Posted on 07/15/2020 12:10:53 PM PDT by Magnatron
North Carolina’s Asheville City Council apologized for its role in slavery and racial discrimination, voting unanimously to provide reparations in the form of community investments to help Black residents.
The council voted 7-0 on Tuesday night on the measure to mitigate racial disparities. The reparations will not provide direct cash payments, as some have suggested, but will provide investments in housing, health care and career growth in Black neighborhoods.
Councilwoman Shaneika Smith, who is Black, said the council had gotten emails from those "asking, 'Why should we pay for what happened during slavery?'"
"[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," said Smith, as reported by the Asheville Citizen Times.
The resolution calls on the city to create a Community Reparations Commission to make concrete recommendations of where to funnel programs and resources.
"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.
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I was in town a few weeks ago where a Black Lives Matters protest was going on and there wasn't a single black person in the protest...
Hotbed for Commies. Has been for years.
Ashe Francisco strikes again!
“but will provide investments in housing, health care and career growth in Black neighborhoods.”
As if that hasnt been done before for decades. What did it get the black neighborhoods in all that time up to now?
We live in Bizzaro World. I guess there are many people of races other than black (especially LIB lunatic LIBs) who are self-loathing, feeling guilty for some reason and possessed of extremely high nitwittery.
Mountain Hippies
A city of failed potters has gone wild
In sum, government has agreed to continue funding its own schemes.
[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,” said Smith, as reported by the Asheville Citizen Times.
97% Honkey
White guilt a sub set of Liberalism is alive in well in Peter Puffer Ashville
Get on your knees grovel like the fools you are..
83% white. I’m sure the crime rate will plummet.
No can do on the reparations, Shaneika. My family did not own slaves. We worked the fields on our own.
I do, however, suggest that you try to determine what tribe you come from in Africa and if you find that tribe enslaved other African tribes, that you start sending part of your paycheck over to descendants of those other enslaved tribes as a form of your own reparations for the evil of your ancestors.
I will pay reparations if someone can provide a witness that knew any of my ancestors who owned slaves. Simple.
Asheville has been subsumed by the Yankee Parasite Horde.
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