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.

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.

Are they though? Or are teh whites just cowed or leaving? And how would you expect an increased sense of entitlement to manifest?

Evanston is majority white..and that by a wide margin..just sayin~

 

[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.

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.

Are they though? Or are teh whites just cowed or leaving? And how would you expect an increased sense of entitlement to manifest?

Evanston is majority white..and that by a wide margin..just sayin~

That doesn't mean anything if these people didn't vote for it.

 

[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.

Are they though? Or are teh whites just cowed or leaving? And how would you expect an increased sense of entitlement to manifest?

Evanston is majority white..and that by a wide margin..just sayin~

That doesn't mean anything if these people didn't vote for it.

Given that the city politicians depend on voters for their jobs..I'm pretty sure that if there was any real resistance...it would never have passed. That is a pretty liberal enclave..Northwestern University and all. One black neighborhood..infrastructure shot--property values low.

 

[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.

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.

Are they though? Or are teh whites just cowed or leaving? And how would you expect an increased sense of entitlement to manifest?

Evanston is majority white..and that by a wide margin..just sayin~

So? Majorities can be cowed and oppressed and leaving. Did you not know that? Especially when a significant portion of them are bigoted against their own people.

 

[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.

. . . if folks, that is, a large percentage of them, like 40% or more, don't believe that the government is legitimate, yet are just going along. . .

. . . and then it decides to confiscate their wealth for such a program, do you really think they will continue to pay taxes?

Yeah..I do think so..mainly because..absent the ideological impetus..the numbers are far to small to impact their lives.

You're making way too many assumptions.

 

[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.

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.

Are they though? Or are teh whites just cowed or leaving? And how would you expect an increased sense of entitlement to manifest?

Evanston is majority white..and that by a wide margin..just sayin~

That doesn't mean anything if these people didn't vote for it.

Given that the city politicians depend on voters for their jobs..I'm pretty sure that if there was any real resistance...it would never have passed. That is a pretty liberal enclave..Northwestern University and all. One black neighborhood..infrastructure shot--property values low.

Curious, why aren't these black people relying on themselves to improve their neighborhood instead of asking for handouts?

Oh, how great our society would be if we taught EVERYONE how to be independent.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

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.

Horrible precedent IMO but to each their own. Elections have consequences

 

[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.

. . . if folks, that is, a large percentage of them, like 40% or more, don't believe that the government is legitimate, yet are just going along. . .

. . . and then it decides to confiscate their wealth for such a program, do you really think they will continue to pay taxes?

Yeah..I do think so..mainly because..absent the ideological impetus..the numbers are far to small to impact their lives.

You're making way too many assumptions.

Funny eh? So, prove me wrong then.

EvilEyeFleegle

 

[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.

Are they though? Or are teh whites just cowed or leaving? And how would you expect an increased sense of entitlement to manifest?

Evanston is majority white..and that by a wide margin..just sayin~

That doesn't mean anything if these people didn't vote for it.

Given that the city politicians depend on voters for their jobs..I'm pretty sure that if there was any real resistance...it would never have passed. That is a pretty liberal enclave..Northwestern University and all. One black neighborhood..infrastructure shot--property values low.

Curious, why aren't these black people relying on themselves to improve their neighborhood instead of asking for handouts?

Oh, how great our society would be if we taught EVERYONE how to be independent.

How much greater we would be..if we taught everyone be interdependent~

 

[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.

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.

Are they though? Or are teh whites just cowed or leaving? And how would you expect an increased sense of entitlement to manifest?

Evanston is majority white..and that by a wide margin..just sayin~

That doesn't mean anything if these people didn't vote for it.

Given that the city politicians depend on voters for their jobs..I'm pretty sure that if there was any real resistance...it would never have passed. That is a pretty liberal enclave..Northwestern University and all. One black neighborhood..infrastructure shot--property values low.

Curious, why aren't these black people relying on themselves to improve their neighborhood instead of asking for handouts?

Oh, how great our society would be if we taught EVERYONE how to be independent.

How much greater we would be..if we taught everyone be interdependent~

That is in so many ways wrong.

Being "interdependent" runs the risk of depending on someone who will ultimately let you down.

No. Self-reliance is something that needs to be instilled, not distilled.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Funny, Democrats supposedly want equality for African Americans but insist on treating them like neanderthals.

As if they are incapable of being equal in our society by themselves, without needing assistance from the white people who claim to have their interests at heart.

 

[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.

. . . if folks, that is, a large percentage of them, like 40% or more, don't believe that the government is legitimate, yet are just going along. . .

. . . and then it decides to confiscate their wealth for such a program, do you really think they will continue to pay taxes?

Yeah..I do think so..mainly because..absent the ideological impetus..the numbers are far to small to impact their lives.

You're making way too many assumptions.

Funny eh? So, prove me wrong then.

EvilEyeFleegle

The funny is just a shorthand..one cannot bring color to the blind, nor justify generosity to the hard-hearted. I wouldn't even try to 'prove you wrong' I leave that up to you.
As always, I'm posting to the crowd...they're the arbiters here.

Assumptions..are just your way of saying you disagree with my musings...I'm assuming that $400,000 a year won't break the city bank? Sure..you can see it that way if you wish.
By this measure passing in a unanimous fashion I'm assuming that it has community support? Yup..that i am.

What if this works..what if after 10 years their community is transformed, vibrant?

I think you fear that most of all, seriously.

 

[TemplarKormac]

The funny is just a shorthand..one cannot bring color to the blind, nor justify generosity to the hard-hearted. I wouldn't even try to 'prove you wrong' I leave that up to you.
As always, I'm posting to the crowd...they're the arbiters here.

Shorthand?

Try short sight.

And you are right, the crowd is the ultimate authority, but they don't always side with you.

You lose this debate, purely for your shorthand, and your shortsightedness.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Funny, Democrats insist on equality for African Americans but insist on treating them like neanderthals.

As if they are incapable of being equal in our society by themselves, without needing assistance from the white people who claim to have their interests at heart.

What's funny..is your deep investment in this issue..like it's the bottom of the 9th.and your team is down by 2--every call the unpire makes is unfair..unless it benefits your team, right? Why is this..just simple tribalism?

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

The funny is just a shorthand..one cannot bring color to the blind, nor justify generosity to the hard-hearted. I wouldn't even try to 'prove you wrong' I leave that up to you.
As always, I'm posting to the crowd...they're the arbiters here.

Shorthand?

Try short sight.

And you are right, the crowd is the ultimate authority, but they don't always side with you.

No shit! This site I'd imagine most of the time they don't..but that's life eh?

 

[TemplarKormac]

What if this works..what if after 10 years their community is transformed, vibrant?

I think you fear that most of all, seriously.

You don't know the minds of men. They can do good things with bad intentions. You ignore the cost and who this may impact negatively.

Or did that never occur to you?

No. It didn't. It never will.

I am not afraid of positive change, but our definitions of "positive change" are drastically different. My definition of positive change is one that involves something which benefits everyone and negatively impacts no one.

Yet, you are advocating for policies and initiatives that will ultimately be undertaken off the backs of people like me who can ill afford it.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Funny, Democrats insist on equality for African Americans but insist on treating them like neanderthals.

As if they are incapable of being equal in our society by themselves, without needing assistance from the white people who claim to have their interests at heart.

What's funny..is your deep investment in this issue..like it's the bottom of the 9th.and your team is down by 2--every call the umpire makes is unfair..unless it benefits your team, right? Why is this..just simple tribalism?

You know nothing. Not about me, not about African Americans.

It isn't tribalism, it is simply a concern for my fellow man. All of them. Not just people who align with my political ideology.

 

[Flash]

The repairations that we need in this country is making the Negroes pay back all the stuff they have stolen from us, including the looting and welfare. It would be in the trillions.

 

[Indeependent]

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.

What a croc of shit.

 

[Indeependent]

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.

Let's chip and open a bar.