St. Louis mayor signs bill allowing voluntary reparations

The Associated Press ^ | April 2, 2022

[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.”

[the OlLine Rebel]

YAY!

Only liberal whites will contribute, and divest themselves of funds! Less for them to get involved in other communist garbage!

[the OlLine Rebel]

Yes, as learned by COVID hysteria….mandate by fiat.

[SgtHooper]

The jackwads haven’t learned from the BLM debacle! Idiots!

[tomkat]

Tishaura

             

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Those of us who never owned a slave have no reason to pay any sort of reparations, and people who were never themselves enslaved have no claim on any reparations.

The whole issue is many, many years too late.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Oh boy! Think of the good it will do. I'm on pins and needles waiting for the new crop of Negro mathematicians and physicists.

[Recompennation]

Let your butt hurt,,,, I see a song in this

[stylin19a]

Tishaura Jones, the city’s first Black female mayor, described the move in a statement Friday as an effort to “reverse generational wrongs,”

Breath taking in its irony,

[blam]

"I'm on pins and needles waiting for the new crop of Negro mathematicians and physicists."

Can't, that would be 'acting White'. And besides, didn't we recently learn that math is racist.

[Obadiah]

Will this go directly to their EBT cards?

[BiteYourSelf]

About three days I reckon.🤔

[Does so]

FRANCE should be tapped for every American of Haitian origin.

[damper99]

Missouri wasn’t even a slave state.

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to maintain the balance of power in Congress.

[mfish13]

Then the government will mandate that you pay, or just use tax money.

[mfish13]

Then the government will mandate that you pay, or just use tax money.

[redcatcherb412]

described the bill as a “first step.”

Sounds better politically than just "get mo money".