Posted on 04/05/2023 7:37:09 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
As San Francisco's current reparations push has garnered the spotlight, a nationwide coalition of Democratic mayors has been working on pushing reparations for its Black residents as a template for the federal government.
AdChoices FOX News FOX News Mayors’ coalition has big plans to take reparations movement national: ‘Moving that needle’ Story by Joe Schoffstall • Yesterday 6:00 AM
As San Francisco's current reparations push has garnered the spotlight, a nationwide coalition of Democratic mayors has been working on pushing reparations for its Black residents as a template for the federal government.
All right, so the reparations movement is a scam, Current Time 0:21 / Duration 3:44 FOX News Horace Cooper: Reparations is all about buying votes 0 View on Watch Launched in 2021, Mayors Organized for Reparations and Equity (MORE) formed with eleven mayors and has since maneuvered in hopes of showing how the federal government could implement a national program.
"The idea of reparations for Black Americans has been locked in a conversation that has hardly moved beyond theory since the end of the Civil War," the group states on its website. "The members of Mayors Organized for Reparations & Equity (MORE) are committed to moving that needle with action and advocacy that points toward justice and healing the wounds of history."
"Our coalition stands on the belief that cities can — and should — act as laboratories for bold ideas that can be transformative for racial and economic justice on a larger scale, and demonstrate for the country how to pursue and improve initiatives that take a reparatory approach to confronting and dismantling structural and institutional racism."
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That's what I hear.
I would quit working.
“Reparations” for what?
Slavery ended 150 years ago.
I refuse to pay for something I had nothing to do with!
Slavery was almost an entirely private matter.
If a slave ran off, private rewards and bounties were offered and paid.
What’s happening is that the corporations are getting on board, because they’ll reap the benefits from it.
Chappelle nailed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8LroCgg3uc
I sold all my slaves yeas ago.
Swell. That will localize all of the blacks on welfare to the Democrat-run urban areas.
Then we can build walls around them and meter traffic in and out.
Oh, please, yes. Do this during a recession. (unavoidable and on the threshold)
I can just see all the unemployed non-black races begging to donate (tax) their meager 26week benefits to those who were never enslaved.
Black voters - 13%
Non-Black voters - 87%
Non-Black tax payers - 92%
Honestly, if this reparations scam happens, it might just be the law straw that finally breaks the camel-back of this country. Only (some) black people themselves and woke white idiots favor handing big piles of cash to black people as a sort of anti-racism tithe. Outside of a handful of old families in places like Virginia and South Carolina, I doubt any significant amount of non-black generational wealth is derived from slavery. Why should the other 99.9% of non-black people pony up? It’s absurd, and there will be strong backlash against it when it comes. And in places like California (partly due to Gruesome Newsom’s attempt to nail down the black vote for his presidential primary ambitions), it appears to be gaining traction.
Most of these cities, it’ll be “rich” that they demand “reparations” for a demographic that already runs the city - and overwhelms it. They won’t have enough whites to mug.
BTW, when are people going to coalesce and fight this crap? That is what they are doing - mugging whites who never owned any slaves to pay off blacks who never were slaves.
This is total obnoxious travesty of justice.
Many of these cities have severe budget problems, so it makes you wonder where do they expect to get the money to pay reparations for slavery.
Does anyone ever ask why we should pay reparations for slavery? Is this now just one of those liberal mantras, that you unquestionably accept that we should do it , because reparations for slavery are now officially part of some liberal theology?
What if there was an organization that was instrumental in supporting slavery before the Civil War and was in fighting against equal rights for former slaves after the Civil War? What if most slave owners were members of that organization? What if that organization is still around today?
Surely that organization should be the first to pay reparations, right?
Pay up democrats.
If these dumbass mayors want to pay freeloaders ‘reparations’, they can do it with their own money. They shouldn’t be sitting around doing drugs and trying to come up with a plan on how to get the U.S. taxpayers to pay for THEIR goofy wet dreams. I never owned slaves and they never picked cotton. Sounds like we’re even.
That is a big problem with out side. We just accept liberal premises.
They are false premises, and liberals are always about non-sequiturs. Solutions looking for a problem.
Just like “global warming” - we should’nt be arguing about whether it’s man-made or not, we should be arguing the VERY PREMISE that it exists, or is BAD!
Far too many Blacks are leaving the Dem plantation as they are becoming successful business people gotta find a way to keep them under the government thumb!! This will NEVER happen but they just string them along for DECADES with the promise!!
Reparations were paid in the form of blood sacrifice.
Over 700,000 dead.
Tens of thousands of arms, legs, eyes lost. Families destroyed.
Reparations have been paid in full.
Ok fine. Pay the “reparations”. Give them $5MM each. Watch as in five years all that money is in the hands of a few businessmen who know how to play the game. The same ones who were poor at the start will be poor at the end and it will be as if reparations were never paid. If anyone things paying reparations will resolve or put an end to anything, particularly grumbling by lazy blacks, they are only fooling themselves. Nothing will ever be enough.
Pay up. I needs me some new Air Jordans.
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