led the boy to a Chicago PD squad car. “The citizens of Chicago can rest easy knowing that unlawful gatherings like this party are being broken up.”
“We feel much safer now that this maniac is behind bars,” said one Chicagoan as he hid in his house from looters. “I was really worried when I heard that a few people were gathering for a party. Now I know we’re safe.”
“We were concerned she was coming to take us down,” said one looter as he threw a brick into the window of a Target. “But she just passed us right on by. She definitely has her priorities in the right place.”
On her way back from arresting the youngster, Lightfoot pulled over to lecture a rioter who wasn’t wearing a mask. Once he had put his mask back on, she told him to go about his business.
In that case we should anticipate this is the end of the reparations debate.
Reparations?
Blacks have not thought this through carefully. Reparations should be based on the income differential a black has in the US versus what they would have earned in the nation where their ancestors came from (e.g., Ghana). Some quick research shows that average black income minus the average income in Ghana is about $15000/year higher in the US, times about 40 million blacks. The result is blacks need to pay preparations to non-blacks to the tune of about $600 billion per year in reparations (and that doesn’t factor in non-cash transfer payments to blacks). Probably not what they had in mind.
“Looting in Chicago should be viewed as reparations”
“Slavery should be viewed as volunteer work” - some Democrat back in the 19th century, probably
The way of all communists
then they’re paid in full. Check reparations off the list.
Except half of those rioting weren’t descendants of slaves. One, a chinese girl, was very proud of her new gucci bag, enough to post her own ‘loot’ photo to twitter and tiktok
Hugo Chavez took over a historic bldg in Caracas from the diamond exchange that had been using it. Two thousand jobs were lost and the bldg soon became derelict. But social justice warriors cannot think beyond their ideology. In that respect, they are merely ignoramuses.
So my gggparents came here as Indentured Servants, so can I LOOT, too?
“...BLM rally organizer reportedly says”
Does anyone now see any difference between businesses supporting Dems and paying the mob for “protection”?
proof Atkins said it in video:
VIDEO: 2m04s: 10 Aug: NBC Chicago: Black Lives Matter Holds Rally Supporting Individuals Arrested in Chicago Looting Monday
(BLM Ariel Atkins speaking in front of sign held by WHITE BLM ACTIVISTS - “Our futures have been looted from us...loot back”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/black-lives-matter-holds-rally-supporting-individuals-arrested-in-chicago-looting-monday/2320365/
If the big picture Marxist plan is to deliberately cause a race war in order to promote the chaotic overthrow of our system, then how do they know their use of “black muscle” as the guy said in the Blues Brothers will not result in a decisive victory over the blacks but not the system?
As with the “Indians” (aboriginal tribes living on land and not wanting to allow white settlers). They captured, enslaved and tortured whites who merely wanted to live on this land. Then pushback came. Indians? Now nearly extinct and not in power except in casinos. Not a good outcome.
Will even the naive, impressionable suburban white women who are against Trump for his tweets and name calling accept that they owe reparations to blacks for the 1800s? Will they?
How far we have fallen if this kind of argument is acceptable.
Cut the head off the commie snake
The total number of Africans brought to colonial America as slaves was 399,000. Page 40 under "African immigration in chains". The height of the slave population in this country was in 1830. The population of slaves had grown to 2,000,000 individuals. Same page and story.
Here is the eye opener. The Total number of Africans imported into Spanish America:
(Cuba, Mexico, Central America and South America) was 1,552,100.
British Caribbean (Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Jamaica, Honduras) was 1,665,000.
Danish Caribbean Leeward Islands) 28,000.
French Caribbean Surinam, Guyana) 1,600,200.
Dutch Caribbean (Aruba and Leeward Islands) 500,000.
Brazil imported a total of 3,646,800 Africans into their country as slaves.
About 6% of the total slavery into the western hemisphere ostensibly ended up in the United States and of course slavery as an institution was still carried on in the eastern hemisphere by Africans themselves.....yet when one is reminded of this terrible Scourge on the history of mankind we somehow seem to only be reminded of the evilness of the slave trade in the U.S.A. This also dispels the notion, promulgated by some, that slavery was somehow responsible for the economic success of this nation. If that is the case why isn't Brazil such an economic dynamo.....or Aruba.....or....you get my meaning.
This information should probably be presented when discussing reparations! I originally wrote this about ten years ago and I see this stupid idea is beginning to crop up once more.
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