Posted on 11/29/2019 2:05:46 PM PST by david1292
An Illinois town has approved a measure to fund a local reparations program with proceeds from the purchase of recreational marijuana.
On Monday, Evanston aldermen voted 8-1 in favor of the proposal aimed at what officials believe will improve help the city’s black community. Local leaders eye marijuana dispensaries as an attractive source of revenue to reverse what they call the ongoing impact of institutional racist and persisting effects of slavery, according to the Chicago Tribune. “The fund will be capped at $10 million, according to city of Evanston staff reports. City estimates project the marijuana tax could generate $500,000 to $750,000 per year,” the newspaper noted.
However, Evanston officials face roadblocks in collecting adequate revenue from the plan as various suburbs have yet to approve the establishment of recreational marijuana dispensaries, despite them being scheduled to become legal in Illinois next year.
“We can implement funding to directly invest in black Evanston,” 5th Ward Alderman Robin Rue Simmons said of the measure.
The marijuana tax will be “invested in the community it unfairly policed and damaged,” Simmons added.
“This is a really special moment in the city of Evanston and also in the country,” stated Second Ward Alderman Peter Braithwaite.
The development comes as Democrats in the House and Senate have introduced resolutions to approve studies to examine reparations proposals for African Americans over slavery.
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before reparations are payed, the recipient must provide genealogical proof of ancestral slavery. Any person with Caucasian, Asian or American Indian genes are not eligible for the payment.
I’m sure the counter argument to this, would be that there were no official records of slave ancestry kept by anyone, so that there is no way to provide documentation of anything.
This is not reparations at all. It is “walking around money” for their vote. These dems are really sick people.
Evanston=Chicago.....Figures.
Median family income is $102K and yet 18% black. Make that math work...
One day even white liberals will stop feeling guilty.
This is a joke. Isn’t it?
Good idea because I won’t be paying of the tax!
We are talking about Jan Schakowsky’s district. Her husband (a bank robber) is a founding member of ANTIFA. There is no more liberal town in America.
The idea here is that they get to sell weed to black youth by telling people that they are giving black reparations. There won’t be any reparations. But there will be weed for the students of Evanston High School and Northwestern University. Of course the students will still get their weed from their current dealers because the stores charge way to much. Keep watching this story it gets weirder every week.
Lining the pockets of the Aldermen?
The marijuana tax will be “invested in the community it unfairly policed and damaged,” Simmons added.
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Hmmm,... why not simply a total cessation of policing in those communities?
What a knee slapper! You win the thread prize of $1.00. However after taxes and assessment fees it will cost you $1.62. However if you claim your prize after the deadline, add another .53 cents in penalties.
There were slave owners in IL. Search “old slave house”. It was the Crenshaw house near Equality.
Makes sense. Didn’t George Washington have slaves to pick his hemp?
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REPARATIONS BREAD TAX - Evanston
It is much simpler to just raise the price of bread.
BLACK PEOPLE $0.10 per loaf
BROWN PEOPLE $3.50 per loaf
WHITE PEOPLE $5.00 per loaf
ASIANS $10.00 per loaf
MANDATORY BREAD TAX
Evanston, Illinois
That's racist!
I can prove with genealogical and historical that several of my ancestors were slaves, in Quebec.
Canada owes me, and a LOT of descendants of slaves for kidnapping, murder and slavery.
This is complete and utter B S. How about reparations for my people, we were here before the Black skins or the white eyes arrived. How about some handouts for us.
To be honest we don’t want your handouts, every time you’ve given you’ve taken far more. If the tribes do not deserve reparations then no one deserves reparations
Seems payments based on skin color violates federal law.
If it doesn’t, then I can pay my white employees more than I pay blacks as long as I call it “Slavery Reparations” for the debt society owes whites from farmers using slaves instead of paying whites.
Yep a lot of cotton plantations in Evanston. Time to pay up Fruit of the Loon.
Depends on where the ancestors were and what records survived the Civil War.
Slaves were property, and like any other valuable property, records of sale and ownership were kept.
How else would you prove a runaway was yours?
The slaves were used to work the salt springs down there. No, there wasn’t wide spread slavery in Illinois, but there were exceptions for certain kinds of work.
Wow... The irony of it all..
I mean, maybe they're try create that old elusive thing called the "perpetual engine."
But, then again, maybe it's just that the local drug dealer is on the town council.. :)
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