Posted on 12/14/2022 12:42:32 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston City Council voted Wednesday to form a task force to study how it can provide reparations for and other forms of atonement to Black Bostonians for the city’s role in slavery and its legacy of inequality.
The unanimous vote means Boston now joins a conversation about reparations that is happening across the country from Providence, Rhode Island to California.
Boston will be closely watched given its troubled racial history, including its role in supporting and financing slavery even after Massachusetts abolished the practice in 1780. Supporters of reparations cited its history of segregated housing as well as a political economy after Emancipation that reduced opportunities for Black Bostonians. The result of that, they said, is a a wide wealth gap between white and Black families that remains today.
“This ordinance is only the start of a long awaited yet necessary conversation,” City Councilor Julia Mejia said. “The City of Boston, like many areas around the United States, has profited from the labor of enslaved African Americans and has further disadvantaged them by barring them from participating in the same economic mobility opportunities as their white counterparts.”
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Southie will LOVE this....I am so embarrassed to have to admit I was raised in Massachusetts,what makes it worse is I was born in California! Ironically my first vote for President while residing in East Bridgewater Massachusetts was for Reagan...never have I voted for someone who I thought was not a conservative. Mass. has been lost for a long long time.
C arpetbagger Romney got in as a supposed republican to implement masscare?....But all in all I truly despise Beacon hill...one of the top ten in corruption as far as state capitols go. I was raised in southeastern Massachusetts.
C arpetbagger Romney got in as a supposed republican to implement masscare?....But all in all I truly despise Beacon hill...one of the top ten in corruption as far as state capitols go. I was raised in southeastern Massachusetts.
Sue? Go out and kiss the ground and thank God you are in America. Our forefathers paid a huge price to get here.
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