Posted on 11/29/2019 9:46:28 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Evanston aldermen on Monday approved directing all sales tax revenue collected from recreational marijuana purchases to a fund that will establish a local reparations program.
Officials say the program will help the city’s black population stay in Evanston while also providing training for jobs and other benefits.
“We can implement funding to directly invest in black Evanston,” said Ald. Robin Rue Simmons, 5th Ward, who proposed the reparations bill.
While Evanston officials have voted to permit, tax and appropriate money from recreational marijuana sales, many other suburbs have voted not to allow recreational marijuana dispensaries to open when the businesses become legal next year under state law.
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Will it work this time?
Have these programs ever done more than enrich the people who run these programs?
Why isn’t this a violation of the “equal protection” clause of the 14A?
I object to any set-aside of public money for the benefit of only one race.
That’s racist.
Evanston is about the last place in the country where blacks deserve reparations.
Recreational medicine
Robbing Peter to pay Peter?
Maybe relatives of indentured servants can get some $$$
How much is Mutha Africa paying to those families they sell into slavery?
Get stoned, help da brother. Not cool.
14th Amendment violation.
Sue.
sooooo do black people who owned slaves also owe reparations? there were supposedly thousands of black people that owned slaves-
these idiots continue their cancerous campaign to create 3rd world sh*tholes, gg
You mean like Barack Obama’s relatives?
Reparations another excuse to pay blacks to stay home and collect
Where does the money to license, regulate and enforce this new recreation come from?
As if to prove they are simpatico with politicians everywhere, Evanston politicians demonstrate that they have mud for brains.
All they are going to do is drive up the price of Crack, Old English Malt Liquor, and Newports...
Hey, what ever happened with diversity?
When all the little Trayvons buy from their corner dealers, they’re somehow doing good for the community. Once again, clueless demonrats turn everything upside down. Guessing they never thought about more arrests for drug use, burglaries and dumping garbage and hiring real teachers with IQs over 30 and a strong will to turn the little punks around.
Does this mean that every black in America should start looking for a house to by or rent in Evanston?
wonder how many black congresspeople coem from families that also ‘owned’ slaves?
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