It’s not much, but we huddle around it for warmth during the Ford Age. (And right after this news, one of Ford’s spliters joined the minivan caucus.)
Cue screaming, crying and rending of garments from a certain segment of “fans” about how SJWs ruin everything.
For all those who say that the idea of racial reparations is just too pie-in-the-sky, or too complicated, or just plain unrealistic:
Developed in concert with Evanston’s Equity and Empowerment Commission and overwhelmingly approved by the city council late last year, the program is perhaps the first of its kind in the nation: an initiative designed to address the ongoing impacts of slavery on African Americans, with guaranteed funding from sales taxes on recreational marijuana, which became legal in Illinois on 1 January.
The town’s newly formed reparations committee is still evaluating ways in which it will spend the money, which it aims to begin disbursing later this year or early next.
Maybe bad news for artifact hunters, but good news for people who don’t like graverobbing?
Probably the best news yet to emerge from this story.
Organized protest movements work!
"This is what happens when we organize, when people come together to build the beloved community,” Dominique Walker, one of the mothers who lived in the house with her two children, said in a statement, on the day that America marked Martin Luther King Day. “Today we honor Dr King’s radical legacy by taking Oakland back from banks and corporations.”
How kind of them. /s
Furious Furries Make Righteous Fur Fly!
This might seem like a minor change, but it has huge implications in the financial world: