We donate every paycheck you idiots.
Why do you need a law for “voluntary reparations”?
Could not the concerned taxpayers just give some nice black people or organizations the money on their own?
What was the thing called “The Gimme Dat bill?!”
Will St. Louis also provide voluntary charity funding for reparations for the Irish? The Jewish? The Asians? The Catholics? All of whom are victims of systemic oppression?
I wunder how long before it’s not voluntary? Or until they tag you as a racist on a website for not paying up?
Since leftists never donate money, I’ll be they earn less than $10,000 from this.
Federal income tax is still voluntary. Courts has created Jurisprudence rulings that made federal income tax in essence law since then
“And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.”-Kipling
Yeah huh, I’ll pay one cent towards reparation and not one penny more. Let them Molon Labe.
Democrats only since they’re the one’s responsible.
This is a “kinder, gentler” version of last year’s BLM extortion. And we’ve seen what happens to the payoffs when they are “disbursed”. They wind up in the hands of the biggest mouths, never to be seen again.
The WEF uses the term “stakeholder” and “stakeholder capitalism”.
https://www.weforum.org/impact/stakeholder-capitalism-50-companies-adopt-esg-reporting-metrics/
Global challenges amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic have made Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues even more pressing for policymakers, boards and executives.
To promote alignment among existing ESG frameworks, the World Economic Forum, with Partners including Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC, has drawn upon existing frameworks and identified a set of universal disclosures – the Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics.
During the Sustainable Development Impact Summit 2021, the Forum announced that over 50 companies have begun including the Stakeholder Capitalism ESG reporting metrics in their mainstream materials, including annual reports and sustainability reports.
Friday's announcement marks the largest city-led effort at paying reparations to date, but it isn't the first. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted in March to appoint a 15-member African American Reparations Advisory Committee. That same month, the City Council of Evanston, Illinois, voted to pay $400,000 to eligible Black households, part of a pledge to spend $10 million over the next 10 years. Qualifying households would get $25,000 to use for things like home repair or putting a down payment on property.
Last year, the City Council in Asheville, North Carolina, voted to approve reparations in the form of investments in areas of disparity for Black residents.
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.
“Let me be clear: Cities will never have the funds to pay for reparations on our own,” Garcetti said during a news conference on Friday to announce the group. “When we have the laboratories of cities show that there is much more to embrace than to fear, we know that we can inspire national action as well.”
It's similar to the aim of another group of mayors who have experimented with guaranteed income programs, where a small group of low-income people receive cash payments each month with no restrictions on how they can spend it. The first such program was set up in Stockton, California, by former mayor Michael Tubbs, who is listed as an “emeritus member” of the reparations group.
The other mayors are Jorge Elorza of Providence, Rhode Island; Steve Adler of Austin, Texas; Steve Schewel of Durham, North Carolina: Esther Manheimer of Asheville, North Carolina: Quinton Lucas of Kansas City; Darrell Steinberg of Sacramento, California; Melvin Carter of St. Paul, Minnesota; and Keisha Currin of Tullahassee, Oklahoma.
“But, I don’t want to wear the ribbon!”
We all know how that ended…
What has the welfare program been for decades? I call that reparations.
My “reparations” were paid by two Great-Great Grandfathers who fought for the Union and two Great-Great Uncles who died in Confederate prison camps.
My grandchildren are suffering generational wrongs as we speak.
How long before city contractors are denied work if their companies don’t “voluntarily donate” to the fund?
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.