What The Ever Loving F?

"The resolution supporting community reparations for Black Asheville passed unanimously during the meeting. The move officially recognizes the injustices of centuries and attempts to right the wrongs.

The resolution calls on Asheville organizations to apologize and make amends with the Black community, pushes for generational wealth, and seeks to establish a Community Reparations Commission, among several other steps.

"We need to be made whole in areas of health care, education, employment, criminal justice, business ownership, home ownership, overall equity and, of course, generational wealth," Councilman Keith Young told News 13 on Friday."

Asheville has also hired an "independent consultant" from Chicago to investigate how Asheville PD handled the violent protests in June. What could go wrong?

NC becoming the new VA

I wish them luck. They'll need it.

(07-15-2020 12:29 PM)Billy_Bearcat Wrote:  NC becoming the new VA

Even the Triangle isn't as weird as Hippy Heaven. It's still an outlier. for now.

All those "racist whites" will move outside of the Asheville NC limits... And if they try to get cute and garnish wages of those working within the city limits then I suppose people will stop working in Asheville.

(07-15-2020 12:31 PM)miko33 Wrote:  All those "racist whites" will move outside of the Asheville NC limits... And if they try to get cute and garnish wages of those working within the city limits then I suppose people will stop working in Asheville.

One problem is that Asheville is filled to capacity with "white guilt" liberals. Most of them are either elderly liberals from out of state, or young brainwashed kids that work in the service industry, and demand affordable (downtown) housing and higher wages.

Asheville is like the San Francisco of the South culturally. Inside the city limits it is a political monoculture.

(07-15-2020 12:33 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  

(07-15-2020 12:31 PM)miko33 Wrote:  All those "racist whites" will move outside of the Asheville NC limits... And if they try to get cute and garnish wages of those working within the city limits then I suppose people will stop working in Asheville.

One problem is that Asheville is filled to capacity with "white guilt" liberals. Most of them are either elderly liberals from out of state, or young brainwashed kids that work in the service industry, and demand affordable (downtown) housing and higher wages.

It could work then. However...I have yet to see a progressive put their money where his/her mouth is though. Sounds like it will be token giveaways, declaration of "victory" and no real change at the end of it.

(07-15-2020 12:41 PM)miko33 Wrote:  

(07-15-2020 12:33 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  

(07-15-2020 12:31 PM)miko33 Wrote:  All those "racist whites" will move outside of the Asheville NC limits... And if they try to get cute and garnish wages of those working within the city limits then I suppose people will stop working in Asheville.

One problem is that Asheville is filled to capacity with "white guilt" liberals. Most of them are either elderly liberals from out of state, or young brainwashed kids that work in the service industry, and demand affordable (downtown) housing and higher wages.

It could work then. However...I have yet to see a progressive put their money where his/her mouth is though. Sounds like it will be token giveaways, declaration of "victory" and no real change at the end of it.

They're going to get a BLM mural and probably a few fired police officers out of it... so... victory, I guess.

Racism solved!

Moscow in the Mountains.

(07-16-2020 11:48 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Moscow in the Mountains.

I'd think that's a bit insulting to Moscow. More like Beijing in the Boonies.