https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-city-pay-reparations-african-144159498.html
A 3% sales tax on marijuana, which will be legal here in Illinois at the start of the year, is going to fund a reparations programme to the tune $500-700,000 a year to be capped at $10 million. It will be available to all black residents of Evanston whether they can prove they had enslaved ancestors or not, and it will go to things like funding job training or down payments on houses. There's going to be a press conference next week to discuss the plan in detail.
So, NSG, knowing that I walk open-eyed into a fiery discussion indeed, what's your take on Evanston's reparations plan?
I personally am in favour of reparations, though I do understand why some have reservations(not all blacks or whites in this country had ancestors here at the time, for instance). This will do a lot to give black people in the city more opportunities than what might otherwise have been available due to systemic racism.