re: Grammy winner Jeff Tweedy to direct royalties to reparations fund in hometown Chicago.

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Tweedy opened his statement by noting that the modern music industry is “built almost entirely on black art” and that “the wealth that rightfully belonged to black artists was stolen outright and to this day continues to grow outside their communities.” He went on to effectively call for reparations for decades of music industry exploitation and the creation of “some initiative that would allow us all to redirect a portion of our revenue to the communities that have been deprived of it.”

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5% of his royalties going forward? What is that? How much is that, Jeff?

By this rationale, Jeff, you should give them all past, present and furture royalties, you thief.

And 5%? Really? Wow! Why not 10%? Is 5% good enough for them, Jeff? Is that how you feel about it? Is that after taxes or before taxes? I'm sure you will get the write-off, Jeff. This is probably calculated by your accountant to get you just into a lower tax bracket.

How about you go out there and teach these folks how to negotiate a contract and play music, Jeff? Instead you just throw a little money at them. Teach a man to fish, Jeff.

As stated above-this is nothing but a virtue signal, and a piss poor one at that, by an overweight, washed-up has-been.