Add Providence, Rhode Island to the list of places trying
to pass off cheap substitutes as reparations.
On top of this, whites can qualify for the program as well.
So basically a program supposedly helping victims of a crime
that allows descendants and those who benefitted from the crimes
of the criminals....to double dip (remember after slavery, the
plantation owners were given reparations for their "loss" despite
the actual freed slaves having suffered an even greater loss for
centuries and generations).
Evanston, Illinois is still trying to pass off a housing grant...
where you get a discount but are obligated to GIVE $$$ to bankers
(many part of the system that helped profit off of and also exclude
us as well as our ancestors).
California's task force studying reparations will be focusing on 5 areas:
housing discrimination, mass incarceration,
unjust property seizures, devaluation of Black businesses
and health care......
notice a key injustice that's not mentioned...
slavery itself, the action that emboldened racists
to try to short change us (and they are still emboldened to do so)
in the first place.
Only for Black American Freedmen do they change the definition of reparations
in order to avoid the actual reparations that every other group has received
and in order to switch out something of lesser value while making us jump
through hoops as they disrespectfully let unrelated others qualify.
Notice when there is a benefit for any other group whether it's a Latino specific
scholarship or a program for LGBTQ or the recent reparations for the U.S.,
territory of Guam as ...cash payment....for WWII (which was a long time ago
but suddenly it doesn't matter), or specifically to Japanese Americans (not
Asians in general or any Japanese person anywhere)....there is no problem
with or hesitation to address the specific group needing restitution.
That specific group is given targeted specific payments and restorative
benefits....but for us....
Rhode Island's "work for your fake substitute benefits we are calling reparations"
allows whites to qualify also because suddenly it has become important for
it to be "race neutral" even though the slavery our ancestors encountered,
the benefits they were excluded from while newcomer European immigrants
got handouts, the opportunity discrimination they were and we ,their descendants,
still are experiencing is absolutely, positively NOT race neutral.
If these things are not called out, addressed and given consequences
as in harassment, slander and libel lawsuits and boycotts of the businesses
that give these comfortably disrespectful hypocrites a financial base of operation....
if these things don't occur and there is no significant consequence, these actions
will continue as courts and legislative bodies will continue to be packed with
biased individuals with even more authority to rubber stamp these anti-Black
Freedman measures.
2 Related Rhode Island Reparations news story links are below:
Rhode Island Reparations Program Allows Whites To Qualify
Rhode Island Reparations Is "Race Neutral"
