The reparations won't come in the form of direct payments to Black residents, but will instead invest in areas where the community often deals with disparities. "Hundreds of years of Black blood spilled that basically fills the cup we drink from today," Councilman Keith Young, one of two Black members on the council, said. [More]Life imitates art.
It will never be enough.
Had enough?
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OK, now I get it.
Our rulers would not take directly from our pockets to fill other identifiable individual pockets.
Instead, our rulers would take from our pockets to fill the pockets of very well connected developers and contractors and consultants and NGOs which will promptly route some significant amount of said tribute right back to our rulers.
Outstanding, no problem at all.
As long as they have the best of intentions its all good.
They do have the best of intentions.
They said so.
This is a transparent end run around "hell, no, we won't bail out blue cities for encouraging blue riots.'
I live in Buncombe County which is where Asheville is located. I'm just glad I'm outside the city limits.
Would they be willing to set up some "end game" parameters that, upon being reached, would "sunset" the program? Or is this to be another "till hell freezes over" Federal mandate like Affirmative Action?
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