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'Hundreds of years of black blood spilled': North Carolina city approves reparations for black residents
City officials in Asheville, North Carolina, approved reparations for black residents.
The Asheville City Council apologized Tuesday for the area’s historic role in slavery and voted to approve reparations for the black community.
"Hundreds of years of black blood spilled that basically fills the cup we drink from today," Councilman Keith Young said. "It is simply not enough to remove statutes. Black people in this country are dealing with issues that are systemic in nature.”
The council voted 7-0 Tuesday evening on the resolution.
The resolution will create the Community Reparations Commission, which will advise city officials on how to appropriately spend funds and create programs for reparations.
Funds won’t be given directly to descendants of slaves, but assets will be allocated to areas “that traditionally see racial disparities,” according to WYFF News.
"The resulting budgetary and programmatic priorities may include but not be limited to increasing minority home ownership and access to other affordable housing, increasing minority business ownership and career opportunities, strategies to grow equity and generational wealth, closing the gaps in health care, education, employment and pay, neighborhood safety and fairness within criminal justice," the resolution reads.
"[Slavery] is this institution that serves as the starting point for the building of the strong economic floor for white America, while attempting to keep Blacks subordinate forever to its progress,” Councilwoman Sheneika Smith said.
The move comes as a nationwide conversation on race has been reignited following the death of George Floyd while he was in police custody.
Peaceful protests and riots have taken place across the country since late May to denounce racism and police brutality. Amid the protests, calls to defund police departments have also been heard from activists and liberal lawmakers within the Democratic Party.
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been one of the most vocal politicians pushing to defund police departments.
“Defunding police means defunding police,” the Democratic congresswoman said in a statement earlier this summer. “It does not mean budget tricks or funny math. It does not mean moving school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education’s budget so that the exact same police remain in schools.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/hundreds-of-years-of-black-blood-spilled-north-carolina-city-approves-reparations-for-black-residents