Jeez you guysssss. They mean well !! Think of all the poor black jitterbugs (black speak for kids around here) that don’t have enough free stuff yet . And there poor poor one parent families.

If Evanston is giving away free money it won't be long before Chicago does the same thing.

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Originally posted by Ripley:

Evanston, home to Northwestern University and its Pritzker School of Law, so named after present Ill Gov Pritzker and his wife donated $100,000,000.

One hundred million dollars?

You gotta be yanking my crank!

I guess I have three concerns. Linking to Maggie Thatcher, what happens when you run out of other people's money to spend, who pays the bills??

And, how many recipients will fit the "safety-net to hammock to straight-jacket" cycle??

Then, will this action feed the entitlement syndrome, where even more people will demand even more money??

Maybe one more. Will this action increase the unity/harmony in society; or will it increase contention and division??

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
The country has invested about a trillion dollars into the black community over the past 50 year and what exactly do we have to show for it? A weaker, poorer, and far less valuable black community. So yeah, let's throw even more money down that black hole.

It was the plan of LBJ all along: use taxpayer dollars to keep blacks enslaved to the democRATic party. It's worked very well for them.

If you want government handouts, keep the father out of the household.

Successful self-made blacks have realized it's bullshit.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
One hundred million dollars?

You gotta be yanking my crank!

The Pritzker family owns the Hyatt hotel chain.
I don't think buying the Ill governorship cost him that much.

Reparations, in the form of housing grants...overseen by city government...what's Evanston's credit rating?

I'm not surprised. The son of one of my very Progressive cousins lives there, and is deep into the theater circuit. He is as Leftist as his mother.

flashguy

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Originally posted by Ripley:

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
One hundred million dollars?

You gotta be yanking my crank!

The Pritzker family owns the Hyatt hotel chain.
I don't think buying the Ill governorship cost him that much.

Pritzker spent 171 million dollars to get elected Governor of IL. He spent another 58 million trying to get a "fair tax" passed and just put 35 million into his campaign fund. He is the richest elected official in the US.

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Originally posted by architect:
If you identify as black to get paid, and later on find out that you are actually white after all, do you have to give the money back?

Are we back to the “One drop rule?”

Ha Those folks in Evanston are lightweights

Oakland will give low-income families of color $500 per month, no strings attached

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/24...come-trnd/index.html

Wonder who/what is next as the broke cities try to out-woke each other