Daily News | Reparations for Black people: Group urges City Council to create task force and enforce existing law
Breanna Moore looks on during a rally outside Philadelphia City Hall on Jan. 19, 2023, for reparations. She is calling on City Council to create a reparations task force and enforce a law requiring city-contracted businesses to disclose policies and profits from slavery.A Black liberation group is calling on City Council to study the effect of slavery on Black Philadelphians today and recommend ways to execute reparations.
“This is the first City Council hearing of the year and Black people are paramount, and far too long we’ve been ignored,” cochair Rashaun Williams said. The country also issued cash reparations in 1988 to Japanese Americans who were wrongfully imprisoned during World War II. Robert Buscher of the Japanese American Citizens League said Thursday his family benefited from the payments and the national apology.
Gauthier said there’s a direct correlation between “the decades of disinvestment in Black neighborhoods” and the gun violence epidemic today.
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