Asheville is not alone. In the wake of George Floyd protests, local officials in cities including Evanston, Illinois, and Providence, Rhode Island, are pushing to address past wrongs through reparations to Black and Native American residents.
As a young teen in the 1970s, she watched her neighbors drag furniture from their homes, placing it on the sidewalk where the belongings would be collected and unbeknownst to them at the time, re-sold. They later learned that the items were sold in antique shops. They were being re-located out of their homes and into new, smaller public housing. It was supposed to be a temporary move. Residents were told they would be able to purchase lots of land to rebuild cheaply, but many were never able to.
Confronting ResistanceThe elderly in Priscilla Robinson's neighborhood were moved to high-rise complexes that later became public housing, some were never able to rebuild or reacquire property that they previously owned, she said. Business owners lost their storefronts and with them a potential source of inter-generational wealth."Unfortunately, in this present time we're still enslaved," Robinson said."We're oppressed. We can't get good paying jobs.
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