By Randy Rossi -
Any informed American should be outraged over Evanston’s new “Reparations” program it just passed which takes tax dollars from legal pot sales starting on 1/1/2020 and gives roughly $750,000 a year to help only African-Americans which Dems say “have suffered under the persisting effects of slavery and institutional discrimination”. This is the perfect intersection of ignorance and destructive political correctness.
First, over 600,000 Americans died and over a million were wounded in the Civil War which was fought to free the African-American slaves back in 1861-1865, over 154 years ago. That tragedy paid our country’s reparations! Every country on Earth has had slavery at one time or another and America ended that outrage with its blood and treasure long before many countries on Earth did. In fact, slavery is still widely practiced and millions of people are still enslaved in Africa and Asia. Thankfully in America the GOP Union Army led by Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated the Democrats who led the Confederate Army which fought to keep slavery 154 years ago. After winning that war, the Republicans then passed the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments in 1865 which ended slavery and gave African-Americans citizenship and the right to vote even though a majority of Democrats voted against those amendments.
At least 26 members of my family fought with the Union Army to free the slaves and based on statistics, 7 were killed and 13 were wounded. My family is still proud of our role in helping to free the slaves. My family has already paid our reparations!
The Dems whose families fought to keep slavery in the Civil War and refused to approve the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are the ones who should pay reparations, not us Republicans whose families fought for freedom! On top of that, how many Americans know that 13% of the slaves in America were owned by free black plantation owners and Native Americans who owned slaves and fought with the Confederate Army to keep them? Therefore only Democrats and those African-Americans and Native Americans whose families fought to keep slavery should pay those reparations. Seems rational to me!
But then my guess is that only Dems will be buying legal dope so in effect they will be the only ones paying those reparations in Evanston! Republicans have enough common sense to know that dope can ruin your life so they won’t be buying it to fund Evanston’s insulting and discriminatory “reparations” scam. Now that’s karma!
