Massachusetts Town Creates Fund To Pay Reparations to Black Residents
NY Post | 6/25/2021 | Will FeuerA liberal Massachusetts town has created a fund that will be used to pay reparations to eligible black residents to “repair past harms” it committed against them or their ancestors.
No money is in the fund yet, but town finance officials have proposed a plan to put $210,000 in the account later this year, The Daily Hampshire Gazette reported.
Amherst, a town of more than 39,000 with a black population of just over 2,100, according to the Census Bureau, is home to The University of Massachusetts’ flagship campus and Amherst College, a liberal arts university.
Voter registration data shows it’s an overwhelmingly liberal town. Of all registered voters, fewer than 7 percent have been Republican since 2004, while about 50 percent have registered as Democrat.
As a commenter on FreeRepublic.com said:
“$21,0000 / 2,100 = $100 per person. That’ll shut them up! sarc”
Meanwhile, on the other coast:
Cops intervene after extreme squatters ‘Sovereign citizens’ knock on doors of rich Seattle residents and demand they hand over their mansions
DailyMail.com | November 28, 2020 | Ariel Zilber
Residents of Edmonds and Woodway have called police in recent weeks
Cops said ‘sovereign citizens’ have been knocking on door of waterfront homes
Moorish Sovereign Citizens are a sect that claims ownership of much of US
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Wait, Cops stopped the righteous appropriation of stolen wealth? In Seattle?
Fascist bastards!
Them: Knock, knock, knock! Yo house be ours now honky mutha-f**ka!! Me: Up yours! Door slams.
KUDOS!!!! To zzyzx for not quoting Blazing Saddles and not getting moderated.
We can all learn from a type of self-restraint seldom seen in this day and age.
Wait a minute… there might be legal precedent. Of course! Land-snatching!
(Grabs a law book)
Land, land… “Land: see Snatch.”
(flips back several pages)
Ah, Haley vs. United States. Haley: 7, United States: nothing. You see, it can be done!
“Them: Knock, knock, knock! Yo house be ours now honky mutha-f**ka!!”
Homeowner {Checks Castle Doctrine status of state}: “Come right in.”
In Seattle, they don’t got no stinkin’ Castle Doctrine.
I wonder if Tucker Carlson was one of the people twenty years ago who was ridiculing Americans who were concerned about the Patriot Act and the erosion of our rights?
If I move to Amherst, and self-identify as black, how much gelt are we talkin’?
I won’t Dane to answer that.