We’ve been running around the issue of reparations for well over a hundred years at this point. (Where’s our 40 acres and a mule folks?) But in Boston, they just got one tiny step closer to making reparations a reality.
On Wednesday, the Boston City Council unanimously voted to form a task force to study how to provide reparations to the Black Bostonians as a way to atone for the city’s legacy of slavery, according to the AP.
Let’s be real, cold hard cash would definitely be better than a study over a century after the civil war, but at least it’s a start.
The city has started the difficult process of making amends for its less-than-stellar reputation and history regarding race, including segregation and its participation in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Read more.
