Racist Bar Pays ‘People of Color’ $10 Each as a Symbolic ‘Reparation’ From White People

A bar in Portland, Oregon, this week hosted a “Reparations Happy Hour” and gave “people of color” $10 in cash as they arrived. The money was a “symbolic gift” funded by white people, according to published reports. . .

The event was organized by a local activist group “Brown Hope,” as a place for people of color to “meet, organize, discuss public policy and potentially plan various actions,” Fox News reported.

Reparations is a concept that today’s white people are “responsible” for giving monetary compensation for slavery, Jim Crow, and the wealth gap between white and black households. In a 2016 poll, the concept was supported by 58 percent of black people and 46 percent of Hispanic people. . .

Robert Brown, an economist, has said the total amount of reparations needed is between $1.4 trillion to $4.7 trillion. The money, Brown and those of a similar mindset say, would give the black community the wealth and community position it missed out on due to slavery and discrimination, the report stated. . .

About 100 people, most of them white, donated to Whitten’s happy hour event on Monday, according to the report. There are also plans for an upcoming “Reparations Power Hour” for people who don’t drink. (Read more from “Racist Bar Pays ‘People of Color’ Customers $10 Each as a Symbolic ‘Reparation’ From White People” HERE)

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