Reparations , I mean….They are pushing it in Illinois again. All over the Chicago news.
The “Committee” is looking at it….again.
How are they gonna make it fair? Lots of black people have been getting subsidies their whole lives….sometimes for 3 or 4 generations….and lots of white families came to this country well after the Emancipation…..You gonna make ’em pay back those subsidies (Interest???) How are you gonna square the books?
My father never owned a slave, his father never owned a slave, neither of my father’s grandfathers never owned a slave….My mother’s mother’s family never owned a slave, and my mother’s father was mexican…in fact both sides of my mother’s family were what today would be considered enslaved people….(likely my Dad’s side as well)….all were immigrants who paved the way for the next generation with hard work…..and good culture. Sorry that that culture wasn’t part of those from Africa. We are where we are because of hard work and good culture passed on by my ancestors. My nieces and nephews are better off at this stage in life than I was at that stage….and I was better off than my father and mother. Every other culture does it but two, here in America. And they are both tribal. It is what they make of it… Reparations won’t fix them.
How are you gonna figure who gets paid what, and by whom?
I think this is just a way of letting people think that the (liberal) Illinois government cares. Were I a (white) taxpayer in Illinois, I would be up in arms that they are even funding a committee to investigate the idea.
They’ve done the same thing here in California, which, by the way, was NEVER a “slave state.” This is how the Left buys its votes, plain and simple.
Can yo imagine the result of “reparations?” It would be like that bit on “Bruce Almighty” where Bruce answers everyone’s prayer to win the lottery. Everyone gets the winning numbers and gets only $5.00 due to the number of “winners.” Meanwhile, California’s budget, already BILLIONS in the hole, would crash and burn. “Reparations” is nothing more than the carrot dangling in front of the ass. They blacks will never get them, but their efforts will get the left’s work done, just as it always has…
I propose that “reparations” are bundled with a mandatory one way trip back to Africa and loss of US citizenship .
I say we give $500 million to anyone who was actually a slave in 1865. Not his progeny nor his descendants. Appear in person and collect your reparations.
How about you can have your reparations but – 1. You may never collect any form of help from the government in your lifetime
2. You will be photographed and fingerprinted
3. You will present a sample for DNA – Your percentage of Black DNA will determine the percentage of your reparations
4. Anyone under the age of 21 will be determined to be a minor and as such their money will be held in a trust fund up to their 21st birth date. Only said minor my make the withdrawal
5. All minors are “independent” and cannot be claim by a parent. A DNA sample
will be taken from the minors for the amount to be held. Also upon release of said monies a photo and fingerprint will be taken