Mayor John Tory released the plan Wednesday morning which aims to guide the city’s actions to advance reconciliation through to 2032.
The 28 goals are spread through five themes, including actions to restore truth, actions to right relations and share power, actions for justice, actions to make financial reparations and actions for the Indigenous Affairs Office.
The notion that a demographically representative college class makes for better education is a pretext for the real proposition: that certain people deserve reparations.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two more cases challenging the use of race as a criterion in college admissions, as has allegedly happened at Harvard University (a private institution) and the University of North Carolina (public). On the surface, the argument turns on whether the desire for a diverse student body trumps many laws and the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibit discrimination and guarantee equal protection to all. The question applies to virtually all universities because they are either public or accept government money.
According to a Sunday report in the San Francisco Chronicle, the author of the AB3121, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, has maintained that descendants of slaves should be prioritized.
Weber distinguishes between the experiences of Black people who came to America “with their lineage intact” after slavery was abolished and those who were brought to or born in America as slaves, stating “all of our past was taken from us.”
The newest reparations-style plan from President Joe Biden ditches cash payouts to border crossers subjected to former President Trump’s “Zero Tolerance Policy” and, instead, provides them with amnesty to permanently resettle in the United States.
The man suspected of murdering a 19-year-old Burger King employee earlier this week ranted about social justice and demanded reparations as police officers escorted him out of an East Harlem police station.
Mr. Trump, a leading figure within the GOP, told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that the communist regime should be held responsible for its role in helping spread the coronavirus.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) asserted that Joe Biden’s scheme to pay illegal aliens $450,000 each is likely true despite recent denial by the White House. On Thursday, the senator told reporters Attorney General Merrick Garland must explain if the discussions of such payments took place.
The potential $50 million to $100 million cost of a Canadian papal visit isn’t far off the amount the Catholic Church still owes residential school survivors, say advocates.
They say that bill — estimated at slightly more than $60 million — must be paid and all documents about the schools disclosed before one dollar is committed to bringing Pope Francis to Canada for an expected apology. One Vatican expert says that’s highly unlikely, but survivors say they’ll keep pressing.
He went ballistic on a report from The Wall Street Journal that said Joe Biden’s White House plans to pay $450,000 in reparations to families who were separated at the border, The New York Post reported.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson raged against the Biden administration over a Wall Street Journal story about the U.S. government considering paying reparations to illegal immigrants.
Richard Burgon, a member of the British Parliament for the far-Left Labour party and Secretary of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs, demonstrated Tuesday that the Left’s commitment to the redistribution of wealth is indefatigable: He declared that what the West really needs to do now is start forking over money to the Taliban. Burgon tweeted: “The crisis in Afghanistan is the result of 20 years of disastrous military intervention. Just as in Iraq & Libya, backing US-led invasions led to a huge loss of life. There is no military solution in Afghanistan. The focus now should be on reparations and supporting refugees.”
As lawmakers continue debating reparations in the U.S., Australia’s prime minister said Thursday his country will pay millions of dollars in compensation to Indigenous people forcibly taken from their families.
For decades, a debate on reparations has been ongoing in the U.S., but it gained renewed attention last year as people around the world marched in protest of the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in May 2020 [of an OD-Ed] while in Minneapolis police custody.
It seems that another city is considering taking the dive into reparations. The Detroit city council is considering placing the question on the ballot for November’s elections. Specifically, they want to ask citizens if the city should form a committee to consider reparations for residents.
Protesters demanded yesterday that a Conservative MP should hand over his 621-acre sugar plantation to the people of Barbados as compensation for his family’s 200 years of slave owning and trading on the island. Richard Drax, the MP for Dorset South, has said the role of his ancestors was “deeply, deeply regrettable” but resists demands for reparations.
As part of this year’s Tolpuddle Festival, a rally organised by Stand Up to Racism, Dorset, at the gates of the Drax family estate highlighted the family’s historic role in slavery. The festival celebrates the Tolpuddle Martyrs, poorly paid farm workers, who were transported in 1834 for organising trade union activities.
Kinda ironic that the Tolpuddle Martyrs were white guys deported to Oz.
Jamaica is planning to ask the United Kingdom for compensation for the Atlantic slave trade in the former British colony, a senior government official said.
The Caribbean island nation will file a petition that could seek billions of pounds in reparations, pending legal advice, according to Olivia Grange, Jamaica’s minister of sports, youth and culture.
She said the country hoped for ‘reparatory justice in all forms’ to ‘repair the damages that our ancestors experienced’.
Didn’t we have a Jamaican gang problem here? Maybe we should ask Jamaica for reparations.
