Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Calls for
Reparations for the City's Black Residents
Red State,
by
Jerry Wilson
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
6/18/2024 11:15:03 AM
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, having solved all other problems afflicting the Windy City, has turned his attention to the most pressing issue his office has ever faced. Namely, reparations. On June 17, 2024, Johnson authorized spending $500K to study the matter.
Ahead of Juneteenth, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed Executive Order 2024-1, establishing a Reparations Task Force to develop a Black Reparations Agenda. This Task Force is an example of the Administration’s dedication to co-governance, and in partnership with members of the Aldermanic Black Caucus, the Mayor’s offices of Equity and Racial Justice and Business, Economic and Neighborhood Development, and other key City departments
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Just look at how well rich Black professional athletes fare after they retire to see how reparations would turn out.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
FJB 6/18/2024 11:20:50 AM (No. 1739388)
Or else? Right, Brandon?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 6/18/2024 11:26:07 AM (No. 1739393)
Brandunne, Y U B lyke dat dawg?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jasonB 6/18/2024 11:42:05 AM (No. 1739400)
Don't they repay each other every day (and mostly on weekends) with lead?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
3XALADY 6/18/2024 11:47:01 AM (No. 1739402)
Would this be the same mayor of that black city that is B.R.O.K.E.? The one that spends $30,000/year on being beautiful? I guess he wants to get into the white taxpayers' pockets a little more?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/18/2024 11:51:18 AM (No. 1739405)
Reparations? Call it corruption. That leads to inflation and debt. That leads to bankruptcy and collapse.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mifla 6/18/2024 12:21:33 PM (No. 1739429)
Chicago is broke, has rampant crime, and the taxpayers who can leave are leaving, along with their police force. Throw in busload after busload of immigrants who prefer the upper class hotels, and you have a city on the verge of collapse. Time to distract the sheeple with a promise that will never get kept. Must be an election year.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
FormerDem 6/18/2024 12:25:12 PM (No. 1739431)
my forebears fought and died to end slavery and I am zero willing to pay reparations thus denying their sacrifice. I will never ever support any pollitician who forces this on me and i will try never to live in a juristidiction that imposes such a tax. F off.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/18/2024 12:26:59 PM (No. 1739434)
PROVE they WERE Slaves an we'll consider it. IF it's all about skin color what about us Pinks, the largest Minority ever?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Italiano 6/18/2024 12:40:56 PM (No. 1739446)
I agree that reparations are called for, nationwide.
I do not agree that blacks should be the recipients.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MarkTwain 6/18/2024 12:42:52 PM (No. 1739447)
What a useful distraction from the shootings and murders that are a daily occurence in Chi-town. And don't pay any attention to the $30k public funds spent on His Honor's personal grooming. My only question is, what are those urban sophisticats going to do with 5 acres and a mule?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 6/18/2024 12:51:07 PM (No. 1739455)
I wasn't aware that Illinois was a slave state. As such, the residents of that state have no claim to be paid slave reparations. This is clearly an attempt by a bunch of greedy b@st@rds to dip their grubby little fingers into the till.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/18/2024 12:54:07 PM (No. 1739459)
I have had enough of Brandon, and black reparations talk. Get out, and never come back!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 6/18/2024 12:59:44 PM (No. 1739463)
No.
Absolutely NO money from people who never owned slaves to people who never were slaves....and never even met a slave.
Any reparations must go to people who actually were a slave prior to the Emancipation Proclamation. No heirs, no relatives. And they must be paid by former slave owners, no heirs, no relatives.
What....no slave owners or former slaves alive? OK, then FORGET IT.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
skacmar 6/18/2024 1:09:41 PM (No. 1739469)
Gee, I wonder what the results of the Mayor's Task Force will be given the make-up of the group. The list of member groups is like reading a list of "Grievances are US" for Black people. The reason for the existence of each of these groups is to find racism and grievance everywhere and in everything. Can't wait to hear their twisted logic and revisionist history when the "findings" are released.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
planetgeo 6/18/2024 1:25:43 PM (No. 1739480)
Hmmm...a $500K study, a Reparations Task Force, the Aldermanic Black Caucus, the Mayor’s offices of Equity and Racial Justice, and Business, Economic and Neighborhood Development, etc., etc. Sounds like a lot of reparations already in progress there in Reparations City.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
edgar 6/18/2024 1:35:02 PM (No. 1739488)
He should have Illinois slave owners pay reparations to Illinois slaves. Then have a nice big cup of....!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 6/18/2024 1:49:48 PM (No. 1739499)
My ancestors were subjugated and enslaved by the Romans so may I anticipate reparations from Italy? And not in Euros please.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
viking diver 6/18/2024 1:58:56 PM (No. 1739505)
and just for a bit of information the emancipation proclamation that was signed by A Lincoln was to only free the slaves of the South so they would help the Norths war of aggression effort. If you read the document only those slaves south of the Madison Dixon line were supposedly freed.
As others have posted reparations are only a tax on others to give money to grifters for something that never happened to them.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
bgarrett 6/18/2024 2:23:16 PM (No. 1739515)
I dont mind paying reparations...after we subtract all the benefits of living in America. They have real houses with running water to live instead of native huts. They use the electricity, air conditioning, cars, paved roads and thousands of thing Caucasians invented. Actually, they owe us!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 6/18/2024 2:37:47 PM (No. 1739518)
Will be hard to only pay Black's reparations since it would be totally Un-Constitutional. Only way to do it would be everyone would get the same payment.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
rochow 6/18/2024 3:49:11 PM (No. 1739559)
When is it that blacks are not calling for reparations or any other free money. Hey Johnson give your relatives a buzz and ask them to fork over money because they sold you.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 6/18/2024 4:54:52 PM (No. 1739599)
Doubling down on stupid.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
anniebc 6/18/2024 6:07:13 PM (No. 1739626)
Stop the distraction, Brandon. You're the one giving their tax dollars to illegals. Stop.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/18/2024 6:43:27 PM (No. 1739642)
I’ve been a tax payer for nigh on 50 years so I’ve been paying reparations for all of that time. And not one welfare recipient has ever said Thank You.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
downnout 6/18/2024 9:09:16 PM (No. 1739683)
Just go take the $100 dollar bills off of the money tree.
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