Oh yes, another reparations con from a Democratic mayor. What a surprise.

Arguably the most racist of all U.S. mayors, Chicago’s Brandon Johnson, signed an executive order this week establishing a task force that will make recommendations for slavery reparations that would supposedly compensate black residents for policies long gone, while penalizing non-black residents for having the wrong color skin. These proposals “will serve as appropriate remedies and restitution for past injustices,” the mayor’s office said in a statement.

Sure.

Johnson is wasting $500,000 on this popular progressive pipe dream, which is certain to actually help black Chicagoans not one whit, but he’ll be able say “I tried!” That will be worth half a million wasted dollars to this grifter, apparently.

The Mayor’s executive order does not put a dollar amount on any potential reparations, and it does not say who will be eligible if the task force recommends any payment in the city, because, just like San Francisco and California’s reparations virtue-signaling (at least to those who think giving away money based solely on the basis of skin color is virtuous), Chicago’s stunt will just cause more racial division.

The revived push for reparations—which would be illegal by definition, and unethical even if they were legal—-are one more non-sequitur in response to the death of a drug-overdosing black street perp while resisting arrest in Minneapolis. In California, a task force was established in The Year of Saint Floyd, 2020, to come up with recommendations for reparations across the state, which doesn’t have any money to give away. Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, another one of the states that has become too woke to tolerate, signed a bill creating a commission to look at the effects of racial injustice, the first step on the way to imaginary reparations.

In Evanston, Illinois, officials began planning to distribute $10 million to black residents in the form of housing grants, and the Evanston City Council agreed in 2019 to use some tax revenue from recreational marijuana sales to generate a reparations fund. Such scams assume that blacks are gullible and whites are patsies. Hilariously, Stephanie D. Coleman, alderman for the 16th Ward of Chicago, said in a statement this week that she was proud to see “concrete action rather than just engaging in discourse.” But of course, setting up a commission to study an issue and make recommendations is a time honored way to posture and fake action without actually doing anything “concrete.” The question is whether Coleman is one of the scamsters or one of the scammed.

Also this week, the Trump administration opened a civil rights investigation into the city of Chicago to see if it was engaging in a pattern of discrimination against whites. The Justice Department announced the investigation after Johnson’s comments at a black church, in which he seemed to say that the city was hiring blacks based on their race. Some of his detractors, the Mayor said, claimed he only ever talks about “the hiring of Black people.” “No,” he continued. “What I’m saying is when you hire our people, we always look out for everybody else. We are the most generous people on the planet.”

Authority, please.

He added: “When you ask, how do we ensure that our people get a chance to grow their business, having people in my administration that will look out for the interests of everyone, and everyone means you have to look out for the interests of Black folks, because that hasn’t happened. That’s how we ensure long-term sustainable growth.”

Was he grandstanding or confessing? Seems worth investigating to me!

Here’s how the New York Times spun the story: “The so-called pattern or practice investigation is the Trump administration’s latest effort to remake the Justice Department’s civil rights division, which has historically worked to fight discrimination against minorities, to investigate claims of hiring or other bias in favor of candidates who are Black, minorities or women.” The reporter apparently is unaware of the recent Supreme Court ruling that majority groups have as much right to be free of discrimination as minorities.

I’d like to propose a commission to study “remedies and restitution” for all the anti-white discrimination under affirmative action and DEI policies. Oh, lighten up: nothing would come of that commission either.