Activists who campaign for reparations for black people have come up with a new idea for how such compensation can be delivered.
MailOnline reports that campaigners in Chicago have already placed billboards demanding $6,000 relief on property taxes that are notoriously high across the city.
Among the issues raised by the billboards is the plight of Empire star Terrence Howard, who was forced to pay $1 million in backtaxes after refusing to honor years worth of payments over his belief that it is “immoral” to tax the descendants of slaves.
“Four hundred years of forced labor and never receiving any compensation for it,” Howard was quoted as telling a government lawyer investigating the case. “Now you have the gall to try and prosecute and charge taxes to the descendants of a broken people that you are responsible for causing the breakage.”
One of the campaign’s leaders is former MSNBC Tiffany Cross, who argued on her podcast this week that tax breaks were the answer and that Howard was right to defraud the taxpayer.
“This brother was making a legitimate point,” Cross said. “I don’t know how we would make this happen, but I would be completely down for some sort of policy that says ‘Yes, you are exempt from paying taxes.'”
They haven’t picked any cotton and I’ve never owned any slaves. Pay your taxes just like I have to.
So there’s no such thing as history 3:22? Good luck with that.
There you go again 6:47, you have a problem comprehending sentences don’t you.
3:22, I’ve no problem comprehending sentences. Seems that you do. Just because current living people haven’t participated in picking cotton or owning slaves doesn’t mean they’ve not been affected by the history of slavery. Think of it this way: I’m sure you are proud of your ancestors and what they did and how that laid groundwork for what I have no doubt is your good life. Now, imagine that instead of what they did, they were enslaved and unable to do all those things. Guess what? Your life now would be very different, even though you’ve never picked cotton yourself. It’s something that we call “history” and it means that things that happened in the past affect things that have followed.
what about Kamala Harris’s family owning slaves? There is a real slave owner and he isnt white
6:47History? You mean the history liberal lunatics are trying to erase on a daily basis? 🙄
Not anymore. The demoncrats keep tearing down history.
Why isn’t there any mention of black slave owners ?
Blacks have been getting reparations for years: section 8 housing, free medical care, welfare, food stamps and more. Why do they think that they are owed anything. Cut off all the free shit and let them have to work for what they want or need. If they don’t want to work, let them starve, I have heard enough of this sh##
Amen to every word.
How many white slaves did America have?
300,000 white people
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from London’s streets to labor in the tobacco fields, where life expectancy was no more than two years.
So does this mean that my ancestors might have been white slaves and I don’t need to pay or charged taxes ?