On Wednesday, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (D) announced that the city created a reparations task force to study the city’s slave history and its lasting impact.
“For four hundred years, the brutal practice of enslavement and recent policies like redlining, the busing crisis, and exclusion from City contracting have denied Black Americans pathways to build generational wealth, secure stable housing, and live freely,” Wu said in remarks on Wednesday.
“I’m grateful to these teams of historians who will serve our city by documenting Boston’s role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the myriad legacies of slavery that continue to impact the daily lives of our city’s communities,” Wu added, according to WCVB.
Reportedly, the researchers will examine the city’s history with slavery from 1620 to present day. The task force has a budget of $500,000 to study the issue.
“Boston is on trial to redress historical injustices that flow directly and indirectly from the institution of chattel slavery, and the examination of the truth and expansion of the narrative that will give us that evidentiary pool from which to argue for repair,” task force member L’Merchie Frazier said, according to Fox News.
The Boston City Council voted to form the task force in December 2022.
Boston is not the first Democrat lawmaker to take this step in looking into reparations for slavery. Matt previously reported how New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed “racial justice legislation” vowing to create a committee to investigate reparations for slavery.
Boston is not the first Democrat lawmaker to take this step in looking into reparations for slavery. Matt previously reported how New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed “racial justice legislation” vowing to create a committee to investigate reparations for slavery. On the west coast, California released a report on black reparations. Recently, Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York called for reparations from the federal government.
Plain, pure BS!!!
They want a Civil WAR they will get one !!!!!!!
Enough of this reparations b.s. who in the hell would pay it? Taxpayers that’s who as if we aren’t paying enough all ready for the crooked politicians in this country and Ukraine
More free money for the Home Boys who refuse to get a job
NOT happening !!!!
No More Obama Care !!!!
Long overdue. We fought a bloody Civil War to free the slaves of Boston specifically and Massachusetts generally. Oh, wait….
/sarc
NOT HAPPENING !!!!! No Slaves Alive today or Slave owners to Blame !!!! They are DEAD !!!! Too LATE !!!
Govt can’t lock up every WHITE in this country so HELL NO !!!! They will REFUSE !!!!! RIOT too !!!
Slave owners are Long DEAD so they got away with it & you can’t Blame people alive Today for what someone
else did !!!!! They had NOTHING to do with it !!!! Dream On > Hell NO !!!!
Racist Democrats can go to Hell !!!!! You can’t punish innocent people of today who had NOTHING to do with
Slavery !!!! Those folks are DEAD !!!!
well either the people that voted her in love it or they will vote her out
Racist > OUT !!
Need Task Force to REMOVE Racist Democrats !!!!
Is Miss Wu’s people in China gonna pay reparations for the China flu?
Blacks have already had their REPARATIONS over 60 years !!!!! Affirmative Action / NAACP / June Teenth !!
They have every advantage over Whites & the rest & STILL NOT SATISFIED !!!!!! Waaaaaa
2024 – 400yrs = 1624
Hmmmm
Michelle, did the internet tell u that?
Idiot
Well NO-ONE alive today was alive back in 1624 !!!! SOLVED