Illinois Introduces Landmark Slavery Disclosure and Redress Bill – National African-American Reparations Commission

HB1227, the Enslavement Era Disclosure and Redress Act, mandates that any corporation or institution with ties to enslavement or the transatlantic slave trade disclose their historical involvement and provide redress if they wish to do business with the State of Illinois.
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The Doctor
1 year ago

What idiots are dreaming up these laws? Slavery ended about 159 years ago. I had a G^3 grandfather fight on the Union side. Do I get a cut?

Tommy Paine
1 year ago

This is just another way to:

A. Get back at white people, akin to BLM, DEI, CRT, Affirmative Action, Race Based Quotas, Cashless bail, no felony prosecution for theft/looting etc.

B. Keep the bullshit narrative of reparations in the forefront.

C. Grift more money from mental disordered white liberal idiots/coprpoations

D. All of the above.

debtsor
1 year ago

Why does Illinois continue to double-down in Woke Stupidity? This nonsense has been totally repudiated by the people. But the communist doesn’t care, they know they are unpopular, and they continue to push unpopular things anyway.

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