sounds like the dude is trying to imitate kamala harris word salad gibberish ... he's certainly got the the genetic predisposition for it ...
Posted on 08/08/2022 7:21:58 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
To cover the payment of reparations to local blacks for what was termed injustices from the past, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners on July 17 voted unanimously to approve $2 million in its fiscal 2023 budget — and to add $500,000 to future reparations budgets, with an annual increase of 2 percent.
The county reparations budget approval followed the City of Ashville’s commitment — also on a unanimous vote — to an initial reparations investment of $2.1 million in its 2022 budget — and included an additional allocation of $500,000 for 2023.
“We are at the intersection of yesterday, today and tomorrow,” Commissioner Al Whitesides said, according to a county press release. “This is going to make our whole community stronger. This is something that will help us heal.”
(Excerpt) Read more at ashevilledailyplanet.com ...
I did, at one time, consider retiring in Asheville. I certainly don’t consider it any more.
“Asheville will see massive population shifts soon as people with no desire to work flood the city”
Well, the homeless nonworking population has already shown up in the past 10 years. White Flight will start soon when taxes and crime rates start to go up even higher.
after deducting the price of freedom, apparently all descendants of former slaves owe ME money.
Many of us have had to work with and compensate for some pretty worthless AA hires.
It appears that there are quite a few weak links on the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners.
Fools and their money soon part company. Slavery was almost non existent in the mountain counties in the Appalachians, none of that matters now.
presumably, the money to pay for this is coming from the tax payers.
So, do the people who will be getting these “reparations” have to pay additional taxes in order for them to receive this?
Yep time to move far away and let the county designate into an economic wasteland.
If $10T+ in transfer payments to blacks in the past 60 years are not enough, then nothing will be satisfactory. Past time for blacks to solve their own problems, starting with fatherless households.
Will we see a new generation of “white flight” from places which set up reparations for slavery programs?
I’ve heard Evanston, Illinois, is setting up reparations for slavery too.
I can understand why businesses and individuals making decisions of where to locate, would avoid these places.
Such locales are probably very liberal on other issues too, which just makes one more reason to avoid locating there.
Google the term “is we gettin”. Look at the search suggestions. It tells you all you need to know.
Time to move out of Ashville.
Note to self: Remove Asheville from list of places to visit.
For the rich white liberals that have destroyed Asheville, the good comes when the blacks take their money and move away from Asheville. Paving the way for more rich White liberals to move in.
The money won’t be enough for them to buy in Asheville, but enough to get them out of there.
Remember, this is a city that defunded their police and told restaurant owners that they couldn’t have lights on their outdoor patios because it effected the natural moonlight.
We owe a great debt of gratitude to those willing to the transcend the bounds of sanity, so we don’t have to.
Dafuq is wrong with Assville?
sounds like the dude is trying to imitate kamala harris word salad gibberish ... he's certainly got the the genetic predisposition for it ...
Sounds unconstitutional to me as the payments are based on color, not on kidnap. Nobody alive today is or was a slave, or - for that matter - a slave-owner.
Were this to pass constitutional muster, then reparations should be paid to white people based on their being conscripted during the Civil War and, in many cases, killed. Almost as many people died during the Civil War as were freed. Who really suffered more from slavery: those killed or those freed? If the whites AND the blacks are to be paid reparations, who will pay the reparations? Immigrants since the Civil War? Yet, how are immigrants since the Civil War guilty of slavery?
We saw what reparations led to in Germany during the 1920s. Conversely, we saw what forgiveness (of the masses of people, with trials for the relatively few in leadership) led to in (west) Germany and Japan after WWII.
Totally agree. From the article:
‘The Community Reparations Commission recommends that the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners include a line item in their budget for reparations for Black people in Buncombe County as a percentage of the overall budget in perpetuity.’
Perpetuity is a long time. I might be willing to pay reparations on a one-time event provided the recipient renounces US Citizenship and moves themselves and their dependents back to Africa. I cannot ever agree to ‘perpetuity’.
Yes, it does look like additional welfare instead of 40 acres and a Lexus.
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And some bling.
Al Whitesides
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