A Chicago suburb’s city council became what is believed to be the first U.S. government to approve reparations, making available hundreds of thousands of dollars to right decades of wrongs committed by the city’s discriminatory housing practices against its Black residents.
The Evanston, Ill., City Council voted Monday night 8-1 to approve the first phase of reparations that allots a $400,000 budget to the Local Reparations Restorative Housing Program that gives eligible individuals up to $25,000 in home ownership, home improvement and mortgage assistance funds.
“The Restorative Housing Program acknowledges the historical harm caused to Black/African-American Evanston residents due to discriminatory housing policies and practices and inaction by the city,” according to city council documents.
Those who are eligible for the grants must be able to prove their Black and African American ancestors were residents of the city between 1919 and 1969 when it employed discriminatory zoning ordinances.
“Tonight’s vote is just one step, but it is one step in the right direction,” said Alderwoman Eleanor Revelle during the meeting. “And one thing that hasn’t been emphasized enough is that the restorative housing program directly addresses the harm that was caused by decades of discriminatory practices here in Evanston … to limit the housing choices and the opportunities of our Black residents.”
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The city said the first reparations program focused on housing as reparations must be tied to harm it caused and that there is “sufficient evidence” to show that the city’s early zoning ordinances were discriminatory.
Revelle added Monday’s vote will not be the end of actions to undo the city’s injustices as they will continue to seek input for the next investment of reparations funds.
The move follows the creation of the Reparations Subcommittee of the City Council in August 2019 to determine how $10 million from the city’s cannabis retailer’s tax should be allocated. The Restorative Housing Program, the city said, was developed to focus on preserving, stabilizing and increasing homeownership with the intention of growing the wealth among Black Americans.
To date, the Reparations Fund has received more than $21 million in private donations on top of the 3% cannabis tax, it said.
“It is a first step,” Alderwoman Robin Rue Simmons, who proposed the reparations plan, said during the meeting. “It is a first tangible step. It is, alone, not enough, it’s not full repair alone in this one initiative. But we all know the road to repair and justice in the Black community will be a generation of work. It is going to be many programs and initiatives and more funding.”
Daniel Biss, the in-coming mayor, issued a statement in support of the motion a day head of the vote, stating whether or not it passes “you can count on me to be a strong and vocal supporter” of the city’s commitment to reparations.
“Reparations is a huge, difficult and complex project that seeks to address the damage done by White supremacy, one of the great prolonged evils in human history,” he said. “It will not be ‘solved’ on the first try. On the contrary, we will have to try many different approaches, listen with an open mind to learn from what works and what needs to be changed and adjust our strategy on an ongoing basis.”
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So if we understand this “rationale” of reparations for what happened historically years ago to ancestral victims , then we can conclude that the children of violet black criminals will be held accountable to all the suffering, damage, and trauma their parental units caused on innocent people. I guess they can sign their “reparation” checks over to the current families of those their sires and dams hurt.
Either that or everyone who is not eligible for reparations files a class action civil lawsuit against the city for violations of federal law which prohibit discrimination based on race.
I.A.W. U.S. Census & FBI (Table 43a) Black males make up about 6% of the U.S. population but commit 53% of all the murders and 55% of all robberies in the U.S…
I think that these Negro-Americans should pay these millions of people that they have harmed through their murders and robberies.
Every year in the U.S. there are ~5,000 African-Americans men, women and children killed and 96% of them were killed by fellow African-Americans.
How many bodies do you have to step over to get to the one that you think is important only because a White police officer was involved?
AHH, but according to leftism, ONLY WHITES ever owe reparations. NO Matter how many blacks CRIMINALIZE up, and turn others into victims, they never owe anything… AND You’re racist for daring to suggest they do.
Since late 1963, when the FCC dropped the ‘public service news’ requirement and allowed the media to sell advertising time, the media has PUSHED RACISM AND INCITED RIOTS COAST TO COAST AND BORDER TO BORDER to guarantee viewership number to the advertisers.
Should the media AND THE BLACKS repay AMERICANS the total costs of rebuilding destroyed communities?
I’m pretty sure the MEDIA OWES AMERICA FAR MORE, and the Blacks can count their share as a PARTIAL PAYMENT for their murderous childish temper tantrums over the last 58 years.
IMO, HELL YES they should!
A Chicago suburb’s city council became what is believed to be the first U.S. government to approve reparations
Good, let them all move there.
no i believe the reporations well has been flowing a long time from federal and state coffers.
WELFARE FOODSTAMPS WIC .
Even if I didn’t believe what you said, it is the truth.
And lest we not forget Affirmative Action.
I was offered and then denied a job in the 70’s because they were under pressure to hire more minorities and needed to rescind my employment offer. Discrimination against me because of my skin color is still discrimination.
When will this nonsense ever end.
and REBUILDING THE COMMUNITIES THEY DESTROYED on a regular basis.
AND if they DO move there, how long do you think it will be, BEFORE THIS DISEASE Spreads out and infects every other city?
Evanston is the home of Northwestern University so this is no surprise.
I’m still waiting for my reparations from the Egyptians for my people schlepping those big-assed stones up the pyramids; no minimum wage, no coffee breaks, no paid 3-week vacations, no medical, dental and vision plan, no 401K, no Hanukkah party, no time off for the high holidays, gornicht!
On the other hand, “Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 850 individuals, of whom at least 20% were Jews or of Jewish descent, although Jews comprise less than 0.2% of the world’s population, (or 1 in every 500 people). Overall, Jews have won a total of 41% of all the Nobel Prizes in economics, 28% of medicine, 26% of Physics, 19% of Chemistry, 13% of Literature and 9% of all peace awards.”
Not to be casting any shade or anything, but I also think Israel, which has only existed as a state since 1948, is doing a little better than Liberia which was established in 1861.
Like Ol’ Fred Nietzsche said,
“Was uns nicht umbringt, macht uns shtärker”.
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger”.
Should the descendents of Union Soldiers be require to fund this? What about those whose ancestors arrived in America after the Civil War? Will the descendents of Black Slave Owners be rewarded also?
As for those ancestors who fought for the Union, their descendants should be given compensation for their sacrifice.
If not for the Union soldiers, the descendants of slaves could well be slaves themselves.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
Don’t give’em any ideas.
Are you white.. Then it matters not if your family ever owned slaves, or fought against slavery, or came over AFTER slavery had been ended.. YOU OWE.. Cause racism.
or all the people that immigrated after the civil war?
people can only whine for so long before the object of their whining stop caring.
Clearly a what the **** moment. Blacks were NOT the only ones discriminated against in Chicago (and elsewhere) during that period and before. So were the Italians, the Jews, the Polish, the Gypsies, the Asians, etc. The sad fact is that the moment you use the word discrimination in a search engine it is hard to find result other than discrimination against blacks and how it is the fault of “white supremacy” in America. Pitiful! This is clearly discrimination against anyone that is not black.
Kind of makes one wonder if we wouldn’t be better off as a country with white supremacy. This phony **** by the Evanston city council will cause a lot more problems than it will ever solve.
One of the many problems of the dems is that they think they can fix everything with money, Then, when their plans fail, they throw more money after it . . . ad nauseam!
PROOF of the old addage, only the INSANE keep doing the same thing over and over again, and expect different results.
I believe they call it black herd stupidity. Does anyone really believe this is a problem or a solution. Sounds a lot like fear mongering, race baiting, and promoting the poverty pimps for decades to come. This **** will go one forever
Since its states 1919- 1969 it has nothing to do with slavery. They just giving money to black people just to give money. Will any give up welfare and food stamps ?? They should use this money to improve schools. Education is the way to improve lives and income.
The public schools are the LAST place you want to throw more money at.
IF you note bait, we’ve thrown MORE MONEY at our public schools in the past 50 or so years, than in the 200 years PRIOR TO IT, and yet we’re pushing out DUMBER GRADUATES than ever before.
WHICH if you check, is the ONLY Discrimination allowed these days.. IF ITS anti-white, its A-ok.
The Irish were SOLD INTO INDENTURED SERVITUDE to throw them out of jolly olde england LONG BEFORE the first black slaves showed up.
AH.. BUT the irish are white, so they don’t count.
““Reparations is a huge, difficult and complex project that seeks to address the damage done by White supremacy, one of the great prolonged evils in human history,” he said”. Yep, Daniel Biss, the in-coming mayor, you are white, so you are a “white supremacist” against white people. Since you are “racist” against whites, I think you should pay the whites, reparations. After all, there was no slavery in Illinois.
SINCE EVERY RACE under the sun, has been enslaved at one point in time or another, WHY IS IT ONLY BLACK SLAVES, who ever seem to count??
because they whine and cry in such a PATHETIC MANNER THAT STUPID PEOPLE FEEL SORRY FOR THEMSELVES because they listened….
He can PAY MY SHARE because none of my ancestors owned or sold slaves.
Nor did any hold racist attitudes towards any minority.
If you are a White business owner in Evanston, relocate before BLM loots and burns you business. If you are White and live in Evanston, move before they continue to rob you so they can virtue signal.
At best, this is laughable. Chicago has done this before. It is merely a way to re-create the housing crisis by granting loans, probably unrestricted, too many who cannot even manage a checking account. Also the housing they build they have done before. It’s referred to as the projects. And these Are nothing more than internment camps for the poor.
If you are a white person, move out of Illinois while you still can. Heard today that Illinois is the highest taxed state in the country, even worse than New York and California. Leave the state and your dummycrat politics behind.
PROB IS, as we’ve seen all over, THEY DO NOT leave their insane liberal policies behind, when they DO FLEE.. THEY KEEP THEM, and ruin what ever city/state they left to…
good idea. Get out while you still can Leave them to their own devices of self destruction. Let them keep shooting each other.
Amen!! What a bunch of ****, that’s the nice way of putting this. I guess when people start saying I’m not paying my taxes if you’re going to use it for these welfare programs, then the idiot council members will either backtrack or start incarcerating legitimate taxpayers!
Allocating $400,000 as a start…… wow…. big spenders! Most of it will go to line the pockets of politicians anyway…. Rufus and Charice might be lucky enough to buy a pizza and a 40 of malt liquor with the amount of ‘rep’rations money they’ll get….
Any way you slice it, just grab the popcorn because this dumb ‘rep’rations thing is going to be a real circus, full of quality entertainment.
As many of us have often remarked. WE COULD GIVE Every black 10 million, AND THEY WOULD STILL DEMAND MORE.
10 million wouldn’t last a year.
This is one of the dumbest bills ever passed by Illinois. No wonder the rest of the country has to bail out this state. It is run by crooks lining their pockets. IMO, reparations were paid with the death of the first Caucasian in the civil war.
oh, Trust me, they have the 99% kickback already figured out.
Evanston can rot too.
This is almost too mind-boggling for belief. Where is this money coming from? If a single cent of it is coming from anywhere other than tax collection in Evanston, the source of the money should be cut off immediately. If it is all coming from tax collection in Evanston, every white (or any other color than black) person should move out of Evanston as soon as possible. The city “leaders” are as dumb as donuts.
IF we had a GOP with balls, it would already have been nippped in the butt.. BUT SINCE WE DON’T, they will never ever stand up to this nonsense.
The first slaves to be shipped to the American colonies were 100 children from Ireland in 1619.
INDENTURED SERVITUDE
SLAVERY with a politically correct label.
Bought and sold as Chattel, and no restrictions on treatment.
The entire reparations trend is a racist gimmick supported not only by the usual hustlers, but the cultural Marxists aiming to destroy all institutions. The issue of housing discrimination is real, but in some cases, localities were ruled against by federal courts that ignored history. A northern community that built housing for black workers moving up from the South would be charged with discrimination for providing accommodations while neighboring communities that kept blacks out were not.
Barack Obama had slave owners on his white mother’s side, and his half-Arab father’s side. Will he be paying?
No, he’s black…
no…
He’s ARAB SLAVE TRADER 1/16 negro.
Only appropriate that a libtard town, a University town in other words, would arrive at such a beautiful plan to SOAK the white libtards. The real problem is this is just the camel’s nose under the tent – we will all get SOAKED eventually in one form or another.
You can never right the wrongs of the past; you can only make things right in the present. I bet this does NOT make the lives’ of the people who receive the money any better. It’s a subculture that must change from within.
The whole thing is BS. No one is going to benefit from this crazy scheme except the politicians.
Let’s do this right.
— Every person that has ever owned a slave pay into a fund
— Every person that has been a slave gets a payout from that fund.
good luck on getting the cartels to pay.
And up their nose it will go.
Reparations are really easy. If someone claims they are owed because of mistreatment of their long dead relatives, give them $10000, revoke their US citizenship, and put them on a one way boat (that’s how their ancestors traveled here), and send them back to the country the “relatives” came from. Now they are back where they started and the problem is solved.
Who pays? Who gets what? How do you collect and what do you get?
They are mainly talking aBout housing. The problem is ,you can’t use welfare money to pay with to buy your own home. You can use welfare money to rent for section 8 and public housing. Banks want to see income from jobs. Banks want to see that you pay your bills.
AND like always, once they get INTO those section 8 homes, they get TRASHED..