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 citys 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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There are ex-slaves living in Evanston?
They must be really old!
It’s pretty much local history. I only know because my mother grew up down there, and I had visited the Crenshaw house before it closed years ago.
My thought exactly. Kinda funny. Plus, Id say that it also be deducted from any future funds they may get from this.
I don’t think they are talking about giving tax revenues directly to blacks as I do not know how they would get around the 14th amendment. I think they are just talking about throwing the money away on phony social programs like midnight basketball.Idiots
Even to joke grimly about such propositions reminds us how repellant Leftists are. All of us are more than our worst aspects and do not deserve to be officially categorized on such a basis.
comedy of errors, next up
Reparations...once you go down that road, it never ends. Just like affirmative action. Reparations will become another entitlement. Theyll have a bridge card for it, charged up every month.
I was a Chicago residential, if you have time, read my tag line. I speak from experience.
More shakedown of whitey! We are owed.
Simple, pithy and true.
WELL DONE.
I used to teach swimming at the university level.
I would take the non-swimming folks down to the eleven-foot depth and ask them this question:
If your daughter scampered away from you and fell in would you just watch her drown and die or would you also jump in to try to save her and drown and die with her?
Girls are usually FAR more concerned about their hair and their friends.
WOMEN know (we hope) what is important to learn.
This is just more gimedat Democrat vote buying disguised as a social justice initiative.
Worst is the wealthy offspring of relatives who captured and kidnapped Africans and sold them into slavery to slave dealers for money. Her name is Kamala Harris.
But others will get reparations as well: Oprah,Michelle,Barack, Stephen Curry ($40.2 million), LeBron James....
If your parents moved here in 1880 to 2019sorry, you have to pay reparations to make up for slavery in 1800s.
All some people have learned is to steal
According to the Nat Geo ancestry thingie, it says I’m African from thousands of years ago, so where muh money at ?
I tried to save your map and the changes. But it will only save one map. Where or how can I get a copy of each map?
I found it! Thanks. On Wiki. But your image of changing is really cool.
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