Posted on 02/04/2024 9:09:16 PM PST by Libloather
Reparations advocates had the wind in their sails last year.
Cities across the US set up teams to hash out plans to compensate black people for the legacy of slavery, taking their cue from a successful pilot in Evanston, Illinois.
The landscape in 2024 is very different.
Squad member Cori Bush, the Missouri Democrat who has championed payouts, is under investigation for campaign spending violations.
Her bid for a $14 trillion federal compensation package is dead in the water.
The reparations task force in Detroit — a hub for African-American culture — has descended into a 'shambles' of quitting and in-fighting.
And California's black lawmakers this week backtracked on plans to pay $1.2 million to each resident.
While many black voters are keen to get checks in the mail, only a fraction think they'll see such a day in their lifetimes.
Mike Gonzalez, an analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said support for reparations peaked amid the protests over the police killing of George Floyd in 2020.
Now, it is waning, he added.
'Like diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), Critical Race Theory, anti-racism trainings, and other features of the collective hysteria, the call for reparations has begun to fall apart under intense opposition by the American people,' he told DailyMail.com.
Supporters of reparations say it's time for America to repay its black residents for the injustices of the historic Transatlantic slave trade, Jim Crow segregation and inequalities that persist to this day.
From there, it gets tricky.
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Your choice:
1) Hannibal the Mule
2) Free one-way ticket to Wakanda
Hurry. You have ten seconds to decide.
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My ancestor was a sergeant major in the Northern Army. If they can get reparations, I can get reparations.
many black voters are keen to get checks in the mail, only a fraction think they’ll see such a day in their lifetimes.
I’m calling BS on the following passage. It was, and is, popular among grifters who want to cash the checks, and left wing politicians who wanted to kiss their butts. The public was never behind this
Mike Gonzalez, an analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said support for reparations peaked amid the protests over the police killing of George Floyd in 2020.
Now, it is waning, he added.
‘Like diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), Critical Race Theory, anti-racism trainings, and other features of the collective hysteria, the call for reparations has begun to fall apart under intense opposition by the American people,’ he told DailyMail.com.
Wakanda! Wakanda!
My ancestors were in the Pale of Settlement. I’m sure there were no blacks there to oppress, but one of them came from White Russia. Obviously a racist. I’ll go get my cowwy bank (pigs not kosher)/s
reparations is a way to pay out taxpayer dollars to lazy a##es who could give a rats a## where they came from
Can’t wait til the “gimme” blacks realize THGEIR reparations are being given to illegals from all over the world for their part in the invasion of Amerika.
Can’t wait til the “gimme” blacks realize THEIR reparations are being given to illegals from all over the world for their part in the invasion of Amerika.
Some local governments have already paid reparations, with checks in the five figures.
Evanston, Illinois, becomes first U.S. city to pay reparations to Black residents.
Evanston, Illinois, on Monday became the first U.S. city to make reparations available to its Black residents for past discrimination and the lingering effects of slavery.
The Chicago suburb’s City Council voted 8-1 to distribute $400,000 to eligible black households. Each qualifying household would receive $25,000 for home repairs or down payments on property.
The program is being funded through donations and revenue from a 3% tax on the sale of recreational marijuana. The city has pledged to distribute $10 million over 10 years.
Qualifying residents must either have lived in or been a direct descendant of a Black person who lived in Evanston between 1919 to 1969 and who suffered discrimination in housing because of city ordinances, policies or practices.
Bwaaaahaaaaaa!
Boomlakalaka!
Reparations have been approved by a Republican congress for all freed slaves over 100 years ago. Vetoed by a dim-0 prez, andrew johnson.
An eternal truth in action to this very day.
According to the settled science of anthropology we are all Africans.
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