The US town being sued for racism by its
white people... because it's paying its
black residents $25,000 each for the legacy
of slavery
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Tom Leonard
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/16/2024 1:42:51 AM
The chirp of cicadas in the tree-lined streets of Evanston is almost deafening. Billions of the insects have been making their periodic emergence from underground dormancy, on a scale not seen for centuries. With the ground strewn with dead bugs, and gardeners rushing to put protective netting around their plants and trees, locals have dubbed it ‘The Cicada-geddon’.
And yet this quiet university town – an affluent suburb of Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan – now has another interloper that its ultra-liberal citizens deeply resent.
Three years after Evanston proudly became the first local government in the US to start paying reparations to its black citizens – in this case
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/16/2024 2:57:20 AM (No. 1738017)
Pay wall. But a comment - legal claims like this are way overdue.
21 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
valinva 6/16/2024 3:54:31 AM (No. 1738027)
Everyone applying for reparations should be forced to take a mandatory DNA test. The amount of the $25,000 check would be the percentage that could be proven to be African decent from the nations that slaves were imported from. Almost no people claiming to be black are 100% of African descent in the US.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
singermom9 6/16/2024 5:06:18 AM (No. 1738036)
I identify as a black person whose family MIGHT have been owned as a slave. Who do I send my address to? I can get a PO box there.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
privateer 6/16/2024 6:16:16 AM (No. 1738045)
No paywall on my visit on Firefox.
12 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Venturer 6/16/2024 6:27:40 AM (No. 1738048)
elections have consequences.
Some elected person or persons authorized this.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
PostAway 6/16/2024 6:48:58 AM (No. 1738058)
The writer implies that Michiganders are on the hook for paying these hustlers. Evanston is in Illinois.
And Gen. Sherman’s 40 acres and a mule referred to ex-slaves living in the ex-Confederacy. Those ex-slaves are long dead and The Land of Lincoln fought for the Union. 35,000 Illinoisan soldiers died for it. Evanston is in the extreme northern part of a northern state.
If my great great grandfather promised to buy a friend a meal and failed to keep his promise do I now owe the descendants of his friend a lobster dinner?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Californian 6/16/2024 7:35:57 AM (No. 1738072)
Baseless white liberal guilt is so expensive, especially when spending other people's money.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/16/2024 7:48:41 AM (No. 1738076)
You got exactly what you wanted, suck up the kool-aid and enjoy it. You aren't satisfied with taking care of the po' black rolks from birth to death, you had to pay them bonuses on top of it. Feel good about your charity and skip a couple of meals for us.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/16/2024 7:51:43 AM (No. 1738077)
No, #6, but a steak would be nice :-)
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bpl40 6/16/2024 8:30:32 AM (No. 1738090)
Neither I or my ancestors owned slaves. Why are you using my money?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ann_n_GA 6/16/2024 8:45:20 AM (No. 1738098)
Perhaps hordes of blacks will move there and demand their money. Bankrupt the town. All the other races should leave and let whoever did this deal with it. When the blacks don’t get their money, they will riot, steal, and do their normal activities.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
planetgeo 6/16/2024 9:08:33 AM (No. 1738109)
Haven't we already been paying reparations for at least the last 60 years? Welfare, Affirmative Action, preferential business practices, etc., etc. Long past time to end it all, rather than to double down.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/16/2024 9:32:38 AM (No. 1738122)
No paywall here. Using Firefox
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mifla 6/16/2024 9:48:48 AM (No. 1738131)
Reparations are just like the EV mandate. Lots of good intentions, but short on implementation details.
Destined for failure.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Highlander 6/16/2024 10:09:37 AM (No. 1738145)
Are the mayor and city council black?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
chance_232 6/16/2024 10:10:46 AM (No. 1738147)
General Sherman was not talking for the US Government. He had no authority to make that "promise".
A problem with reparations city by city, state by state is that the windfall payout varies by location, or not at all, thus, isn't that in an of itself "unfair"?
Another problem is that once cash starts getting dispursed, the amount will never be enough, especially for grifters who never experienced real racism.
And yet another problem is that no amount will ever wash away the stain of slavery and real racism. Especially when there is money to be made and power to be had by constantly bringing it up.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/16/2024 10:12:16 AM (No. 1738150)
Why are the many decades of welfare not credited against any reparation claims? I get a large net balance due from blacks. If you ever need mentoring on how to get money from the government, I suggest you seek out a black consultant.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Highlander 6/16/2024 10:12:54 AM (No. 1738151)
The mayor is a democrat.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 6/16/2024 10:14:39 AM (No. 1738154)
This is racism. Absolutely illegal to treat two people differently based on race. And no excuses of ancient history change the laws or Constitution.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/16/2024 11:33:21 AM (No. 1738194)
Money spent with nothing to show for it is money wasted. Those dollars spent on reparations are essentially worthless. Is it any wonder we have inflation? This kind of insane out of control spending must stop. It is bankrupting the country.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
FormerDem 6/16/2024 11:50:12 AM (No. 1738200)
we have bought the liberty of african americans with rivers of blood, willingly and voluntarily, and whoever taught otherwise has betrayed all of it, for the sake of what, an internship somewhere?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
anniebc 6/16/2024 12:11:34 PM (No. 1738216)
Is that $25K tax free? The cicadas are having a time, aren't they?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
red1066 6/16/2024 12:33:16 PM (No. 1738228)
Where do the ancestors of all the white Union soldiers who died in the Civil War to free the slaves apply for their reparations?
10 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Dipi 6/16/2024 2:37:45 PM (No. 1738285)
The people should refuse to pay taxes. Slavery was something that happened in the past. I see no reason why the tax payers should have to pay for it now. The people need to get rid of their government because of this crap. In my book, if anyone should get any reparations, it should be the Indians.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
rochow 6/16/2024 3:20:31 PM (No. 1738307)
Why don't the slave sellers from Africa pay these bills? They imprisoned their own and rushed them down to the ocean to get some trinkets from the Portuguese. All of Europe had slaves, none of them were ever given a penny. Why is this always different? Because they are black? Or they should have been entitled to have top positions when they arrived in this country? Blacks were stone age people who could not do much else but work with their hands. Just look at many black women who were given positions these days just because they were black. They plagiarized their way through school to top positions until they were found out. Thousands of blacks who live in the US have never been slaves and new ones arrive daily across the open border. I guess they are included as well.
4 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
DougTN 6/16/2024 5:24:48 PM (No. 1738362)
Money for nothing…
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