The City Council in Evanston, Ill., voted 8-1 late Monday to approve a plan to make reparations available to Black residents over past discrimination and the lingering effects of slavery.
The plan, which could be the first of its kind in the U.S., is to distribute $400,000 to eligible Black households. The Associated Press reported that qualifying households in the city of 73,000 would be eligible to receive $25,000 for home repairs or down payments on property.
Ald. Robin Rue Simmons, the lawmaker who proposed the initiative back in 2019, called the approval a first step but said more needs to be done.
“It is, alone, not enough,” she said, according to the Chicago Tribune. “We all know that the road to repair and justice in the Black community is going to be a generation of work. It’s going to be many programs and initiatives and more funding.”
She told the New York Times, “It is the reckoning. We’re really proud as a city to be leading the nation toward repair and justice.”
The funding for the program will come from the 3% tax on the sale of recreational marijuana and donations. The city expects to spend about $10 million over 10 years.
What a f’in joke
I’ve said it on here before. When you think you have heard the most dangerous, stupid, common thing, wait until the next day and something will top it. This county we grew up in is in a downward spiral due to the Hussein/Biden years. And it’s still going stronger today.
How fu-ked can it get.
Illinois historically leads the way in spending what it doesn’t have
and making promises it can’t keep.
Do this all over, and it’s over. Any consideration given to blacks before, will dissolve like an alka seltzer. It will be, ” well you got your reparations, what you bitchin about?” We’re even now bitches.
Wake up America before we have no country left!!!
so this is what they residents pay taxes for? not services like police, fire, ems, roads, infrastructure, water, sewer.
Good to know they have all those items covered with enough left over to spend money like a drunken sailor!
I’m sure this will make such a difference in their lives. This will certainly cause them to want to change their culture. Before you know it they will become upstanding citizens of this country. Why didn’t we think of this before …throw money at em and hope they change.
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I personally can’t wait! Give the blacks their repararations! Give them the land, or home repairs! Give them the power! When the roles reverse it will be them crying about working constantly and not living on welfare! Careful what you wish for! Property taxes are a bitch!
When you check real facts, over 40 million “black” immigrants have LEGALLY immigrated to the USA since 1930. Legally, not forced. That is four times the amount that were brought to the USA during the slave trade importing. Again, Slavery is a deplorable sin and travesty that should have never happened and shouldn’t be happening today anywhere in the world. Lets get serious about the future and stop exploiting the past for some financial gain that hasn’t been earned. We all have the most opportunity than in any other country in the world. Unfortunately some folks just don’t want to earn it. Some people just like that FREE handout they did not earn or have anything to do with. How much do the Japanese owe us for pearl harbor? How much do the Germans owe the Jews for the Holocaust? Are we now fining people for past atrocious behavior? Will that fix anything at all?? Slavery was terrible, money will not change that. Money-grubbing behavior is what got us in the mess in the first place. And continues to wreak havoc on society. You discriminated against me, so I can steal from Target. It’s all B.S.!!!! Until we all accept personal responsibility for our own actions (not those that happened to live on the same dirt 400 years ago), society will continue to decline.
So the Mayors want this, fine, every Federal dollar that goes to their cites will now go to the Africans.
I bet they scream and shut up about reparations if this were the way it is.
Nothing more than a division tactic to breed resentment and division bc united we stand, divided we fall. We are the 99% but the 1% play us like fiddles so they can carry out their evil agendas! Stand together against tyranny and don’t play into their wicked games
And, THIS is one of the reasons the black culture is so skewed.
GIVE me this. Give me that. Whatever you GIVE me will not be enough.
I need more. And more.
Because no matter how much we give you, you will not change in your admiration for losers, drug dealers, pimps, ex-felons, prison time, and the “gimme” train.
You’ll just have a nicer house for the Feds to confiscate.
WHO is going to pay the property taxes for those people, or will it be a lot like student loans….if you wait long enough, some white person, trying to prove how much they love black people, will advance the thought of PAYING your taxes, too.
We are sliding down the slope so fast now, we can’t even grab anything to slow the descent.
And by the way, my grandmother was a full blooded Cherokee. White people stole AN ENTIRE COUNTRY from us. I ain’t heard a peep from the Indians about “reparations” and the Indians were slaughtered like pigs, often in front of military commanders. We stole their land, raped their women, even obliterated their languages from use.
Make your own life and quit waiting for white people to save you. Or pay you. OR make you understand the importance of integrity, hard work, saving, and raising children whose first words aren’t “mother f*****” or B***h.
Pay the WHITES reparations for Saving the world in WW2 !!!! While Blacks stayed home !!!!
Pay Whites Reparations for being Discriminated against by their own Govt over 60 years with
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION LAWS !!!!!