Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson includes half a million dollars in his budget to advance a “Commission on Restoration and Reparations.” He thinks that “reparations for descendants of slaves will help improve his city’s rising crime rate.” He’s wrong.
“Chicago’s progressive mayor Brandon Johnson claims REPARATIONS will help tackle ‘the cycle of violence’ amid a 17 per cent surge in crime,” by Nic White, Daily Mail, December 28, 2023:
The commission will study the issue and provide recommendations on whether and how to compensate Chicago’s descendants of slaves.
‘These are the first dollars spent in this city to begin the process of studying both restoration and reparations,’ Johnson said last month.
‘When residents who have experienced neglect and disinvestment for generations speak out of their pain and their trauma, this administration and the Black Caucus, we hear you.’
Johnson on Wednesday claimed reparations would also help reduce violent crime, though he was yet to directly explain how.
Johnson can’t explain how reparations would reduce violent crime, because there is no evidence for this. Reparations are a cash grab. Throwing money at the problem of mostly black-on-black crime in Chicago won’t solve the problem. A stable family and education would.
In a report by The Atlantic:
Before 1960, when poverty and racism were by all accounts far worse, the black family was considerably more stable.
In Africa, where slaves were not taken abroad, sheer greed and corruption, accompanied by savage violence, has been the norm throughout an extended history of African tribal wars. Indeed, the leftists who habitually blame whites for every problem that blacks experience will blame “colonialism” for African tribal wars. It’s the usual leftist soft bigotry of low expectations at play; it’s based on the notion that blacks are forever scarred by the deeds of whites, to the extent that they are unable to have productive lives and achieve goals, and cannot rise above any residue of “colonialism’ and historic slavery after more than a century and a half. Which other group is so shackled by historic oppressors that they’re forever victims and therefore committing an inordinate proportion of crime? The Chinese were severely abused by the Japanese, the Jews experienced the Holocaust, the Japanese were put in internment camps, and Indians were taken as indentured laborers. Yet these groups do not have problematic high crime rates.
Also, what might Mayor Brandon Johnson have to say about the rapid spread of Islam by the sword through Africa? Black jihadists rampage through villages and butcher blacks — including women and children. Black-on-black crime is a problem globally, including in predominantly black countries.
Once again, a stable family and education are the solutions for blacks in America. Johnson, a black man himself, has been married to the same woman since he was 22, went to college and became mayor in Chicago. Yet he’s calling for reparations (i.e., more handouts) for disadvantaged blacks, whom he knows actually have the opportunity to succeed in America.
The idea of every abused individual or group in history making a demand for reparations due to historic abuse is absurd. It’s no different for blacks. It’s time to put talk of reparations to rest. It’s a shameless way to squeeze cash out of the guilty-minded for crimes that were committed generations ago.
mike says
go ahead keep telling your self that Johnson
we he hand out money just because your black ?
BTeboe says
I didn’t think Chicago could elect anyone worse than Lori Lightfoot, but here we are.
James Lincoln says
Yes, BTeboe.
I thought that Lori “Lightweight” was the bottom of the barrel, but I guess that I was wrong.
PRCS says
What wasted opportunities.
When did the majority of Chicago’s black community members last vote for a Republican mayoral candidate?
When did they last vote for a white majoral candidate?
Will they ever replace the identity politics that has so badly failed them–and their fellow residents/citizens–with some critical thinking?
WPM says
Chicago has had only Democratic mayors for about 85 years black or white all mayors have been democratic.. It is where Obama made his political bones ,they had riots there in the democratic convention in the late 1960s when democratic mayor Daily was in charge. This current mayor Johnson is crying about the bus loads of illegals being imported into Chicago that they do not have the money for the “refugees.” where is he going to get money for reparation ?
PRCS says
WPM,
+1
Goofy says
Not one single slave was shipped to the US without having been sourced from some Muslim slave trader.
I am sure that the US will get fully compensated from the descendants of those Muslim slave traders.
Keith O says
Hell yeah, tell these self entitled idiots to go and put their BS demands for cash to the arabs.
I’d pay money myself just to watch the reaction from the mudslimes over these demands.
when you think about it, the mudslimes in arab countries still don’t even view negroes as being human.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
I thought reparations were tried already. It was called the welfare state where black husbands and fathers were forced to disappear from their loved ones lives. Billions of dollars were spent destroying the black family.resulting in young black directionless criminal gang members roaming the streets of many urban U.S. cities.
GreekEmpress says
I heard a good definition of reparations:
Reparations is having to pay child support for a child that isn’t yours to a woman you never had sex with—
Ray Jarman says
That statement, Greekempress, definitely sums up the situation. Part of my family grew up in North Carolina on cotton/tobacco farm and were definitely not wealthy but they survived and next to their farm was a similar one owned by a black family. When it came to harvesting the crops, both families worked together as well as employing other black and white people. People survived and their families were strong until Lyndon Johnson through his attack on the black family structure by forcing the male out of the household if a woman wanted government assistance.
One only has to read opinions of phycologists and sociologists who purport that children (especially boys) who grow up in a fatherless home are more likely to encounter problems with authorities and others in the community. The bottom line is in your statement about the absurdity concerning reparations.
Waldorf says
This is poppycock. The roving husband is a very well known and documented black sociological phenomenon throughout, for example, the Caribbean. It has nothing whatsoever to do with LBJ, or the US political system. And I’m not writing this because I admire him.
Waldorf says
Your remark that boys growing up in a fatherless home are more likely to encounter problems with authorities, however, is correct.
Jerome from Layton says
Star Parker saw the belly of the beast up close. Yes, there are the “cut and run” fathers but a lot more are pushed out by the welfare system. There are a number of divorce lawyers who sip from this well, too.
Thomas Hulting says
The DEMOCRATS, and their policies, were the basis for the Confederacy, along with subsequent Jim Crow Laws, Segregation laws, along with SEPARATE facilities throughout American Southern society, while the REPUBLICAN Abraham Lincoln went to war to keep the South from separating, AND from further implementing SLAVERY! Perhaps the DEMOCRATS ought to pay reparations!!!
Waldorf says
I like your suggestion. Maybe Obama can chip in.
Statler says
LOL
Jerome from Layton says
I’ll second that. May go for “Camel” Harris, as well.
WPM says
From what I heard Cameltoe Harris family own slaves in Jamaica back in the day ,many native American Indians also own black slaves also. American slavery was backed by southern democratic party and after the civil war the KKK where invented by democrats .President Wilson a “progressive” tax and spend democrat of his time segregated the arm services right before World War 1 .He also was the first President to show a movie in the Whitehouse ,it was The Birth of a Nation ,a silent film glorify the KKK ,Wilson was a pandering fan for the Southern Democratic vote.
SteveC says
Descendents of slaves deserve nothing. Just another way of enouraging lazy minorities the dependent on and thus vote for democrats. Racist anti majority vote buying at its most blatant.
Funny says
So in this case all us citizens who have south italian or greek origin can also ask for reparations but from the blacks (and berbhers) because of the emirates of Bari.
And because of the Mamluks as well. Allthough the Mamluks themselves will just enlarge the number of people we can involve.
Since both the Emirates of Bari and the Mamluks have used blacks as their fighters(mercenaries, slave warriors etc.) They were quite “kind” to those they defeated.
We should also not forget the Babary pirates, so all english, spanish portugues can ask for reparations from the arabs. (Since they were destroyed in 1805 by the US Navy:P) As the devshirme system also included blacks, so quite a number of the barbary pirates were also likely black.
Basicly we could conclude that nearly any muslim state near the mediterranean, and in Africa…has been enslaving blacks, and using some of them as soldiers. The Ghulam, the Mamluk, the Devshirme system.
So us Middle-Eastern-European and Southern and Southern-Eastern European folks also could ask for that same money. Actually since it was blacks that did this to us, and since in certain black muslim countries slavery is still legal, or was just recently abolished, we could also get to the conclusion that is the blacks that should pay to everyone along with the arabs.(deliberatly flawed logic, like the used by the mayor)
Troybeam says
Reparations for slaves brought over from Africa and other nations: time to go back to those nations and find the tribes that raided other tribes and sold them into slavery. People think that blacks were the only form of slavery when there was indentured servitude. Then you have the Chinese brought over as well IE railroad building.
Sick and tired of people thinking America was the center of the world for slavery, they should look into the Middle east that still has slavery in Arabic Nations.
As for this mayor and all democrat mayors across America: you all suck at your jobs.
Transmaster says
Don’t forget the Irish. They were treated far worse than African slaves, only the Chinese were treated worse.
Remember the British Royal Navy banned all slave traffic from Africa in 1807. And in 1834 all slaves were freed in the Caribbean. So early in the 19th century the source of cheap black slaves had dried up which left the domestic supply which was getting ever more expensive to maintain plus the number was dwindling. The British replace slaves with Indian coolies, and in the US it was the Chinese, and the Irish that replaced the black slave.
PRCS says
A little known, but historic event occured in 6/20/1631, during which Algerian Muslim and European raiders attacked an Irish town and took slaves.
PRCS says
Sack of Baltimore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Baltimore
Statler says
@Troybeam, you’re right, slavery is as old as the world. The Chinese did it, the Japanese did it, the Russians did it, the Indians (as in India) did it, the Indians (as in ‘in the US’ did it), the Romans, the Greek, the Persians, the Egyptians, the ‘you name it they did it’ did it. And the mohamedans and the blacks in Africa did it… Massively and agressively. There was not a black African slave that was not sold by at least another black, if not a mohamedan. In short: everybody did it. So don’t accuse us (only) of engaging in slavery. Tell the arabs… Tell the black Africans…
And so what else is new? Well, let me answer that question: we are (were) new, because we ABOLISHED slavery. So who’se to be honoured and rewarded? Us. So are we to be punished for it? Hell no! Go and demand reparations from the mohamedans, stop bothering us.
Transmaster says
This issue of reparations has been well adjudicated. To get reparations you have to be a directly injured party. The last documented slave died in 1936. This was farther codified in law in the the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. This was the law that compensated each of the surviving Japanese American Citizens, with and official apology from the United States. You cannot just claim to be the ancestor of a slave, you are not a directly affected person. I can see a scenario where a visibly white person rightfully claims reparations because of a black ancestor who was a slave. The Homestead Act of 1862 made available to all freed slaves 160 acres of land, This is where the term 160 acres and a mule came from. With the technology of the day 160 acres was all a family farmer could be expected to be able to plow and plant. I can be argued in court that freed slaves were indeed offered compensation in the form of land. Most didn’t take advantage of it.
Ben says
The black community should pay reparations for the damage caused by crimes commited by it’s members.
Bexarkat says
And yet he’s begging for a federal handout to support his self-initiated “sanctuary city” probllem.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Apparently, all the shakedowns BLM did of Corporate America wasn’t enough?
Hilly says
Sorry, no reparations. Enough Americans paid with their lives or lived out the rest of their life with maimed bodies, many in life-long pain—physical, mental, and spiritual. My own Swedish great-grandfather had only been in America for a few years when he fought for the Union in the Civil War.
I think the great and great, great-grandparents of many of today’s descendants of slaves would be horrified by their lack of morals and spiritual values.
tgusa says
It is not hard to run for office. However, once elected, it is hard to run an office, at least it is for Brandon. Every slave that ended up in America was already a slave before they arrived in America. The republican party worked to end slavery, the democrat party worked to preserve it. The crat party created Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation. And what did blacks do, they joined the party that did all that. If you look at inner city black neighborhoods, run exclusively by democrats, it is not really a surprise how bad it is there. Hello Brandon, those neighborhoods are run by democrats.
The racial animosity in black communities comes from the fact that the only contact blacks have with whitey is in the form of white democrats. Brandon needs to get a clue, if he is even capable, because racial segregation is once again becoming a thing in democrat land. Hordes of people are coming from south of the border as well, Brandon is being replaced courtesy of democrats. Put your tin cup away Brandon, or, get your booty from democrats. But in doing that Brandon will have to convince the democrat diversity coalition and I dont think that will be easy for him.
One of my ancestors on my fathers side fought for the union in the civil war. From family writings I learned that he went in at the beginning as a blue eyed blond hired young man. He came out five years later a blue eyed gray haired not so young man. I want a piece of Brandon’s booty as reparations so get to it Brandon. Oh and I also want reparations for any descendants of white republicans murdered by democrats post civil war.
Give us some money and the violence will go down. What a laugh that is. Besides, who are the violent ones Brandon is talking about? Mennonites, the Amish?
David M says
I’d be happy for any black Americans who actually went through slavery to get reparations. You’d have to be pretty old though considering it ended in 1866.
bill says
Not if you include the Jim Crow era and the former slaves did not get full civil rights until nearly 100 years later. I do not support reparations however.
David M says
Civil rights is not the same as slavery.
Waldorf says
“He thinks that “reparations for descendants of slaves will help improve his city’s rising crime rate.”
Hmmm, ‘improve’ is that downward, or upward? Upward, I’d say, in view of the word ‘rising’ in ‘rising crime rate’. Strange man.
Besides: it is us who abolished slavery. We should be honoured and rewarded for having done so, not punished. This guy lives in a topsy turvy world. Again: strange man.
tgusa says
Brandon, the not too bright guy, is asking for reparations in the north, including reparations from the north. What world is this fool living in because it certainly isn’t mine. As is said, you’re on your own, bro.
Buzz says
No!
tgusa says
White British ended the slave trade on the oceans back in the 1800s. Americans in the later part of the 1700s, Jefferson wrote a preamble to the declaration of Independence that stated,
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
That statement right there, long ago, sealed the deal for eventual conflict. Conflict which was something the majority of the world cared nothing about.
bill says
No white people todayare responsible for what their ancestors did in the 16 -1800 centuries, any more than the present inhabitants of Japan, Italy and Germany are responsible for what their governemnts did in WW2.
How are reparations going in California which was not even a slave state?
Troybeam says
History: Andrew Jackson started the democrat party to keep slavery & as old as time it all comes down to one issue…MONEY.
James Lincoln says
I have noticed that no one is proposing reparations for descendents of White Civil War veterans – who were injured or died in battle.
James Lincoln says
Union soldiers.
Statler says
Hey folks: best wishes!
OLD GUY says
Asking me to pay reparation to black people who’s family members may or were slaves is about the same as me asking these black people to repay my family for their boat trip and expenses to get their ancestors to America and my family didn’t ever own slaves.
The mayor of Chicago needs to get his head out of his ass and start leading the government of Chicago for ALL citizens to have the opportunity to live and WORK in a safe environment. Get out of the PAST and work for the future of your fellow citizens.
Beneath The Veil of Consciousness says
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