This group of mayors, dubbed Mayors Organized for Reparations and Equity (MORE), is led by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock. Their stated goal is for these reparations programs to “serve as high-profile demonstrations for how the country can more quickly move from conversation to action on reparations for Black Americans,” according to the group’s website.
Maybe Eric Garcetti should work on some of the serious problems his city faces instead of this.
And what if we are against reparations for slavery? What if we don’t want to move quickly from conversation to action on this (expletive deleted)????? This whole presupposes that we are all in favor of reparations for slavery, instead of just the mechanism by which reparations will be doled out to certain people.
Maybe we should talk first, about whether slave reparations are a good idea first, before they say we need to move from talk to action and all that.
Those of us who never owned a slave have no reason to pay any sort of reparations, and people who were never themselves enslaved have no claim on any reparations.
The whole issue is many, many years too late.