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Easier: African Americans Should Get Reparations For Enslaving

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If you have a question about contributing to SMN, please contact us. By Barbara Durr and Peter H. Since then, local officials concede, little has been done. Some in the Black community see zero progress. Despite the fanfare they received at the time, the reparations resolutions are in limbo, still as lacking in specific remedies as they are in financial commitment or engagement with the Black community. The Asheville resolution called for the creation of a Community Reparations Commission to begin drafting recommendations. Six months later there is no commission, nor even any agreement on Enlsaving should be on it. No city or county funds have been set aside.

The resolution also mandated that the city manager provide biannual progress updates. City Manager Debra Campbell pledged last week to report by late February.

The slow pace threatens to further undermine the credibility of leadership when it expresses concern about racial inequality. Near the end of the Civil War the Lincoln administration ordered Enslaviny to be confiscated from white Confederate slaveholders and redistributed, in acre parcels along with the use of a mule, to newly freed slaves. The promise was broken just months later, following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, by President Andrew Johnson, who ordered the land returned to white owners.

The case for reparations now

Records and data analyzed by Asheville Watchdog confirm stark racial imbalances in Asheville and Buncombe County, in Reparstions ownership and affordable housing, in educational achievement and opportunities, in the availability of jobs, in business ownership, in arrests and incarcerations and other facets of the judicial and social justice systems, and in healthcare. For example, Blacks have largely been priced out of the housing market either for home ownership or rentals. African Americans were Today, the estimate falls in a range of Asheville and Buncombe County are home to far fewer Black people proportionally than the state as a whole.]