The Detroit News: Detroit Reparations Task Force gets to work: 'We are stewards of this process'
So, Detroit is now spending $350,000 for a committee to begin exploring reparations for Black residents of Detroit. That $350,000 could surely be put to better use.
Reparations will be for slavery, even as Michigan was not a slave state (at least not since the time of the French and there seems to be no demand being made to France to cough up) and not a single surviving slave nor slaveholder lives in this state today.
But "reparations" will also be for a litany of other grievances:
the razing of the Black Bottom neighborhood to build a freeway , the millions of dollars in over-assessments in property taxes, the thousands of homes lost to foreclosures, and the deep personal injustice their families endured and rose above.
Let's note that at the time Black Bottom was in decline, had a
multi-ethnic population and the freeway needed to be put somewhere -
and notice how no reparations are being proposed for the demolition of Poletown and Democrat and Black Mayor
Coleman Young's displacing of Americans of Polish descent to make way
for an automotive factory. Funny, that.
So let's recap. What party has exclusively held the mayor-ship in Detroit since 1962? I'll give you one guess, and the answer is not Republicans.
In addition, for just about the last 50 years, from the 1974-2013, the mayors of Detroit have been uniformly Black, as has the majority of the city council.
So then, in short, this is reparations for acts of "racism" committed by Black Democrats upon Black Detroiters - namely the "over-assessments in property taxes, the thousands of homes lost to foreclosures, and the deep personal injustice their families endured and rose above" not to mention the corruption and decline under that leadership. The non-Black Detroiters who have suffered along with them from these crappy policies apparently are counting for nought in this reparations drive.
Reparations in Detroit is quite simply a bad joke. I'm sure the punchline will be taxes on businesses or a demand for the region or the state to hand over money yet again.
2 comments:
Hey Aaron;
"Reparations" is a hustle, it is "Danegeld" to the black community to appease them, but it will not. they will generate more outrage,and more demands. This will poison race relations in the United States for generations.
Sure lets do reparations based on DNA proof of percentage of Black ethnicity and proof that some of your great granny's were actual slaves in the United State. Lets say you are 23% and max amount if you were 100% was 1 mil. So now you get handed your $230,000. But, you are required to sign a statement that upon accepting the money you will never claim one more dime in social welfare of any kind. Reparations are a one and done. The only thing available will be a trade school of your choice or 2 years of community college. Any children will be tested for their % and that money will go into a trust fund that will be available to them at 21. And the same rules apply to them when accepting the money. Two existing generation and that's it. Help's the taxpayers as social services winding down, no more food stamps, no more furnishing free rent. They spend all the money it is no longer our problem.
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