Chicago suburb approves reparations program for black residents

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Chicago suburb approves reparations program for black residents
By Zachary Folk

March 23, 2021 | 2:06am | Updated


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Evanston, Illinois voted on March 22 in favor of giving funds to Black residents as a form of reparations for housing discrimination.AFP via Getty Images
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The Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, became the first city in the U.S. to approve a reparations program for its black residents Monday night, following an 8-to-1 city council vote.

“It is, alone, not enough,” Ald. Robin Rue Simmons, who first proposed the initiative, said. “We all know that the road to repair and justice in the Black community is going to be a generation of work. It’s going to be many programs and initiatives, and more funding.”

The reparations program aims to target those harmed by racist housing policies adopted by the city in the early 20th century — and will be funded by a tax on recreational marijuana, which is legal in the state.

Specifically, it will make $400,000 available for black residents in the form of $25,000 grants to promote homeownership and home improvement — and will also provide mortgage assistance to black residents who can prove they are descendants of residents who face housing discrimination years ago.

“Right now the whole world is looking at Evanston, Illinois. This is a moment like none other that we’ve ever seen, and it’s a good moment,” Ron Daniels, president of the National African American Reparations Commission, told The Washington Post.

The policies were also met with criticism from many of the more than 60 speakers at Monday’s city council meeting, including Alderwoman Cicely Fleming, who opposed the idea of housing grants and was the sole “no” vote against the program.

“True reparations should respect Black people’s autonomy and allow them to determine how repair will be managed,” Fleming told CBS News.

“They are being denied that in this proposal, which gives money directly to the banks or contractors on their behalf.”

The national movement for reparations was reinvigorated last year following a wave of protests over George Floyd’s death at the hands of police in Minneapolis.

One proposed piece of federal legislation, H.R. 40, would set up a national commission to study reparations from the federal government.

On the local level, other cities have launched initiatives to study reparations, including Chicago, Providence, Rhode Island, Burlington, Vermont, Asheville, North Carolina, and Amherst, Massachusetts.

Organizers are hoping to use the Evanston program as an example for other local initiatives in the future.

“It doesn’t mean every city will do it exactly like Evanston has done, but there’s a blueprint there,” Daniels told CBS MoneyWatch.
Evanston, Illinois, approves reparations program for black residents

 

[SleezyBigSlim]

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

ya'll better listen

“It doesn’t mean every city will do it exactly like Evanston has done, but there’s a blueprint there,”

 

[ImmaGetJoeClarkArrested]

So they gon give $25000 to 16 people and call it reparations

 

[voltronblack]

So they gon give $25000 to 16 people and call it reparations

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

if you listen to people like Tone, you'll never get shyt done.

 

[Kasgoinjail]

O rly

 

[Genos]

So they gon give $25000 to 16 people and call it reparations

I mean it's a start

 

[ImmaGetJoeClarkArrested]

if you listen to people like Tone, you'll never get shyt done.

I don’t like this guy much but accepting crumbs wrapped in deceit is not going to help he’s right

 

[Paper Boi]

So they gon give $25000 to 16 people and call it reparations

a small suburb doesn't have the budget to give people what they're owed.

however a groundswell both locally and at the state level is what it's going to take for it to ever be seriously considered at the federal level.

this is a step in the right direction. don't let random ass youtube commentators fool you.

 

[ImmaGetJoeClarkArrested]

a small suburb doesn't have the budget to give people what they're owed.

however a groundswell both locally and at the state level is what it's going to take for it to ever be seriously considered at the federal level.

this is a step in the right direction. don't let random ass youtube commentators fool you.

Just because they call it reparations doesn’t make it reparations....What if I paid u money back that I owed u but told u u can only use it for what I deem fit...would u take it?

 

[Be Strong Blackman]

Free daps

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

so you just gonna ignore the work that went into this cause of some naysaying i.e. Tone and Yvette and AFLOP wasn't attached to it.

and again

you're not looking at the bigger picture

“It doesn’t mean every city will do it exactly like Evanston has done, but there’s a blueprint there,” Daniels told

Housing is just one piece of the entire puzzle.

I don’t like this guy much but accepting crumbs wrapped in deceit is not going to help he’s right

 

[saturn7]

if you listen to people like Tone, you'll never get shyt done.

If you don't like Tone fine. But take this coming from the foremost authority on Black Reparations.

 

[saturn7]

“The notion that this approaches a program of reparations is nonsense. Reparations for Black American descendants of slavery must be designed to eliminate the gulf in Black and White wealth.”

William Darity

I wish these NARC and NCBRA people would stop calling these drop in the bucket municipal plans "Reparations" when they are NOT!