A Democrat-run Illinois city has announced plans to introduce a new sales tax and use the revenue to pay slavery reparations to black residents of the city.
The fund will simply require African-Americans to prove residency and will not require beneficiaries of the fund to prove slave ancestry. The fund currently has a 10-year cap of $10 million.
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According The Washington Post, city lawmakers in Evanston, just north of Chicago, voted 8-to-1 on Nov. 25 to tax marijuana sales at a rate of 3 percent and use the revenue to develop the reparations fund.
WesternJournal report: With two potential retailers seeking licenses in the city and one local medical dispensary preparing to open its doors for recreational sales come January — when recreational sale of the drug officially becomes legal in the state — estimates suggest the tax will raise between $500,000 and $750,000 for the fund on a yearly basis.
Private donations are also expected to bolster the fund.
There are just a few major problems with this plan — not least among them the fact that there is, in fact, no plan whatsoever.
At the time of the Nov. 25 vote, there was no defined road map for how the money from this fund would be distributed. Not until Dec. 11 will local officials meet to finalize details.
At this point, the public has been left with city Alderman Robin Rue Simmons’ vague description of potential uses for the fund — that it could aid black families with housing down payments they may not otherwise be able to afford or grant educational and technical training stipends to young, black professionals.
And this apparently minuscule detail pales in comparison to the fact that the fund will not require beneficiaries to prove slave ancestry.
Potential recipients must simply prove residency and, well, be African-American.
“Our community was damaged due to the war on drugs and marijuana convictions. This is a chance to correct that,” Simmons told The Post. “Our disadvantage and discrimination has continued beyond outlawing Jim Crow and beyond enslavement.”
Now, it was not long ago — just this past summer, in fact, when the newly Democrat-led House of Representatives held a hearing on reparations legislation — that reparations were billed simply as a financial leg up for those Americans potentially impeded in the current day by an ancestor’s history as a slave.
Do I agree with such legislation? No.
But at the very least, I can find a consistent logical through-line. The argument could be made that an American family who find its roots in first-generation enslavement is certainly not at a level starting point.
This rapid expansion on the concept of reparations, however, which Simmons herself admitted to be “radical,” begs a number of questions.
Does the modern American left truly believe that simply being non-white in America leaves one so disadvantaged that only a financial boost from the government can place a person of black descent on equal footing?
How do we quantify such a disadvantage?
Will all of that disadvantage magically disappear with the signing of a government-sponsored check?
Surely a few thousand dollars could not make up for odds that are so severely unequal.
And that is all this check would be — throwing a few thousand dollars at the problem, at most.
In Evanston, for example, with a black population of around 12,500 — according to 2018 U.S. Census Bureau data — a $10 million dollar reparations fund would pay out around $800 to each beneficiary if the money was doled out evenly.
That’s significantly less than a month’s paycheck for most Americans.
So is $800 supposed to make up for the apparently insurmountable disadvantages faced by non-white Americans?
No. It obviously is not.
But you’d be a fool to believe this has anything to do with actual social justice and concepts of equity or equality.
This has everything to do with the American left adding a few new moves to its pandering routine as they watch the Trump economy convince thousands of non-white Americans to walk away from failed left-wing policy.
Baxter Dmitry
Email: baxter@thepeoplesvoice.tv
Democrats driving the race wedge ever since… (from Wikipedia)
Origins of Jim Crow laws
In January 1865 an amendment to the Constitution to abolish slavery in the United States was proposed by Congress, and on December 18, 1865, it was ratified as the Thirteenth Amendment formally abolishing slavery.[14]
Freedmen voting in New Orleans, 1867
During the Reconstruction period of 1865–1877, federal laws provided civil rights protections in the U.S. South for freedmen, the African Americans who had formerly been slaves, and the minority of blacks who had been free before the war. In the 1870s, Democrats gradually regained power in the Southern legislatures, having used insurgent paramilitary groups, such as the White League and the Red Shirts, to disrupt Republican organizing, run Republican officeholders out of town, and intimidate blacks to suppress their voting. Extensive voter fraud was also used. Gubernatorial elections were close and had been disputed in Louisiana for years, with increasing violence against blacks during campaigns from 1868 onward.
In 1877, a national Democratic Party compromise to gain Southern support in the presidential election (a corrupt bargain) resulted in the government’s withdrawing the last of the federal troops from the South. White Democrats had regained political power in every Southern state. These Southern, white, Democratic Redeemer governments legislated Jim Crow laws, officially segregating black people from the white population.
… plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose (the more things change, the more they stay the same)!!
thank you for that, I didn’t know about the Dems creating the Jim Crow laws, but it figures. Also explains why Southerners voted Dem for so long until LBJ.
The slave owners were Dems in the south that were willing to drag this nation through our bloodiest war to preserve their ownership of slaves.
Make them pay the reparations! My family fought in the war!!
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Knights of the Golden Circle were the progenitors of Our Civil War. Look it up, forbidden knowledge – One Rothschild son in the North, Another in the South and carpet-bagger provocateurs going back and forth – dog whistling brother against brother and father against son. the 1st attempt at White Genocide in Our Nation
Knights of the Golden Circle were the progenitors of Our Civil War, backed by City of London Bankers – If you really want to know – This was a Red Shield operation just like Soros today. Republican, Democrat, Northerner, Southerner; they were all in the pockets of the globalist talmudists. The internet is an amazing research tool for Patriots.
This war was not only over Southern States but also sections of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. These plans are still on the table today and many senators know this, Pay Attention, it has slipped out in press releases. Many countries were funding the war and many bonds are still outstanding against human resources as collateral.
BTW, Slavery is voluntary, involuntary servitude was the proper definition that was inflicted on several racial groups and both still exist all over the world, even in a Democracy. Israel, a place I have visited, is an apartheid state and has involuntary servitude. It a sad, sad prison planet and most people do not want to know the whole truth.
It may seem I am confused about the terminology but IMO, slavery is made to be that way by definition. Ponder this: Is a Credit Card based on how much collateral you have or the debt you can accrue vs a Debit Card is based on the collateral, credit, you have under bond; From one perspective a Credit card is really a Debt card and a Debit card is really a collateral, Credit card.
Johnson created the War on Poverty, how is that working for us? How are thing across Our Nation?
Nixon, sycophant of the Bush dynasty created the War on Drugs, not the American People… Did he get his just reward?
Government always seems to get it wrong like the “Noahide Laws”, look them up, put into effect by Bush Sr.; is it a coincidence? “”Now (((they))) seem to have some higher level of understanding of”What is Best” for the people, We know better; decriminalize life – don’t tax us to death. This is not American, it is talmudic, Atlas Shrugged, so should we.
Need we go on: Slick Willie privatized prisons and created “3-strike laws” and this is only the start of the “High Crimes & Misdemeanors”, why was this traitor sparred the noose? And now the misses wants to be Queen, give me some air, damn
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Only the pharmaceutical industry can compare with the US gummint in terms of a crime syndicate. It will be a happy day when these people are dangling at the end of a rope.
Somehow I believe the government employees will be at the head of the line. $750,000? Heck, that is not even a rounding error in their budget and expenses. If there are only 750,000 slave descendants in IL they are going to get a Buck Apiece. Yea, that’ll work.
When is Rome going to issue reparation payments to the Protestant Christians they butchered? Should the tribe of Israel pay reparations to the Canaanites? Should the Greeks pay reparations to the Persians?
Reparations cannot be made for past lives or ancestors. It is not feasible. We do not even have a system for reparations on THIS lifetime.