NYC council passes slavery reparations legislation to 'yield material solutions' from US history

[seafoam1 3,059]

Couldn't happen to a better city. Make all those New York City slave owners pay up.  

https://www.foxnews.com/media/nyc-council-passes-slavery-reparations-legislation-yield-material-solutions-from-us-history

New York City will soon be the largest city in the United States to enact a reparations program.

Councilmembers Crystal Hudson and Farah Louis sponsored a pair of bills to establish a Truth, Healing and Reconciliation Commission and a reparations task force. Both bills passed on Thursday and will be effective immediately.

"Today, the New York City Council voted to pass legislation establishing municipal efforts to acknowledge and address the legacy and impact of slavery and racial injustices in New York City," the New York City council announced in a press release. "The package of legislation would establish a Truth, Healing and Reconciliation process on slavery within New York City (which had one of the highest rates of slave ownership in the country in the 1700s), a reparations study, informational signs at the City’s first slave market, and a taskforce to consider the creation of a 'freedom trail' commemorating abolitionist movement and Underground Railroad sites."

The press release detailed how the commission would "establish facts about slavery in New York City and its ongoing legacies, protect and acknowledge affected persons and communities, and recommend changes for government and institutions to prevent the perpetuation and recurrence of injustices from the legacy of slavery."

[seafoam1 3,059]

Let the mass exodus begin.

However, not all New York City councilmembers are happy about the bills. 

"I’ll move before I’ll pay," Minority Leader Joseph Borelli told the New York Post. Borelli was one of the 8 councilmembers to vote against the legislation. 

"If they can introduce me to one New Yorker who owned a slave I’d be happy to consider it," he added. "But until then, I am not paying a dime as a reparation for a harm I did not cause, nor condone, nor once participated in."

[weepaws 3,202]

What about the racial injustices that take place today, I hate to tell those government clowns, but no one is still alive today from the 1700es.  

[Tree of Knowledge 1,869]

I am fine with reparations as long as the money to pay it is from child traffickers like Jay-Z, Diddy, etc. that have been ripping off kids for decades.  Liquidate their billions.  

[seafoam1 3,059]

22 minutes ago, Tree of Knowledge said:

I am fine with reparations as long as the money to pay it is from child traffickers like Jay-Z, Diddy, etc. that have been ripping off kids for decades.  Liquidate their billions.  

Give it all to the gang members in NYC. They can build an arsenal that could rival our military. 

[RLLD 4,243]

Handouts have been stellar so far....in fact....handouts have helped Democrats harm the AA community almost as much as their historical brethren did

[Nomad99 748]

I think BLM should handle the payouts...

[Engorgeous George 2,331]

Will the illegal immigrants currently residing in City housing and getting City benefits be taxed to pay for the reparations along with the rest of New York's residents?  Will those illegal immigrants who are persons of color be entitled to reparations.  Will people of color finally recognize and reject this leftist pandering to them which occurs only when the left needs their vote and then once they have that vote they treat them like feces until the next election cycle?

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,121]

Anyone remember when New York set up all those slave plantations and sold and bought slaves? 

Yeah, me too.   Bunch of racists IN NY!!!

[MLCKAA 575]

Don’t be hasty in your judgment— maybe England, Portugal, Spain, all of the Caribbean and half of Africa are going to pay their pro-rata share since they were such big participants in US slave trading.

[seafoam1 3,059]

32 minutes ago, MLCKAA said:

Don’t be hasty in your judgment— maybe England, Portugal, Spain, all of the Caribbean and half of Africa are going to pay their pro-rata share since they were such big participants in US slave trading.

Africa still has a slave trade. They just renamed it to 'human trafficking'. 

[seafoam1 3,059]

46 minutes ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Anyone remember when New York set up all those slave plantations and sold and bought slaves? 

Yeah, me too.   Bunch of racists IN NY!!!

I saw it when I was there last month. It was running rampant around the city.

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,121]

Just now, seafoam1 said:

Africa still has a slave trade. They just renamed it to 'human trafficking'. 

It's more family friendly and allows liberals to deny that slavery still exists and is being perpetuated by people of color.

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23 minutes ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

It's more family friendly and allows liberals to deny that slavery still exists and is being perpetuated by people of color.

And they aren't flaunting their human inventory like the current day NYC slave owners are doing. 

You see, it's all secret underground sales, where they stuff hundreds of Asian and black women into shipping containers and discreetly ship them off to clients around the world. It's definitely a moral practice because they aren't flaunting it to the deaf, dumb, and blind liberals around the globe. They toss in a case of Viagra with every purchase. 

No harm to the libtards, no foul.