Race-based reparations do not heal a nation. They divide one. The left wants Americans sorted into ancestry groups, grievance classes, and treasury claims because division is the permanent political class’s operating system. But equal citizenship means the government sees individuals, not bloodlines. Help poor neighborhoods. Fix bad housing policy. Punish proven discrimination. Build opportunity. But do not write checks by skin color and call it constitutional virtue. Evanston’s program is the old poison in a new bottle: racial preference, public money, and moral blackmail. Dhillon is right. The way to stop race discrimination is to stop doing it.
What are radical Democrats going to do now that the racial lines of fraud are beginning to dry up? How are they going to enrich themselves? The exposure of fraud of the SPLC is historical proof that Americans refuse to be divided by skin color.
We should take a page out of the (possibly apocryphal) speech given by Representative Davey Crockett when asked to approve a special government pension to the widow of a naval officer. He disapproved the request, despite its good intentions, saying, "We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money." This should apply to ALL governmental entities, local, state and federal, but sadly, has never stopped the robbery of the public treasury to favor special interests.
Apocryphal - The quote comes from a story titled "Not Yours to Give," published in the late 19th century by Edward Sylvester Ellis, decades after Davy Crockett died in 1836. Historians have not found any congressional record, newspaper account, letter, or speech containing the quotation.
The case and issue were real, though, and that is indicative of Crockett's position.
When will the families of dead and lifetime-disabled Civil War soldiers be compensated?
And if there's still discrimination going on, and the history of slavery continues to be used against non-whites, why did the Union go to war? For what purpose?
I predict a lawsuit from non-black Evanston residents seeking reimbursement from the city of the $5 million that has been paid out. It’ll be telling to see whether their leadership will pause payments or accelerate them in light of the DOJ action. This sounds like the perfect case for the Supreme Court to finally hold all reparations programs violate the 14th amendment. The Evanston program doesn’t even allow administrators to look back far enough to see whether the “ancestors and descendants” descended from black slaveholders, which, if this is truly about reparations, should be disqualifying.
Race-based reparations do not heal a nation. They divide one. The left wants Americans sorted into ancestry groups, grievance classes, and treasury claims because division is the permanent political class’s operating system. But equal citizenship means the government sees individuals, not bloodlines. Help poor neighborhoods. Fix bad housing policy. Punish proven discrimination. Build opportunity. But do not write checks by skin color and call it constitutional virtue. Evanston’s program is the old poison in a new bottle: racial preference, public money, and moral blackmail. Dhillon is right. The way to stop race discrimination is to stop doing it.
What are radical Democrats going to do now that the racial lines of fraud are beginning to dry up? How are they going to enrich themselves? The exposure of fraud of the SPLC is historical proof that Americans refuse to be divided by skin color.
We should take a page out of the (possibly apocryphal) speech given by Representative Davey Crockett when asked to approve a special government pension to the widow of a naval officer. He disapproved the request, despite its good intentions, saying, "We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money." This should apply to ALL governmental entities, local, state and federal, but sadly, has never stopped the robbery of the public treasury to favor special interests.
Apocryphal - The quote comes from a story titled "Not Yours to Give," published in the late 19th century by Edward Sylvester Ellis, decades after Davy Crockett died in 1836. Historians have not found any congressional record, newspaper account, letter, or speech containing the quotation.
The case and issue were real, though, and that is indicative of Crockett's position.
Hilarious Harmeet beating a dead horse. Always performance ...
AAG Dhillon is a national treasure.
The democrats never learn.
Great Work Thankyou
When will the families of dead and lifetime-disabled Civil War soldiers be compensated?
And if there's still discrimination going on, and the history of slavery continues to be used against non-whites, why did the Union go to war? For what purpose?
Reparations ALREADY PAID. Any additional money is graft and fraud
Just another way for Democrats to pander for lifetime votes. 🤦♀️
Didn't the United States pay reparations to the American Japanese for putting the in camps during World War 2 ?
That’s the point.
Bonus; get paid for mischief.
I predict a lawsuit from non-black Evanston residents seeking reimbursement from the city of the $5 million that has been paid out. It’ll be telling to see whether their leadership will pause payments or accelerate them in light of the DOJ action. This sounds like the perfect case for the Supreme Court to finally hold all reparations programs violate the 14th amendment. The Evanston program doesn’t even allow administrators to look back far enough to see whether the “ancestors and descendants” descended from black slaveholders, which, if this is truly about reparations, should be disqualifying.
Wake up and forget about freedom of association - the Civil Rights Act is our new Constitution.