2 Years in Making, California Reparations Report Offers Ideas For Asheville-Buncombe Commission

Asheville Watchdog ^ | June 6, 2022 | Scott Carroll

[The_Media_never_lie]

Two years ago, as violent protests shook Asheville and other cities after George Floyd was murdered while in Minneapolis police custody, the Asheville City Council and the Buncombe County Commission passed resolutions in support of reparations for Black residents, to make amends for historic discrimination. Acting at the same time, California established a task force to study and develop a plan for reparations in that state.

Last week, the task force overseeing California’s reparations effort released the first part of its work: a landmark 500-page report documenting nearly two centuries of systemic discrimination imposed by the state, the harm it caused, and what needs to be done to attempt to address that harm.

[Syncro]

It seems if any group should have reparations it would be the Native Americans .

[Elsie]

We, however, should NOT RIP until Ashli gets JUSTICE!

[ronnie raygun]

More criminals in the streets

[Syncro]

Amen

She needs justice!!!

[Wallace T.]

Ironically, much of western North Carolina was pro-Union during the Civil War, as was the case in Eastern Tennessee. Slavery never took much of a hold here, and the mountain people saw no point in fighting for the low country plantation owners. They were mostly self-sufficient and had little need for cheaper English and French imports vs. the more costly Yankee manufactured products. However, what the Confederacy couldn't suppress, nor New Deal/Great Society bribery, the influx of rich liberals has: the independence of the mountain people.

[AbolishCSEU]

"That is the name of the game. Skim from the wealthy " MIDDLE CLASS

fixed it.

[CatHerd]

East Tennessee was mixed and there really was “brother against brother” in some areas, especially in the far northeastern part. Union County sort of seceded from Tennessee and was pro-Union. Like western NC, slavery was never much of a thing, even in the river valleys. Up in the hills and mountains, lots of people had never even met a black person up close and personal, even into the 1990s. Even in the late 1980s, there were “sundown towns” in the northeast, which I found quite shocking at the time.

I was sad to see the changes in Asheville and Black Mountain. It had always had a seasonal population of wealthy folks in summer who wintered in Florida (previously the Carolina coast). Then came in influx of libs from California and New York. Totally changed the character of those once easy-going, peaceful and quiet towns.

[Jim Robinson]

Cool, thanks.