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NYC Council expected to back task force to study reparations for black residents
The New York Post ^ | 09/12/2024 | Haley Brown

Posted on 09/12/2024 8:28:06 AM PDT by thegagline

New York’s City Council is set to vote Thursday to authorize a controversial a task force to study reparations for black residents — a move that could lead to a call for billions in tax payer spending, as it has in other cities.

The city legislation would charge a nine-member task force with examining the “impact of slavery and past injustices for African Americans in New York City” and determining what, if any, monetary or nonmonetary reparations are necessary.

Minority Leader Joseph Borelli (R) told The Post he would leave the city before he paid reparations.

“I’ll move before I’ll pay,” Borelli said.

“If they can introduce me to one New Yorker who owned a slave I’d be happy to consider it. But until then, I am not paying a dime as a reparation for a harm I did not cause, nor condone, nor once participated in.”

The bill is likely to pass with nearly half of the council’s 51 members signed on as sponsors. The bill is similar to state legislation signed by Governor Kathy Hochul in December that established a statewide commission to review the same thing. Critics called that bill “divisive” and “unrealistic,” but civil rights activists labeled it history-making.

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San Francisco established its own African American Reparations Advisory Committee that proposed paying $5 million lump-sum payments to each Black city resident in 2023. The Hill estimated the California city’s payouts could cost $175 billion.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed nixed that idea when she defunded the city’s reparations office in January.

The state of California also had a task force study statewide reparations. The final report did not come up with a suggested payout, but experts questioned by legislators said it could cost as much as $800 billion. ***

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackthievesmatter; grift; notapenny; notaxation; perpetualgrievance; union
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1). If I recall correctly, New York was on the side of the Union.

2). The party culpable for slavery should pay reparations; that being the Democrat Party

3). My grandmother was mugged six times. Every mugger was black. In one incident my 4’11” under 100 pounds granny handed the mugger her pocket book and said,”please don’t hurt me.” The mugger proceeded to smash my grandmother in the face, knocking her to the ground.
Where are my reparations?

I was a victim of the “knockout game” AKA polar bear hunting.
Where are my reputations?

1 posted on 09/12/2024 8:28:06 AM PDT by thegagline
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Translation: We Will Try To Buy Your Vote.
2 posted on 09/12/2024 8:31:50 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: thegagline
“If they can introduce me to one New Yorker who owned a slave I’d be happy to consider it.

New Yorkers that own slaves are there in NYC today. They keep a low profile because it is not convenient to admit that the Democrats in charge are involved in human trafficking.

3 posted on 09/12/2024 8:34:53 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: thegagline

What’s to study? You simply take from whitey. Because we’re evil and we deserve what’s coming to us! And we’re all rich!


4 posted on 09/12/2024 8:35:51 AM PDT by albie (U)
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To: thegagline

and the people that’ll have to pay the bill will get ready to leave NYC


5 posted on 09/12/2024 8:38:19 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Do sex slaves count , all the Wall Street bastards are perverts ,Epstein and all his cronies.


6 posted on 09/12/2024 8:42:15 AM PDT by OldHarbor (strained statutory arguments, appeals to inconsistent history, reliance on out-of-c)
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7 posted on 09/12/2024 8:42:32 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: thegagline

Descendants of Union soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice so they could be free of their Democrat slaveowners should be pissed.


8 posted on 09/12/2024 8:44:41 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: thegagline

Quick search found this from 2014...

https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/the-war-poverty-after-50-years

“...In his January 1964 State of the Union address, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed, “This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.” In the 50 years since that time, U.S. taxpayers have spent over $22 trillion on anti-poverty programs. Adjusted for inflation, this spending (which does not include Social Security or Medicare) is three times the cost of all U.S. military wars since the American Revolution...”

American taxpayers have already paid through the nose.


9 posted on 09/12/2024 8:45:48 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: thegagline

“REPARATIONS” ==LEGALIZED BLACKMAIL


10 posted on 09/12/2024 8:46:06 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: TheDon

NEEDS TO BE A BILLBOARD


11 posted on 09/12/2024 8:46:33 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Jane Long

This is how they lie to black people. They put this task force crap out to get black people thinking that the free stuff is coming right around the corner if you vote for them.

Then after the election they drop the promise and blame it on the GOP.


12 posted on 09/12/2024 8:48:20 AM PDT by dforest
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13 posted on 09/12/2024 8:48:46 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: MeanWestTexan
Descendants of Union soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice so they could be free of their Democrat slaveowners should be pissed.

I have two ancestors who fought for the Union Army. One sustained a bullet wound to the leg and the other got dysentery for which he received a government stipend of a dollar or two a month.

14 posted on 09/12/2024 8:54:58 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: thegagline

A proposal should be made that only persons who descend from slave owners should be taxed. Like Kamala and Obama.

I think the above is stupid, but would reinforce and publicize how the Democrats have always been the problem.


15 posted on 09/12/2024 9:00:00 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: thegagline
“If they can introduce me to one New Yorker who owned a slave...." Wrong basis stated. It should be "If they can introduce me to one living New Yorker that was kept as a slave during the time before 1865..." We owe these modern day drains on society absolutely nothing.
16 posted on 09/12/2024 9:04:41 AM PDT by jpp113
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To: thegagline

Please show proof of slavery at the Cashier’s window


17 posted on 09/12/2024 9:08:13 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: mewzilla
Another example of why Deep State needs to try to bribe its base...

This guy posted the debate transcript to CHATGPT

18 posted on 09/12/2024 9:08:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: thegagline

New York should not pay reparations on behalf of the British Empire.

Nor should New York pay reparations on behalf of the Netherlands.

Originally, New Amsterdam.


19 posted on 09/12/2024 9:38:10 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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To: butlerweave
Please show proof of slavery at the Cashier’s window

Here is the proof of slavery/ Democrat


20 posted on 09/12/2024 10:11:50 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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