Posted on 08/08/2022 7:21:58 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
To cover the payment of reparations to local blacks for what was termed injustices from the past, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners on July 17 voted unanimously to approve $2 million in its fiscal 2023 budget — and to add $500,000 to future reparations budgets, with an annual increase of 2 percent.
The county reparations budget approval followed the City of Ashville’s commitment — also on a unanimous vote — to an initial reparations investment of $2.1 million in its 2022 budget — and included an additional allocation of $500,000 for 2023.
“We are at the intersection of yesterday, today and tomorrow,” Commissioner Al Whitesides said, according to a county press release. “This is going to make our whole community stronger. This is something that will help us heal.”
(Excerpt) Read more at ashevilledailyplanet.com ...
I predict increased sales of shoe polish in the area.
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You got it bro. 😀🤗🤪 My son will get promoted to Captain in May. 👍
I got news for that dip wad. It won’t.
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Awesome to hear!
Obviously it won't heal the "community" all the way.
I imagine it will take higher doses of that particular medicine in a couple of years to heal things even better.
Asheville is the Appalachian version of Austin, Portland, etc
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