Re: Chicago makes aggressive play in race for the bottom

On 6/17/24 9:20 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

In article <akk17j5frmj3pf27f1kcr9l83pjj16gcoa@4ax.com>,
  shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
 

On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:40:33 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
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In article <v4qevl$vdbg$1@dont-email.me>,
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
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Mayor Brandon Johnson is appointing a blue-ribbon panel on reparations!
They're getting $500,000 to study all policies that have harmed Black
people from slavery till the present day!
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/17/mayor-brandon-johnson-launches-ta
sk-force-on-reparations-for-black-chicagoans/
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How will California respond?

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We already got there before you. San Francisco did this years ago (with
the conclusion that every black person in the city is owed $11 million--
an aggregate sum that is 10 times the city's entire annual budget and
would result in immediate municipal bankruptcy if implemented), and the
state is currently funding a study of its own to determine what
fantastical amount needs to be doled out to every slave descendant in a
state that never had legalized slavery to begin with.
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I'd say you have a long way to go to catch up to our lunacy.

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Which member of the people conducting the study has give up their home
to help start the funding of the reparations? Did any member of the
city government do likewise to show people how this needs to get done?
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No? So how do they expect anyone else to support such a policy. I mean
it's not like it's some crazy policy that can't work but does sound
nice when it comes time to campaign for votes.

 How would they even determine who's eligible?
 Just the color of your skin? What if I go get a heavy tan? I'd be just
as black as someone like Halle Berry at that point. Do I get $11 million?

You could do that but if they do a background check and find out you're an Oath Keeper you'd be even more fucked than are already.  To that end, do you call convicted and incarcerated Jan. Gth assholes "hostages" too?

Or what about black people whose forbears were never slaves and came to
this country in, say, the 1960s? Do they get the full $11 million or not?
 Eligibility certainly can't be based on documentation since we're told
it's racist to even ask blacks to get an ID card because they don't have
documentation like birth certificates because of racism.
 And in this time of "you are whatever you identify as and no one can
question it", what about people like Rachel Dolezal, who are white but
"identify as black"? If it's anything like the troons, where we have to
treat them as women no matter how little they do toward achieving
femininity-- all they have to do is "feel female"-- if they're handing
out 11 million quatloos, I'm gonna start "feeling black" immediately.