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| 'Reparational Marijuana' in Evanston, Illinois. Rolling Stone reports. (Page 2/3) |
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rinselberg
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MAR 28, 06:46 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by olejoedad:
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How about an on-air interview (just under 5 minutes) with Evanston (IL) alderwoman Robin Rue Simmons about the Evanston Reparations program?
It's from Fox 32 Chicago. A Fox News affiliated TV station.
YouTube video content
https://youtu.be/5uGEKSx7Vhg
I guess I'm open to this kind of thing, but before that, I'm here to report on it.
As I so often say, it's not like this Totally O/T section of Pennock's is drowning in a daily tsunami of new Topics and Messages.
Is it?[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 03-28-2021).]
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cliffw
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MAR 29, 11:18 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by cliffw:
Reparations have been paid for the last 50+ years. |
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| quote | Originally posted by rinselberg:
This is especially for cliffw. I have my fingers crossed that he sees this. |
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I see everything.
| quote | Originally posted by rinselberg:
[SIZE=2]Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks.
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I think you are GONZO. Not that it is a bad thing. Though you fancy yourself as a reporter, you are actually a parrot.
If you were a reporter, why would you assert in this thread that this is the first people of Negro color to get reparations ? You didn't see my comment ?
| quote | Originally posted by cliffw:
Reparations have been paid for the last 50+ years. |
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sourmash
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MAR 29, 12:51 PM
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Affirmative Action is just one of the reparations that have been paid for 50+ years.
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olejoedad
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MAR 29, 06:25 PM
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My ancestors were Irish, came over during the Potato(e) Famine in 1848.
How much do I get?
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randye
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MAR 29, 06:35 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by sourmash:
Affirmative Action is just one of the reparations that have been paid for 50+ years.
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Over 620,000 dead from freeing the Demorat's slaves during the Civil War put PAID to any so-called "reparations".
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cliffw
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MAR 30, 01:26 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by randye:
Over 620,000 dead from freeing the Demorat's slaves during the Civil War put PAID to any so-called "reparations".
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Let's look at that from a different angle.
How much reparations do the ancestors of the 620,000 dead get ?
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sourmash
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MAR 30, 05:42 AM
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The bad news? They get to pay for it all anyway. And guess what the good news is? It all comes crashing to an end not long after a certain working demographic is replaced by another majority population. Of course the middle class disappears then too.
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rinselberg
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MAR 30, 12:49 PM
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It's hard to think of anything less relevant to the idea of Reparations with a capital "R" (Reparations as it is commonly a current news topic) than the loss in human lives and injuries and property loss on the Union side in the Civil War.
Like there's some unbroken chain of continuity between the Democratic Party of today and the Democratic Party of Lincoln's time or the time of (classic) "Jim Crow."
I'm not sure whether those are two separate ideas--the sacrifices and losses on the Union side, and the more distant history of the Democratic Party--or just one idea, in this context.
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olejoedad
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MAR 30, 01:15 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by rinselberg:
It's hard to think of anything less relevant to the idea of Reparations with a capital "R" (Reparations as it is commonly a current news topic) than the loss in human lives and injuries and property loss on the Union side in the Civil War.
Like there's some unbroken chain of continuity between the Democratic Party of today and the Democratic Party of Lincoln's time or the time of (classic) "Jim Crow."
I'm not sure whether those are two separate ideas--the sacrifices and losses on the Union side, and the more distant history of the Democratic Party--or just one idea, in this context.
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Actually, your comment is an example of something that is less relevant.....[This message has been edited by olejoedad (edited 03-30-2021).]
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rinselberg
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MAR 30, 02:41 PM
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I'm not saying that I'm wildly in favor of Reparations.
I am saying that trying to counter the idea of Reparations with language that refers to the Union's losses during the Civil War or language that refers to "Democrats" does not cut any ice, on the (ice hockey) playing surface of Logic and Fairness. That's a "doink."
I think that Reparations needs to be discussed only within the framework of specific proposals or in this case, a newly inaugurated project at the municipal level of government.
Trying to discuss Reparations in general? Not a framework for any illuminating or cogent kind of discussion.[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 03-30-2021).]
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