Local Reparations program under attack

[Kyle C. Barker]

No I'm not being sarcastic. Given scale of the lawsuits, it's obvious a group of high net worth individuals are funding all of these lawyers and court costs for these lawsuits. Just saying they are conservatives or republicans isn't enough.

Start with Leonard Leo

 

[Voice of Reason]

It wasn't lineage based the verbiage was off.

 

[At30wecashout]

It wasn't lineage based the verbiage was off.

I posted the bill in another post. The argument is NOT the verbiage, it is that the people asking for reparations are not having to prove that the people they descended from actually experienced hardship. Directly from their website:

Judicial Watch Files Class Action Lawsuit over Reparations - Judicial Watch

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it filed a class action lawsuit against Evanston, Illinois on behalf of six residents over the city’s use of race as an eligibility requirement for a reparations program which makes $25,000 payments to black residents and descendants of black...

www.judicialwatch.org

The program violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because:

Remedying societal discrimination is not a compelling governmental interest. Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co., 488 U.S. 469, 505 (1989); see also Regents of Univ. of Cal. v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265, 307 ((1978) (opinion of Powell, J.) (describing “societal discrimination” as “an amorphous concept of injury that may be ageless in its reach into the past.”) Remedying discrimination from 55 to 105 years ago or remedying discrimination experienced at any time by an individual’s parents, grandparents, or great grandparents has not been recognized as a compelling governmental interest…

Defendant also has not and cannot demonstrate that its use of a race as an eligibility requirement is narrowly tailored. Among other shortcomings, Defendant’s use of race as a proxy for experiencing discrimination between 1919 and 1969 does not limit eligibility to persons who actually experienced discrimination during that relevant time period and therefore is overinclusive. Defendant also failed to consider race-neutral alternatives, such as requiring prospective recipients show that they or their parents, grandparents, or great grandparents actually experienced housing discrimination during the relevant time period because of an Evanston ordinance, policy, or procedure, as Defendant requires for the third group of prospective recipients. Nor did Defendant take into account race-neutral anti-discrimination remedies before adopting its race-based eligibility requirement.

So reading all of that, they argue:

• Making us whole for past ills is not a compelling enough argument for reparations
• Despite knowing discrimination 55-105 years ago in EVANSTON SPECIFICALLY was happening, its not a compelling enough argument for reparations
• The time period of 1919-1969 opens up eligibility too much (as I mentioned in another post, if people against reparations cant kill it, they will narrow it down so much that it will do nothing...and folks will start blaming the politicians who passed it instead of the opposition)
• They are arguing people need receipts which are incredibly hard to get. If a white person says "Scram, negro" when you try to get a home, that is hardly something that can be used 105 years later to explain that they heard that consistently enough that they were basically redlined out of Evanston.

In summary, I also linked the legislation. This same group, Judicial watch, tried to take it down 3 years ago. They are back doing it again. Stop assuming it's the verbiage and keep it funky:

Well funded opposition are going to keep trying to find cracks in this until it falls. Just like Asian students being used as props to take down Affirmative action,
and that lady backed by a conservative group making up a situation of making a website for a gay person and the conservative supreme court using this imaginary situation to make a ruling. There is no perfect legislation. It's well-funded out of state conservatives that are the reason this is seeing any blowback because it is popular in Evanston itself. They are using the equal protection clause to make a reverse-racism argument and some of you cat's ain't seeing it.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

It wasn't lineage based the verbiage was off.

I asked before.

But what happens when a white person finds out that they have Afram blood in them?

So how do you rewrite that law so that only Aframs receive reparations and not White people with an Afram great-grandparent or great-great-grandparent? Make it lineage-based without mentioning race?

How do you handle that?

 

[get these nets]

*segment runs about 10 minutes long. 9 + 1

Spoiler: last minute of segment

Black Voices

Evanston’s Groundbreaking Reparations Program Faces Class Action Lawsuit​

June 5, 2024


Evanston’s groundbreaking reparations program is now facing a legal challenge.

The program is aimed at addressing housing discrimination and segregation that took place in the northern suburb from 1919 to 1969.
The city’s original plan was to distribute funds to eligible Black households in the form of $25,000 payments for home repairs, down payments or interest or late penalties owed to the city.


The measure has since expanded to include direct cash payments that can be used at recipients’ discretion.


But that program is now under fire as a class action lawsuit is challenging the city’s “use of race as an eligibility requirement.”

Christine Svenson, one of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said the reparations program violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled “that they are not in the business of remedying societal discrimination.”


Justin Hansford, a law professor at Howard University, said he believes this interpretation of the 14th Amendment is not correct.

 

[King Sun]

"Let's hear them out"

 

[Strapped]

Anyone thinking Congress will pass a reparations bill for blacks is delusional

 

[King Sun]

Anyone thinking Congress will pass a reparations bill for blacks are delusional

Does mean you should stop fighting for the shyt though. People said that about alot of laws in America.