Posted on 04/02/2022 1:46:03 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis mayor has signed a bill allowing taxpayers to voluntarily donate to a slavery reparations fund.
Tishaura Jones, the city’s first Black female mayor, described the move in a statement Friday as an effort to “reverse generational wrongs,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
The bill, passed last month by the Board of Aldermen, will allow residents and companies to contribute to the fund by adding donations to yearly property tax bills or to the joint water and refuse collection bills issued quarterly.
When the measure was considered by an aldermanic committee, members expressed concern about the bill’s lack of detail on how the money would be disbursed.
The statement from the mayor’s office said community stakeholders and academics would work together to develop a plan. It also described the bill as a “first step.”
Mayoral spokesman Nick Dunne didn’t say what further reparations ideas might be looked at here, saying “it’s in the exploratory stages.”
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How many wealthy elite black people will kick in? Come on Obama and Moochelle. You can do this!
And let me guess. Tishaura will be handling the funds. Tishaura...
Do we need to send them our aadress? Bunch of my kin folk fought for the union so, yeah, fess up.
There are many wonderful charities in St. Louis to which I have donated over the years; Annie Malone, Matthews-Dickey, St. Vincent’s Home. If I do anything, I will continue to do that.
She won’t even hand out the Covid funds. Doesn’t agree with what the Board of Aldermen want to do.
How long until this becomes mandatory?
Methinks the folk giving to this have a sign in their front yard signaling their virtue with what they believe. I have news for them - your shame will remain. Only the Christ takes that away. Redemption signally only lasts a moment.
For those not familiar, The city St. Louis is a geographically small city which has lost roughly 65% of its population over the last half century. As you might expect there are vast tracts of empty houses, apartments, factories, churches, stores, etc. The city’s population is roughly 45% black, 45% white and 10% other but you wouldn’t know it from the city’s politics.
Very nice peaceful neighborhoods are only blocks away from definite no-go zones. Sports events downtown are heavily policed, because again, dangerous areas in the city are never that far away.
I seriously doubt that many individuals will opt for the voluntary reparations fund, but the big corporations in and around St. Louis will doubtlessly donate to show how much they care.
This is going to be just like BLM. Corporations are going to donate millions (passing the costs onto their customers) and it’s going to enrich a very small number of professional shake-down artists within the lucrative racial grievance industry.
I knew this was going to happen once the politicians legalized drugs. This is why they do it.
Give ‘em a “reparation” (the payday about nothing) and they’ll blow it on a pair of Nikes and some “toot for the snoot”.
Missouri wasn’t even a slave state.
"Just send us the money and we'll decide how to spend your money". And look at who's going to decide: "community stakeholders", whatever that means, and academics. What could go wrong?
And saying it's just a "first step" is scary.
Starts out voluntary. Then it becomes just a small surcharge, but you can opt out. Then you can no longer opt out. Then the surcharge is increased just a bit. And so it goes.
When will they set up a fund for race relations damages caused by blacks committing hate crimes and framing it on whites? How many blacks will be encouraged to donate to it?
I suppose the funds (reparations) will go to the long-dead slaves in graves from over a century ago. There can’t be any living slaves or former slaves.
“How long before city contractors are denied work if their companies don’t “voluntarily donate” to the fund?”
Better question: How long after they deny work to city contractors will lights stop working and toilets don’t flush?
Brings new meaning to a black hole.
This group of mayors, dubbed Mayors Organized for Reparations and Equity (MORE), is led by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock. Their stated goal is for these reparations programs to “serve as high-profile demonstrations for how the country can more quickly move from conversation to action on reparations for Black Americans,” according to the group’s website.
Maybe Eric Garcetti should work on some of the serious problems his city faces instead of this.
And what if we are against reparations for slavery? What if we don’t want to move quickly from conversation to action on this (expletive deleted)????? This whole presupposes that we are all in favor of reparations for slavery, instead of just the mechanism by which reparations will be doled out to certain people.
Maybe we should talk first, about whether slave reparations are a good idea first, before they say we need to move from talk to action and all that.
“the city’s first Black female mayor,”
Wow! A black mayor endorsing reparations to black people. Hey, Mayor ... Identify as a black descendant of a former slave. Please put my name on your list for a fare share of those reparations.
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