Reparations..A Local Solution?

[EvilEyeFleegle]

This is a bit interesting--and promising...as people come to their own conclusions and effect their unique local solutions!

Chicago suburb's plan to pay Black residents reparations could be a national model

Decades ago, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Cordelia Clark ran a restaurant out of her kitchen and parked cabs for her taxi company in her backyard because Black residents were effectively barred from owning or renting storefronts in town.
Now Evanston is poised to become the first U.S. city to offer reparation money to Black residents whose families suffered lasting damage from decades of discriminatory practices.
"It's about time that something has come from the hard work of African Americans in this city, proving that they should be treated as anyone else," said Clark's great-granddaughter, Delois Robinson, 58.
Evanston's initial approach to reparations is narrow and targeted. The city council, which has already committed $10 million over a decade to the effort, will vote on Monday to begin with a $400,000 round of payments. The first phase will provide $25,000 to a small number of eligible Black residents for home repairs, down payments or mortgage payments in a nod toward historically racist housing policies.
The program could become a model for other cities and states grappling with whether to pursue their own reparations programs. The burgeoning national movement has gained traction amid a reckoning on racial inequity following the police killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans last year.
In Congress, a bill that would establish a national reparations commission to study the issue has drawn around 170 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, all Democrats. President Joe Biden has not endorsed the legislation but says he supports a study. Advocates plan to lobby the White House for executive action if the bill, as expected, fails to pass a divided Senate.

 

[Correll]

Tthe solution is to dismiss it as madness.

 

[toobfreak]

This is a bit interesting--and promising...as people come to their own conclusions and effect their unique local solutions!

I think I'm feeling a little Black. There goes my hair starting to kink up.

 

[harmonica]

..they should be thanking their lucky stars they were brought to America and not living in the BIG shithole Africa

 

[TemplarKormac]

This is a bit interesting--and promising...as people come to their own conclusions and effect their unique local solutions!

Chicago suburb's plan to pay Black residents reparations could be a national model

Decades ago, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Cordelia Clark ran a restaurant out of her kitchen and parked cabs for her taxi company in her backyard because Black residents were effectively barred from owning or renting storefronts in town.
Now Evanston is poised to become the first U.S. city to offer reparation money to Black residents whose families suffered lasting damage from decades of discriminatory practices.
"It's about time that something has come from the hard work of African Americans in this city, proving that they should be treated as anyone else," said Clark's great-granddaughter, Delois Robinson, 58.
Evanston's initial approach to reparations is narrow and targeted. The city council, which has already committed $10 million over a decade to the effort, will vote on Monday to begin with a $400,000 round of payments. The first phase will provide $25,000 to a small number of eligible Black residents for home repairs, down payments or mortgage payments in a nod toward historically racist housing policies.
The program could become a model for other cities and states grappling with whether to pursue their own reparations programs. The burgeoning national movement has gained traction amid a reckoning on racial inequity following the police killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans last year.
In Congress, a bill that would establish a national reparations commission to study the issue has drawn around 170 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, all Democrats. President Joe Biden has not endorsed the legislation but says he supports a study. Advocates plan to lobby the White House for executive action if the bill, as expected, fails to pass a divided Senate.

Umno.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

This is a bit interesting--and promising...as people come to their own conclusions and effect their unique local solutions!

Chicago suburb's plan to pay Black residents reparations could be a national model

Decades ago, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Cordelia Clark ran a restaurant out of her kitchen and parked cabs for her taxi company in her backyard because Black residents were effectively barred from owning or renting storefronts in town.
Now Evanston is poised to become the first U.S. city to offer reparation money to Black residents whose families suffered lasting damage from decades of discriminatory practices.
"It's about time that something has come from the hard work of African Americans in this city, proving that they should be treated as anyone else," said Clark's great-granddaughter, Delois Robinson, 58.
Evanston's initial approach to reparations is narrow and targeted. The city council, which has already committed $10 million over a decade to the effort, will vote on Monday to begin with a $400,000 round of payments. The first phase will provide $25,000 to a small number of eligible Black residents for home repairs, down payments or mortgage payments in a nod toward historically racist housing policies.
The program could become a model for other cities and states grappling with whether to pursue their own reparations programs. The burgeoning national movement has gained traction amid a reckoning on racial inequity following the police killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans last year.
In Congress, a bill that would establish a national reparations commission to study the issue has drawn around 170 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, all Democrats. President Joe Biden has not endorsed the legislation but says he supports a study. Advocates plan to lobby the White House for executive action if the bill, as expected, fails to pass a divided Senate.

Umno.

Whether you like it or not--- it is happening in Evanston....which is, I think, one of the points, eh? If the majority in a polity wish to spend their money in a certain way..that's really none of our business.

 

[Sunsettommy]

This is a bit interesting--and promising...as people come to their own conclusions and effect their unique local solutions!

Chicago suburb's plan to pay Black residents reparations could be a national model

Decades ago, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Cordelia Clark ran a restaurant out of her kitchen and parked cabs for her taxi company in her backyard because Black residents were effectively barred from owning or renting storefronts in town.
Now Evanston is poised to become the first U.S. city to offer reparation money to Black residents whose families suffered lasting damage from decades of discriminatory practices.
"It's about time that something has come from the hard work of African Americans in this city, proving that they should be treated as anyone else," said Clark's great-granddaughter, Delois Robinson, 58.
Evanston's initial approach to reparations is narrow and targeted. The city council, which has already committed $10 million over a decade to the effort, will vote on Monday to begin with a $400,000 round of payments. The first phase will provide $25,000 to a small number of eligible Black residents for home repairs, down payments or mortgage payments in a nod toward historically racist housing policies.
The program could become a model for other cities and states grappling with whether to pursue their own reparations programs. The burgeoning national movement has gained traction amid a reckoning on racial inequity following the police killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans last year.
In Congress, a bill that would establish a national reparations commission to study the issue has drawn around 170 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, all Democrats. President Joe Biden has not endorsed the legislation but says he supports a study. Advocates plan to lobby the White House for executive action if the bill, as expected, fails to pass a divided Senate.

They suffered from DECADES of Democrats Mayoral control of the city (since 1931), racist turd Daley over and over get the 90% black vote then ignores them until the next election comes around.

This is largely a liberal decades long caused problem, but watch the democrat lies come out......

 

[fncceo]

will provide $25,000 to a small number of eligible Black residents for home repairs, down payments or mortgage payments in a nod toward historically racist housing policies.

In my lifetime, Jews, Asians, and Hispanics also suffered from historically racist housing policies. In 1960's it was perfectly normal to see a New York City real estate or job listing state "Only Gentile Need Apply". The practice of restricted hotels and club memberships continued well on into the '90s.

I wouldn't mind seeing my kids get $25,000 for what their grandparents might have suffered.

 

[Correll]

This is a bit interesting--and promising...as people come to their own conclusions and effect their unique local solutions!

Chicago suburb's plan to pay Black residents reparations could be a national model

Decades ago, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Cordelia Clark ran a restaurant out of her kitchen and parked cabs for her taxi company in her backyard because Black residents were effectively barred from owning or renting storefronts in town.
Now Evanston is poised to become the first U.S. city to offer reparation money to Black residents whose families suffered lasting damage from decades of discriminatory practices.
"It's about time that something has come from the hard work of African Americans in this city, proving that they should be treated as anyone else," said Clark's great-granddaughter, Delois Robinson, 58.
Evanston's initial approach to reparations is narrow and targeted. The city council, which has already committed $10 million over a decade to the effort, will vote on Monday to begin with a $400,000 round of payments. The first phase will provide $25,000 to a small number of eligible Black residents for home repairs, down payments or mortgage payments in a nod toward historically racist housing policies.
The program could become a model for other cities and states grappling with whether to pursue their own reparations programs. The burgeoning national movement has gained traction amid a reckoning on racial inequity following the police killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans last year.
In Congress, a bill that would establish a national reparations commission to study the issue has drawn around 170 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, all Democrats. President Joe Biden has not endorsed the legislation but says he supports a study. Advocates plan to lobby the White House for executive action if the bill, as expected, fails to pass a divided Senate.

Umno.

Whether you like it or not--- it is happening in Evanston....which is, I think, one of the points, eh? If the majority in a polity wish to spend their money in a certain way..that's really none of our business.

Sure it is. Especially if they are or want to take my money to give to other people for no reason.


It is completely my business if it is my money.

 

[TemplarKormac]

This is a bit interesting--and promising...as people come to their own conclusions and effect their unique local solutions!

Chicago suburb's plan to pay Black residents reparations could be a national model

Decades ago, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Cordelia Clark ran a restaurant out of her kitchen and parked cabs for her taxi company in her backyard because Black residents were effectively barred from owning or renting storefronts in town.
Now Evanston is poised to become the first U.S. city to offer reparation money to Black residents whose families suffered lasting damage from decades of discriminatory practices.
"It's about time that something has come from the hard work of African Americans in this city, proving that they should be treated as anyone else," said Clark's great-granddaughter, Delois Robinson, 58.
Evanston's initial approach to reparations is narrow and targeted. The city council, which has already committed $10 million over a decade to the effort, will vote on Monday to begin with a $400,000 round of payments. The first phase will provide $25,000 to a small number of eligible Black residents for home repairs, down payments or mortgage payments in a nod toward historically racist housing policies.
The program could become a model for other cities and states grappling with whether to pursue their own reparations programs. The burgeoning national movement has gained traction amid a reckoning on racial inequity following the police killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans last year.
In Congress, a bill that would establish a national reparations commission to study the issue has drawn around 170 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, all Democrats. President Joe Biden has not endorsed the legislation but says he supports a study. Advocates plan to lobby the White House for executive action if the bill, as expected, fails to pass a divided Senate.

Umno.

Whether you like it or not--- it is happening in Evanston....which is, I think, one of the points, eh? If the majority in a polity wish to spend their money in a certain way..that's really none of our business.

It can happen in Evanston all it wants. If it raises my taxes, that will be a hard no from me. If any directive like that which impacts how I spend my money anywhere, IT IS DAMN WELL MY BUSINESS!

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

This is a bit interesting--and promising...as people come to their own conclusions and effect their unique local solutions!

Chicago suburb's plan to pay Black residents reparations could be a national model

Decades ago, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Cordelia Clark ran a restaurant out of her kitchen and parked cabs for her taxi company in her backyard because Black residents were effectively barred from owning or renting storefronts in town.
Now Evanston is poised to become the first U.S. city to offer reparation money to Black residents whose families suffered lasting damage from decades of discriminatory practices.
"It's about time that something has come from the hard work of African Americans in this city, proving that they should be treated as anyone else," said Clark's great-granddaughter, Delois Robinson, 58.
Evanston's initial approach to reparations is narrow and targeted. The city council, which has already committed $10 million over a decade to the effort, will vote on Monday to begin with a $400,000 round of payments. The first phase will provide $25,000 to a small number of eligible Black residents for home repairs, down payments or mortgage payments in a nod toward historically racist housing policies.
The program could become a model for other cities and states grappling with whether to pursue their own reparations programs. The burgeoning national movement has gained traction amid a reckoning on racial inequity following the police killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans last year.
In Congress, a bill that would establish a national reparations commission to study the issue has drawn around 170 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, all Democrats. President Joe Biden has not endorsed the legislation but says he supports a study. Advocates plan to lobby the White House for executive action if the bill, as expected, fails to pass a divided Senate.

They suffered from DECADES of Democrats Mayoral control of the city (since 1931), racist turd Daley over and over get the 90% black vote then ignores them until the next election comes around.

This is largely a liberal decades long caused problem, but watch the democrat lies come out......

I believe what you are saying is correct..but my point is that instead of sitting around whining and waiting for the next politician to pander to them, they are coming up with and implementing their own solutions.
They are uplifting their community..and that benefits us all.

 

[TemplarKormac]

This is a bit interesting--and promising...as people come to their own conclusions and effect their unique local solutions!

Chicago suburb's plan to pay Black residents reparations could be a national model

Decades ago, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Cordelia Clark ran a restaurant out of her kitchen and parked cabs for her taxi company in her backyard because Black residents were effectively barred from owning or renting storefronts in town.
Now Evanston is poised to become the first U.S. city to offer reparation money to Black residents whose families suffered lasting damage from decades of discriminatory practices.
"It's about time that something has come from the hard work of African Americans in this city, proving that they should be treated as anyone else," said Clark's great-granddaughter, Delois Robinson, 58.
Evanston's initial approach to reparations is narrow and targeted. The city council, which has already committed $10 million over a decade to the effort, will vote on Monday to begin with a $400,000 round of payments. The first phase will provide $25,000 to a small number of eligible Black residents for home repairs, down payments or mortgage payments in a nod toward historically racist housing policies.
The program could become a model for other cities and states grappling with whether to pursue their own reparations programs. The burgeoning national movement has gained traction amid a reckoning on racial inequity following the police killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans last year.
In Congress, a bill that would establish a national reparations commission to study the issue has drawn around 170 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, all Democrats. President Joe Biden has not endorsed the legislation but says he supports a study. Advocates plan to lobby the White House for executive action if the bill, as expected, fails to pass a divided Senate.

Umno.

Whether you like it or not--- it is happening in Evanston....which is, I think, one of the points, eh? If the majority in a polity wish to spend their money in a certain way..that's really none of our business.

One other thing, why should white people now feel guilty for what their ancestors did? Why should we pay anything for what they did? I could just as easily cite the Barbary Slave Trades and demand my own reparations.

But hey, that's what happens when you only look at one side of the issue. Because slavery and racial inequity is not unique to black people. It has happened and will happen to any race, anywhere in the world.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

This is a bit interesting--and promising...as people come to their own conclusions and effect their unique local solutions!

Chicago suburb's plan to pay Black residents reparations could be a national model

Decades ago, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Cordelia Clark ran a restaurant out of her kitchen and parked cabs for her taxi company in her backyard because Black residents were effectively barred from owning or renting storefronts in town.
Now Evanston is poised to become the first U.S. city to offer reparation money to Black residents whose families suffered lasting damage from decades of discriminatory practices.
"It's about time that something has come from the hard work of African Americans in this city, proving that they should be treated as anyone else," said Clark's great-granddaughter, Delois Robinson, 58.
Evanston's initial approach to reparations is narrow and targeted. The city council, which has already committed $10 million over a decade to the effort, will vote on Monday to begin with a $400,000 round of payments. The first phase will provide $25,000 to a small number of eligible Black residents for home repairs, down payments or mortgage payments in a nod toward historically racist housing policies.
The program could become a model for other cities and states grappling with whether to pursue their own reparations programs. The burgeoning national movement has gained traction amid a reckoning on racial inequity following the police killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans last year.
In Congress, a bill that would establish a national reparations commission to study the issue has drawn around 170 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, all Democrats. President Joe Biden has not endorsed the legislation but says he supports a study. Advocates plan to lobby the White House for executive action if the bill, as expected, fails to pass a divided Senate.

Umno.

Whether you like it or not--- it is happening in Evanston....which is, I think, one of the points, eh? If the majority in a polity wish to spend their money in a certain way..that's really none of our business.

Sure it is. Especially if they are or want to take my money to give to other people for no reason.


It is completely my business if it is my money.

Except....you don't live in Evanston, do you? It is not your money--thus...it is none of your business, right?

Local self-definition--one of the things it does is free the community from the national haters--who use them as poker chips in their games.

 

[Correll]

This is a bit interesting--and promising...as people come to their own conclusions and effect their unique local solutions!

Chicago suburb's plan to pay Black residents reparations could be a national model

Decades ago, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Cordelia Clark ran a restaurant out of her kitchen and parked cabs for her taxi company in her backyard because Black residents were effectively barred from owning or renting storefronts in town.
Now Evanston is poised to become the first U.S. city to offer reparation money to Black residents whose families suffered lasting damage from decades of discriminatory practices.
"It's about time that something has come from the hard work of African Americans in this city, proving that they should be treated as anyone else," said Clark's great-granddaughter, Delois Robinson, 58.
Evanston's initial approach to reparations is narrow and targeted. The city council, which has already committed $10 million over a decade to the effort, will vote on Monday to begin with a $400,000 round of payments. The first phase will provide $25,000 to a small number of eligible Black residents for home repairs, down payments or mortgage payments in a nod toward historically racist housing policies.
The program could become a model for other cities and states grappling with whether to pursue their own reparations programs. The burgeoning national movement has gained traction amid a reckoning on racial inequity following the police killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans last year.
In Congress, a bill that would establish a national reparations commission to study the issue has drawn around 170 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, all Democrats. President Joe Biden has not endorsed the legislation but says he supports a study. Advocates plan to lobby the White House for executive action if the bill, as expected, fails to pass a divided Senate.

They suffered from DECADES of Democrats Mayoral control of the city (since 1931), racist turd Daley over and over get the 90% black vote then ignores them until the next election comes around.

This is largely a liberal decades long caused problem, but watch the democrat lies come out......

I believe what you are saying is correct..but my point is that instead of sitting around whining and waiting for the next politician to pander to them, they are coming up with and implementing their own solutions.
They are uplifting their community..and that benefits us all.

There is nothing uplifting about taking money from one group and giving to another based on race.


This will just further divide an already torn apart nation. The whites will feel, correctly put upon. And the blacks will feel, again correctly, that they are entitled based on their skin color.

 

[Correll]

This is a bit interesting--and promising...as people come to their own conclusions and effect their unique local solutions!

Chicago suburb's plan to pay Black residents reparations could be a national model

Decades ago, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Cordelia Clark ran a restaurant out of her kitchen and parked cabs for her taxi company in her backyard because Black residents were effectively barred from owning or renting storefronts in town.
Now Evanston is poised to become the first U.S. city to offer reparation money to Black residents whose families suffered lasting damage from decades of discriminatory practices.
"It's about time that something has come from the hard work of African Americans in this city, proving that they should be treated as anyone else," said Clark's great-granddaughter, Delois Robinson, 58.
Evanston's initial approach to reparations is narrow and targeted. The city council, which has already committed $10 million over a decade to the effort, will vote on Monday to begin with a $400,000 round of payments. The first phase will provide $25,000 to a small number of eligible Black residents for home repairs, down payments or mortgage payments in a nod toward historically racist housing policies.
The program could become a model for other cities and states grappling with whether to pursue their own reparations programs. The burgeoning national movement has gained traction amid a reckoning on racial inequity following the police killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans last year.
In Congress, a bill that would establish a national reparations commission to study the issue has drawn around 170 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, all Democrats. President Joe Biden has not endorsed the legislation but says he supports a study. Advocates plan to lobby the White House for executive action if the bill, as expected, fails to pass a divided Senate.

Umno.

Whether you like it or not--- it is happening in Evanston....which is, I think, one of the points, eh? If the majority in a polity wish to spend their money in a certain way..that's really none of our business.

Sure it is. Especially if they are or want to take my money to give to other people for no reason.


It is completely my business if it is my money.

Except....you don't live in Evanston, do you? It is not your money--thus...it is none of your business, right?

Local self-definition--one of the things it does is free the community from the national haters--who use them as poker chips in their games.

Except, I do live in the country, and ideas flow faster than viruses. The same fuckheads that though of that there, live in my city and will be pushing for it here.


And the same wace baiting dems are in charge and will be happy to play such hatemongering and toxic games.

 

[Sunsettommy]

This is a bit interesting--and promising...as people come to their own conclusions and effect their unique local solutions!

Chicago suburb's plan to pay Black residents reparations could be a national model

Decades ago, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Cordelia Clark ran a restaurant out of her kitchen and parked cabs for her taxi company in her backyard because Black residents were effectively barred from owning or renting storefronts in town.
Now Evanston is poised to become the first U.S. city to offer reparation money to Black residents whose families suffered lasting damage from decades of discriminatory practices.
"It's about time that something has come from the hard work of African Americans in this city, proving that they should be treated as anyone else," said Clark's great-granddaughter, Delois Robinson, 58.
Evanston's initial approach to reparations is narrow and targeted. The city council, which has already committed $10 million over a decade to the effort, will vote on Monday to begin with a $400,000 round of payments. The first phase will provide $25,000 to a small number of eligible Black residents for home repairs, down payments or mortgage payments in a nod toward historically racist housing policies.
The program could become a model for other cities and states grappling with whether to pursue their own reparations programs. The burgeoning national movement has gained traction amid a reckoning on racial inequity following the police killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans last year.
In Congress, a bill that would establish a national reparations commission to study the issue has drawn around 170 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, all Democrats. President Joe Biden has not endorsed the legislation but says he supports a study. Advocates plan to lobby the White House for executive action if the bill, as expected, fails to pass a divided Senate.

They suffered from DECADES of Democrats Mayoral control of the city (since 1931), racist turd Daley over and over get the 90% black vote then ignores them until the next election comes around.

This is largely a liberal decades long caused problem, but watch the democrat lies come out......

I believe what you are saying is correct..but my point is that instead of sitting around whining and waiting for the next politician to pander to them, they are coming up with and implementing their own solutions.
They are uplifting their community..and that benefits us all.

No they are not.

The background problem isn't getting addressed, which reparations doesn't address at all.

This is how democrats to do the band aid approach, the cheap way to keep the long suffering black people to stay weak. They have been used and lied to for many decades, that isn't changing because the Democrats are still in power playing the same explorative games with the chronically clueless blacks.

This was well exposed in the book BOSS by Mike Royko.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

This is a bit interesting--and promising...as people come to their own conclusions and effect their unique local solutions!

Chicago suburb's plan to pay Black residents reparations could be a national model

Decades ago, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Cordelia Clark ran a restaurant out of her kitchen and parked cabs for her taxi company in her backyard because Black residents were effectively barred from owning or renting storefronts in town.
Now Evanston is poised to become the first U.S. city to offer reparation money to Black residents whose families suffered lasting damage from decades of discriminatory practices.
"It's about time that something has come from the hard work of African Americans in this city, proving that they should be treated as anyone else," said Clark's great-granddaughter, Delois Robinson, 58.
Evanston's initial approach to reparations is narrow and targeted. The city council, which has already committed $10 million over a decade to the effort, will vote on Monday to begin with a $400,000 round of payments. The first phase will provide $25,000 to a small number of eligible Black residents for home repairs, down payments or mortgage payments in a nod toward historically racist housing policies.
The program could become a model for other cities and states grappling with whether to pursue their own reparations programs. The burgeoning national movement has gained traction amid a reckoning on racial inequity following the police killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans last year.
In Congress, a bill that would establish a national reparations commission to study the issue has drawn around 170 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, all Democrats. President Joe Biden has not endorsed the legislation but says he supports a study. Advocates plan to lobby the White House for executive action if the bill, as expected, fails to pass a divided Senate.

Umno.

Whether you like it or not--- it is happening in Evanston....which is, I think, one of the points, eh? If the majority in a polity wish to spend their money in a certain way..that's really none of our business.

One other thing, why should white people now feel guilty for what their ancestors did? Why should we pay anything for what they did? I could just as easily cite the Barbary Slave Trades and demand my own reparations.

But hey, that's what happens when you only look at one side of the issue. Because slavery and racial inequity is not unique to black people. It has happened and will happen to any race, anywhere in the world.

***yawn***
I have no idea as to how you inferred that I felt guilty or was advocating feeling guilty for anything in the historical past. I did not mention slavery..in fact, the link does not mention slavery..the reparation is more about unfair housing and job practices.

The gist of my OP is simply local empowerment can resolve issues. Doing the right thing feels good to some people. Your take on their idea of 'right thing'....is really a bit irrelevant, right?

 

[Juicin]

16 people get a payout....?

lol yea this will work if you have one black family in town

how is this supposed to work in actual poor communities where the black people who need reparations live? often in majority black cities

the obsession with helping middle and upper class minorities is absurd. As long as things are fair that's good enough for them. We should be helping poor people

 

[TemplarKormac]

Except....you don't live in Evanston, do you? It is not your money--thus...it is none of your business, right?

Except...

It doesn't matter where it happens, when the precedent is set, when the first domino falls, when you knock down the first card in the house... the rest will fall in line.

You're so naive it hurts.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

This is a bit interesting--and promising...as people come to their own conclusions and effect their unique local solutions!

Chicago suburb's plan to pay Black residents reparations could be a national model

Decades ago, in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Cordelia Clark ran a restaurant out of her kitchen and parked cabs for her taxi company in her backyard because Black residents were effectively barred from owning or renting storefronts in town.
Now Evanston is poised to become the first U.S. city to offer reparation money to Black residents whose families suffered lasting damage from decades of discriminatory practices.
"It's about time that something has come from the hard work of African Americans in this city, proving that they should be treated as anyone else," said Clark's great-granddaughter, Delois Robinson, 58.
Evanston's initial approach to reparations is narrow and targeted. The city council, which has already committed $10 million over a decade to the effort, will vote on Monday to begin with a $400,000 round of payments. The first phase will provide $25,000 to a small number of eligible Black residents for home repairs, down payments or mortgage payments in a nod toward historically racist housing policies.
The program could become a model for other cities and states grappling with whether to pursue their own reparations programs. The burgeoning national movement has gained traction amid a reckoning on racial inequity following the police killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans last year.
In Congress, a bill that would establish a national reparations commission to study the issue has drawn around 170 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, all Democrats. President Joe Biden has not endorsed the legislation but says he supports a study. Advocates plan to lobby the White House for executive action if the bill, as expected, fails to pass a divided Senate.

They suffered from DECADES of Democrats Mayoral control of the city (since 1931), racist turd Daley over and over get the 90% black vote then ignores them until the next election comes around.

This is largely a liberal decades long caused problem, but watch the democrat lies come out......

I believe what you are saying is correct..but my point is that instead of sitting around whining and waiting for the next politician to pander to them, they are coming up with and implementing their own solutions.
They are uplifting their community..and that benefits us all.

There is nothing uplifting about taking money from one group and giving to another based on race.


This will just further divide an already torn apart nation. The whites will feel, correctly put upon. And the blacks will feel, again correctly, that they are entitled based on their skin color.

Yet...the people in Evanston are OK with it. Not seeing a lot of entitlement stuff going on..instead..seeing some people owning homes..getting capital repairs..maybe getting some medical bills paid--seems a pretty good thing for a community to do for itself.