Evanston’s reparations plan was heralded – but locals say it’s a cautionary tale – The Guardian

A sign in Evanston reads ‘Matter is the minimum’. There are plenty of Black residents that still believe that they’re going to be getting direct cash payments, because that’s how the reparations program was framed when it was first introduced in 2019,” said Sebastian Nalls, a Black Evanston resident and one of the founders of Evanston Rejects Racist Reparations
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Ivermectin
4 years ago

the city of evanston owned slaves? Weird, it’s the city of london that would pay reparations, they owned all the slaver companies. USA freed the slaves, haven’t they heard? Anyone who was a slave is long dead so there would be no claimants…. this all sounds like a scam.

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