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UPDATED 10:50 AM PT — Thursday, July 16, 2020
A city counsel in
North Carolina recently voted to approve reparations for black
residents. The Asheville City Council unanimously passed that resolution
on Tuesday.The plan would work by boosting investments in black communities by increasing minority home ownership, business ownership and devising “strategies to grow equity and generational wealth.”
The city will create a community reparations commission to oversee those efforts. However, some activists have voiced skepticism over the plan.
“How
is this going to transpire and what’s going to become of it? Is it
going to be more lip service? Is it going to be something that just
sounds great? Or is it going to be a real intentional action plan to do
some real work to support the Black community?”
— Keynon Lake – local activist
The city council is hoping to get the reparations commission up and running within the next year.
