But now his family wants "compensation" (i.e., current market value and lost profits). Essentially, "double dipping." Getting paid in 1957, and again today.
This happened a few years ago in Manhattan Beach, when a black man's descendants were "compensated" (again) for property seized in the 1920s.
Eminent domain ain't nice. But it happens to all races.
But if you're black, and your property was seized due to "racism," your descendants are compensated a second time decades after the fact.
File it under Black Privilege.
Council= fidiots!
“establishing a process to potentially return the land to the living heirs of those from whom the land was taken and compensate their descendants for wealth lost over the last 60 plus years.”
Go ahead......they’ll be back for something else later.
News flash......it’ll never be enough.......EVER.
I knew my Grand Pappy would make good!
ROTFL. Why don’t they just kiss the descendants’ butts and call that good. Crazy, self-deprecating Crackers.
In the Kelo case, Connecticut had a statute allowing eminent domain for "economic development" even in the absence of blight. There was also an additional twist in that the development corporation was ostensibly a private entity; thus, the plaintiffs argued that it was not constitutional for the government to take private property from one individual or corporation and give it to another, if the government was simply doing so because the repossession would put the property to a use that would generate higher tax revenue.
BFD. My dad had property seized through eminent domain in order to build a bypass around town. Where are our reparations?
I’m coming to the view that America’s money is now a political token, issued and controlled by a central authority
Its why the rest of the world wants to get away from using it.
I am still waiting for someone to show me how Americans of African Descent are so different from Americans of European Descent.
We are the same in a million ways.
We are different in one.
And that one difference is mighty close.
It’s foolish to treat humans different based on the color of their skin.
It was foolish 200 years ago, and it is foolish today.
My family never owned slaves.
I never owned slaves.
I have nothing to be guilty about.
THE ONLY possible choice for this insane giveaway is if EVERY black person, I mean EVERY ONE, signs off on a legal document that any payment PERMANENTLY binds them, their ancestors, and their dependents into ETERNITY to never play the Race Card again upon penalty of jail. Because no matter what money is paid, 600,000 people died in the War on Slavery, the TRILLIONS UPON TRILLIONS given away in the Great Society nightmare... enough has been given. It moves into the dustbin of history, and can never be an excuse for ANY kind of bad behavior again. Every political party signs off that “EQUITY” is DEAD, and they have to settle for EQUALITY. Which means everybody starts at the same starting line, and you have to do your own work to get to the finish line. If we can’t get that legal assurance... Not a damn dime.