Progressive Chicago activists push for $1 billion in reparations

Foxnews ^ | 04/10/2023 | Andrea Vacchiano | Fox News

[ChicagoConservative27]

A group of University of Chicago students are continuing their campaign for their university to pay over $1 billion in reparations to Chicago's South Side.

University of Chicago Against Displacement (UCAD), an anti-gentrification student club, hosted an open house event on Thursday.

"Come to our open house for some food, music, and good conversation!" the group's Instagram post read. "This week we’ll be making and coloring our own zines :)"

According to University of Chicago's library, a zine "is a self-published [fanzine] … produced in small print runs."

In February, the club had asked for $1 billion in reparations in grant funding for "long-term true affordable housing" from the university's administration. The organization believes the money should be given to the city's South Side over 20 years to prevent displacement.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Right on schedule for the new Mao style mayor...

[fwdude]

Actually, we’re due a massive refund.

[BenLurkin]

Reparations for what?

[Yo-Yo]

"This is especially crucial at this moment as the Obama Center in Jackson Park increases land values and, in turn, rental prices," UCAD wrote in a press release.

So they're protesting Obama's Presidential Library?

[JonPreston]

I support it. I want to see every bum within 1000 miles crawl, ride, run and/or roll into Chicago with their hands out.

[asinclair]

I suggest the people who originally pushed and embraced slavery be the ones to pay the reparations. I suggest the Democrat party solicit and distribute the reparations from its ranks.

Remember, the KKK was started by Democrats, and the head honcho was a Democrat Congressman during the 60s (or thereabouts).

[bigdaddy45]

$1 Billion? Thats all? They really need to up their grift game.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Nothing says "I know high finance" like "coloring our own zines."

"Now GIBS ME DAT zillion!"

[TLI]

"This week we’ll be making and coloring our own zines "

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[Leaning Right]

> A group of University of Chicago students are continuing their campaign for their university to pay over $1 billion in reparations to Chicago's South Side. <

Breaking news! The leader of the student group has just upped his demand.

[joshua c]

what a bunch of cheapskates!

[dragnet2]

Gimme gimme gimme!

[V_TWIN]

A Senator’s Shame

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2005/06/19/a-senators-shame/95f623af-7bed-4389-9369-05a428ae4994/

[cld51860]

Why not a trillion?

[JBW1949]

Gimme da money!!!!!!!

[Rurudyne]

They should try to get reparations from the gangs and idiot race radicals that rioted in their own communities.

The rest of us don’t owe them a penny.

[drwoof]

My Great-Grandfather worked and tried to raised his family there, struggling always against The Man. Sold slot machines from the late teens to late 1920’s, then worked at a tire shop. He died young and penniless. How much do I get?

[I want the USA back]

Tell the people who want reparations to get a job. To pay us back for all that we have given them in welfare, “section 8,” ebt, jobs and college tuition. Make them pay back what we have paid due to their crimes against us: hospital bills, lost work days, police salaries, wrecked cars and funeral bills.

They owe us.

[alternatives?]

One billion doesn’t seem very precise. $991 million would make it seem like they thought about it.

Also, one billion seems like just a first installment. They will need additional payments into perpetuity.

They don’t realize at some point, their usefulness will be gone, and they will be loaded up into the train cars headed to the concentration camps.

[Maine Mariner]

There were several urban renewal projects around the University of Chicago in the early to mid fifties.
The reparations could also be for those displaced. The UofC must have about a 50 billion dollar endowment so a billlion dollars is only about 2%.