Activists who campaign for reparations for black people have come up with a new idea for how such compensation can be delivered.
MailOnline reports that campaigners in Chicago have already placed billboards demanding $6,000 relief on property taxes that are notoriously high across the city.
Among the issues raised by the billboards is the plight of Empire star Terrence Howard, who was forced to pay $1 million in backtaxes after refusing to honor years worth of payments over his belief that it is “immoral” to tax the descendants of slaves.
“Four hundred years of forced labor and never receiving any compensation for it,” Howard was quoted as telling a government lawyer investigating the case. “Now you have the gall to try and prosecute and charge taxes to the descendants of a broken people that you are responsible for causing the breakage.”
One of the campaign’s leaders is former…
