Chicago aldermen create City Council subcommittee on reparations – Chicago Tribune*

The body won’t have much power to enact reparation plans, but aldermen who support the idea nonetheless view its creation as a big step after decades in which the prospect of reparations gained very little traction in the council.
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Bill
3 years ago

Ever think of just voting straight Republican this November?

It is your only chance to avoid the radical overthrow of the U.S. Government.

Gemini
3 years ago

As Thomas Sowell said “Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?”

Let that one sink in for a while.

True believer
3 years ago

What about reparations to all the white students that were denied entrance to medical and law school due to affirmative action? This has been going on since 1970. It will never happen, only race matters in the new world.

Locke
3 years ago

During the American Civil War, Illinois ranked fourth in men who served (more than 250,000) in the Union Army, a figure surpassed by only New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.

IL was on the winning side, why are we looking at IL to pay reparations?

Also, reparations should be paid. Find me a person who was a former slave, they deserve being made whole for their travails.

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