Democrat promises of money for reparations have created expectations among Black citizens
“It’s time to pay.” Those four words from Missouri Democrat Rep. Cori Bush are being heard a lot by Democratic politicians across the country this month. For Bush, the debt amounts to $14 trillion in reparations for Black Americans.
In California, activists are demanding as much as $5 million per Black resident and asking Gov. Gavin Newsom “where’s the money?” One member of Newsom’s Reparations Task Force demanded that the state pay its “sin bill”
In New York and Chicago, mayors are balking at towering costs from migrants being shipped from the border to their “sanctuary” cities.
In Tampa, after demanding $3 million per Black resident, a witness said that he and others were putting “White people on notice that we want our reparations.” Bills are coming due after years of political campaigning on these issues.
Reparations and sanctuary cities have long been the bread and butter of identity politics. For years, Democratic politicians have campaigned on these “moral imperatives” in passing sanctuary laws and setting up reparation task forces.
It is the equivalent of a compounding interest on credit card debt. Each election Democrats used these issues for short-term political gains. Now those bills are coming due and Democratic leaders are balking.
President Joe Biden and Congress are in a potentially lethal game of chicken over the looming default over our debt. It would not seem an ideal time to demand an additional $14 trillion, but Bush declared, “Black people in our country cannot wait any longer.” She was joined by members like Reps. Barbara Lee, D-CA, Jamaal Bowman, D-NY, and Rashida Tlaib, D-MI.
It is a view being voiced across the country by Black citizens who were told that these payments are an undeniable moral obligation. The years of politicking on the issue have created a sense of entitlement to large cash payments. As one well-known California activist declared: “It’s a debt that’s owed, we worked for free. We’re not asking; we’re telling you.”
As long as you can prove you were alive and actually a slave in 1863, here is your 5 million. Otherwise, go get stuffed.
This is nothing but wealth transfer and buying black votes.
Exactly what the turd did when he was in the white house…
People are just not going to put up with this BS!
Well, if the get the money, subtract the amount paid in welfare benefits, to those families that received benefits, through out the years, decades or century… They might be singing a different tune.
Between welfare, minority scholarships, affirmative action, they owe those who actually contribute to society….
Where’s the can of RAID?
“Reparations” are nothing more than a ploy for election votes because the Democrats have nothing else left. Their target population will fall for it and never see a dime.