Black Lives Matter Minnesota says Derek Chauvin ‘guilty’ verdict not enough, calls for reparations

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Activists in Minnesota are calling for reparations after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd.

Advocates of police reform celebrated the verdict, which they have described as a step in the right direction toward their goal of holding police officers accountable for killing civilians.

But, according to Insider, “organizers and family members of victims of police violence are careful not to label his conviction as anything more than a step in the direction toward justice.”

In fact, Black Lives Matter Minnesota is now saying that full-scale reparations is the solution needed to atone for what they say has been generational institutionalized racism.

“It’s about direct cash payments,” Trahern Crews, a spokesperson for BLM Minnesota, told Insider. “Reparations is cause for a cessation, which means stop killing them, or stop harming them.”

“That’s not stopping, so we don’t get a chance to heal,” Crews added.

More from Insider:

Chauvin’s guilty conviction gave protesters in Minneapolis a brief moment of respite, Floyd’s family members and activists on the ground said. But convictions represent just one aspect of reparations. “There’s going to be change in the future, and we still have a lot of reparations to make from the past so cases need to be re-opened and we need to re-examine them,” said Floyd’s girlfriend, Courteney Ross.

“This is what justice feels like: gut-wrenching relief, exhaustion. It’s not sweet or satisfying. It’s necessary, important, maybe even historic,” Philonise Floyd, brother to George Floyd, wrote in an op-ed for the Washington Post. “But only with the passage of time will we know if the guilty verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin is the start of something that will truly change America and the experience of Black Americans.”

Anything else?

While national reparations will likely never happen in the U.S., one Illinois city recently became the first municipality in America to enact a reparations program.

Evanston, Illinois, a city north of Chicago, began the first phase of their reparations program in March.

Overall, the city plans to distribute $10 million over the next 10 years using revenue collected from taxes on recreational marijuana sales.

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73 Comments

  1. They have already received their reparations through welfare, food stamps, WIC, public housing, affirmative action, and other handouts. Their leadership in BLM received millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars which is reparations; the only problem is the leadership of BLM decided it was “their” money and have failed to use that money to assist and advance their own race. It’s about time the blacks did something for themselves and not expect someone else to take care of their needs.

    1. Reparations are a good idea. Let’s start with putting all those thugs that are unproductive to society in prison. I’m sure most have a criminal record and arrest warrents…

    2. I agree 100% with what you are saying!!! I never had any slaves nor do any of these people today deserve to be paid REPARATIONS for actions that occurred decades ago. As you have so well stated, they have all the governmental programs and hand outs at the TAXPAYERS expense! Not all people of color are prejudiced against everyone in this country! I have been taught that you work for what you want to accomplish!!! I was never given an easy way , “white privilege” , as many are pushing false narratives to cause further Division in OUR GREAT NATION!!! Just because of your skin color does not mean that you are entitled to what someone else has earned and works for!!! ACCORDING to OUR CONSTITUTION, We ALL have the SAME RIGHTS, PRIVILEGE’S AND OPPORTUNITIES granted by GOD !!! Life, Liberty and the PURSUIT of Happiness!!! No where in OUR CONSTITUTION does it STATE that everyone is entitled to what others have worked for and earned!!! REPARATIONS is just another example of people wanting POWER and CONTROL over others!!! I was raised by a Wonderful Christian Family and do not have a prejudice bone in my body! I was taught to make a decision about a person by their works, actions and decisions that each one makes!!! REPARATIONS are for the Weak Minded, cannot or will not work for what they want! And these INDIVIDUALS are just being lead by People who want POWER and CONTROL over them!!! But they are to BLIND to SEE!!! Promises made to get what they want and the people are left there in the SAME conditions, if not worse!!! I sign my True Name and credentials, because I am NOT AFRAID OF THE TRUTH!!!

  2. I believe that cash reparations should be given by proxy.

    Bullets cost cash. Deliver the bullets, at high velocity, and let the reparations begin!

  3. it was all fake-George Floyd porn star/crises actor and his buddy Derek made this video to start race riots….see how it worked?..both are free and very much alive!

    1. You are an idiot…Not because i agree what so ever with payments…. Fuck that,go to work.But your comment on both alive&free. Holy shit are you dumb..

  4. Reparations????? For what?? The argument that stealing from someone who never owned slaves and giving to someone who never was a slave just doesn’t hold water. So, the answer is quite simply NO and HELL NO!!

  5. How about ‘reparations’ for all the destruction & theft? Why aren’t there lawsuits to pay for the smashing, looting–I mean stealing–& arson? In fact, why aren’t the thieves & arsonists in jail? BLM founders & their mob, along with Antifa, should all be locked-up on the same cell block as Chauvin.

  6. This is ridiculous. It is time that people resist being victims. I have never done anything to anybody of any race and respect anyone who deserves that respect. I do not feel the need the need to pay reparations to anyone.

  7. This Country…. “SHOULD NEVER”…. Pay the Blacks for Anything that they don’t earn for Themselves…..Just Like All the Rest of the People Do in this Country…..Definitely Not Pay Them for their Slavery or their “So Called” Past History…..What a Crock of S _ _t ..! ! ….that is……PLUS, the Tax Paying Good Americans ….ARE NOT….Going to
    go along with any of that Crap.!!!!

  8. These assholes need to be doing reparations for all the damage their effin riots have caused is what needs to happen.

  9. Reparation for what.Use that free time you got to get a job and become a contributing individual in your community!

  10. IF……and God Help Us….that this NEVER HAPPENS….Reparations..???…My A * * ..!!!!! IF, it does happen – They better be ready to pay Reparations to the Irish, the Dutch, the Germans, the Polish, and Every Other Ethnic Group, due to they all have had “Hardships”….within this Country. Not just Blacks and Slavery….. No More Catering to the Blacks….Just BECASE THEY ARE BLACK….What a Bunch of Crap.!!!

    1. Hey! Racis’! You dissing people for the color of their skin! That be “racis’!” You must be white, because ALL whites be “racis’!” The only people caint be “racis’!” is black folk. Give me a bunch more money I didn’t earn because I wasn’t a slave, or I’ll riot and loot your business and then burn it down! You know, ‘cuz of Joe Floyd! But I’ll also settle for a blunt and a 40 of malt liquor. (Cashing my wehfare check is hard work!) Racis’!

  11. I’m so sick 🤒 and tired of BLM they all can kiss my you no what they are wrong on everything I love my Black friends and they all agree with me this has to stop with the ending of Antifa we have to all be ready These creeps are coming to a city near you soon Lock and Load wether Black or white Gods Blessings to all and have a Godly day

      1. Fuckin’ A right brother! We can start by shooting looters on sight. Since when did it become OK to loot and burn private businesses? The irony is a bunch of the businesses destroyed were owned by blacks.

  12. Is there anyone who doesn’t think that the left are nothing more than inmates who escaped from an insane asylum? First off the whole “reparations” thing is nothing more than pandering to blacks by the democrat party. They have no intensions of actually paying reparations. The democrat party with one hand makes people think that they have their back while the other hand is stabbing them in the back. The only people’s interest that the democrats have in their hearts is their own. They are power hungry sick people who will do anything to attain and keep power.

  13. Anything for free,the only thing that they deserve is a couple years behind bars

  14. If a soldier gets killed in combat and is not a criminal What does the greaving family get. The government should set some rules if only they are willing but I don’t think it will happen in this world the way its going

      1. Whats hes babbling about jackass is blacks calling for repreations for their ancestors being slaves
        Where are the American people calling for repreations after their military family member gets killed… That YOU uneducated fool is what hes babbling about!! I 100% agree with him

  15. Why is the BLM worried about money because they didn’t even know the dude before this happens just like they’ll never know the other guys or gals kids old people until something happens, it makes media pay attention a piss on you getting any damn money what about the money for businesses that they destroy the loss of income for people where they disrupt the traffic flow for people can’t get into work because I want to pull some b******* I don’t know what kind of job these people got there always on the damn road just doing s*** my feet are wondering how they’re paying their bills or who cough cough Biden paying their bills

  16. Nothing is EVER enough. You surrender to the Terrorists once, and next time you’ll have less to work with. Eventually, if you keep on surrendering, you’ll have nothing left while they’ll have everything.

    That’s why we’ve long had a stance of “we don’t negotiate with terrorists”. It’s time we remembered that and lived by that code. The only thing we’ll give terrorists is as many does of lead as they desire.

  17. Reparations sound like a great idea. So blacks in Seattle, Portland, New York City, Philadelphia and of Minneapolis should have to pay for all the damages done during riots and looting. This is such BS.
    Pay you nothing and if you don’t like it your free to leave…….

  18. Reparations for what? Are they going to pay back the citizens who lost buildings and business from their destruction?
    They already received $27,000,000.00 plus whatever donations they received from celebrities and rich Democrat donors.
    Never was a racist person, but looks like that is Democratic goal! We have to stand up and fight back!

    1. You were ALWAYS a racist….. we are here to remind you!!! Love, CRAZY nancy, Schmuck, and Sniffin Joe…..

  19. If Chauvin was hung in a public square and his dead body was dragged through the streets, they still wouldn’t be ‘satisfyed’! NOTHING is ever ‘enough’ for them! It never has been, and it never will. Everything is turned into an excuse to “Git some money”! They won’t be ‘satisfied’ until they are in charge of everything, and blacks can’t be arrested for any crime – and blacks will own white slaves!
    As the wife of an armed robber, who when caught fought the police, stated in a street interview during a protest last summer, “Th’ pohlice got no right puttin’ my husban’ on th’ groun’ an’ beatin’ him up, just ’cause he out there tryin’ to make a hones’ livin’ to support his famly!” (ver badim quote)
    And I can’t forget that 29 year old black woman, after Hurricane Katrina, in an interview, said, “Sho’, dey give me dis little teeny house, an’ furnicher, an’ some clothes, an’ food, an’ a flat-screen TV – but it ain’t a PLASMA TV! Why didn’ dey give me a PLASMA TV? Dey CHEAP!
    An’ dey tol’ me to git a JOB! I ain’t NEVA had no JOB! I had a job ONCE – fo’ ONE DAY! I ain’t NEVA’ gon’ do dat again!

  20. Fret not, like Ebonics, Kwanza and Rap, this too shall pass. Sadly, the decades of progress regarding acceptance, understanding and tolerance now look to be headed now toward the least desirable option……avoidance. Those areas with significant AA population will see an acceleration in the Balkanization process along socio-economic-cultural lines. Worse yet will be outright acknowledgement of ‘No Go’ zones.

  21. There will be reparations for sure but not anything close to what these BLM racists wish. The black American is on the edge of jumping into a crevice with no return.

  22. I never owned a slave, and none of them ever were slaves. And maybe they can explain how blacks from the poorest parts of Africa, from Nigeria and Ethiopia can come here and thrive, yet inner city blacks from Chicago or Baltimore or Washington D.C. can’t seem to hold a job. Finally, I’ll count the TEN Trillion dollars the US has spent on primarily poor blacks since 1965 in the War on Peverty as “reparations.” Not to mention the racist preferences that allow them into Ivy League schools ahead of Whites and Asians, even though they score far lower. Imagine, a Harvard grad who can’t read.

  23. It’s always about the money! Not about “Justice”! Not about “Freedom”! It’s about “Money”… And, “Reparations” to the victims of Government Malfeasance is understandable and okay. But, the “Reparations” BLM are demanding is wrong.

  24. Suppose the NAACP and BLM pay retribution to the whites whose ancestors fought wars, extreme economic hardships and diseases to set up and defend the country that blacks have lived in and breathed free air for hundreds of years.

  25. The Chauvin trial was never about ‘justice’. It was about mob-rule. Reparations for what? I’ve never owned a slave nor do I know anyone who has. I will say that with a few jobs I’ve had…I was pretty close to being a slave.
    Look up the ‘Cloward-Piven’ strategy. The Left is trying to break the U.S. financially and they are applying the Cloward-Piven strategy in several areas. BLM/antifa are just tools, ‘useful idiots’ if you will, of the Left. They’ve been duped into doing the dirty work. BLM is finding out slowly, although they don’t quite understand it yet, that they have been lied to by the Left…even though ‘one’ of them has made enough to buy a large mansion in an overwhelmingly white neighborhood in California. Antifa hasn’t figured it out yet, either.

  26. Reparations my ass. go out and earn your own money and quit looking for hand outs every chance you get. The government is not your employer. Free stuff is not free. Us tax payers are picking up your tab. And we do not like it.

  27. In the past slaves were also owned by Black families. Who is going to pay reparations for that?

  28. I’m part native American and the whites took our land , killed all of the buffalo, and thousands of my people and if anyone in this country should be paid raparations it should be the native American for all of the death and destruction and theft that has been done to them. We don’t ask for raparations because we believe in working for what we need and the American people today are the ones that done all of the harm. What happened decades ago are in the past. The black people need to get out of the past and move to the future and quit blaming the white people for their laziness.

  29. Generation after generation of BLACKS have lived off WELFARE !! I call that reparations!!! AFTER all that money is paid back then MABY we will talk reparations. NOT!!!!!!

  30. Since 2015 police officer killings were 46% white people and 24% black people. Looks like they hate white people more. Should we start a WHITE LIVES MATTERS???????? JUST JOKING

  31. We have now entered a surreal era where :
    1 – Thugs are turned into Heroes
    2 – Heroes are turned into Thugs

    I have “Never” been a Racist but Now I M thinking about it.

    I hope not – But – All This “S*it “Could” lead to a Real – Race War.
    I know a Lot of people who are “Gearing Up”.
    Why do you think you cant find ammo to buy anymore?

    Any group that holds OJ, + other thugs as Heroes should be shunned
    if not Stopped. They also did ambush and kill 5 White Cops in Texas few yrs ago.

  32. The Minnesota AG, today, said racism was not an element of the Chauvin-Floyd case.

    Therefore, why the suggested reparations?

    michael zitterman
    mikiesmoky @ aol.com

  33. RACISM: Definitional, Prejudicial, functional, and Institutional (systematic) 21019

    DEFINITIONAL RACISM:
    One is definitionally racist if he or she believes his or her
    race is superior or inferior to another race.
    One’s perception is based upon one’s experiences; confusion
    and ignorance affects perception.
    Definitional racism is not, necessarily malevolent.
    EXAMPLE: A suggestion that a person of a race is incapable
    to functional as well as a person of another race.

    PREJUDICIAL RACISM:
    A negative perception of a race for any reason.
    Prejudicial racism is not, necessarily, malevolent.

    FUNCTIONAL RACISM:
    An action against a person of a race, because of the race of that
    person to the detriment of that person.
    Functional racism is malevolent and must be addressed.
    EXAMPLE: Adversely affecting someone only because of his or her race.

    INSTITUTIONAL RACISM:
    Legislation that affects or differentiates races and economic classes.
    Legislation that adversely affects a person must be considered malevolent.
    EXAMPLE: The concept of “Minimum Wage”; prevents a person of
    any race from being employed due to the economic value of
    that person being less than the “Minimum Wage”. This can be cured by
    the reversal of all “Minimum Wage” legislation.

    NOTES:
    Racism without accompanying negative actions should be disregarded as
    part of the human condition as is any prejudice.

    Over time, prejudice, ignorance, and confusion are reduced.

    It appears that the ubiquitous use of the terms racism and racist is
    malevolent and insidious and should cease, i.e., one should not use them
    in an argument as a rhetorical tool when one lacks rational and logical
    responses.

    CONCLUSION:
    We should target functional and institutional racism and the nonsensical
    weaponization and divisiveness of the terms racism and racist.
    Those who consistently use those terms should be significantly admonished.

    All comments will be appreciated.

    michael zitterman
    mikiesmoky @ aol.com
    May 2, 2021
    O(8)

  34. This whole article is designed to divide the American people. The remarks are designed to cause hatred. This must be from Russian Bots.

  35. The blacks got this reparation idea from the Civil War, by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman. That allot land to SOME Freed families in plots of land that were no larger than 40 acres. 40 acres or less and a mule was awarded to some freed families by a Union soldier, not the US government or the Confederate Government at the time. So the term REPERATION is really not true because it was awarded to to some freed slave families. Not all Slaves. History is dictated by who is in power at the time of who is getting the most benefit from the story being told!

  36. And President Andrew Johnson, reversed General Sherman’s order giving the land back to its former rightful owners the Confederate States, Jan16, 1865.

  37. blm should pay the americans whos lives and livilyhoods were destroyed buy their false clames

  38. After reading many of these comments I can see that white people are getting fed up. White children are now being told in school to hate themselves because of their white privilege. America has spent trillions on minority programs. Violence on white people is way more prevalent by blacks than the other way around. Almost every instance of policing problems is instigated by blacks breaking the law or not following an officers instructions or simply starting an altercation. No one today has ever been a slave and many white people back in the day hated slavery. Many that have come since the war were never involved, yet we are all being painted with that broad brush and are expected to participate in reparations that their ancestors had nothing to do with. The wedge of hate is being driven not by white america but by black and I fear their will be a rise in those hateful organizations such as the KKK. Unity does not seem to be something organizations such as the BLM are interested in. I have never hated anyone nor had any reason to hate blacks, however I am becoming very hesitant being around blacks not knowing if I will be assaulted simply for being white. This can also be measured by the huge increase in gun purchases across our country. In short if black Americans continue to poke the bear it will get ugly.

  39. Of course they want more. They were expecting him to be acquitted so they would have a reason to continue to Burn Loot Murder.

  40. For BLM to call for CASH reparations being only way to get over this is a travesty. When will they start using the millions in donations they take in to help black communities and black victims of violence? Rather than buying homes for its founders. When will they start working on the inner city black on black violence? If black lives matter start in your own neighborhoods and families. But they don’t support families in BLM, check their beliefs page.
    Reparations is an impossible farce 150 years after the fact. To be a true reparation it would have to focus just on those directly effected by slavery i.e. the slaves and their families and the owners, traders and slavers who brought & bought them. And lets not forget the tribes in Africa who captured neighboring tribes to sell into this slavery in the first place. Anyone remember the Democrats kneeling in Kenta cloths, the cloths representative of the tribe that sold the blacks they captured into slavery in the first place? So you must remove any black without a slave in their background. Remove any black whose ancestors owned slave (Madam VP). Remove any non-blacks who didn’t own slaves or participate in slave trade from having to pay. This would remove anyone whose family came after Civil War from paying out for the reparations. I could go on but it wouldn’t matter, those nuts in DC don’t listen anyway.

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