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'Drop In The Bucket' Black Americans who will get $25,000 each as part of $10million in reparations from city say it's not enough
2021-03-13
[SUN] Evanston, Illinois, is the first US city to distribute the money meant to help compensate for a lack of generational wealth and systemic racism.
Fentanyl Equity sales up 8000%
However, Rev Michael Nabors, who is the president of the Evanston NAACP, thinks $25,000 is a "drop in the bucket."

"When it's all said and done, however much money is raised for reparations... will only be a drop in the bucket for the suffering and the oppression that Black people experienced in this nation," he told Newsweek.

"When we talk about that being a drop in the bucket, that's what we're talking about.

"There is no amount of money in the world that can take the place of the pain and the suffering that was caused emotionally, that was caused psychologically.
Posted by:Besoeker

#16  If it's so horrible, leave. That much cash will get you a ticket to anywhere that will have you.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-03-13 23:10  

#15  Ah. A "reverend"...
Posted by: tu3031   2021-03-13 17:36  

#14  Oh, it's monthly? Well, then.
Posted by: KBK   2021-03-13 17:24  

#13  Then quit asking.
Posted by: Slappy   2021-03-13 15:38  

#12  Not sure who's worse, Jesse & Al or the current gaggle of white liberals.
Posted by: Clem   2021-03-13 12:52  

#11  Shakedown.
Jesse J and Sharpton were pikers compared to these extortionists.
Posted by: Shamp Bumble3041   2021-03-13 12:48  

#10  Ref #9: ....urban commerce.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-03-13 11:48  

#9  The Hookers, Booze, and Meth business will flourish.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-03-13 11:42  

#8  That'll buy a lot of scratch-offs.
Posted by: Clem   2021-03-13 11:02  

#7  We will see no stories about how the $25k was parlayed into much more.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-03-13 11:00  

#6  Wow gosh golly gee, and $28mil to the Floyd family, all just right after the

*does hernia cough*

Covid Relief Bill.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-03-13 10:35  

#5  I want a little something for my PESD.

(Post Election Stress Disorder)
Posted by: crazyhorse   2021-03-13 10:21  

#4  I understand there are some number of vacancies in the Congo these days. Mozambique as well. No oppression there and generational wealth flows like spring rain.
Posted by: Cesare   2021-03-13 10:06  

#3   Dane-geld

(A.D. 980-1016)

IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: –
"We invaded you last night – we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away."

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
And then you'll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: –
"Though we know we should defeat you,
we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: --

"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!"
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-03-13 06:49  

#2  Subsidizing the myth only creates a desire for more myth.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-03-13 03:24  

#1  Appetite comes during the meal?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-03-13 03:20  

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