Hopefully, this will set a precedent.
In a historic move on July 14, the City Council of Asheville, North Carolina, held a vote to provide Black residents of the city with reparations. The City Council also apologized for the city’s participation in slavery and for its discrimination and denial of liberties to Black residents, who make up 12 percent of the city's population.
He’s right: removing statues is a good first step, but we have to go further. Removing statues doesn’t erase the pain of systemic racism that Black people still feel to this day. Asheville is making a historic and much-needed move by giving their Black residents reparations from slavery and the legacy of slavery that continues to permeate the country to this day.
However, Councilwoman Shaneika Smith said that she did hear from some opposing the resolution. “A lot of the feedback that we’ve gotten so far by email is that you know, ‘Why should we pay for what happened during slavery?’” Smith said. “And my pushback against that is reparations is more than restitution for what happened during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It is a dark evil sin of chattel slavery that is the root of all injustice and inequity that is at work in American life today.
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