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While the eyes of the nation are on San Francisco’s proposal to pay every black person $5 million in reparations for an estimated total cost of $175 billion, Motor City won’t be left behind.
Last year, 80% of Detroit voters in a 78% black city cast their ballots in support of a reparations commission. That was much higher than 63% poll numbers but local election results tend to outperform the polls due to the civic work of the Wayne County Cemetery Voters Association.
Chairwoman Lauren Hood of the Detroit City Planning Commission said that she didn’t know who the 20% were, but assumed it was maybe newcomers to the city or non-black residents.
But with a 78% black majority, Detroit would be taking money from black people to pay reparations to other black people with the government, run by a white mayor, taking a cut.
“Detroit is the blackest big city in the nation. Eight out of every 10 people here are due some sort of reparation,” Chairwoman Hood argued. “Can you imagine how the landscape of the city might change socially, economically, spiritually, if we actually get what we’re owed?”
If 8 out of 10 people are due reparations, whom does Hood see paying them? The other 2? And what happens if the other 2 leave?
A decade ago, Detroit fell into the largest municipal bankruptcy in history. Millions are being spent to tear down thousands of homes after the city’s population plunged from 1.8 million in 1950 to just 639,111 today. When the last census showed that another 7,150 people had fled, Detroit sued the Census Bureau claiming that its numbers were “divorced from reality”.
Reality actually took out a restraining order against Detroit in the 1980s. And the city and state have made it clear that they won’t even speak to reality until it pays reparations.
The current plan to revive the population is to “attract new residents from states less protective of the LGBTQ+ community and with more restrictive abortion access.”
And when all those abortion-loving transgender folks show up, they can pay reparations.
This replaces a previous proposal headlined in a New York Times op-ed as “Let Syrians Settle Detroit” to bring Islamists fighting a civil war to resettle the city. They’re bound to get along well with the LGBTQ activists and abortion un-moms who can all happily pay reparations together.
Reparations got off to a slow start when the “virtual meeting was hacked several times with displays of explicit content, including images of pornography”.
Detroit was not even functional enough to run a Zoom meeting, let alone distribute reparations from black people to other black people in a city where the most popular crime is copper theft.
Slavery had been banned in Michigan since 1787 by the Confederation Congress almost as soon as the United States came into existence. Before then there had been 170 slaves in Detroit. Tracking down the descendants of those 170 slaves from almost 250 years ago would be an interesting exercise. Not that Detroit is planning to limit reparations to those slaves.
One major problem with reparations is that Detroit doesn’t have the money. There’s another group that has a much more solid legal claim to the failed city’s cash. After it went bankrupt in 2013, Detroit’s recovery was only enabled by the crooked mechanism of declaring a 10-year pension ‘holiday’. The holiday ends in 2023. Detroit politicians kept claiming that they had a $100 million annual surplus, because they were not making $163 million in pension payments.
With the 20-year pension payment plan due, Detroit went to court to ask for a 30-year plan so that it could postpone until 2033.
Worse still, the actual liabilities were $500 million more than the numbers on the books.
Detroit’s political class had three options, make payments they could not afford, go bankrupt again or use a reparations commission to change the subject from all the money it owed to 12,000 retired cops, firefighters and EMTs. What reparations really means is stealing pensions from city retirees who had risked their lives for decades to fund teardowns of more buildings.
And then maybe all the transgender Syrian Muslim refugees seeking abortions will come.
Much like in San Francisco, no one is sure where the reparations money for 8 out of 10 Detroit residents will come from. The only idea that has emerged so far has been to legalize drugs and use the money for reparations. And even the idea of selling drugs to black people and then giving them a percentage of the drug money ran into trouble when its attempt to limit drug licenses to longtime residents was found to be illegal. While drug sales have since been legalized, who in Detroit is even going to buy enough legal drugs to finance reparations?
Black folks in Detroit need to be compensated,” Cecily McClellan, a member of the commission, declared.
“I would like to use this opportunity to make one thing abundantly clear this work is not about handouts,” City Council President Mary Sheffield ranted. “It is about creating generational wealth and creating economic mobility and opportunity in the black community as we stand just mere blocks from the former home of the mother of the civil rights movement, Rosa Parks.”
Rosa Parks was mugged in her own home when a thug broke in, demanded money, and punched the 81-year-old former civil rights activist in the face. It was the 90s, a saner time, and so the George Floyd wannabe was arrested and sent away for 8 years.
Parks is dead and so is Detroit.
The good news is that Detroit’s population continues to decline. Black people have joined white people in getting out. The city suffered the largest loss of black residents of any in the country. The schools are the worst in the nation, the water is tainted and crime is out of control.
But the reparations commission has a $350,000 budget so at least someone is getting paid.
“Pension Holiday”. That’s a good one 🙂
I wouldn’t be surprised if some other cities and such adopt the idea.
Almost all civic pensions in the US and Canada are underwater and rely on hiring more and more younger staff to pay off the retired. However it is a classic pyramid scheme. The reality is that civic pension receivers need to take a haircut and current workers need to contribute more.
And people wonder why comedy is dead? You can’t hold up absurdity for ridicule when absurdity is the coin of the realm. Generational wealth is caused by people who use their spare time to collect and recycle aluminum cans and forgo one meal a day for threat of their lives as they use up every pair of shores they buy at the thrift store. Self denial and self control. But this is a secret; so just keep up the good work of selling the theory that if you give a man a fish he will never be hungry again, which is Actually True!, provided the man in question dies that night in his sleep.
Absolutely! Selling drugs to black people and using the procedes to pay their reparations? Gilbert and Sullivan couldn’t have come up with a libretto as farsical as this.
I needed a good laugh, thank you
Life is funnier than ever now that the Left is in charge.
True. Life is funnier and we must laugh. Laughter is a powerful weapon against despair and unreality. Your writing is getting funnier and funnier. The photo of you on this website is a very Mona-Lisa-like photo. I think it both suggests and hides your mirth.
Thank you for continuing your excellent work. Truth telling is rare and precious.
Won’t be funny when the federal govt steps up to pay this bill as well as other cities like Detroit. Madness.
Yeah…..that’d be Hillaryarious.
What you wrote is true.
But what if the criminals running the Obama/puppet Joe White House run out of money?
No wonder why the corrupt, demented, and illegitimate “President” is trying to get rid of the debt limit set by the House of Representatives. This “power of the purse”, which is given to the House by the US Constitution, is its most important function.
Obama wants to give money to blacks who were never slaves and take money from whites who were never slave owners.
interesting it passed the vote. cats out of the bag. any organized citizen group can vote themselves a check. black, whites, asian, hispanic….make the check large enough and include all citizens and government is no more.
I’ve got an idea: get rid of all civil services completely. Police, fire department, trash collection, schools and even government offices. That should leave enough to pay the reparations tab. The lucky recipients can pay for their own protection, education, trash collection, tax collection, etc. and Detroit will look pretty much the same as it does now.
Baltimore isn’t far behind. Another DNC affirmative-action run city turned into a rancid 3rd-world slum.
Some cities fall into decline when a business that it revolved around moves, or goes bust, such as Gary, Indiana.
The Detroit & Baltimore hellscapes, however, owe their ruin exclusively to incompetent Democrat rule.
(This reparations insanity packaged for entitlement-minded voters is just another installment on the road to perdition.)
Detroit used to be the automobile capital of the World. I remember thinking, even back then, that the unions were getting too greedy. Of course there were other problems also, that I had no idea of back then.
Detroit was one of America’s golden cities with world-class architecture, city services, manufacturing and industry. Blacks showed up and all that was handed to them at no charge. Reparations make sense only when you assume blacks are a custodial race.
https://www.goyimtv.com/v/2362576588/Black-South-African-woman-begs-for-white-people-to-rule-the-country-again-
“And then maybe all the transgender Syrian Muslim refugees seeking abortions will come.”
I wonder how many government officials are down at the border encouraging immigrants to come to their cities?
They don’t need to. They just pay refugee resettlers to do it for them.
With our tax dollars no less.
Time for them to get a good dose of their own medicine and I hope they can take it just use that Spoonful of Sugar
There is no such thing as a free lunch Wake up Detroit
Jamie Dimon will pay.
A quick look at the JPMorgan-Chase website and you won’t see the account offerings or interest rates that other banks display. Instead you’ll see about “equity” and “transforming abandoned homes in Chicago” and … Detroit. I quote:
Can one move to Detroit and qualify for the “reparations?” If I remember correctly, the courts have ruled that welfare can not be denied to new transplants. It that’s true for “reparations” …
The Tsarnaevs got welfare checks the month they chain-migrated to join their low-life mother to feed off the taxpayer dime.
We all know how that turned out. FBI was warned twice, but the FBI was lackluster in their investigation – completely ignoring the Tsarnaevs’ social media posts.
(The FBI’s only interested in tweets of anyone who’s remotely conservative.)
Could the idea actually be to pass reparations-go bankrupt from the reparations and all of their other stupid financial ”mistakes”-beg the Feds to for a bailout-of coarse get the bailout…….All problems solved for the moment?
After all, if the Feds dont bail them out, the Feds are racist.
Its a solid plan.
That’s the plan.
With Texas sending the illegal aliens to northern Democratic cities, the mayors of those cities are asking the federal government for funds instead of closing the border.
Yes, they are playing the race card.
They’ll do the same in Detroit & Chicago.
The fairest “tax” to pay for America’s sin of slavery is a skin & eye color tax. People of the city should be taxed based on skin and eye color to compensate for the evil done to the rest of the world. A colored eyed white skinned citizen would be taxed at say 10% of their income, brown eyed white skinned at 9%, colored eyed semi dark skin at 8% and so on. A brown eyed very black skinned citizen pays nothing and receives 100% of the money extracted from those that pay the tax.
“Can you imagine how the landscape of the city might change socially, economically, spiritually, if we actually get what we’re owed?”
Nothing would change. Some of these people have no shame. Constantly gaming the system for hand outs. Pathetic.
The Million Man March, AA, quota’s, the dumbing down of curriculum, tearing down statues, renaming schools and streets, creating new fake black holidays. Did any of those things change black communities? Yea, I didn’t think so.
But wait. Let’s try one more thing. Let’s give all black people reparations. Surely this will work. The 23rd time is a charm.
Canada paid reparations for individuals who attended residential schools and claimed abuse, no proof required other than attendance Many got 100s of thousands of dollars. 10 years later, the money is gone and their lives are no better. Now the claim is for unmarked graves but even after three summers, no bodies. But money will flow for those that can claim a loved on disappeared while at residential schools.
As a former Detroiter I can assure you that the destruction done to the city by its residents and successive corrupt administrations (with a few exceptions) that they elected far outstrips any possible “reparations” they now claim to be owed.
…And these corrupt Democ-rat politicians are poised to impose new ethics laws on Supreme Court justices. Democ-rat ethics? Please.
Rosa Parks’ mugger for the curious:
This is the most wit and truth combined that ever read.
Best line of the day:
“Last year, 80% of Detroit voters in a 78% black city cast their ballots in support of a reparations commission. That was much higher than 63% poll numbers but local election results tend to outperform the polls due to the civic work of the Wayne County Cemetery Voters Association.”
WCCVA! LOL!
Who’s curious about Detroit’s roots? Founded in 1701 by a Frenchman, originally pronounced “dayTWAH”. It means “strait” or “channel”. Ergo, the Detroit River, whose name preceded the city’s.
In light of this reparations scheme, perhaps the powers-that-be in Detroit, a perverse reality of the quaint folkloric city of fictional Chelm, should change the “o” to a “u” in the name of Detroit, and call their beloved city Detruit, meaning “destroyed” (dayTWEE) in French.
Genius. Thanks for sharing.
Daniel,
Another excellent article. Your perceptions are always right on the money and accurate.
A breath of fresh air compared to the scum who write for the MSM.
Thank you for what you do!
and what…. ??? Pay people for nothing??? How bout we pay them for what would have been made monetarily back from when slavery in America existed…. and how bout them signing papers saying they will no longer demand anything or hate any one who is white or other color….. naw… never happen… not when it is big business to be race baiting communist propaganda to finish ruining and destroying the Republic.
Like the great philosopher Charlie Brown once said “The problem with living in the city is that there’s just not enough trees to beat your head against.”
I am a native Detroiter and live in a suburb.
As to the schools, I have seen it claimed as a reason for reparations that the schools do a terrible job, students are not sent to college or the work world properly prepared, and this is due to “systemic racism.”
Per student funding is not at all miserly and the district has been in control of blacks, from buildings to central office, for decades. Where is the connection to “systemic racism?”
Quite simply – democrat policies ruin every place they’re implemented.
I live in metro Detroit and I was unaware that the water was “tainted”. The only bad water I know about is Flint and that’s quite a few miles from Detroit.
THE CONVERSATION NEEDS TO BE REPARATIONS FROM BLACKS TO VICTIMS OF STORE LOOTING
BLACKS LOOT STORES
IT’S PART OF THE BLM PLATFORM
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yH1ZaKzzOa8
I have reported previously how the Black Lives Matter Global Network has glorified foreign and domestic terrorists, cop killers, and Fidel Castro, and has taken actions both the Anti-Defamation League and International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance define as anti-Semitic: denial of the right of Israel to exist. The organization has also encouraged looting and other forms of civil unrest.
I remember when President Trump called Baltimore a rat infested City and instantly the DemocRATS thought of black people… Weird that huh?.
I guess all those Affirmative Actions Programs were just too much for the Negro population to deal with as now they just want free money to be handed to them for not doing anything to help their own communities…
Like everybody else does.
”First we have to clean up the neighborhood’… Malcolm X.. And look what they did to him.
Socialism is taking money away from people who have earned it and handing it over to people who haven’t.
I am watching the demise of the American Empire, the shortest Empire in the History of the World. 1945-2023.
Prior to reparations being paid, a DNA test must be administered revealing the origins of the potential recipients. Following the receipt of the reparations, these persons would be resettled to their ‘homeland’ unable to return…non even for a visit.
Expensive but effective, the money saved in the long run would be worth it.
They are counting on Biden, or what ever democrat the U.S. election controllers put in the Oval Office, to cover it with tax payer money from other states. Just Like Biden did to cover the cost of the billions of BLM/antifa terrorist insurrection riots damage.
Its all in the timing.
Of course there’s a big check for openers. Estates with pillars fronting a circle drive and adequate Cadillacs have to come from somewhere.
That the lottery department can mail out disbursements monthly establishes that basic infrastructure is already in place and working. While this is a big plus, prudence demands what we examine what can be found on the private sector. And it turns out, quite a bit.
Publisher’s Clearinghouse pumps out 5 Gs weekly. This is a lot closer to what’s needed. These disbursement gaps are racist attacks requiring immediate reduction.
Daily emolumation is the gold standard. And the simplest notion of good citizenship requires a fully stocked ATM be maintained in all marginalized households.
Next on the agenda is attending to the historic deprivation of sexual favors from cute melanin deficient fillies. All we want is justice.
All about “economic mobility”? In other words, if we hand these people a bunch of money, they will finally be able to get out of the crap hole known as Detroit. This is weapons-grade stupidity.
Stupidity? ?
This is a brilliantly inspired stimulus package, which will not only bring Gary Indiana back to full prosperity, it will overwhelm the Patent Office, as fertile, creative minds release a torrent of technical innovations in a lightning flash of stunning brilliance unseen since Charles Steinmetz and Tesla.
This is an investment in people!!.
Trust me.
I’m 68 and never in my life have I seen/heard something so absolutely simpleton.
Those leaders have no shame no dignity. And many of course are just that ignorant.
But THEIR paychecks keep coming so……the heck with their residents.
The whole concept of reparations is so dumb even Beavis & Butthead could work out the endless consequences of adopting such an insanely stupid stance.
Over here in Blighty the useful idiots are getting excited about it, too.
I challenged one of these useful idiots – the type that insist windmills and solar panels can power modern industrial economies, the trans freakshow is about real people, etc, and other idiot fact averse, leftist causes, by suggesting to him that we should get the Romans, Vikings and Normans to stump up the readies following the logic of the reparations rapsheet in relation to the Atlantic slave history epoch.
This went down like a reggae band at a KKK Conference!
When I asked him if he’d read Thomas Sowells’ Black Rednecks and White Liberals for corrective history he didn’t have a scoobie-do (clue) what the hell I was saying and promptly exited for another fag.
As Beavis & Butthead said ” some people are just so dumb”
Just like Dorothy always had the ability to return home [ by, I recall, clicking her heels together and uttering “there’s no place like home”.], the systemically marginalized can always make their own reparations by acquiring a piece and establishing themselves in the stickup industry.
Initiative pays.
Why don’t technical schools initiate programs awarding Certificates of Demonstrated Competence in Surreptitious Billfold Acquisition.
That way the disadvantaged can build careers picking each other’s pockets.