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By Cherranda Smith
Jun 4, 2021
Earlier this year, Evanston, Illinois became the first city to offer its Black residents reparations, now those residents are rejecting the program. “It’s not reparations,” longtime Evanston resident
NBC News. “And that’s for sure,” Giles, a retired Chicago Public Schools educator, added.
Giles automatically qualified for the $25,000 reparations payment since she lived in Evanston between 1919 and 1969, but she, like many other eligible residents, are hesitant because of the program’s racism and lack of community input.
Hundreds of Black residents have shown their support for an online group called Evanston Rejects Racist Reparations, where they’ve demanded the program stop and go under re-evaluation.
Credit Oklahoma Historical Society
The Tulsa City Council unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday night acknowledging and apologizing for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
It also says they and the mayor will establish a community-led process by the end of the year to look at various proposals for reconciliation, including those from a state commission 20 years ago that call for reparations. Still, the council made it clear reparations are not part of the resolution.
More than two dozen people at the council meeting to comment on the resolution were overwhelmingly in support of reparations and had the support of the Rev. Jesse Jackson; former Asheville, North Carolina Councilman Keith Young, the architect of that city s reparations plan; and Evanston, Illinois, Alderman Robin Rue Simmons, who led the charge in her city approving a first-in-the-nation reparations plan.