This week, the Will County majority voted to set up a committee to determine how funds the county acquires via cannabis sales can be channeled towards slave descendants.
Proposed RESOLUTION OF THE COUNTY BOARD WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS Repairing the Transgenerational Damage Done through Slavery, the Black Codes, the War on Drugs, and Mass Incarceration in Will County, IL WHEREAS, the State of Illinois has a history of enslavement and oppression of Black and African Americans, as well as overall promotion of white supremacy; and WHEREAS, the State of Illinois made legal, tolerated, and enabled the institution of slavery throughout our early statehood; and WHEREAS, the State of Illinois relegated Black and African Americans, through the Black Codes, to an inferior social, legal, and economic status; and WHEREAS, the… Read more »
Proposed RESOLUTION OF THE COUNTY BOARD WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS Repairing the Transgenerational Damage Done through Slavery, the Black Codes, the War on Drugs, and Mass Incarceration in Will County, IL WHEREAS, the State of Illinois has a history of enslavement and oppression of Black and African Americans, as well as overall promotion of white supremacy; and WHEREAS, the State of Illinois made legal, tolerated, and enabled the institution of slavery throughout our early statehood; and WHEREAS, the State of Illinois relegated Black and African Americans, through the Black Codes, to an inferior social, legal, and economic status; and WHEREAS, the… Read more »