3 Mar 2021 The city council of Bristol has approved a motion calling for reparations for slavery as an act of “atonement” for the British port city’s role in the slave trade. The Labour Party-run council passed the motion by a margin of 47 votes to 12 on Tuesday following a zoom meeting of the councillors. The council agreed to implement “community wealth creation strategies” and to write to the British Parliament demanding the establishment of a commission to determine “how reparations may be delivered”. In a peculiar act of so-called cultural appropriation, Cleo Lake — the Green Party councillor who led the motion — called upon the other members to support reparations by “representing” as US civil rights leader Rosa Parks in a mock American accent.