It's Happening 

     People counter discrimination with discrimination. 

     Reparations, years in the making, are happening in Evanston, Illinois. Since 2021, the program makes $25,000 payments to Black residents and their descendants who lived in Evanston between the years 1919 and 1969. 

     Evanston has paid nearly $5 million to 193 residents to date.

     We all know that many Black citizens - not all - were disadvantaged over many decades. Our question is whether reparations paid by taxpayers (including Black taxpayers) is the solution.

     Judicial Watch filed a class action lawsuit, challenging on "equal protection grounds" Evanston's use of race in a benefit for residents five-plus decades, if not more than a century ago. 

     Last January, Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit on behalf of San Francisco taxpayers over a program that discriminates in favor of biologically Black and Latino men who identify as women. 

     In 2023 Minnesota reversed a trial court's ruling over a teachers' contract which provided job protections to certain racial minorities. 

     In 2022 Asheville, NC agreed to remove all racially discriminatory provisions in a city-funded scholarship program. Meanwhile, California lost a gender quota law for corporate boards. The diversity mandate was found to be unconstitutional. 

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